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Leo Burmester

Leo Burmester

8 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K4 in HD

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Leo Burmester (February 1, 1944 - June 28, 2007) was an American actor. Burmester worked for director John Sayles several times, including in Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996), and also for directors such as John Schlesinger and Sidney Lumet, and as the Apostle Nathaniel in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo Burmester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

Supporting role · Director: James Cameron

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing
Best Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Disney 4K Blu-ray's artificial smoothening of facial textures making actors look unnatural, grain reduction and other changes to make the film look less like a product of its time

Old WEB-DL or HDTV rip for non AI version

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

Small role · Director: John Landis

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Martin Scorsese

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

StudioCanal and Universal Blu-ray have DNR. 4K master also exists, unreleased

Small role · Director: James L. Brooks

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

Best Audio:

1999 Fox DVD

Audio Notes:

1999 Fox DVD slightly better

Small role · Director: Taylor Hackford

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical Cut with unaltered sculpture: Initial DVD

Altered Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · +3 more

Best Video:

Theatrical Cut with unaltered sculpture: Initial DVD with this red message: "The large white sculpture of human forms on the wall of John Milton's penthouse in "The Devil's Advocate" is not connected in any way and was not endorsed by the sculptor Frederick Hart or the Washington National Cathedral, joint copyright owners of the Cathedral sculpture "Ex Nihilo" in Washington D.C.".

Altered Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray see caps

Best Audio:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is more filtered than Warner Bros Blu-ray, although differences may not be audible.
(While the LaserDisc 2.0 is reportedly better clarity in dialogue?)

Additional Info:

DV Plot. For those curious, the sculpture is still the altered one found on the re-issued DVDs, and previous Blu-ray.

5.1 audio on the Shout (either be 1080p or 2160p) was 16-bit, with more roll-off than the Warners one, the Warners was very similar to the NTSC and in terms of balance of the mix, while the Shout seems to be tinkered with, with the score at the beginning and at the end sounding worse on Shout.

Audio Comparisons: Slow.pics

For the regular commentary found on the NTSC DVD "Original Version" (there's no difference including the other NTSC DVD), Shout or Warners; the Shout commentary was just a bloated lossy transcode with some EQ. The best one was from either of the two DVDs.

Commentary Comparisons: Slow.pics

Now there's another commentary; it's basically the same commentary but has some parts different than the others, it can be found on EUR PAL DVD with subs for said commentary. The subs for it doesn't sync for the commentary #1 and vice-versa. Samples

Small role · Director: William Friedkin

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Plaion have also released a BD sourced from Arrow's recent 4K remaster, holds up strongly in comparison https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=19341&d2=19005&c=5415

Small role · Director: John Sayles

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent

Small role · Director: Martin Scorsese

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Italian Fox Blu-Ray

Video Notes:

Italian Fox Blu-Ray > 2010 Miramax Blu-Ray

Audio Notes:

German Splendid Film Blu-Ray has better sounding commentary

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