Akim Tamiroff

21 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K14 in HD2 in SD1 with no official release

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff (Russian: Аким Михайлович Тамиров; 29 October 1899 – 17 September 1972), Tiflis, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia) was an Armenian actor. He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was born of Armenian ethnicity, trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the US in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors and decided to stay. Tamiroff managed to develop a career in Hollywood despite his thick Russian accent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akim Tamiroff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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4 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Alphaville (1965)

Leading role · Director: Jean-Luc Godard

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is a flawed master with degrain + regrain and bad encoding, but still better than the old Blu-ray

3.7

Touch of Evil (1958)

Supporting role · Director: Orson Welles

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray/Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar

4.2

The Trial (1962)

Supporting role · Director: Orson Welles

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray > StudioCanal: Although Criterion is low-pass filtered, StudioCanal exhibits very clear and distracting macroblocking.

Best Audio:

TBD: UHDs sound muffled, but old YT clips sound clear. Need to look into DVDs and possibly VHS.

4.1

Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)

Supporting role · Director: Jesús Franco

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Blue Underground 4K Blu-ray

2.9

14 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Leading role · Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and better than the older restoration used by UK MoC , France Elephant Films, or Germany Explosive Media Blu-ray see caps

3.6

The Great McGinty (1940)

Leading role · Director: Preston Sturges

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is 4K restoration, no comparison with Elephant Films France

3.5

Union Pacific (1939)

Leading role · Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Plaion Media Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Germany Plaion Media Blu-ray is marginally better than Kino Lorber which suffers a little dark crush: https://slow.pics/c/BME05Jlw

3.4

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Leading role · Director: Sam Wood

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Probably Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

While no comparison is available, this is indeed a new 4K restoration. However it has its problem like not scanned from best surviving prints due to some issues, or technicolor out of alignment but seems to be still better than older releases

Can't Help Singing (1944)

Leading role · Director: Frank Ryan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Desire (1936)

Supporting role · Director: Frank Borzage

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

While Indicator Blu-ray used a newer 4K restoration from 2022 instead of the older 2K restoration, Kino Lorber has the original aspect ratio, and the Indicator Blu-ray looks very soft in comparison see comparison