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John Marley

John Marley

10 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K7 in HD1 with no official release

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John Marley (October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984) was an American actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz— the defiant movie mogul who awakens to find the severed head of his prized horse in his bed—in The Godfather (1972). He starred in John Cassavetes' breakthrough feature Faces (1968) and appeared in The Glitter Dome (1984). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Marley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

Leading role · Director: Bob Clark

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Blue Underground 4K Blu-ray

Leading role · Director: John Cassavetes

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion = BFI

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

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

Leading role · Director: Arthur Hiller

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best Video:

Apple TV

Video Notes:

Apple TV has 4K DV Streaming The Paramount Presents Blu-ray seems to have completely different color grading and cropping than the previous Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: John Cassavetes

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Elia Kazan

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Streaming or DVD

Supporting role · Director: Francis Ford Coppola

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 2008 Blu-ray Coppola Restoration

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2008 Blu-ray lossy mono

Audio Notes:

(Britain release only has 5.1)

Additional Info:

The Paramount 4K "restoration" is a desecration. It has completely revisionist color timing, harsh HDR, treatment of stock footage, bad encoding, selective DNR and grain management so bad that the entire screen frequently freezes up with only characters moving around in grain soup. It is so bad that the film's restorer Robert Harris publicly washed his hands of it saying essentially the 2007 restoration (with Willis and Coppola supervising) is how the film was intended and made. This is Paramount's modern version done their way. The new 1080p SDR Blu-rays in print are the crap 4K desecration master with the same problems still there just harder to spot and with crap encodes.
The mono option is an unnecessarily processed version of the lossy mono from the 2008 Blu-ray. The 2008 Blu-ray of the 2007 Coppola Restoration while an imperfect outdated disc is LIGHT YEARS better than this 4K desecration. The only truly major issue is that it is very slightly redder than the 2007 finished master as seen on DCPs. The lossy mono on the 2008 Blu-ray is the best version of the original mix known to exist as it is better than the late 80's mastering for VHS and LaserDisc.
DFIC review of the hideous crap 4K Blu-rays: https://youtu.be/0uw6-Kcy_UA?si=ob1nDg0wTCvemjH0

TV series

Small role

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Bootleg China Blu-ray on the high seas

Additional Info:

The original 1977 censored cut has never been officially released on home video. The 1981 cut and the 1990 EU cut are available on VHS. The 1992 Trilogy cut was released on LaserDisc and VHS. The 2012 and 2016 HD versions were broadcast on AMC and streaming HBO respectively but neither are available on either platform anymore currently. The Chinese 1080p blu-ray on the high seas is probably the most accessible and affordable way to watch it, (albeit with terrible compression) and appears to be a Webrip of the 2012 AMC HD tv broadcast. It’s on two BD-25 discs with lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and with subtitles for Sicilian dialogue.

Small role · Director: Arthur Hiller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Charles Lamont

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Jules Dassin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration, and much better than older Arrow Blu-ray and the Arrow reissue is slightly more cut-off than the Criterion Blu-ray too

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