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Richard Bright

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Richard J. Bright (June 28, 1937 – February 18, 2006) was an American actor best known for his role as Al Neri in the The Godfather films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Bright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The Godfather poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

The '87 Paramount Hi-Fi VHS is probably superior, but it's not been checked

English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Audio:

The '87 Paramount Hi-Fi VHS is probably superior, but it's not been checked

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray or Germany Plaion Blu-ray or WB DVD depending on the cut.

Best Video:

First Preview (Turner): Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Second Preview (Final Preview): Germany Plaion Blu-ray > Criterion Blu-ray

Theatrical: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

2005 Cut: WB DVD

2024 Cut: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray or Germany Plaion Blu-ray or WB DVD depending on the cut.

Video:

First Preview (Turner): Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Second Preview (Final Preview): Germany Plaion Blu-ray > Criterion Blu-ray

Theatrical: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

2005 Cut: WB DVD

2024 Cut: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany) are the same, and significantly better than the 4K restoration (Shout FactoryArrow, Kino Lorber), and a bit better than the MGM NTSC DVD.

English-Friendly:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

Audio:

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany) are the same, and significantly better than the 4K restoration (Shout FactoryArrow, Kino Lorber), and a bit better than the MGM NTSC DVD.

The Sugarland Express poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

2015 Universal Blu-ray

Best Video:

2015 Universal Blu-ray

The new Universal 4K is AI upscaled https://slow.pics/c/5jD2BjKT and sharpened, see discussion on BR https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=377660&page=9

English-Friendly:

2015 Universal Blu-ray

Video:

2015 Universal Blu-ray

The new Universal 4K is AI upscaled https://slow.pics/c/5jD2BjKT and sharpened, see discussion on BR https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=377660&page=9

The Godfather Part II poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Paramount Blu-ray/4K Blu-ray. still not great

Marathon Man poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

5.1 remix sounds good and likely came from original audio stems.

WB/Paramount Blu-ray has lossy restored mono

English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Audio:

5.1 remix sounds good and likely came from original audio stems.

WB/Paramount Blu-ray has lossy restored mono

Once Upon a Time in America poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italy subs in some parts

229 min cut (theatrical): WB Blu-ray

139 min cut (US theatrical): VHS

Best Video:

251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray

229 min cut: WB Blu-ray

139 min cut: VHS?

Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether it's better than previous Blu-ray

Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.

Best Audio:

251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)

Additional Info:

Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.

English-Friendly:

251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italy subs in some parts

229 min cut (theatrical): WB Blu-ray

139 min cut (US theatrical): VHS

Video:

251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox Blu-ray

229 min cut: WB Blu-ray

139 min cut: VHS?

Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray from nic's review. Will wait for the caps to decide whether it's better than previous Blu-ray

Some definitely messed with it as there’s grain management going on that resulted in magnetic, squishy grain movement. Both cuts (4K discs) are affected and it doesn’t look like an encoding issue to me as the bitrates don’t drop down to single digits á la Paramount or StudioCanal. During opticals, the lowest I’ve noted on the Extended 4K was around 30 MB/s vs. ~5 MB/s more for the theatrical cut.Darker scenes are mostly (but not always) better but when it gets brighter, particularly in exteriors or scenes like the Jennifer Connelly dance scene at minute 38, I can’t unsee the digital tinkering as it does some damage texturally.I compared it with the Eagle Pictures and Warner Bros Fox Blu-ray of the extended cut and they all look fine without grain management like that. Eagle Pictures’s Blu-ray is an older one if anyone’s curious and credited to another authoring house than 64Biz, which did the 4K.Other than that, except for some encoding-related chroma noise that peeks through in the DV layer, Eagle Pictures did everything right. They corrected the framing to 1.85, kept the original English titles, the English restoration note, subtitles, HDR/DV is gentle and respectful of the source black levels are better than on the Warner Bros/Fox Blu-ray. Without that grain management, this would’ve been the all-timer release we all longed for.

Audio:

251 min cut: Fox Blu-ray (24-bit, Eagle Pictures is 16-bit, not audible)229 min cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc (missing 2 minutes, but original mono mix was never released on DVD/Blu-ray)

Additional Info:

Extended edition adds scenes cut from the theatrical, but from a much lower quality source. It's intended to approximate the original cut, but to what extent that is true is debatable.US theatrical cut is infamously bad, was panned at release and never re-released on home video.

Red Heat poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best Video:

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal Britain, better compression than StudioCanal

Red Heat poster
UHD Blu-ray
Video:

Eagle Pictures Italy > StudioCanal Britain, better compression than StudioCanal

The Godfather Part III poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray set caveat: inferior encoding on the original cuts of Part III

English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray set caveat: inferior encoding on the original cuts of Part III

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