
Biography from TMDB
6 in 4K
UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Leading role · Director: Sergio Leone
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber, see caps https://slow.pics/c/P4E9uTHR
Arrow 4K Blu-ray for English dub, Kino Lorber 2017 Blu-ray for Italy dub
Leading role · Director: John Sturges
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Leading role · Director: John Huston
Altitude/Capelight 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Altitude UK / Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray
Supporting role · Director: Jack Nicholson
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has terrible encoding, but presumable still better than Paramount Presents Blu-ray from Chinatown 4K.
It was an old Blu-ray, and not the latest restoration. Unfortunately, there's no caps comparison yet.
Supporting role · Director: Francis Ford Coppola
1991 Home Video Cut: Paramount 2008 Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, but it has problems described below in the additional info section, and worse encoding than the Coda cut.
Coda Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, but it has problems described below in the additional info section, and also has slightly better encoding than the Theatrical/1991 Home Video cuts on 4K.
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
LaserDisc for original mix
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. Part III fares best of the three and these issues are at their most minimal-but they're still there. The new Coda version is given prominence with lesser encodes for the other two versions. The original mix was remixed into 5.1 decades ago and we have yet another version of this instead of the original Dolby Stereo SR as heard on the LaserDisc release.
The 2008 Blu-ray of the 2007 restoration, while an imperfect outdated disc, is LIGHT YEARS better than this 4K desecration.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.
DFIC review of the hideous crap 4K Blu-rays: https://youtu.be/0uw6-Kcy_UA?si=ob1nDg0wTCvemjH0
Despite being restored alongside the Coppola Restorations of The Godfather: Parts I and II, the Part III restoration is not officially labelled a Coppola Restoration.
5 in HD
Blu-ray or HD streaming
Leading role · Director: Claudia Weill
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K digital transfer supervised by Claudia Weill and DP Fred Murphy
Supporting role · Director: Nancy Meyers
US Sony Blu-Ray
Sony 4K Blu-Ray teased
International Universal Blu-Ray
International Universal Blu-Ray is 24 bit compared to US Sony's 16 bit
Small role · Director: Roman Polanski
Small role · Directors: Henry Hathaway & John Ford & George Marshall
Warner Bros Blu-ray 2-Disc version (Digibook) for the Smilebox presentation
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
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