Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB
12 in 4K
UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Leading role · Director: Alex Cox
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Supporting role · Director: James Foley
Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray, FiM encode
Supporting role · Director: Steven Soderbergh
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Universal 4K Blu-ray > Sony International, both a huge step up from old Blu-ray, but Sony international applied additional filtering: https://slow.pics/c/Cba9eFdD
Also they are cropped to 1.78 from 1.85
Supporting role · Director: Tim Burton
WB 4K Blu-ray but with notable color timing issues
Dolby Stereo mix: WB LaserDisc PCM
Original Mix in 5.1 Discrete: 1997 WB DVD, 1.33:1 version for this track uncut
Original mix in 2005 5.1 new transfer: 2005 WB DVD in Dolby and DTS, 2008 WB Blu-ray for TrueHD.
Original mix on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD is significantly warmer and more impactful sounding. These nuances are lost on the 2005 remaster audio found on DVD and Blu-ray which due have a tinge of extra clarity in contrast.
The Atmos mix is excruciatingly bad as it removes original sound effects and wrecks the original sound design. Music is prioritized and dominates in a bad way. The sound library effects used to create a specific sound signature as part of the mix of time period production design is completely lost. Fidelity is also lowered due to noise reduction and processing.
Supporting role · Director: Jonathan Demme
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 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.
Small role · Director: Martin Brest
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray new master much better than their 2016 artificially sharpened Blu-ray but grain managed
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray "OG audio" is a downmix, R1 DVD has the original with much better dynamics than Shout! Factory's upmix
Small role · Director: Sidney Lumet
StudioCanal EU
StudioCanal EU has elevated blacks and inaccurate colors, Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encode.
8 in HD
Blu-ray or HD streaming
Small role · Director: Woody Allen
Small role · Director: Arthur Hiller
Sandpiper Pictures Blu-ray is likely the same as previous Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray
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