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James Woods

12 Films

James Woods

12 Included Films

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James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations.

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

Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray

Night Moves poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray. caps by BR user Donald McDonald. The encode looks absolutely spotless even in the highlights and without Dolby Vision filling anything in.

Night Moves poster
UHD Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray. caps by BR user Donald McDonald. The encode looks absolutely spotless even in the highlights and without Dolby Vision filling anything in.

Videodrome poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

2022 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2022 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

?

English-Friendly:

2022 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video:

2022 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Audio:

?

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.

Cat's Eye poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray solid encode but controversial colors by Hiventy

Cat's Eye poster
UHD Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray solid encode but controversial colors by Hiventy

Salvador poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Twilight Time Blu-ray or MGM DVD for the original Mono

Salvador poster
UHD Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

Audio:

Twilight Time Blu-ray or MGM DVD for the original Mono

Casino poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

2019 Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2019 Universal 4K Blu-ray

France Seven7 has Dolby Vision and Atmos unlike the US disc but was most likely encoded in the wrong color space

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS, Blu-ray 5.1, DVD 5.1

Casino poster
UHD Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

2019 Universal 4K Blu-ray

Video:

2019 Universal 4K Blu-ray

France Seven7 has Dolby Vision and Atmos unlike the US disc but was most likely encoded in the wrong color space

Audio:

Cinema DTS, Blu-ray 5.1, DVD 5.1

Vampires poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray is a strong upgrade in PQ compared to a poor old Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray sound was improved compared to the old mixes.

Vampires poster
UHD Blu-ray
English-Friendly:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray

Video:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray is a strong upgrade in PQ compared to a poor old Blu-ray

Audio:

Shout Factory 4K Blu-ray sound was improved compared to the old mixes.

The Virgin Suicides poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

StudioCanal Britain 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

StudioCanal Britain 4K Blu-ray > Criterion US, better encode on the Britain disc

English-Friendly:

StudioCanal Britain 4K Blu-ray

Video:

StudioCanal Britain 4K Blu-ray > Criterion US, better encode on the Britain disc

Scary Movie 2 poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Germany Highlight Blu-rayUS Lionsgate Blu-ray for non hardcoded subtitles

Best Video:

Germany Highlight Blu-rayUS Lionsgate Blu-ray for non hardcoded subtitles

Best Audio:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

English-Friendly:

Germany Highlight Blu-rayUS Lionsgate Blu-ray for non hardcoded subtitles

Video:

Germany Highlight Blu-rayUS Lionsgate Blu-ray for non hardcoded subtitles

Audio:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

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