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Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton

26 films on Best Blurays16 in 4K10 in HD

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Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Man Who Cried (2000), Alpha Dog (2006), and Inland Empire (2006). He had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and in Lucky (2017).

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Small role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Martin Scorsese

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

StudioCanal and Universal Blu-ray have DNR. 4K master also exists, unreleased

Small role · Director: Joss Whedon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Francis Ford Coppola

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

Paramount 2008 Blu-ray Coppola Restoration

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

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. Part II overall fares better than the first film but it has all the same problems. Randomly some shots are the worst in the trilogy looks mushy and manipulated to death.
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

Small role · Director: David Lynch

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal France / Arthaus Germany 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

British StudioCanal 4K Blu-Ray upcoming

Best Audio:

5.1 on 4K Blu-ray is a remix. Original 5.1 is best on 2012 Japan Paramount Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Terry Gilliam

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow UK or Criterion US 4K Blu-ray (preference)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow UK & Criterion US 4K Blu-ray have different gradings (preference, Arrow 4K Blu-ray is encoded by Fidelity in Motion)

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