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Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews

11 films on Best Blurays6 in 4K5 in HD

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Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is a British film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice, which originally spanned four octaves, was damaged by a throat operation in 1997. Andrews had a revival of her film career in 2000s in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001), its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), the Shrek animated films (2004–2010), and Despicable Me (2010). In 2003 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, New York (and later at the Goodspeed Opera House, in East Haddam, Connecticut in 2005). Andrews is also an author of children's books, and in 2008 published an autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.

Biography from TMDB

6 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Leading role · Director: Robert Wise

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Audio Notes:

Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.

All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.

Leading role · Director: Alfred Hitchcock

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal The Alfred Hitchcock Collection Vol 3 4K Blu-ray

Supporting role · Directors: Conrad Vernon & Kelly Asbury & Andrew Adamson

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-Ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Additional Info:

The old DVD has extras not on the 4K Blu-Ray.

The UK version replaces The Ugly Stepsister’s voice for Jonathan Ross instead of Larry King. This audio track however is not included on the UK 4K. This version also has an altered shot where Fiona’s headbutt to Prince Charming is replaced with a karate chop to the neck, which was also removed from the 4K.

Supporting role · Directors: Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: James Wan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Small role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

MGM Letterbox LaserDisc

Additional Info:

The original mono mix has bad pitch and sound quality issues on the Shout! Factory Blu-ray and is terrible sounding. The LaserDisc PCM mono is very good but sounds a tad muffled in comparison to the MGM 2004 DVD mono at first listen. Yet the DVD mono has the volume of the entire track normalized so that effects and music remain at consistent levels which they don't in the LaserDisc mono-meaning that the jokes and gags hit harder in the LaserDisc mono because the mix varies as it was intended. It may be that the same source was used and then EQ'd and processed for the DVD boxset as all the mono mixes were messed around with. For example, when the hunchback disguise goes off with the explosions, the DVD mono has everything at a mostly consistent level. On the LaserDisc the effects build and fall off in loudness so the intensity is entirely different because they were mixed that way for comedic effect. Another is the piano smashing-on the DVD mono it's at the same level as the rest of the scene. On the LaserDisc it's loud and aggressively so which again makes the gag hit so much harder.
Again, the remixes are existing MGM ones and not good. The 5.1 remix on the Shout! Factory Blu-ray does not have pitch issues but the stereo remix does.

5 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Leading role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Leading role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Leading role · Director: Robert Stevenson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Leading role · Director: Arthur Hiller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Shout! Factory Blu-ray or MGM DVD

Additional Info:

Shout! Factory uses MGM's HD master and mono mix which sounds similar to their 2004 DVD mono. They sound nearly identical aside from volume differences-except that the sound effects seem a bit flattened again on the DVD and this Blu-ray mono mastering seems to be EQ'd a bit differently.

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