Paul Herman
13 Films
Paul Herman
13 Included Films
Paul Herman (March 29, 1946 - March 29, 2022) was an American actor. Among other roles, he was known for playing Randy in David O. Russell's dramedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and Whispers DiTullio in Martin Scorsese's crime epic The Irishman (2019). His other appearances in movies include Once Upon a Time in America, At Close Range, We Own the Night, Heat, Crazy Heart, Quick Change, Sleepers, Cop Land, The Fan, Analyze That, The Day Trippers, and American Hustle. He had a recurring role on The Sopranos as "Beansie" Gaeta, as well as another HBO series, Entourage, as Vincent Chase's accountant, Marvin. Herman had also played minor background characters in two other Scorsese crime films. In Goodfellas, he was The Pittsburgh Connection, and in the montage sequence 'Back Home, Years Ago' in Scorsese's Casino, he was a gambler who rushes to the phone booth to place the same bet that Sam Rothstein (Robert De Niro) did. In 2009's Crazy Heart, Herman played the manager of Jeff Bridges' character. Herman, along with his brother Charlie, ran the Columbus Cafe in the 1990s. Located across from Lincoln Center, it was frequented by actors, ballet dancers, gangsters, and FBI and DEA agents. Herman also had a small ownership stake in the cafe, along with Mikhail Baryshnikov as well as other actors. Source: Article "Paul Herman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italy subs in some parts
251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox 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.
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)
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.
251 min cut (Extended): Fox Blu-ray. Eagle Pictures has forced Italy subs in some parts
251 min cut: Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray better encoding than Fox 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.
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)
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.
Director: James Foley
Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray, FiM encode
Director: James Foley
Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray, FiM encode
Director: Luc Besson
StudioCanal / Gaumont / Sony 4K Blu-ray
SC caps. Great-looking 4K master except for DNR'd higher-gen shots such as the opening sequence. Studiocanal resolves finer detail but has encoding issues in highlights, the non-OCN shots and traces of chroma noise. Sony used a low-pass filter which makes the film look less sharp and finely detailed but the encode is more consistent.
Director: Luc Besson
StudioCanal / Gaumont / Sony 4K Blu-ray
SC caps. Great-looking 4K master except for DNR'd higher-gen shots such as the opening sequence. Studiocanal resolves finer detail but has encoding issues in highlights, the non-OCN shots and traces of chroma noise. Sony used a low-pass filter which makes the film look less sharp and finely detailed but the encode is more consistent.
Directors: Howard Franklin & Bill Murray
Directors: Howard Franklin & Bill Murray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Scorsese
2019 Universal 4K Blu-ray
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
Cinema DTS, Blu-ray 5.1, DVD 5.1
Director: Martin Scorsese
2019 Universal 4K Blu-ray
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
Cinema DTS, Blu-ray 5.1, DVD 5.1
Director: Michael Mann
Theatrical Cut: Old WB DVD or fan restoration
Revised Cut: 2022 Disney 4K Blu-ray, alternatively 2012 Japan Blu-ray for different color
Theatrical Cut: Old Warner Bros DVD or fan restoration
Revised Cut: 2022 Disney 4K Blu-ray, alternatively 2012 Japan Blu-ray for different color
LaserDisc 2.0 (restores censored dialog). Comparison of 5.1 mixes
The 2022 4K Blu-ray was controversial for being too dark overall.
Director: Michael Mann
Theatrical Cut: Old WB DVD or fan restoration
Revised Cut: 2022 Disney 4K Blu-ray, alternatively 2012 Japan Blu-ray for different color
Theatrical Cut: Old Warner Bros DVD or fan restoration
Revised Cut: 2022 Disney 4K Blu-ray, alternatively 2012 Japan Blu-ray for different color
LaserDisc 2.0 (restores censored dialog). Comparison of 5.1 mixes
The 2022 4K Blu-ray was controversial for being too dark overall.
Director: Barry Levinson
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray upcoming
Director: Barry Levinson
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray upcoming
Director: David O. Russell
Sony 4K Blu-Ray
Sony 4K Blu-Ray
Director: David O. Russell
Sony 4K Blu-Ray
Sony 4K Blu-Ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Scorsese
13 films