Ben Gazzara
8 Films
Ben Gazzara
8 Included Films

Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Voyage of the Damned (1976), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998), Happiness (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Summer of Sam (1999), Dogville (2003) and Paris, je t'aime (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). As the star of the television series Run for Your Life (1965-1968), Gazzarra was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards. He won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002).

Director: Otto Preminger
Sony 4K Blu-ray Columbia Classics Vol 2
1986 RCA/Columbia LaserDisc

Director: Otto Preminger

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: John Cassavetes



Director: John Cassavetes
Criterion is warmer and more lifelike than BFI. See DVDBeaver review for more capsBFI is brighter, but that's only because of a gamma bug, a common encoding issue that's easily corrected. After you do that, brightness is the same, though reds are different. Criterion has better encoding and doesn't have the bug so that's preferable.

Director: John Cassavetes
Criterion is warmer and more lifelike than BFI. See DVDBeaver review for more capsBFI is brighter, but that's only because of a gamma bug, a common encoding issue that's easily corrected. After you do that, brightness is the same, though reds are different. Criterion has better encoding and doesn't have the bug so that's preferable.

Director: Rowdy Herrington
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has better color grading, DV, and the best encoding.
Capelight 4K Blu-ray has good encode with the same color grade as Vinegar Syndrome.Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray has mediocre encode and over-saturated skin tones.
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray has the best sounding original stereo mix; Capelight 4K Blu-ray audio is clipped; Arrow 4K Blu-ray is filtered.

Director: Rowdy Herrington
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has better color grading, DV, and the best encoding.
Capelight 4K Blu-ray has good encode with the same color grade as Vinegar Syndrome.Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray has mediocre encode and over-saturated skin tones.
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray has the best sounding original stereo mix; Capelight 4K Blu-ray audio is clipped; Arrow 4K Blu-ray is filtered.

Director: Todd Solondz

Director: Todd Solondz

Director: Joel Coen
2018 Universal 4K Blu-ray
2018 Universal 4K Blu-ray
Cinema DTS, DVD 5.1

Director: Joel Coen

Director: Lars von Trier
Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray or France Potemkine Blu-ray (needs gamma correction)
The movie was shot in HD and France Potemkine Blu-ray (needs gamma correction) has slightly stronger encoding than Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray. Curzon Blu-ray is the worst of all three (not by much) see caps.

Director: Lars von Trier
Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray or France Potemkine Blu-ray (needs gamma correction)
The movie was shot in HD and France Potemkine Blu-ray (needs gamma correction) has slightly stronger encoding than Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray. Curzon Blu-ray is the worst of all three (not by much) see caps.
8 films