Anna Q. Nilsson

13 films on Best Blurays1 in 4K9 in HD2 in SD1 with no official release

Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Swedish-born actress who achieved success in American silent movies. Starring in some 200 feature films. The first Swedish actress to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1905, she had earned enough for a ticket across the Atlantic. In New York she was discovered on a thriving avenue by the famous portrait painter James Carroll Beckwith and soon she was New York's highest paid model. In 1907 she was named America's most beautiful woman and became a model for the 1910s beauty ideal, The Gibson Girl Look.

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The Regeneration (1915)

Leading role · Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Flicker Alley DVD

3.5

Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1921)

Supporting role · Director: Oscar Apfel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray

Video Notes:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber boxset

The Secret Heart (1946)

Small role · Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Small role · Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray

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Best Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice

Best Audio:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono

Audio Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.

Additional Info:

The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.

4.4