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John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes

12 Films

John Cassavetes

12 Included Films

John Cassavetes photo

Criterion John Cassavetes: Five Films boxset is very similar but better to BFI counterparts because the BFI encoding has a gamma bug that raises brightness level. Not sure about FR releases.

  • Video: all same HD restoration but encoding Criterion is better

  • Audio: BFI has better bitrate, but same audio tracks, so likely no difference

While boxsets only have 5 films, you can see the rest in the table below. Notably, Minnie and Moskowitz is the only movie without a bluray, and Big Trouble is available as bluray in a 4-film collection.

A Woman Under the Influence and Faces, Shadows have great new restorations by Ross Lipman at UCLA, but not released in discs according to DVDBeaver

Shadows poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

Best Audio:

BFI Blu-ray (slightly)

Shadows poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

Best Audio:

BFI Blu-ray (slightly)

Too Late Blues poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

MoC significantly better than Olives

Best English-Friendly:

MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

MoC significantly better than Olives

A Child Is Waiting poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Faces poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion = BFI

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

Faces poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion = BFI

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

Husbands poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

Husbands poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

A Woman Under the Influence poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray or BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray or BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

Opening Night poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion is warmer and more lifelike than BFI. See DVDBeaver review for more caps

BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug

Criterion has better encoding and doesn't have the bug so that's preferable.

Best Audio:

BFI looks to be more untouched, not sure about Criterion

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion is warmer and more lifelike than BFI. See DVDBeaver review for more caps

BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug

Criterion has better encoding and doesn't have the bug so that's preferable.

Best Audio:

BFI looks to be more untouched, not sure about Criterion

Gloria poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or Twilight Time?

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray uses same old Sony master

Gloria poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or Twilight Time?

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray uses same old Sony master

Love Streams poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray 2K transfer, not sure about France

Love Streams poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray 2K transfer, not sure about France

12 films

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