Blazing Saddles (1974)
Western, Comedy • 1h 33m
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Burton Gilliam, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn, John Hillerman, George Furth, Jack Starrett, Carol Arthur, Richard Collier, Charles McGregor, Robyn Hilton, Don Megowan, Dom DeLuise, Count Basie, John Alderson, Tom Anfinsen, David Armstrong, Denny Arnold, Benjie Bancroft, Herman Boden, Jimmie Booth, Alex Brown, Jerry Brown, Loren Brown, Eldon Burke, Stephen Burnette, David Cadiente, Patrick Campbell, Bart Carroll, Bill Catching, Ray Chabeau, Donald Chaffin, Dick Cherney, Jack R. Clinton, Aneta Corsaut, Dick Crockett, George Dockstader, Ross Dollarhide, Randy Doney, Alphonso DuBois, Ken DuMain, Hobert Durham Jr., Stewart East, Daniel Elam, Kenny Endoso, Elly Enriquez, Richard Farnsworth, Fred Fisher, Bob Folkerson, Abel Franco, Ben Frommer, John Furlong, Rick Garcia, Laura Gile, Seamon Glass, Betty Jeanne Glennie, Cecil Gold, Chuck Hayward, Bud Hazlett, Francine Henderson, George Hickman, George Holmes, Kal Isaacs, Kathryn Janssen, Rosemary Johnston, Madge Journeay, M.J. Kane, Ron Kinwald, Sally Kirkland, Patrick Labyorteaux, Richard LaMarr, Tex Lambert, Jack Lilley, Craig Littler, Jay Loft-Lynn, Karl Lukas, Bert Madrid, Ralph Manza, Jimmy Martinez, Bert May, Fred McDougall, Rod McGaughy, Bill McIntosh, Clyde McLeod, Troy Melton, Ira Miller, Jessamine Milner, Richard Monahan, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Beans Morocco, Hal Needham, Daniel Nunez, Monty O'Grady, Harvey Parry, Jack Perkins, Alan Peterson, Tom Pittman, Anthony Redondo, Booty Reed, Tony Regan, Danny 'Big Black' Rey, Robert Ridgely, Rodney Allen Rippy, Al Roberts, Arnold Roberts, Hank Robinson, Victor Romito, Clark Ross, Darrell Sandeen, Danny Sands, George Sawaya, Fred Scheiwiller, David Sharpe, June Smaney, Eddie Smith, Roy Smith, Paul Stader, Tom Steele, Tim Sullivan, Jerry Summers, Jim Taylor, George Tracy, Jerry Trent, Frankie Van, Richard Vitagliano, Al Ward, Dick Warlock, Janice Whitby, Joe Yrigoyen, Bill Zuckert
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Overview
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, work done to un-Nolan the 4K master, the first ever appearance of the 35mm mono track on physical media and a new restoration/remastering of the 70mm 6-track mix.
(early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration of mono mix which should be better than what was on the WB 4K Blu-ray and 1999 DVD and revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1971.
WB 4K 5.1: a remix but has higher fidelity
Mono: 4K Blu-ray/1999 DVD
Director: Stanley Kubrick
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, both the US and the International Cut, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1980 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
No Blu-ray or DVD release has presented the movie in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 for the US cut or 1.66:1 for the International cut.
The packaging on the back of the 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Flicker Alley 4K confirmed for 2027 https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24404584&postcount=1
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
Director: Mel Brooks
Original 70mm 6-track mix (4.1): Arrow 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: MGM Blu-ray
Arrow fixed the audio glitches found on Kino Lorber's disc.
The 5.1 remix on Arrow's disc sounds terribly tinny.
Director: Mel Brooks
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eclair new 4k resto,
StudioCanal UK lower bitrate and yellow tint,
Kino Lorber did color correction on top of that, but maybe the old Shout! Factory/MoC 2k transfer with better color but worse details is better overall
Check caps-a-holic, and discussion https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=217927&page=7
Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
Director: James Gunn
Commentary is only on Streaming
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray (includes Extended Cut on regular Blu-ray)
Original theatrical 6.1 mix: 2009 Warner Bros Blu-ray Ultimate Edition (Theatrical Cut only)
Extended Cut 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS:X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
The film is titled Sorcerer's Stone in the US, India, and the Philippines.
Wizard's/Hogwarts Collection has all the bonus features for all the 8 films.
The lossless version of the original 6.1 mix is only available on the ultimate edition blu-ray not to be confused with the ultimate collectors edition blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1987 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
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