A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
牯嶺街少年殺人事件
Crime, Drama, Romance • 3h 57m
Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Chang Kuo-Chu, Elaine Jin Yan-Ling, Chuan Wang, Chang Han, Chiang Hsiu-Chiung, Stephanie Lai, Tan Chih-Kang, Wang Chi-tsan, Lawrence Ko Yu-Luen, Chang Ming-Hsin, Jung Chun-Lung, Hui-Kuo Chou, Chi-Chung Liu, Ching-Hsiang Ho, Chang-Ta Tsai, Tsung-Ming Lee, Hung-Ming Lin, Wang Bosen, Hung-Yu Chen, Hsiao-Tsui Tang, Ming-Ying Chiang, Tien-Hsiang Yang, Hsiao-Wei Liao, Cheng-Ching Lin, Ming-Hsun Lee, Tai-song Chen, Ming-Che Lee, Yu-Cheng Lin, Chung Yi-Cheng, Chia-Hsien Ho, Kang-Nien Cheng, Hsien-Liang Hsu, Chih-Chien Tang, Chien-Hung Tseng, Yiwen Cao, Martin Liu, Yi-Chun Chang, Yuan Ling, Alex Yang, Joyce Ni Shu-Chun, Weiming Wang, Chien-Hsiung Cheng, Ye-Ming Wang, De-Hai Chu, Pei-Min Shih, Liang-Tso Liu, Hang Shen, Yang-Yeh Fu, Lee Ching-Foo, Chen Yi-wen, Jen-Chieh Lin, Cheng Yuan-Cheng, Yi-Chin Tsai, Yu-Lung Yin, Hsu Ming, Chin Tsai, Cho Ming, Wen-Yen Chang, Lien-Lien Hsiao, Emily Y. Chang, King Shih-Chieh, Lih-Ching Lin, Tang Ru-Yun, Feng Guoqiang, Chiu-Yun Lu, Johnny Tuan Chung-Yi, Chin Ling Tsao, Hsiao Chih-wen, Liang-Yueh Chen, Li-Hua Chen, Ko-Chung Chang, Lu Te-Ming, Hsiao Ai, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Shu-Chuan Huang, Hung-Shen Shen, Meng Chi-Liang, Yen Hung-ya, Ting-Ni Ma, Hu Hsiang-Ping, Sun Pao-Kuei, Vicky Chiang, Ming-Yang Shih, Li-Mei Chen, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lai Te-Nan, Ju-Ping Lin, Danny Deng, Ming-Yu Shih, Heng-Cheng Lin, Yi-Hua Shih, Shu Kuo-Chih, Chang-Ju Kuo, Miao-hui Kao, Chang-Hao Liu, Hung-chun Hsieh, Tuan Chung-Chang, Tse Hung-Kwan, Te-chien Hou, Li Lung-Yu, Tsu-Yun Lang, Tang Shiang-Chu, Lai-Fu Chen, Min-Nen Lee, Yu Wei-Yen, Wang Dao-Nan, Wu Chuang, Le-Chin Wu, Tzu-Chiang Lee, Liping Yang, Katherine Hui-ling Chou
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About the film
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
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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: Sam Peckinpah
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: Buster Keaton
Kino Lorber new Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray?
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
MoC 4K Blu-ray late 2027
Lobster Films (Kino Lorber?) > Cohen/Eureka https://slow.pics/c/3KWXoMyR The new Kino Lorber's Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. might be using the same restoration as Lobster Films
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
(transfer of the 1989 MGM LaserDisc, without problems plaguing Kino Lorber's release)
Arrow UHD is an update of the original 4K scan done for their BD. It is also visually far superior to the Kino version and adds Dolby Vision HDR. The Arrow UHD uses a new LD mono capture and has none of the issues or processing found in the Kino UHD which also used an LD mono capture and somehow mucked it up. Short of a brand new scan, the Arrow UHD is as good as it possibly can be.
Director: Michael Cimino
2020 Shout! Factory 4K
2020 Shout! Factory 4K slightly better than StudioCanal in HDR10. Similar in DV
35mm mix: 1991 Universal LaserDisc
70mm mix: StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray
35mm mix: 1991 Universal LaserDisc marginally better than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is downmix.
70mm mix: StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is remix.
Director: Orson Welles
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)
Theatrical Cut: Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray
Redux Cut: Lionsgate vs Eagle Pictures?
Final Cut: Lionsgate or Eagle Pictures, both are not great (visible chroma noise)
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Theatrical: Germany 4K Blu-ray/US Blu-ray DD 5.1 (1979 mix)
In the Lionsgate US/UK 6-disc set, there are 4 discs of the main feature. For whatever reason, the 4K discs lack the *original track. The Germany 4K Blu-ray release is different on this matter.
UBD: Final Cut: Atmos, DD2.0
UBD: Redux/Theatrical: Atmos
BD: Final Cut: Atmos, DD2.0
BD: Redux/Theatrical: Dtru5.1 (Redux mix?), DD5.1 (?), DD5.1 (Theatrical only), DD2.0 (downmix??)
As a result the Theatrical Cut has 4 tracks, The Redux has 3. Differences are unclear.
BD: Hearts of Darkness
BD: Special Features
Director: George Lucas
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
OG: "4K77" or "D+77" on high seas.
Special Edition: "4K97_IV" or "D+97_IV" on high seas.
2027 Original Trilogy restoration/50th anniversary rerelease clips leaked plus release confirmed
OG: LaserDisc audio is the best option for the Dolby Stereo mixes (and usually included in fan restorations). There are 16mm/TV rips of the mono mixes.
Special Edition: Cinema DTS or 1997 LaserDisc for the Special Edition.
Director: David Lean
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
Director: Edward Yang
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray is FiM encoded and superior to Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps but the Carlotta release is not English friendly
A user writes: 'the 5.0 mix does not closely resemble the matrixed stereo track included on all prior releases (save for a 2003 French DVD which had 5.1). There is significant dialogue emphasis in the 5.0 mix while the older stereo mix has ambient sounds and dialogue mixed at nearly the same loudness. Additionally, the 5.0 mix has minor limiting in select loud sequences and a strange distorted quality on occasion (one notable example is the sound of a plane taking off which plays during a static shot of clouds in the sky). The stereo mix included on the FRA UHD/BD is a downmix of the 5.0 track.'
Director: Edward Yang
Director: Edward Yang
Director: Edward Yang
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · siff.net (opens in a new tab)
New 4k resto? Otherwise there are BDs https://www.siff.net/programs-and-events/the-films-of-edward-yang/taipei-story
Director: Roman Polanski
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379
Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda
UK Third Window Blu-ray and US Error 4444 Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Shout! Factory and Carlotta use the same scan https://slow.pics/c/Wcn5YFlw, the Carlotta has two extra bonus features
Director: John Carpenter
Sony 4K Blu-ray or Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode)
Sony 4K Blu-ray and France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode) are similar
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Zee5 Streaming
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray
Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Criterion boxset
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Director: Otar Iosseliani
2K restoration of 4K scan. This 2K restoration’s detail level is quite good, although its highlights are somewhat blown out. On the other hand, the newer 4K restoration (on DCP only as of Aug 2026) exhibits severe black crush.
TBD. Carlotta sounds muffled.
Carlotta’s English subtitles omit quite a bit of dialog. This was improved upon in the subs accompanying the newer 4K restoration DCP.
2K restoration of 4K scan. This 2K restoration’s detail level is quite good, although its highlights are somewhat blown out. On the other hand, the newer 4K restoration (on DCP only as of Aug 2026) exhibits severe black crush.
TBD. Carlotta sounds muffled.
Carlotta’s English subtitles omit quite a bit of dialog. This was improved upon in the subs accompanying the newer 4K restoration DCP.
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