Yi Yi (2000)
一一
Drama • 2h 53m
Overview
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Director: Edward Yang
Cast: Wu Nien-jen, Issey Ogata, Elaine Jin Yan-Ling, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Michael Tao, Suzanne Shu-shen Hsiao, Adriene Lin, Pang Chang Yu, Tang Ru-Yun, Hsu Shu-Yuan, Hsin-Yi Tseng, Yung-Feng Lee, Shi-hui Chin, Wu Jie, Shu Kuo-Chih, Leon Dai, Mei-Yun Yu, Lawrence Ko Yu-Luen, Liang-Tso Liu, Li-Hua Chen, Chen Yi-wen, Shau-Ching Sung, Lo Pei-An, Antonio Lee, Danny Deng, Ray Fan, Chien-Hsiung Cheng, Cheng Yuan-Cheng, Ju-Yin Tsai, Jerry Sun, Tzu-chieh Miao, Tang Tsung Sheng, Wang Chi-tsan, Jianchang Li, Kenjiro Tsuda, Wei-Ning Wu, Hui-Ling Chang, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Allen Lu, Yang Shih-ping, Tzu-Yen Yeh, Cheryl Yang, Wan-Yun Lee, Hsiao-Wei Lin, Yiting Wu, Cheng-Kai Wang, Nien-Chu Hsieh, Shi-Chi Chen, Kuang-Ting Hsiang, Yen-Chun Lin, Hsin-yi Wen, An-yi Wen, Tzu-Ai Tsai, Yao-Wen Liu, Wei-Chun Wu, Szu-Chia Huang, Ming-Min Yeh, Yilian He, Katherine Lee, Tricia Chen, Christine Cheng, Fiona Chen, Cheng-Wan Pieh, Kate Yeung, Shih-hue Tu, Yu-Lung Yin, Lien-Lien Hsiao, Xianghua Ye, Sharon Mao, Liang-Hsin Hsieh, Mitsu Sudo, Kiyotaka Ueno, Norihiko Hashimoto, Christian Storms, Azusa Naito, Hui-Hui Chiang, Stephanie Michelle Lord, Morgan Reynolds, Tamara Robertson, Song-en Hu, Shou-yao Liu, Kai-Li Peng, Edward Yang
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Jean Renoir
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has marginally better detail and grain structure than ESC 4K Blu-ray
The ESC France 4K Blu-ray is an SDR grade erroneously presented in HDR, but if your player can force the HDR into SDR it looks very good.
Director: Jean Renoir
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has marginally better detail and grain structure than ESC 4K Blu-ray
The ESC France 4K Blu-ray is an SDR grade erroneously presented in HDR, but if your player can force the HDR into SDR it looks very good.
Director: David Lynch
Criterion 4K Blu-ray or Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray - subtle difference in encoding to the Criterion in encoding, trading blows in different shots, with Plaion taking a slight edge with less highlight blocking
1993 MGM LaserDisc/2000 Region 1 MGM DVD
Criterion's 2.0 sounds muffled due to noise reduction and EQ.
Plaion's 2.0 lacks bass and has a very bright EQ, more resembling the 5.1 remix. Plaion’s 2.0 doesn't have any filtering unlike the Criterion, see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23831289&postcount=110
Director: David Lynch
Criterion 4K Blu-ray or Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray - subtle difference in encoding to the Criterion in encoding, trading blows in different shots, with Plaion taking a slight edge with less highlight blocking
1993 MGM LaserDisc/2000 Region 1 MGM DVD
Criterion's 2.0 sounds muffled due to noise reduction and EQ.
Plaion's 2.0 lacks bass and has a very bright EQ, more resembling the 5.1 remix. Plaion’s 2.0 doesn't have any filtering unlike the Criterion, see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23831289&postcount=110
Director: David Lynch
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is closer to the original DVDs than the 2015 Criterion release, not sure about whether the StudioCanal 4K is like the Criterion 4K/original DVD
Criterion 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision, StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has MEL
Director: David Lynch
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is closer to the original DVDs than the 2015 Criterion release, not sure about whether the StudioCanal 4K is like the Criterion 4K/original DVD
Criterion 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision, StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has MEL
Director: Jean Vigo
Director: Jean Vigo
Director: Charlie Chaplin
1936 version: Image Entertainment DVD
1954 version: Criterion Blu-ray
Cut info: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=31209
1936 version: Image Entertainment DVD
Director: Charlie Chaplin
1936 version: Image Entertainment DVD
1954 version: Criterion Blu-ray
Cut info: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=31209
1936 version: Image Entertainment DVD
Director: Béla Tarr
Curzon 4K Blu-ray August
Director: Béla Tarr
Curzon 4K Blu-ray August
Paramount 4K Blu-ray but poor encode, no alternatives though
Paramount 4K Blu-ray but poor encode, no alternatives though
Director: Robert Bresson
Director: Robert Bresson
Director: Edward Yang
TV Movie, only available in Streaming https://archive.org/details/duckweed_1981 or youtube
TV Movie, only available in Streaming https://archive.org/details/duckweed_1981 or youtube. The Streaming is likely the only surviving copy and was transferred from Kaili Peng's personal tapes according to https://www.tfai.org.tw/zh/program/movieDetail/2c95808288528e1601892eb8b24c0113
Director: Edward Yang
TV Movie, only available in Streaming https://archive.org/details/duckweed_1981 or youtube
TV Movie, only available in Streaming https://archive.org/details/duckweed_1981 or youtube. The Streaming is likely the only surviving copy and was transferred from Kaili Peng's personal tapes according to https://www.tfai.org.tw/zh/program/movieDetail/2c95808288528e1601892eb8b24c0113
Director: Edward Yang
Director: Edward Yang
Director: Edward Yang
Director: Edward Yang
Director: Edward Yang
New 4k resto? Otherwise there are BDs https://www.siff.net/programs-and-events/the-films-of-edward-yang/taipei-story
Director: Edward Yang
New 4k resto? Otherwise there are BDs https://www.siff.net/programs-and-events/the-films-of-edward-yang/taipei-story
Director: Edward Yang
Director: Edward Yang
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: Ridley Scott
Capelight 4K Blu-ray has better encode than Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Ridley Scott
Capelight 4K Blu-ray has better encode than Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Chen Kaige
Director: Chen Kaige
Director: Michael Curtiz
Director: Michael Curtiz
Director: Luis Buñuel
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray uses a newer 4k scan than Criterion Blu-ray or older StudioCanal Blu-ray see https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=4373
Director: Luis Buñuel
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray uses a newer 4k scan than Criterion Blu-ray or older StudioCanal Blu-ray see https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=4373
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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
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4k restoration? no disc https://www.siff.net/programs-and-events/the-films-of-edward-yang/yi-yi
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4k restoration? no disc https://www.siff.net/programs-and-events/the-films-of-edward-yang/yi-yi
