Lady Oscar (1979)
History, Drama, Romance • 2h 4m
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Jonas Bergström, Christine Böhm, Terence Budd, Patsy Kensit, Mark Kingston, Georges Wilson, Martin Potter, Sue Lloyd, Anouska Hempel, Mike Marshall, Christopher Ellison, Constance Chapman, Gregory Floy, Shelagh McLeod, Michael Osborne, Angela Thorne, Paul Spurrier, Rose Mary Dunham, Patrick Allen, Nicholas Amer, Jean Boissery, Armelle Bonnot, François Brincourt, Andrew Bagley, Michèle Cahier, Patrick Floersheim, David Gabison, Steve Gadler, Gary Granville, Vincent Grass, Consuelo De Haviland, Jeffrey Kime, Caroline Loeb, Claire Maubert, Jacques Maury, Timothy Morand, Mario Pecqueur, Michael Petrovitch, Dane Porret, John Charles Sabain, James Schuman, John Tordoff, Denis Trindler, Dominique Varda, Monique Vermeer, Robin Whitecross, Sandy Whitelaw, Lambert Wilson, Sylvia Zerbib
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Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
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For Blu-ray Criterion Demy Set > StudioCanal
Director: Jacques Demy
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Director: Jacques Demy
More History on Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Other releases have horrendous DNR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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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: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
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Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal was overseen and approved by Nicolas Roeg and has a more filmic color grade than the Warner Archive Blu-Ray.
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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
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