Easy Living (1937)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 28m
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Mary Nash, Franklin Pangborn, Luis Alberni, Barlowe Borland, William Demarest, Andrew Tombes, Esther Dale, Harlan Briggs, William B. Davidson, Nora Cecil, Robert Greig, Lee Bowman, Vernon Dent, Marsha Hunt, Dennis O'Keefe, Stanley Andrews, Gertrude Astor, Richard Barbee, Benny Bartlett, Wilson Benge, Sidney Bracey, Don Brodie, Ethel Clayton, Dora Clement, Lois Clinton, Tom Coleman, Elsa Connor, George Cowl, Virginia Dabney, Hal K. Dawson, John Dilson, Lester Dorr, Florence Dudley, Harold Entwistle, Amelia Falleur, Jesse Graves, Hal Greene, Robert Haines, Robert Homans, Arthur Hoyt, Helen Huntington, Olaf Hytten, Adia Kuznetzoff, Lillian Lawrence, Carl M. Leviness, Kathleen Hope Lewis, Nick Lukats, John Marshall, Frank McLure, Lu Miller, Rex Moore, Frances Morris, Bob Murphy, Forbes Murray, Lee Phelps, John Picorri, Kate Price, Jack Raymond, Jack Rice, Hector V. Sarno, Francis Sayles, Leonid Snegoff, Edwin Stanley, Hayden Stevenson, Bernard Suss, Laura Treadwell, William Wagner, Gloria Williams, Florence Wix, Harry Worth
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 4 months ago
Overview
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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StudioCanal 4K
Director: Preston Sturges
Director: Jack Conway
Video format: HD Streaming
HBO Max HD Streaming
Warner Archive Blu-ray in Oct
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> Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver
Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Gregory La Cava
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Although there's a bit of aggressive grain management see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=15853770&postcount=43
Kino Lorber Carole Lombard Collection II Blu-ray
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France Movinside Blu-ray although has contrast boosting, still better than Kino Lorber's aggressive DNR caps
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode
Director: Paul Leni
Theatrical/Original A negative: MoC Blu-ray
European C/D negative but better picture quality: Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
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From DVDBeaver: The MoC Blu-ray is scanned from the American A negative, as opposed to the European C or D negatives used by Photoplay and others (Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray), so it is identical with the film US audiences saw in 1927
See caps for comparison
In addition, the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has sepia tinting throughout while the MoC Blu-ray has yellow for normal scenes, blue for night scenes, and some even green tintings.
Director: Lewis Teague
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray disappointing
R1 DVD
R1 DVD sounds best and has the original mono and a Dolby Stereo remix
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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available
Germany Blu-ray doesn’t have good encoding, with visible blocking and banding etc.
Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP
Kino Lorber Blu-ray retains both the French and German dialogue in their native languages.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Criterion Box Set
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray worse than Blu-ray with poor encoding (review)
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