The Thin Man (1934)
Comedy, Mystery, Crime • 1h 31m
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Henry Wadsworth, Porter Hall, William Henry, Edward Ellis, Edward Brophy, Cyril Thornton, Cesar Romero, Harold Huber, Natalie Moorhead, Will Aubrey, William Augustin, Polly Bailey, Arthur Belasco, Brooks Benedict, Tui Bow, Raymond Brown, Ruth Channing, Jack Cheatham, Clay Clement, Dorothy Compton, Nick Copeland, John Dunsmuir, Pat Flaherty, Bess Flowers, Douglas Fowley, Christian J. Frank, Kay Garrett, Kenneth Gibson, Dick Gordon, Creighton Hale, Sherry Hall, Edward Hearn, Robert Homans, John Irwin, Thomas E. Jackson, Sydney Jarvis, Tiny Jones, Kenner G. Kemp, John Larkin, Dixie Laughton, Walter Long, Fred Malatesta, Hans Moebus, William H. O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Henry Otho, Garry Owen, Lee Phelps, Alexander Pollard, Albert Pollet, Bob Reeves, Bert Roach, Rolfe Sedan, Gertrude Short, Lee Shumway, Skippy, Pietro Sosso, Ben Taggart, Phil Tead, George Templeton, Harry Tenbrook, Huey White, Leo White, Charles Williams
Best English-friendly release · updated 16 days ago
Overview
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Director: Steve James
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
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)
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