The Iron Claw (2023)
History, Drama • 2h 12m
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons, Holt McCallany, Maura Tierney, Lily James, Michael Harney, Aaron Dean Eisenberg, Kevin Anton, Scott Innes, Cazzey Louis Cereghino, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, Brady Pierce, Ryan Nemeth, Jim Gleason, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Garrett Hammond, Michael Papajohn, Jullian Dulce Vida, Leo Franich, Sam Franich, Grady Wilson, Valentine Newcomer, Silas Mason, Devin Imbraguglio, James Beard, Kristina Kingston, Brian Hite, Chelsea Edmundson, Romeo Newcomer, Terry J. Nelson, Cassidy O'Reilly, Brett Beoubay, Mike Dell, Ernest Marsh, Dane Alexander Peplinski, Ronnie Yelverton
Leonine 4K Blu-ray
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
UHD tiers
Poor encoding
Overview
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
More History on Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Other releases have horrendous DNR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
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.
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
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
Edit history
Every recommendation follows the same method — how these calls are made.