Sweet Charity (1969)
Comedy, Music, Romance, Drama • 2h 33m
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis Jr., Stubby Kaye, Barbara Bouchet, Suzanne Charny, Alan Hewitt, Dante DiPaolo, Bud Vest, Ben Vereen, Lee Roy Reams, Al Lanti, John Wheeler, Leon Bing, Leon Alton, Toni Basil, Larry Billman, Herman Boden, Donald Bradburn, Chelsea Brown, Ray Chabeau, Cheryl Christiansen, Linda Clifford, Bryan Da Silva, Marguerite DeLain, Kathryn Doby, Jimmy Fields, Lynn Fields, Ellen Halpin, Carlton Johnson, Kirk Kirksey, Richard Korthaze, Lance LeGault, Trish Mahoney, Ted Monson, April Nevins, Walter Painter, Louise Quick, Frank Radcliffe, Sandy Rovetta, Charlene Ryan, Dom Salinaro, Georgina Spelvin, Patrick Spohn, Jerry Trent, Tifni Twitchell, Renata Vaselle, Lorene Yarnell Jansson, Adele Yoshioka, Richard Angarola, Henry Beckman, Jack Berle, Charles Brewer, Lonnie Burr, Jeff Burton, Ceil Cabot, Dee Carroll, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, Kathleen Cody, Bud Cort, John Craig, Alfred Dennis, George DeNormand, John Frayer, Dave Gold, Chuck Harrod, Sharon Harvey, Tom Hatten, Francine Henderson, Buddy Joe Hooker, Nolan Leary, Diki Lerner, Buddy Lewis, Marco López, Judith Lowry, Jerry Mann, Joseph Mell, Alma Platt, Maudie Prickett, Leoda Richards, Carroll Roebke
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 9 months ago
Indicator Blu-ray has better encoding than Kino Lorber: caps
Overview
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Director: Bob Fosse
Director: Bob Fosse
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Director: Alan Clarke
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
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The 88 Films 4K Blu-ray is disappointing. Indicator Blu-ray > 88 Films Blu-ray. From nicolas:
Fine master, solid HDR but very poorly encoded with strong blocking artifacts in normal areas and clipped highlights that bring Criterion’s Walkabout to mind. Their Blu-ray is slightly better overall but then again still not as good as FiM’s encode for Indicator.
Director: Vincent Sherman
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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: John M. Stahl
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Indicator Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and likely better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Director: Fritz Lang
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Indicator Blu-ray is superior to Kino Lorber transfer see caps. 2K restoration
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TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Eureka UK are considering doing a 4K and actively exploring the possibility: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24363810&postcount=264
Wonderful underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion, but NexSpec encode has clipped highlights with the occasional blockiness. The Criterion Blu-Ray, sourced from their 4K remaster, ironically makes for a more consistent and overall pleasing experience.
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