Man on the Moon (1999)
Comedy, Drama • 1h 58m
Director: Miloš Forman
Cast: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Vincent Schiavelli, Peter Bonerz, Jerry Lawler, Gerry Becker, Leslie Lyles, Greyson Erik Pendry, Brittany Colonna, Bobby Boriello, George Shapiro, Budd Friedman, Tom Dreesen, Thomas Armbruster, Pamela Abdy, Wendy Polland, Cash Oshman, Matt Price, Christina Cabot, Richard Belzer, Melanie Vesey, Michael Kelly, Miles Chapin, Isadore Rosenfeld, Molly Schaffer, Howard West, Greg Travis, Maureen Mueller, Philip Perlman, Jessica Devlin, Jeff Thomas, Randall Carver, Howard Keystone, Howdy Doody, Brent Briscoe, Ray Bokhour, Patton Oswalt, Caroline Gibson, Conrad Roberts, Jeff Zabel, Marilyn Sokol, Angela Jones, Krystina Carson, Gerry Robert Byrne, Mark Davenport, Bert F. Balsam, Lonnie Hamilton, Ron Sanchez, Billy D. Lucas, Patricia Scanlon, Max Alexander, Ed Mitchell, Reiko Aylesworth, Michael Villani, Maria Elena Maglaris, Heath Hyche, Robert Holeman, Jim Ross, Tamara Bossett, Gene LeBell, Bob Zmuda, Brian Peck, Caroline Rhea, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Philip Lenkowsky, Rob Steiner, Claudia Jaffee, Armando Guerrero, Lance Russell, Stephen Sayadian, K.P. Palmer, Mark Majetti, Deana Molle', Mews Small, David Elliott, Fredd Wayne, Tracey Walter, David Koechner, Jeanine Jackson, Johnny Legend, Doris Eaton, Gregg Sutton, Sydney Lassick, Yoshi Jenkins, Lance Alarcon, D.J. Johnson, Melissa Carrey, Doug Ford, Bill Reid, Chuck Zito, Danielle Burgio, Linda Cevallos, Betsy Chang, Jennifer Chavarria, Shirry Dolgin, Lisa Eaton, Melanie A. Gage, Catherine Hader, Betsy Harris, Kelly Jones Gabriele, Tricia Lilly, Karen Martin, Tabbatha Mays, Katie Miller, Jessica Moore, Tara Nicole Hughes, Mia Pitts, Kelleia Sheerin, Alison Simpson, Melinda Songer Soderling, Michon Suyama, Michelle E. Swanson, Natalie Webb, Jacqueline Case, Karen Blake Challman, Teresa Chapman, Kelly Cooper, Penny Fisher, Eva Jeníčková, Lindsay Lopez, Natalie Mills, April Nixon, Tiffany Olson, Kathryn Rossberg, Karissa Seaman, Lea Sullivan, Amy Tinkham, Kristin Richardson, Thomas Barney, Lewis Del Gatto, Alex Foster, Earl Gardner, Lukasz Gottwald, Cheryl Hardwick, Valerie Naranjo, Shawn Pelton, Leon Pendarvis, Lenny Pickett, Steve Turre, Frank DeVito, Tony Galla, Frank Marocco, Pat Senatore, Anton Fig, Sid McGinnis, Bob Emmet, Michael Lufkin, James McCarty, David Thomasson, Thomas Verdonck, Hal Blaine, Charlie Brissette, Evan Diner, Tim Divers, Phillip Feather, Alex Iles, James Lum, Norman Henry Mamey, Robert O'Donnell, Greg Prechel, James Sawyer, Steven D. Williams, John Yoakum, Jordan Jay Adams, Job Alonso, David Aronson, Scott Baldyga, Judy Ben-Asher, Greg Beville, Jani Blom, Robert M. Bouffard, Greg Bronson, Edita Brychta, Josh Caldwell, Christine Cameron, Tim Carr, Stacy Carter, Angela Theresa Collins, Jeff Conaway, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Brian Durkin, Kenneth David Ebling, Shari Emami, Christina Engelhardt, Roger Ferreira, Leon David Franco, Shannon Frank, Brian Habicht, Lisa Haley, Rich Hall, Marilu Henner, Jeff Hill, Judd Hirsch, Jeffrey M. Hoffman, Chris Humphrey, James Hunter, Davey Rockit Hynes, Carol Kane, Angella Kaye, Howard Kremer, David Letterman, Christopher Lloyd, Norm Macdonald, Tiger Mendez, Lorne Michaels, Catherine Mary Moroney, Bill Normyle, Johan-Carl Nowack, Kate O'Neill, Rook Overman, Christopher Pelant, Christie Pesicka, Lance Polland, J.A. Popovec, Aaron Rosenberg, Cheryl Rusa, Paul Shaffer, Paul Sinacore, Jackie Smason, Brian Smyj, Claude Stuart, J. Alan Thomas, Tony Verley, Jodi White, Nicholas Wilder, Allen Woodman, Yaping, Howard Yearwood, Rachel Zients
Best video release
Kino Lorber Blu-ray, 2K master
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About the film
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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.
Mono: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
Stereo remix: 1998 R2 WB DVD ? (more detailed)
4K Blu-ray is missing featurettes from the old Blu-ray
Director: Miloš Forman
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
The 4K discs in both Criterion and Imprint sets are FiM encodes, but low-passed. The compression is better, but some of the grain is lost. Difference is pronounced in screen caps, but not likely to be noticed during playback, without a reference to compare it to. Comparisons
All discs use the same source transfer. It's not of the highest quality, and it includes some slight distortion, looping, clicks, pops, and hum. Criterion cleaned it up for their release, but unfortunately also lost a lot of fidelity in the process.
MGM NTSC DVD doesn't seem to have some of the more prominent distortion and has slightly different EQ but is otherwise the same.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K / Capelight 4K
1.66:1: Criterion 4K but low pass filtered
Comparison between the 4Ks, Criterion on the AR choice
Other discs have unnecessary filtering and sound worse, the difference isn't substantial but audible
Director: Buster Keaton
Kino Lorber new Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray?
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
MoC 4K Blu-ray late 2027
Lobster Films (Kino Lorber?) > Cohen/Eureka https://slow.pics/c/3KWXoMyR The new Kino Lorber's Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. might be using the same restoration as Lobster Films
Director: Tony Gilroy
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Director: George Stevens
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has unusually strong encode but only a minimal upgrade over the excellent Eureka Blu-ray
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
UK Transmission 4K Blu-ray in January 2027
Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray
The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.
Director: Simon Wincer
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
4K is defective with color space issues and poor encoding, UHD replacement disc is also defective with worse encode. The UHD has visible artifacts from the bad encoding. The HDR is overdone and the Paramount 4K master has grain management.
The new Kino Blu-ray has none of the UHD's problems and is superior to the UHD in every way though it still uses the same Paramount master.
DVD 5.1 or LaserDisc 5.1 AC3, LD PCM 2.0 for the matrix stereo version. The LD and DVD seem to be the theatrical audio mix untouched with plenty of low end. This low end like a number of 90's Paramount titles was mixed out or tamed on subsequent releases.
The Lionsgate BD and Paramount BD share the same lackluster HD master with DNR and image distortion. The Lionsgate is much better encoded but has a 7.1 remix which messed up the original mix design by lessening all the great Foley work in favor of the score. The Paramount BD had a 5.1 lossless version of the original mix but it's a new version where the bass has been tamed so the track has lost its punch. The Kino Lorber UHD and Blu-ray recycle this same lesser 5.1 mastering. The original mix can still be heard on LD and DVD. The 2.0 stereo on the Kino is matrixed but also does not sound as good as the 2.0 matrix audio on DVD or LD.
Kino has a replacement program for the defective UHD to fix the color space issue. The new disc is not marked, has a worse encode AND DOES NOT FIX THE COLOR SPACE! Thus it is a worse defective disc version of the original defective disc.
The Billy Zane interview on the Kino BD has technical issues in the editing and clip quality used.
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Other releases have horrendous DNR
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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