Man on the Moon (1999)
Comedy, Drama • 1h 58m
Overview
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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
Arrow 4K Blu-ray in August
Arrow 4K Blu-ray in August
Director: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Theatrical version: 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
Extended version: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
Director: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Theatrical version: 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
Extended version: Warner Bros Blu-ray
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
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: Miloš Forman
Director: Miloš Forman
Director: Miloš Forman
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Orson Welles
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Kino Lorber 4k resto
The audio on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray comes from a better source than the various DVDs and the previous HD version on streaming. This audio is relatively untampered with, and is likely the best available source as no laserdisc was ever issued.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Kino Lorber 4k resto
The audio on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray comes from a better source than the various DVDs and the previous HD version on streaming. This audio is relatively untampered with, and is likely the best available source as no laserdisc was ever issued.
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Director: Ridley Scott
UK Universal 4K Blu-ray is missing Kino Lorber extras
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available
Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available
Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP
Director: John Ford
Director: John Ford
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: Howard Deutch
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray vs Kino Lorber Blu-ray, but the compression on the 4K is bad.
Director: Howard Deutch
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray vs Kino Lorber Blu-ray, but the compression on the 4K is bad.
Director: Bryan Gordon
Director: Bryan Gordon
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Jean Renoir
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has marginally better detail and grain structure than ESC 4K Blu-ray
The ESC France 4K Blu-ray is an SDR grade erroneously presented in HDR, but if your player can force the HDR into SDR it looks very good.
Director: Jean Renoir
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has marginally better detail and grain structure than ESC 4K Blu-ray
The ESC France 4K Blu-ray is an SDR grade erroneously presented in HDR, but if your player can force the HDR into SDR it looks very good.
Director: George Sidney
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: George Sidney
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Director: Ken Hughes
MGM Blu-ray's stereo track.
MGM's 7.1 track is a remix with a few flaws and much worse fidelity. Capelight's stereo and 7.1 track are both from the remix.
The movie was originally premiered as a roadshow release, with a a 70mm 6-Track Stereo mix. This mix, unfortunately has not been released on home video.
The closest thing to that mix, is the stereo track included on the 2010 Blu-ray. It sounds great, with high fidelity and little filtering. It's lossy, but that doesn't matter very much.
Both the DVD 5.1 and the Blu-ray 7.1 tracks (identical on both discs) are a new remix, rather than a repackaging of the original mix. The 7.1 track sounds quite muffled, though not evenly so. The Capelight Blu-ray's lossless stereo track uses the same remix, but with higher fidelity than the surround tracks, sounding significantly less muffled. Compared to the original, this remix sounds wider and more "cleaned up". The remix contains a handful of errors, for example the intermission cue fades out, rather than ending correctly.
Comparison samples
Director: Ken Hughes
MGM Blu-ray's stereo track.
MGM's 7.1 track is a remix with a few flaws and much worse fidelity. Capelight's stereo and 7.1 track are both from the remix.
The movie was originally premiered as a roadshow release, with a a 70mm 6-Track Stereo mix. This mix, unfortunately has not been released on home video.
The closest thing to that mix, is the stereo track included on the 2010 Blu-ray. It sounds great, with high fidelity and little filtering. It's lossy, but that doesn't matter very much.
Both the DVD 5.1 and the Blu-ray 7.1 tracks (identical on both discs) are a new remix, rather than a repackaging of the original mix. The 7.1 track sounds quite muffled, though not evenly so. The Capelight Blu-ray's lossless stereo track uses the same remix, but with higher fidelity than the surround tracks, sounding significantly less muffled. Compared to the original, this remix sounds wider and more "cleaned up". The remix contains a handful of errors, for example the intermission cue fades out, rather than ending correctly.
Comparison samples
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
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