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
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Overview
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: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Other releases have horrendous DNR
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Sourced from a 4K scan of the 35mm Fine Grain. Even with its unfortunate and noticeable print damage, tears, and other issues, still easily beats any prior disc release, though the Imprint BD (same master as Kino, but inferior encode) included in their Essential Film Noir Collection Vol. 3 set does include more extras. https://youtu.be/-Wrsn6-XJCo
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode
Director: Paul Leni
Theatrical/Original A negative: MoC Blu-ray
European C/D negative but better picture quality: Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
From DVDBeaver: The MoC Blu-ray is scanned from the American A negative, as opposed to the European C or D negatives used by Photoplay and others (Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray), so it is identical with the film US audiences saw in 1927
See caps for comparison
In addition, the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has sepia tinting throughout while the MoC Blu-ray has yellow for normal scenes, blue for night scenes, and some even green tintings.
Director: Lewis Teague
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray disappointing
R1 DVD
R1 DVD sounds best and has the original mono and a Dolby Stereo remix
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available
Germany Blu-ray doesn’t have good encoding, with visible blocking and banding etc.
Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP
Kino Lorber Blu-ray retains both the French and German dialogue in their native languages.
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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: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
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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