Zerograd (1988)
Город Зеро
Drama, Comedy • 1h 37m
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Aleksei Zharkov, Pyotr Shcherbakov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Yuriy Sherstnyov, Elena Arzhanik, Tatyana Khvostikova, Aleksandr Bespalyy, Алексей Гордыдов, Феликс Дадаев, Евгений Зернов, Arnold Ides, Viktor Pomortsev, Ольга Кукина, Наталья Рахвалова, Нелли Чуванова, Фёдор Шеленков, Misak Gevorkyan, Viktor Gajnov, Georgy Zholud, Vasili Kravtsov, Oleg Savosin, Mikhail Solodovnik, Дмитрий Урюпин, Olga Konovalova, Lev Guzhnovskiy
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Overview
Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
Stereo: Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray
5.1: Budapest Film PAL DVD
Director: Yuri Norstein
Deaf Crocodile Treasures of Soviet Animation Vol 3 - The Short Films of Yuri Nostein Blu-ray
Director: Otakar Vávra
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray see nic review
Restored: Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored: Czech PAL DVD
Preferences will vary, the restored track sounds good, but not necessarily faithful to the original elements.
Director: Michael Schaack
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eureka's Strange New Worlds: Science Fiction at DEFA Blu-ray is AI upscaled: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=23150714#post23150714
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Joel Coen
Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21782879#post21782879 - comparison. StudioCanal is a massive improvement to the Criterion but still flawed in some areas (chroma noise)
Director: Liliana Cavani
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Iain Softley
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
review: Disk Kino
Both have better encoding than Disk Kino, some shots are better on Shout! Factory, others on Arrow
Shout Factory still has the best video while Arrow did a questionable regrade. Arrow definitely has less grain in most shots, has a worse encode and is cm v2.9 compared to Shout’s cm v4.0.
Shout! Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
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