Magnolia (1999)
Drama • 3h 8m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Melora Walters, Jeremy Blackman, Jason Robards, Melinda Dillon, Michael Bowen, April Grace, Ricky Jay, Emmanuel Johnson, Pat Healy, Genevieve Zweig, Mark Flanagan, Neil Flynn, Rod McLachlan, Allan Graf, Patton Oswalt, Raymond 'Big Guy' Gonzales, Brad Hunt, Jim Meskimen, Chris O'Hara, Clement Blake, Frank Elmore, John Kraft Seitz, Cory Buck, Tim Soronen, Jim Ortlieb, Thomas Jane, Holly Houston, Benjamin Niedens, Veronica Hart, Missy Spell Tanner, James Kiriyama-Lem, Jake Cross, Charlie Scott Jr., Juan Medrano, John Pritchett, Cleo King, Don McManus, Michael Shamus Wiles, Jason Andrews, John S. Davies, Kevin Breznahan, Miguel Pérez, Alfred Molina, David Masuda, Neil Pepe, Lionel Mark Smith, Annette Helde, Lynne Lerner, Felicity Huffman, Scott Burkett, Bob Brewer, Julie Brewer, Nancy Marston, Maurey Marston, Jamala Gaither, Danny Wells, Amy Brown, Eileen Ryan, Meagen Fay, Patricia Forte, Luis Guzmán, Patrick Warren, Orlando Jones, Virginia Pereira, Craig Kvinsland, Patricia Scanlon, Henry Gibson, Natalie Elizabeth Marston, Bobby Brewer, Clark Gregg, Art Frankel, Matt Gerald, Guillermo Melgarejo, Paul F. Tompkins, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jim Beaver, Ezra Buzzington, Denise Woolfork, Michael Murphy, Robert Downey Sr., William Mapother, Larry Ballard, Brett Higgins, Brian Higgins, Michael Lee Phillips Jr., Lillian Adams, Steven Bush, Mike Massa, Dale Gibson, Scott Alan Smith, Paul Thomas Anderson, Miriam Margolyes, Bruno Angelico, Robert Bella, Greg Bronson, Douglas Busby, Marc Davies, Bruce Gregory, Phil Hawn, Spencer Kayden, Brian Kehew, Michael Laren, Aimee Mann, Tom Ohmer, Colleen Pelletier, Herb Santos Jr., Tom Tangen
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Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray teased
Overview
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Directors: Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
Imprint 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · filmalert101.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
FiM encode and none of the low-pass filtering present on the Criterion 4K, resulting in more detail and better handling of highlights on Imprint
Review, comparisons
All HD and 4K sources use the same 2009 restoration. Criterion's master (also used by Imprint) is a bit more rolled off, though the difference is minor.
Director: F. W. Murnau
2006 Restoration: Eureka Blu-ray
1995 photochemical restoration: BFI Blu-ray
Eureka with Murnau institute restoration featuring score based on original score, BFI uses Photoplay restoration with James Bernard score
Both Eureka and BFI Blu-rays are worthy of owning. Each restoration has unique positives and extras. The James Bernard score on the BFI is outstanding and the image tinting is different to how the Murnau institute official restoration was done. The Eureka MoC Blu-ray is stuffed with extras and remains one of the best-made Blu-rays of all time. Whatever you do: AVOID THE Kino Lorber Blu-ray!!! It uses the same Murnau institute restoration but drops frames for the whole feature - thus it loses a significant portion of the film! This was never acknowledged or addressed. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray remains one of the worst Blu-rays of all time for this reason.
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
For Blu-ray Criterion Demy Set > StudioCanal
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
See chris's review
1991 Daiei LaserDisc
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, work done to un-Nolan the 4K master, the first ever appearance of the 35mm mono track on physical media and a new restoration/remastering of the 70mm 6-track mix.
(early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration of mono mix which should be better than what was on the WB 4K Blu-ray and 1999 DVD and revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1971.
WB 4K 5.1: a remix but has higher fidelity
Mono: 4K Blu-ray/1999 DVD
Director: Stanley Kubrick
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, both the US and the International Cut, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1980 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
No Blu-ray or DVD release has presented the movie in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 for the US cut or 1.66:1 for the International cut.
The packaging on the back of the 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Sources: parkcircus.com (opens in a new tab)
Like previous releases, the 4K Blu-ray was scanned from an interpositive rather than the original camera negative at Paul Thomas Anderson’s request which may explain the softness.
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> Sony 4K Blu-ray (better encoding on the Criterion) see caps https://slow.pics/c/fbftSpZF
Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
Director: James Gunn
Commentary is only on Streaming
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray (includes Extended Cut on regular Blu-ray)
Original theatrical 6.1 mix: 2009 Warner Bros Blu-ray Ultimate Edition (Theatrical Cut only)
Extended Cut 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS:X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
The film is titled Sorcerer's Stone in the US, India, and the Philippines.
Wizard's/Hogwarts Collection has all the bonus features for all the 8 films.
The lossless version of the original 6.1 mix is only available on the ultimate edition blu-ray not to be confused with the ultimate collectors edition blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1987 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
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