Love Streams (1984)
Drama • 2h 21m
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, Margaret Abbott, Jakob Shaw, Michele Conaway, Eddy Donno, Joan Foley, Al Ruban, Tom Badal, Risa Blewitt, David Rowlands, Robert Fieldsteel, Raphael De Niro, Tony Brubaker, John Roselius, Jessica St. John, Frank Beetson, John Finnegan, Gregg Berger, John Qualls, Christopher O'Neal, Susan Wolf, Doe Avedon, Xan Cassavetes, Dominique Davalos, Julie Allan, Renee Le Flore, Leslie Hope, Joan Dykman, Bronwyn Bober, Victoria Morgan, Barbara DiFrenza, Cindy Davidson, Jamie Horton, François Duhamel, Geraldine Hofstatter, Kathryn Donno, Carolyn Baker, William C. Thompson, Avraham Leibman, Michael Stein, Phedon Papamichael, Jim Jones, Leonard P. Geer, Neil Bell, George Endoso, Kelly Lawrence, Logan Carter, Christopher Morley, Joe LeFlore, Michael O. Gallant, Dean Shindel, Al Lopez, Bo Harwood, Bobbi Permanent, William Henderson, Philip S. Johnson, Alfred McKibbon, Sid Page, John G. Titmus, Richard Treat, Christina Amelia Andrews, Stacy Renee St. Amant, Marlene Beckman, Heather Blodgett, Rachel Cooper, Ann Curtis Hurt
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 1 year ago
2K transfer, not sure about France
Overview
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
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: John Cassavetes
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps
Director: John Cassavetes
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Criterion is warmer and more lifelike than BFI. See DVDBeaver review for more caps
BFI suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug
Criterion has better encoding and doesn't have the bug so that's preferable.
Director: John Cassavetes
Director: John Cassavetes
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: John Cassavetes
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion, 4k transfer
Director: John Cassavetes
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Blu-ray uses same old Sony master
Director: Steve James
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)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray poor compression, otherwise Second Sight has best Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
> BFI 4K Blu-ray. caps Criterion presents the master as originally graded in SDR whereas FiM added HDR / Dolby Vision for the BFI.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray's audio mix has more detail than BFI’s and same applies to the subtitles, covering both English and France spoken word
Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
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.
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Director: Ingmar Bergman
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