The Travelling Players (1975)
Ο θίασος
Drama, War, History • 3h 50m
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Cast: Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan, Aliki Georgouli, Kiriakos Katrivanos, Stratos Pahis, Nina Papazaphiropoulou, Giannis Fyrios, Alekos Boubis, Maria Vassiliou, Grigoris Evangelatos, Petros Zarkadis, Kostas Styliaris, Nena Menti, Giorgos Mazis, Costas Messaris, Stelios Lionakis, Yorgos Kafkas, Giannis Kafaloukos, Kostas Mandilas, Minas Konstantopoulos, Mary Antonopoulou, R. Ntinou, Thanos Grammenos, Babis Pisimisis, Danis Katranidis, D. Peletis, Giorgos Koutiris, T. Loudaros, Takis Doukakos, Iakovos Pairidis, Kaiti Ibrohori, Katerina Bourlou, Roza Neogeni, A. Johnson, Giorgos Tzifos, Dimitris Mitsopoulos, Christoforos Nezer, Alexis Argyriou, Kostas Pavlou, Giorgos Verlis, Ketty Grigoratou, Panos Kokkinopoulos, Spyros Stamatellos, Vasilis Tsaglos
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
Overview
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra plots revenge on her mother for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes, a young anti-fascist rebel.
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Swiss Trigon Film BD
Sources: shop.trigon-film.org (opens in a new tab)
No comparisons, but Swiss Trigon Film BD is English friendly, and Japan Kinokuniya Blu-ray isn't
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
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
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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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