Mysterious Skin (2005)
Drama • 1h 45m
Director: Gregg Araki
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeffrey Licon, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Long, Bill Sage, Chase Ellison, George Webster, Riley McGuire, Rachael Nastassja Kraft, Chris Mulkey, David Lee Smith, Kelly Kruger, Ryan Stenzel, Richard Riehle, Larry Marko, Clover, Bruno Alexander, Forrest Fountain, Zane Huett, Reedy Gibbs, David Alan Graf, John Ganun, Billy Drago, Pete Kasper, Joan Blair, Trieste Kelly Dunn
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
Overview
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Director: Gregg Araki
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray for 5.1 remix. Original stereo mix on US Image Entertainment LaserDisc/UK Second Sight DVD
Director: Gregg Araki
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray for 5.1 remix. Original stereo mix on UK Second Sight DVD.
Director: Michael Haneke
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Martin Scorsese
Other releases have horrendous DNR
Director: Roman Polanski
Kino Lorber disc has audio pitch errors
Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Terrence Malick
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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.
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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: Michael B. Jordan
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
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