The Mattei Affair (1972)
Il caso Mattei
Drama, History • 1h 56m
Overview
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Renato Romano, Franco Graziosi, Gianfranco Ombuen, Elio Jotta, Luciano Colitti, Edda Ferronao, Accursio Di Leo, Terenzio Cordova, Giuseppe Lo Presti, Camillo Milli, Aldo Barberito, Jean Rougeul, Dario Michaelis, Vittorio Fanfoni, Nino Drago, Néstor Garay, Felice Fulchignoni, Sennuccio Benelli, Furio Colombo, Ugo Zatterin, Blaise Morrissey, Gianni Farneti, Alessio Baume, Umberto D'Arrò, Salvo Licata, Giuseppe Rosselli, Ferruccio Parri, Michele Pantaleone, Arrigo Benedetti, Thyraud De Vosjoli, Francesco Rosi, Andrea Artoni, Edy Biagetti, Giovanna Gravina Volonté
Director: Chen Kaige
Director: Chen Kaige
Director: Robert Altman
Director: Robert Altman
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot from Columbia Classics 4K Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot from Columbia Classics 4K Blu-ray
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (Taiwan 4K Blu-ray is not low passed as the US 4K Blu-ray and has better grain and fine detail retention)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (Taiwan 4K Blu-ray is not low passed as the US 4K Blu-ray and has better grain and fine detail retention)
Director: Carol Reed
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source
StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray
Director: Carol Reed
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source
StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray
Director: Luis Buñuel
Radiance's audio is ported from the Criterion DVD, see Blah-ray
Director: Luis Buñuel
Radiance's audio is ported from the Criterion DVD, see Blah-ray
Director: Francesco Rosi
Arrow, not sure about StudioCanal France
Director: Francesco Rosi
Arrow, not sure about StudioCanal France
Director: Dino Risi
Director: Dino Risi
Director: Eiichi Kudō
Director: Eiichi Kudō
Director: Brian De Palma
Radiance 4K Blu-ray see caps vs Arrow
Director: Brian De Palma
Radiance 4K Blu-ray see caps vs Arrow
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Radiance 4K Blu-ray see review
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Radiance 4K Blu-ray see review
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray see caps
Radiance 4K Blu-ray has padded 16-bit. See audio comparison https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray see caps
Radiance 4K Blu-ray has padded 16-bit. See audio comparison https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57
Director: Luchino Visconti
Director: Luchino Visconti
Director: Luis Buñuel
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Radiance tried to license it in 2023 but failed https://letterboxd.com/radiancefilms/list/failed-licenses-2023/ so not expecting home media release any time soon.
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Radiance tried to license it in 2023 but failed https://letterboxd.com/radiancefilms/list/failed-licenses-2023/ so not expecting home media release any time soon.
9/20/2025
