Forever and a Day (1943)
Drama, History • 1h 44m
Directors: Cedric Hardwicke & Herbert Wilcox & Robert Stevenson & Edmund Goulding & Victor Saville & Frank Lloyd & René Clair
Cast: Kent Smith, Reginald Gardiner, Victor McLaglen, Billy Bevan, Arthur Treacher, Ruth Warrick, C. Aubrey Smith, Edmund Gwenn, Ray Milland, May Whitty, Gene Lockhart, Anna Neagle, Claude Rains, Jessie Matthews, Reginald Owen, Ian Hunter, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Patric Knowles, Edward Everett Horton, Isobel Elsom, June Duprez, Wendell Hulett, Ida Lupino, Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Una O'Connor, Nigel Bruce, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Coote, June Lockhart, Roland Young, Gladys Cooper, Robert Cummings, Donald Crisp, George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon, Joy Harington, Herbert Marshall, Buster Keaton, Ernest Grooney, Harry Allen, Aubrey Mather, Ethel Griffies, Halliwell Hobbes, Montagu Love, Cecil Kellaway, Wendy Barrie, Queenie Leonard, Eric Blore, Emily Fitzroy, Richard Haydn, Odette Myrtil, June Tripp, Ivan F. Simpson
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Overview
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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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
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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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