Fearless (1993)
Drama • 2h 2m
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio del Toro, Deirdre O'Connell, John de Lancie, Spencer Vrooman, Daniel Cerny, Eve Roberts, Robin Pearson Rose, Debra Monk, David Carpenter, Cynthia Mace, Randle Mell, Kathryn Rossetter, Craig Rovere, Doug Ballard, Molly Cleator, Rance Howard, Schylar Gholson, Trevor Gholson, Anne Kerry Ford, Michael Mulholland, Cliff Gober Jr., Sally Murphy, Steven Culp, John Towey, Stephanie Erb, Cordis Heard, Paul Ghiringhelli, Ryan Tomlinson, Eric Menyuk, Don Amendolia, Rondi Reed, Elsa Raven, William Newman, Jeanine Jackson, Don Boughton, Rome Owens, Kevin Brophy, Joe Paulino, Michael Ching, Roger Hernandez, Antoinette Peragine, Ramoncita Hernández, Isabel R. Martínez, I. Rodrigo Martinez, Mel Gabel, Jama Smith, Donna Keegan, Trisha Brittenham, Linda Lee, Daryl Hemmerich, Gerald L. Kersey, Randy Danekas, Gene DeAngelis, Danielle Clegg, Shannon Ratigan, Adelaide M. Wolf, Loyd Catlett, Rebecca Hardt, Suzanne Q. Burdeau, Maria J. Rockwell, Richard Blum, Ashley Cemo, Norman Fessler, Lisbeth Rasmussen, Ken Mofhitz, James E. Flannigan, Lavina Wilkerson, Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc, Michael Tamburro, Tory Christopher, Brian Danker, Ryal Haakenson, Marshal Hilton, Matthew Parrott, Ron Roggé
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 11 months ago
Overview
After surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability, leading to radical, compulsive actions. Can a psychologist and a fellow guilt-ridden survivor bring him down to earth?
Disney 4K Blu-ray has neutered audio compared to OG home video release
Cinema DTS or DVD DTS 5.1 is better and has more bass.
The 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray lack the bonus features found in the old Collector's Edition DVD release. The France Blu-ray has all extras plus an isolated score.
Director: Peter Weir
Director: Peter Weir
Theatrical Cut: Second Sight 4K Blu-ray Director's Cut: Second Sight 4K Blu-ray or old master
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
(Criterion/Second Sight Blu-ray. Up to preference)
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: John Ford
Sources: ibb.co (opens in a new tab)
Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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
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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