The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Comedy, Drama, Romance • 1h 51m
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades, Theresa Merritt, Michael Shawn, Patricia Pearcy, Gene Castle, Marilyn Sokol, Anita Dangler, Victoria Boothby, Robert Costanzo, Pancho González, Jose Machado, Hubert Kelly, Dana Laurita, David S. Cass Sr., Clarence Felder, Loyita Chapel, Caprice Clark, Esther Sutherland, Kensuke Haga, Ryohei Kanokogi, Ruby Holbrook, Kristina Hurrell, David Matthau, Milt Oberman, Eddie Villery, Joseph Carberry, Eric Uhler, Raymond J. Barry, Powers Boothe, Tom Everett, Janice Fuller, Munson Hicks, Robert Kerman, Jeanne Lange, Robert Lesser, Fred McCarren, Nicholas Mele, Maureen Moore, Joe Regalbuto, Peter Vogt, Wendy Cutler, Susan Elliot, Andy Goldberg, Nicol Williamson, Paul Willson, Daniel Levins
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About the film
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
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- The Goodbye Girl
Director: Herbert Ross
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
It's a very naturally soft film so the 4K's the best it's ever gonna look and it's actually one of Paramount's well-encoded UHDs; still not free of Paramount's typical tomfoolery though according to Geoff D
Director: Herbert Ross
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Compton Bennett
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
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Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
Director: Buster Keaton
Kino Lorber new Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. Blu-ray?
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MoC 4K Blu-ray late 2027
Lobster Films (Kino Lorber?) > Cohen/Eureka https://slow.pics/c/3KWXoMyR The new Kino Lorber's Seven Chances / Sherlock Jr. might be using the same restoration as Lobster Films
Director: Billy Wilder
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
(transfer of the 1989 MGM LaserDisc, without problems plaguing Kino Lorber's release)
Arrow UHD is an update of the original 4K scan done for their BD. It is also visually far superior to the Kino version and adds Dolby Vision HDR. The Arrow UHD uses a new LD mono capture and has none of the issues or processing found in the Kino UHD which also used an LD mono capture and somehow mucked it up. Short of a brand new scan, the Arrow UHD is as good as it possibly can be.
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