Melancholia (2011)
Drama, Science Fiction • 2h 16m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård, Cameron Spurr, Stellan Skarsgård, John Hurt, Brady Corbet, Jesper Christensen, Charlotte Rampling, Udo Kier, James Cagnard, Deborah Fronko, Charlotta Miller, Claire Miller, Gary Whitaker, Katrine A. Sahlstrøm, Christian Geisnæs
No disc has correct frame rate (25fps) and English subtitles
Video format
Best English-friendly release · updated 9 months ago
Overview
Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth…
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Directors: Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
Imprint 4K Blu-ray
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FiM encode and none of the low-pass filtering present on the Criterion 4K, resulting in more detail and better handling of highlights on Imprint
Review, comparisons
All HD and 4K sources use the same 2009 restoration. Criterion's master (also used by Imprint) is a bit more rolled off, though the difference is minor.
Director: F. W. Murnau
2006 Restoration: Eureka Blu-ray
1995 photochemical restoration: BFI Blu-ray
Eureka with Murnau institute restoration featuring score based on original score, BFI uses Photoplay restoration with James Bernard score
Both Eureka and BFI Blu-rays are worthy of owning. Each restoration has unique positives and extras. The James Bernard score on the BFI is outstanding and the image tinting is different to how the Murnau institute official restoration was done. The Eureka MoC Blu-ray is stuffed with extras and remains one of the best-made Blu-rays of all time. Whatever you do: AVOID THE Kino Lorber Blu-ray!!! It uses the same Murnau institute restoration but drops frames for the whole feature - thus it loses a significant portion of the film! This was never acknowledged or addressed. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray remains one of the worst Blu-rays of all time for this reason.
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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For Blu-ray Criterion Demy Set > StudioCanal
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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See chris's review
1991 Daiei LaserDisc
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, work done to un-Nolan the 4K master, the first ever appearance of the 35mm mono track on physical media and a new restoration/remastering of the 70mm 6-track mix.
(early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed)
Director: Lars von Trier
4K Restoration: Curzon 4K Blu-ray
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Director: Lars von Trier
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(needs gamma correction)
The movie was shot in HD and France Potemkine Blu-ray (needs gamma correction) has slightly stronger encoding than Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray. Curzon Blu-ray is the worst of all three (not by much) see caps.
Director: Lars von Trier
Director: Lars von Trier
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Lars von Trier
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Éric Rohmer
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Rohmer Potemkine set
Netherlands 2006 Homescreen DVD
Director: Leos Carax
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Shout! Factory BD (caveat: burned-in English subtitles)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Criterion, 4K transfer
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Criterion is regraded with no reference information provided. Comparisons
Director: Abel Gance
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Potemkine 4K
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Potemkine 4K for the 7h Grand Version https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36908
Director: Orson Welles
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