Six by Sondheim (2013)
Documentary, Music • 1h 26m
Directors: Autumn de Wilde & James Lapine & Todd Haynes
Cast: Stephen Sondheim, Audra McDonald, Darren Criss, America Ferrera, Jarvis Cocker, Jackie Hoffman, Dean Jones, Angela Lansbury, Yvonne De Carlo, Bette Midler, Laura Osnes, Barbara Barrie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, Judy Bruno Bennett, Glenn Close, George Coe, John Cunningham, Judi Dench, Steve Elmore, George Hearn, Beth Howland, Hugh Jackman, Glynis Johns, Larry Kert, Charles Kimbrough, Patti LaBelle, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jill Lord, Merle Louise, Donna McKechnie, Ethel Merman, Donna Murphy, Pamela Myers, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Teri Ralston, Jeffrey Schiller, Jere Shea, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elaine Stritch, Will Swenson, Eha Urbsalu, Cher
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About the film
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
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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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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
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While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
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