American Flyers (1985)
Drama • 1h 53m
Director: John Badham
Cast: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul, Janice Rule, Luca Bercovici, Robert Townsend, John Amos, Jennifer Grey, Doi Johnson, John Garber, James Terry, Jessica Nelson, Tom Lawrence, Brian Drebber, Judith Jordan, Katherine Kriss, Jan Speck, Sig Frohlich, John J. Caraccioli, Barbara Barron, Robert Anderson, Peter Boyles, K.C. Carr, Martin Chenoweth, Jim Flanagin, Steven Burch, Kate Sullivan, Gregg Hayden Bilson II, Christie Blackwell, Michael Harshberger, Brad Peterman, Chris Ziesmer, Emanuel Alongi, Eddy Merckx, John Barvik, John Bowen, Wesley Falker, Lindsay Hankins, Ray Hilliard, Fritz Johnston, Scott Noakes, Brian Searchinger, Bruce Thompson, Splinter Wrenn, Pat Ahern, Matt Barnes, Robert Barnes, Jeff Burrows, Keith M Chatfield, Jeff Cloud, Larry Douture, Tim Draeger, Boe Freeburn, Richard Getz, Bob Grummel, Charles Hansen, Jeff Hartmann, Tom Hartmann, Scott Havlick, Tim Herrin, Sam Hilliard, John Holcombe, Greg Joder, Craig Kappes, Keith Keever, Uli Kick, Dan Klaussen, Tommy Knox, Todd Kube, Dave Langdon, Kean Leader, Jeff May, Eric Michieli, Bryan Miller, Phil Miller, Dirk Mynatt, Bill Nelson, Mark Peterman, Doug Peterson, Lindon Schultz, Randy Sclar, Mark Southard, Dave Taylor, Peter Thron, Danny Valerio, Steven Van Zandt, Robert Ware, Scott Weber, Bruce Whitesel, Rod Yoder, Pat Zeller, Robert Bruce Baird, G. Larry Butler, Fawn, Gregory Krieger, Craig Manning, Lucille Mues, Thomas J. O'Connor, Kenneth Shelley, Tony Teebo, Ken Tipton, Kimberly Wallendorff
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Overview
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he decides to make peace with his sibling, and invites him on a trip to the Rockies. There, the brothers bond over their shared enthusiasm for cycling and decide to enter a grueling bike race through the mountains. However, Marcus' health soon begins to fail, and David must compete without his brother at his side.
Director: John Badham
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray in November
> US Shout! Factory - caps
The 5.1 track sounds very good and is said to be sourced from the original 6-track mix used for 70mm blow-up releases, but there is no conclusive proof of that.
Director: John Badham
(Arrow 4K Blu-ray? while it lacks the 70mm mix)
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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