Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Music, Fantasy • 1h 38m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, John 'Bubbles' Sublett, Oscar Polk, Mantan Moreland, Willie Best, Fletcher Rivers, Leon James Poke, Ford Washington Lee, Butterfly McQueen, Ruby Dandridge, Nick Stewart, Ernest Whitman, Jules Adger, Doris Ake, Juliette Ball, Lennie Bluett, Bernard Bradley, Daisy Bufford, Jas. Burch, Curry Lee Calmes, Rita Christiani, Vivian Dandridge, June Decuire, Dorothea Durham, Duke Ellington, Byron Ellis, Joel Fluellen, Louise Franklin, William Gillespie, Suzette Harbin, Avanelle Harris, Kathleen Hartsfield, Maggie Hathaway, Cleo Herndon, Lawaune Ingram, Bobby Johnson, Glenn Leedy, Meade 'Lux' Lewis, Juanita Moore, Tommie Moore, Jieno Moxzer, Florence O'Brien, Neva Peoples, Amanda Randolph, Louise Ritchie, Henry Phace Roberts, Carmencita Romero, Clinton Rosemond, Archie Savage, Edward C. Short, Johnny Thomas, Ernestine Wade, Arthur Walker, Artie Young, Juano Hernández
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About the film
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
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Year of Induction: 2020
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Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
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: Sidney Lumet
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1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K / Capelight 4K
1.66:1: Criterion 4K but low pass filtered
Comparison between the 4Ks, Criterion on the AR choice
Other discs have unnecessary filtering and sound worse, the difference isn't substantial but audible
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Flicker Alley 4K confirmed for 2027 https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24404584&postcount=1
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.
DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
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An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Warner Archive, 2k + 4k scans
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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