Django Unchained (2012)
Drama, Western • 2h 45m
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, David Steen, Dana Gourrier, Nichole Galicia, Laura Cayouette, Ato Essandoh, Sammi Rotibi, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Escalante Lundy, Miriam F. Glover, Don Johnson, Franco Nero, James Russo, Tom Wopat, Don Stroud, Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn, Bruce Dern, M.C. Gainey, Cooper Huckabee, Doc Duhame, Jonah Hill, Lee Horsley, Zoë Bell, Michael Bowen, Robert Carradine, Jake Garber, Ted Neeley, James Parks, Tom Savini, Michael Parks, John Jarratt, Quentin Tarantino, Amari Cheatom, Keith Jefferson, Marcus Henderson, Chuuch, Kinetic, Louise Stratten, Kim Robillard, Shana Stein, Shannon Hazlett, Jack Lucarelli, Victoria Thomas, Grace Collins, Sharon Pierre-Louis, Christopher Berry, Kim Collins, Dane Rhodes, J.D. Evermore, Rex Linn, Michael Bacall, Ronan Hice, Ned Bellamy, Dave Coennen, Danièle Watts, Jon Eyez, Omar J. Dorsey, Evan Parke, Craig Stark, Brian Brown, Ritchie Montgomery, Nicholas Dashnaw, Jarrod Bunch, Edrick Browne, Kerry Sims, Jamal Duff, Todd Allen, Lewis Smith, Keniaryn Mitchell, Jakel Marshall, Carl Singleton, Ashley Toman, John McConnell, Mark Amos, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Catherine Lambert, Deborah Ayorinde, Takara Clark, Kimberley Drummond, Tenaj L. Jackson, Carl Bailey, Ross P. Cook, Gregory Allen Gabroy, Seth Bailey, David G. Baker, Glen Warner, Kesha Bullard Lewis, Edward J. Clare, Mike DeMille, Gary Grubbs, Justin Dwayne Hall, Kasey James, Cindy Mah, Johnny Otto, Belinda Owino, Mark Ulano, Misty Upham, Fatimah Taliah, Dudley Fuqua, Augustine Alvarez, John R. Bennett II, Valencia Christina, Gene Kevin Hames, Jr., Ryan Happy, Bill Heintz, Jacky Ido, Jacquelyn Twodat Jackson, Marvin Jones III, Ashlee Nicole Jordan, Spencer Kayden, Elton LeBlanc, Chuck Murphy, Brianna Oppenheimer, Kel Owens, Matthew Parrott, Erin Pickett, Tom Proctor, Aleeah Rogers, Alfred Smith III, Nathan Alan Thomas, Tristan Tierce, LaTeace Towns-Cuellar, Rashia Whitlock, Travis Wilkerson, Tadasay Young, Ronnie Zappa
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Overview
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
International Cut: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Upscaled from the 2K DI. Caps are here. While not as dramatic an upgrade as Jackie Brown, color reproduction and especially the reveal of additional highlight information that were completely blown-out on the old master make this a great upgrade regardless. See Uma Thurman’s face in the above cap. Japan Cut: Japan DVD
International Cut: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Whole Bloody Affair 4K Blu-ray upcoming in July, but only has 1 bonus feature and cuts out the rest of the extras
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
> US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (Taiwan 4K Blu-ray is not low passed as the US 4K Blu-ray and has better grain and fine detail retention)
International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray Germany Cut: Germany Universal 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Universal 4K Blu-ray Germany Cut: Germany Universal 4K Blu-ray
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Chris Nahon
Director: Michael Mann
Theatrical/Director's Cut: Shout! Factory Blu-ray
Hybrid Theatrical Cut: Anchor Bay "Theatrical" DVD
Final Cut: upcoming UK StudioCanal Final Cut 4K Blu-ray
UK StudioCanal Final Cut 4K Blu-ray
Director: Cory Edwards
Video format: HD Streaming
Movies Anywhere Streaming
Movies Anywhere Streaming has better encoding and proper 24p framerate compared to the 1080i juddered presentation on the OOP Anchor Bay Blu-ray
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Various Blu-ray labels but no comparison available, including US Anchor Bay, UK Spirit and more
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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