Only Yesterday (1933)
Drama, Romance • 1h 45m
Director: John M. Stahl
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Benita Hume, Reginald Denny, George Meeker, Jimmy Butler, Noel Francis, Geneva Mitchell, Bramwell Fletcher, June Clyde, Jane Darwell, Oscar Apfel, Robert McWade, Onslow Stevens, Jay Whidden, Adrienne Marden, Leon Ames, Louise Beavers, Betty Blythe, Sheila Bromley, Marion Byron, Walter Catlett, Dorothy Christy, Berton Churchill, Ruth Clifford, Joyce Compton, Tommy Conlon, Herbert Corthell, James Flavin, Dorothy Granger, Jeanne Hart, Arthur Hoyt, Crauford Kent, Natalie Moorhead, Ferdinand Munier, Barry Norton, Edgar Norton, Vivien Oakland, Franklin Pangborn, Lucille Powers, Marie Prevost, Craig Reynolds, Bert Roach, Gay Seabrook, Warren Stokes, Grady Sutton, Sidney Bracey, Alphonse Martell, Sam McDaniel, Lafe McKee, Jeanne Sorel, Larry Steers, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, William H. O'Brien, Ralph Brooks, Florence Lake, Richard Tucker, Dennis O'Keefe, Leo White, Bill Elliott, Maidel Turner, Bert Moorhouse, Jerry Frank, Churchill Ross, Edmund Breese, Jason Robards Sr., Huntley Gordon, Eddie Kane, Rafael Alcayde
No official release
No official edition exists. Anything circulating comes from unofficial sources, so there is no release this site can recommend.
Best video release
Unofficial DVD
Additional info
Universal has a new 4K DCP restoration in 2025 so a new release is likely
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About the film
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: Leo McCarey
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
UK MoC Blu-ray > Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
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: Frank Capra
Director: John M. Stahl
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Indicator Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and likely better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Director: John M. Stahl
Director: John M. Stahl
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Blu-ray has minimally better encoding than Twilight Time Blu-ray see caps
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Robert Altman
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Cinematrographe's HDR grading is overcooked, which is a known VinSyn tendency. Additionally, their booklet mis-credits the encode to FiM.
YMMV, but for some, the included BD encoded by Marcus Johnson—ironically may make for a more pleasing experience.
Director: Roman Polanski
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379
Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Arrow has a different grade and a better encode than the Shout! Factory, though the difference in either is not major. Imprint release, which leaves Shout! Factory's master and subtitles as is, is encoded by FiM. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24473097&postcount=56
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)
Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD
Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)
Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.
Imprint presumably used the Shout! Factory original mix and left it as is, though no official confirmation.
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
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
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