No Time for Love (1943)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 23m
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath, June Havoc, Marjorie Gateson, Woody Strode, Murray Alper, Faith Brook, Rod Cameron, Kenneth Chryst, Yvonne De Carlo, Jerome de Nuccio, George Dolenz, Bill Goodwin, Kit Guard, Alan Hale Jr., Eddie Hall, Robert Homans, Mitchell Ingraham, Charles Irwin, John Kelly, Fred Kohler Jr., Arthur Loft, Morton Lowry, Patrick McVey, Frank Moran, Tom Neal, William H. O'Brien, Lillian Randolph, Keith Richards, Willard Robertson, Ronald R. Rondell, Mickey Simpson, Walter Soderling, Ben Taggart, Dorothy Vernon, Dave Wengren, Rhys Williams, Grant Withers, Sayre Dearing, Helen Dickson, Jack Gardner, Tex Harris, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Frederic Henry, Robert Herrick, Ted Jacques, Max Lauer, Wilbur Mack, Philo McCullough, Gil Perkins, Paul Phillips, Art Potter, Tom Quinn, Lorin Raker, Jack Roberts, Jack Roper, Cosmo Sardo, Jack Shay, Sammy Stein, Pat West
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 8 months ago
Overview
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Kino Lorber Carole Lombard Collection II Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
France Movinside Blu-ray although has contrast boosting, still better than Kino Lorber's aggressive DNR caps
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
Other releases have horrendous DNR
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Sourced from a 4K scan of the 35mm Fine Grain. Even with its unfortunate and noticeable print damage, tears, and other issues, still easily beats any prior disc release, though the Imprint BD (same master as Kino, but inferior encode) included in their Essential Film Noir Collection Vol. 3 set does include more extras. https://youtu.be/-Wrsn6-XJCo
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode
Director: Paul Leni
Theatrical/Original A negative: MoC Blu-ray
European C/D negative but better picture quality: Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
From DVDBeaver: The MoC Blu-ray is scanned from the American A negative, as opposed to the European C or D negatives used by Photoplay and others (Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray), so it is identical with the film US audiences saw in 1927
See caps for comparison
In addition, the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has sepia tinting throughout while the MoC Blu-ray has yellow for normal scenes, blue for night scenes, and some even green tintings.
Director: Lewis Teague
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray disappointing
R1 DVD
R1 DVD sounds best and has the original mono and a Dolby Stereo remix
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
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.
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available
Germany Blu-ray doesn’t have good encoding, with visible blocking and banding etc.
Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP
Kino Lorber Blu-ray retains both the French and German dialogue in their native languages.
More Comedy on Blu-ray
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: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Ralph Bakshi
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