Deep Cover (1992)
Action, Thriller, Crime • 1h 48m
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Gregory Sierra, Clarence Williams III, René Assa, Alex Colon, Roger Guenveur Smith, Sydney Lassick, Kamala Lopez, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Glynn Turman, James T. Morris, Sandra Gould, Charles Martin Smith, Lira Angel, Bruce Paul Barbour, Bilal Bashir, Anna Berger, Donald Bishop, Ed Cambridge, Jaime Cardriche, Alisa Christensen, Cory Curtis, James Encinas, Joseph Ferro, Def Jef, Harry Frazier, Neil Goldberg, Revalyn T. Golde, Yvette Heyden, Erik Kilpatrick, Nick LaTour, Shannon Macpherson, Ric Mancini, Lionel Matthews, Arthur Mendoza, John Messall, Paunita Nichols, Tony Perez, Clifton Powell, Roberto Santana, Jonathan Scott, Vicellous Shannon, Eleva Singleton, Lisa Thayer, Ron Thompson, Tyrin Turner, David Weixelbaum, John Boyd West
Criterion Blu-Ray
Video format
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 7 months ago
Overview
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
More Action on Blu-ray
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
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: Michael B. Jordan
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
Director: James Gunn
Commentary is only on Streaming
Director: Anthony Mann
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Olive Blu-ray
Barebones Olive BD of a Paramount HD master. Visually it's solid overall with some moments of great clarity, primarily in the big outdoor and aviation sequences. Otherwise it shows its age.
Director: John Woo
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
review: Disk Kino
better encoding, some shots are better on Shout! Factory, others on Arrow
Shout! Factory/Arrow 4K Blu-ray has the original mono
Director: Michael Mann
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