Life of Pi (2012)
Adventure, Drama • 2h 7m
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon, Gautam Belur, Adil Hussain, Tabu, Ayaan Khan, Mohd Abbas Khaleeli, Vibish Sivakumar, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu, James Saito, Jun Naito, Andrea Di Stefano, Shravanthi Sainath, Elie Alouf, T.M. Karthik, Amarendran Ramanan, Hari Mina Bala, Edison Wang, Ko I-chen, Jag Huang, Ravi Natesan, Adyant Balaji, Chirag Agarwal, Ahan André Kamath, Om Kamath, Srilekh Katta, Swati Van Rijswijk, M. Keerthana, Indumohan Poornima, Josephine Nithya B., Samyuktha S., A. Deiva Sundari, G. Vasantakumary, A. Vithya, Mythili Prakash, Raj Patel, Hadiqa Hamid, Iswar Srikumar, Padmini Ramachandran, Frank Welker
Best English-friendly & video release
Fox 4K Blu-Ray
Updated 8 months ago
About the film
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Director: Ang Lee
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Kino Lorber Blu-ray has original 1.85 aspect ratio, and better encoding but with a few caveats: some scenes are in a lower quality than the rest of the film see DVDBeaver
Make sure you have the replacement disc with correct location title card
Director: Ang Lee
Director: Ang Lee
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4k scan 2k transfer
Director: Ang Lee
Sony 4K Blu-ray Columbia Classics Vol. 2
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The 2025 stand-alone MOD edition is worse in encoding quality.
More Adventure on Blu-ray
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Dennis Hopper
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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
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: John Huston
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eureka Blu-ray > StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Older DVD or LaserDisc probably even better
All blu-ray releases so far is from the 2010 scan.
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: George Lucas
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
OG: "4K77" or "D+77" on high seas.
Special Edition: "4K97_IV" or "D+97_IV" on high seas.
2027 Original Trilogy restoration/50th anniversary rerelease clips leaked plus release confirmed
OG: LaserDisc audio is the best option for the Dolby Stereo mixes (and usually included in fan restorations). There are 16mm/TV rips of the mono mixes.
Special Edition: Cinema DTS or 1997 LaserDisc for the Special Edition.
Director: David Lean
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
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