Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 48m
Director: Beeban Kidron
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jacinda Barrett, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Sally Phillips, Celia Imrie, James Faulkner, Shirley Henderson, James Callis, Neil Pearson, Jessica Hynes, Donald Douglas, Shirley Dixon, Dominic McHale, Rosalind Halstead, Luis Soto, Tom Brooke, Alba Fleming Furlan, Lucy Robinson, David Verrey, Mark Tandy, Stephanie O'Rourke, Jeremy Paxman, Flaminia Cinque, Trevor Fox, Alex Jennings, Catherine Russell, Ian McNeice, Philip Gardner, Wolf Kahler, Lilo Baur, Hannes Flaschberger, Sabina Michael, Paul Humpoletz, Paul Nicholls, David Auker, Patrick Baladi, Rong Kaomulkadee, Hu Tingting, Michelle Wen Lee, Hon Ping Tang, Suthas Bhoopongsa, Jason Watkins, Vee Vimolmal, Melissa Ashworth, Pui Fan Lee, Oliver Chris, Sam Hazeldine, Amanda Haberland, Neil Dudgeon, Peter Gordon, Sam Beazley, Simón Andreu, Arturo Venegas, Richard Braine, Nikita Ramsey, Jade Ramsey
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Overview
Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Both come from a 4K scan of a 35mm film out which was made from the original 2K DI but the Lionsgate release has visible dust and damage marks while the Universal release is cleaned up more thoroughly. Both releases suffer from DNR which seems to have been baked into the DI. The colour grade is basically the same for both releases but the Lionsgate has Dolby Vision whereas the Universal is HDR10 only. The compression on the Lionsgate UHD base layer is apparently fine so the FEL doesn't make much of a difference.
The Lionsgate UHD has Dolby Atmos whereas the Universal UHD has DTS:X. Kick-ass was originally released with a 5.1 track which may be on the Universal Blu-ray.
The Lionsgate UHD is on a BD-100, the Universal UHD is on a BD-66.
The Universal UHD has no extras.
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: Leo McCarey
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
Director: John Carpenter
Sources: blog.sporv.com (opens in a new tab)
1997? Signature Collection LD
Good: 2017 Arrow and 2016 Shout! Factory Blu-ray have the original audio options.
the only track on Universal 4K, which is in DTS:X, has a mixing error of around 6dB too low on side channels, otherwise very similar to other 5.1 mixes.
More Comedy on Blu-ray
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: 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
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