Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Music, Drama • 1h 35m
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon, Bob Hoskins, David Bingham, Jenny Wright, Alex McAvoy, Ellis Dale, James Hazeldine, Margery Mason, Robert Bridges, Ray Mort, Michael Ensign, Marie Passarelli, Winston Rose, Joanne Whalley, Nell Campbell, Emma Longfellow, Lorna Barton, Rod Beddall, Peter Jonfield, Phil Davis, Gary Olsen, Eddie Tagoe, Dennis Fletcher, Jonathan Scott, Joanna Dickens, John Scott Martin, Marilyn Thomas, Brenda Cowling, Michael Burrell, Malcolm Rogers, John Broughton, Jon Paul Morgan, Albert Moses, Vincent Wong, Mark Newman, Lucita Lijertwood, Betty Whelan, David Fleeshman, Joanna Andrews, Diana King, Roger Kemp, David Smythe, Keith Wray
Spain and Italy Blu-rays are bootlegs. Others listed on Blu-ray.com are placeholders don't actually exist.
2005 US DVD
HDTV stream for HD
Video format
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 6 months ago
Overview
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Director: Alan Parker
Director: Alan Parker
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray, newly encoded 2025 disc only
Capelight 4K Blu-ray 2025 Disc
More Music on Blu-ray
Directors: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
UK StudioCanal UHD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
Director: Julien Duvivier
4K restoration
Director: Sofia Coppola
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Shout Factory Blu-ray
Shout's BD has both cuts of the film in addition to the 3.0 stereo and 2.0 mono mixes making it the first time the full theatrical cut is available with the 3.0 mix. The new commentary is good. The 3.0 stereo sounds wonderful and the mono sounds solid.
That's where the positives end. This is the same terrible Universal DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc with a terrible encode making both versions share the disc separately taking up more space. This master was already poor for DVD and is nearly unwatchable here on the Shout disc. It looks virtually identical to the upscaled DVD most of the time with only a bit less noise due to it being 1080p. This is one of the most appalling cases of "DVD master slapped on a Blu-ray disc" you can possibly find. Absolutely shameful video presentation. This should have never been released this way. Sadly it's still ever so slightly better than the DVD and the only way you get the proper theatrical cut with lossless 3.0 stereo. This is still the best source we have for the film.
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.
Director: Sian Heder
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Apple TV 4K Blu-ray with Atmos
(Eagle Pictures is 5.1)
Director: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
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