Barren Lives (1963)
Vidas Secas
Drama • 1h 43m
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Cast: Átila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Baleia, Gilvan Lima, Genivaldo Lima, Orlando Macedo, Jofre Soares, Arnaldo Chagas, Oscar de Souza, José Leite, Domário, Gilvan Leite, Gileno Sampaio, Inácio Costa, Pedro dos Santos, Nabor Costa, Clovis Ramos, Manuel Ordômio, Vanutério Maia, Antonio Soares, Walter Monteiro, Maria Rosa, Maria de Vanje
New Yorker DVD
Video format
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
Overview
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.
Director: Robert Bresson
Director: Jacques Rivette
Video format: HD Streaming
HD Streaming for rent on Vimeo or New Yorker DVD
Sources: vimeo.com (opens in a new tab)
HD Streaming for rent on Vimeo (seems to be legit, from director's own company) or New Yorker DVD
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Ron Shelton
Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray disappointing, nice new master, but poor encode, grain completely crippled in some scenes, artifacts abound, etc, makes Kino Lorber look like FiM.
Director: Sian Heder
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Has full and forced English subtitles
Apple TV 4K Blu-ray with Atmos
(Eagle Pictures is 5.1)
Director: Celine Song
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
UK StudioCanal Blu-ray is the better release. Plaion Italy 4K Blu-ray has macroblocking and chroma noise issues, and the US Lionsgate Blu-ray has elevated gamma levels and macroblocking https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=22310555&postcount=31
Director: Dennis Hopper
BFI Blu-ray renders grain structure better than Severin 4K Blu-ray’s disappointing encode, although Severin does feature an HDR grading with Dolby Vision. Furthermore, Severin’s soundtrack is worse due to the noise reduction applied.
Severin 4K Blu-ray has very good extras that are more relevant to the film
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.
Director: Phil Joanou
UK Second Sight Blu-ray maybe better than all the other Blu-rays?
Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray is disappointing with DNR and poor compression
Director: Frank Capra
Director: Joachim Trier
MUBI 4K Blu-ray has zero extras
Directors: Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie
4K encode is low-pass filtered and noticeably so, which was unfortunately par for the course with Criterion 4Ks until sometime in 2024, and the encode is still less than ideal even despite that. Still better than the Criterion and Lionsgate Blu-Ray discs for the Dolby Vision grading alone.
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