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Toni Erdmann (2016)

Comedy, Drama • 2h 42m

Director: Maren Ade

Best video release

Updated 10 months ago


About the film

Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.

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2026: #416
2025: #450
2024: #487
2023: #511
2022: #511

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Director: Tom Holland

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Eureka Blu-ray's stereo or LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray , https://slow.pics/c/pJfES0fl

Additional Info:

Twilight Time has an isolated score

TV series

Best Video & Audio:

US Sony or JP Aniplex Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Blu-ray version is an extended cut that has an exclusive scene and turns the 5-episode miniseries into a seamless feature film.

Final episode is age-restricted on YouTube, despite receiving a PG rating in Canada and a 12 rating in Germany.

Director: Frank Oz

Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Dennis Hopper

4K · Solid

Director: Roland Emmerich

4K · Solid
Best Video & Audio:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: David Lean

4K · Solid
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.

Director: John G. Avildsen

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray 

5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray 

Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray 

Director: John G. Avildsen

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray 

5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray 

Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray 

Director: Satoshi Kon

4K · Disappointing
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Sony 4K Blu-ray is very smeary with the upscaling but has correct aspect ratio and very good HDR grade.
UK Blu-ray has wrong colors, and Sony 2007 Blu-ray is the worst (encoding and AR)
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Director: Ben Stiller

4K · Solid
Best Video & Audio:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Comparisons

Audio Notes:

Spectrograms

More Comedy on Blu-ray

Director: Mike Nichols

4K · Solid

Director: Mike Cheslik

Best Video & Audio:

UK Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> US Blu-ray

Director: Hal Ashby

4K · Excellent

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Best Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: Steve Gordon

Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Director: Jack Conway

Video Notes:

4K restoration from safety preservation elements

Director: George B. Seitz

Video Notes:

4K restoration from safety preservation elements

Director: Jack Conway

Video Notes:

4K restoration from safety preservation elements

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