Center Stage (1991)
阮玲玉
Drama, Romance, History • 2h 35m
Director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Ronald Chin Han, Carina Lau, Lawrence Ng Kai-Wah, Cecilia Yip Tung, Waise Lee Chi-Hung, Paul Chang Chung, Maryanna Yip, Hsiao Hsiang, Fu Chong, Cheng Xiaohua, Xiao Rongsheng, Shen Ye, Sun Dongguang, Zheng Dali, Dai Tian, Wang Qi'er, Shen Yu, Tang Weiqian, Xue Guoping, Han Jun, Shi Yiqiang, Jin Renpei, Zhou Jie, Ni Yihua, Xu Xing, Wu Jing, Fu Hengzhi, Jin Xiaoqiang, Yao Maozong, Wang Hui, Claude Monges, Carrie Lanese, Zhu Qimin, Cheng Hong, Zhang Xiaomin, Wu Huibiao, Hu Ronghua, Zheng Lieqiong, Wang Shimin, Zhang Runqiu, Zhang Bo, Huang Daliang, Zhu Guangping, Yumiko Cheng Hei-Yi, Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang, Chen Yanyan, Li Lili
Pick your poison: USA Film Movement Blu-ray (two scenes cut / censored & slight Ritrovata yellow tint) or UK 88 Films Blu-ray (DNR)
Best English-friendly release · updated 4 months ago
Overview
Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.
Director: Iain Softley
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Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.
Germany Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray is disappointing with AI upscaling
Director: Michael Mann
Director: James Wong
UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray in November encoded by FiM
Director: Deran Sarafian
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
MVD 4K Blu-ray beautiful remaster but with frame rate skips (encoding error)
Directors: Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine
UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray in November
88 Films and Vinegar Syndrome have different extras
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UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray See caps
DE Nameless 4K Blu-ray is an extremely poor AI upscale. See caps
Director: Charles Band
Full Moon Features Blu-ray or 88 Films Blu-ray is better than 4K Blu-ray, which is poorly encoded
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Samuel Fuller
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Criterion Blu-Ray
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Director: Steve De Jarnatt
2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
UK Transmission 4K Blu-ray in January 2027
Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray
The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Joel Coen
Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD
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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: Liliana Cavani
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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.
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