East of Eden (1955)
Drama • 1h 55m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, Burl Ives, Albert Dekker, Lois Smith, Harold Gordon, Nick Dennis, Abdullah Abbas, John Alban, Rose Allen, Frank Baker, Barbara Baxley, John Beradino, Joe Brooks, Nora Bush, Timothy Carey, Jack Carr, Wheaton Chambers, Lonny Chapman, Edward Clark, Harry Cording, Roger Creed, Bryn Davis, Ray Dawe, Anna Dewey, Lester Dorr, Joe Dougherty, Darren Dublin, Franklyn Farnum, Al Ferguson, Cliff Fields, Lloyd Ford, Robert Foulk, Curt Furberg, Robert Gardett, Richard Garrick, John George, Leonard George, Ruth Gillis, John Halloran, Sam Harris, Jonathan Haze, Ramsay Hill, Earle Hodgins, Tex Holden, Diane Howe, Charles Anthony Hughes, Gail Kobe, Effie Laird, Billy Mahan, Mike Marienthal, Frank Mazzola, Philo McCullough, Edward McNally, Ken Miller, Tex Mooney, Ralph Moratz, Robert Morris, Paul Nichols, Artie Ortego, Gil Perkins, William Phillips, Rose Plumer, Patricia Prest, Julian Rivero, Mickey Roth, Henry Rowland, Loretta Rush, Scott Seaton, Sammy Shack, Charles Sherlock, Mario Siletti, Hal Taggart, Bette Treadville, Sid Troy, Sailor Vincent, Max Wagner, Lillian West, Chalky Williams
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Overview
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Director: Steve James
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
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2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, work done to un-Nolan the 4K master, the first ever appearance of the 35mm mono track on physical media and a new restoration/remastering of the 70mm 6-track mix.
(early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed)
Director: Elia Kazan
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
1994 Columbia LaserDisc
Director: Elia Kazan
Director: Elia Kazan
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Criterion Blu-ray
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Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Eureka MoC Blu-ray
Director: Martin Rosen
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
Director: James Gunn
Commentary is only on Streaming
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray (includes Extended Cut on regular Blu-ray)
Original theatrical 6.1 mix: 2009 Warner Bros Blu-ray Ultimate Edition (Theatrical Cut only)
Extended Cut 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS:X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
The film is titled Sorcerer's Stone in the US, India, and the Philippines.
Wizard's/Hogwarts Collection has all the bonus features for all the 8 films.
The lossless version of the original 6.1 mix is only available on the ultimate edition blu-ray not to be confused with the ultimate collectors edition blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration/remastering of the mono mix which should be better than the 1999 WB DVD, revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1987 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, new restoration of mono mix which should be better than what was on the WB 4K Blu-ray and 1999 DVD and revised colour timing to make the film look more like it did in 1971.
WB 4K 5.1: a remix but has higher fidelity
Mono: 4K Blu-ray/1999 DVD
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