Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
Thriller, Crime, Drama • 2h 13m
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Elijah Wright, Aubrey Joseph, A$AP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, LaChanze, Dean Winters, Wendell Pierce, Michael Potts, Frederick Weller, Rick Fox, Rod Strickland, Rosie Perez, Anthony Ramos, Nicholas Turturro, Aiyana-Lee, Ice Spice, Nuri Hazzard, Princess Nokia, Jensen McRae, Jade Cayne, Imana Breaux, Andy McQueen, Sunni Valentine, Samm Davis, Allison Worrell, Eoin O'Shea, Gregory Dann, Don Lemon, Eddie Palmieri, Herman Olivera, Nelson Gonzalez, Joseph Gonzalez, Luques Curtis, Camilo Molina-Gaetan, Vincente Rivero, Jose Claussell, Conrad Herwig, Jimmy Bosch, Brad Mason, Manuel Ruiz, Louis Fouche, Ivan Renta, Katia Washington, Jackson Lee, Kevin D. Benton, DeShawn Harold Mitchell, Kevin Sibley, Craig 'Radio Man' Castaldo, Imani Coleman, Nadera Johnson, Valerie Ryme, Jezziah Ubiles, Rickey Pageot, Evyn George, Jeremy Sample, Manny Joseph, Cooper Traluch
Best English-friendly release · updated 4 months ago
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Overview
When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Director: Spike Lee
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Imprint is same master as Criterion but encoded by Fidelity in Motion without Pixelogic’s filtering.
See: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23389310&postcount=10 and https://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=844792#p844792
Director: Spike Lee
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Kane Parsons
Canada Elevation 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
> US A24 comparisons
USA Lionsgate/A24 4K Blu-ray for Dolby Atmos mix
Netherlands Remain in Light 4K Blu-ray for the alternate Auro-3D mix
(caveat: no English subtitles for Mandarin/Cantonese dialogue)
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Charlotte Wells
Director: Ari Aster
Theatrical Cut: Germany 4K Blu-ray
Director's Cut: A24 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Japan 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut Blu-ray has extras that the DC 4K Blu-ray lacks
Directors: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
More Thriller on Blu-ray
Director: Roman Polanski
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray see caps. Much better contrast and grain exposure but the grade is a bit questionable as it skews heavily towards magenta in some caps and the encode looks low-pass filtered.
Atmos Remix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1: Imprint Australia Blu-ray or StudioCanal Germany/France Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray encoded the "Original 5.1" as lossy Dolby Digital, which is very different from the AC3 on the original DVD. This new "Original 5.1" may in fact be a downmix of the Atmos track. FWIW, the original DVD AC3 still sounds very good.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
BD LPCM 5.1
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
Director: Lloyd Bacon
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Roman Polanski
Kino Lorber disc has audio pitch errors
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Sourced from a 4K scan of the 35mm Fine Grain. Even with its unfortunate and noticeable print damage, tears, and other issues, still easily beats any prior disc release, though the Imprint BD (same master as Kino, but inferior encode) included in their Essential Film Noir Collection Vol. 3 set does include more extras. https://youtu.be/-Wrsn6-XJCo
Director: Michael Mann
Director: Stanley Kubrick
US Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray
International Cut: Old 2007 Europe Blu-ray
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode, both the US and the International Cut, 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 1980 and for the first time ever on physical media, the film will be in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
No Blu-ray or DVD release has presented the movie in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 for the US cut or 1.66:1 for the International cut.
The packaging on the back of the 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode
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