Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)
Documentary, Music • 1h 44m
Director: Sacha Jenkins
Cast: Louis Armstrong, Nas, Wynton Marsalis, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Orson Welles, Archie Shepp, Count Basie, Lucille Armstrong, Dan Morganstern, Steve Allen, Edward R. Marrow, Danny Baker, George Jones, Mike Douglas, Jelly Roll Morton, James Baldwin, Jimi Hendrix, Dick Cavett, Tommy Rockwell, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, James Brown, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Leonard Bernstein, Al Capone, Ed Sullivan, Martin Luther King Jr., James Stewart, Bing Crosby, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Slim Thompson, Ossie Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., John F. Kennedy, Walter Cronkite
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About the film
Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civil rights activist to world-renowned artist, this illuminating film shows sides of Armstrong few have seen.
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- Louis Armstrongs Black and Blues
Directors: Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Sian Heder
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Apple TV 4K Blu-ray with Atmos
(Eagle Pictures is 5.1)
Director: John Ford
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Mariano Llinás
Director: Fei Mu
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New 4K restoration is going to world premiere on TIFF
2D version: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D version: Disney 3D Blu-ray or Disney+/Apple TV Vision Pro Streaming
Video format: HD Streaming
Director: Clarence Brown
Video format: HD Streaming
Video format: 4K Streaming
More Documentary on Blu-ray
Mono: 1999 WB DVD
5.1: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Werner Herzog
Director: Steve James
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
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While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
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