The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
History, Drama, Music • 2h 17m
Director: Mona Fastvold
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Matthew Beard, Christopher Abbott, Viola Prettejohn, David Cale, Stacy Martin, Scott Handy, Jeremy Wheeler, Tim Blake Nelson, Daniel Blumberg, Willem van der Vegt, Maria Sand, Millie-Rose Crossley, Esmee Hewett, Harry Conway, Benjamin Bagota, Scott Alexander Young, George Taylor, Jamie Bogyo, Matti Boustedt, Alexis Latham, Shannon Woodward, Lark White, Roy McCrerey, Viktória Dányi, Natalie Shinnick, Maddie Browning, Martin O'Regan, Francis McBurney, Alex Gregor, Chris Jackson, Lukas Johne, Áron Havasi, Freya Edmondes, Owen Good, James Hogg, David Fjällbrant, Melker Appel, Laurent Winkler, Zachary Zamsky, Jack LeGoff, Maggie Nicols, Christina Leonardi, Sasha Bates, Mattie Vogler, Emily Leona Rose, Vivien Piti, Gergely Cserhati, Josephine Foster
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About the film
The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
- Alternative Titles
- The Woman Clothed by the Sun, The Woman Clothed by the Sun With the Moon at Her Feet
More History on Blu-ray
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Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray > BFI 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/nPcxCNW4
BFI has more DNR and AI upscaling like their horrible 1979 Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray, and Shout! Factory has more over-exposed grading https://slow.pics/c/WQKmBTLJ
2000 R2 Stonevision DVD
2000 R2 Stonevision DVD vs Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray?
Director: David Lean
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The legacy extras are AI-upscaled
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
US Criterion 4K Blu-ray > UK MoC 4K Blu-ray > Australia Imprint > US Kino Lorber better encoding
The MoC, Criterion and Imprint UHDs were encoded by FiM making all 3 very close. The higher bitrate helped in deciding and some luck; however Criterion is the most consistent one of all 3. Imprint has some scenes with more splotchy grain while MoC is quite close to Criterion but has some more blocking in dark scenes (e.g.: comp #27). With Criterion’s superior audio, it ensures complete consistency.
From cbc: "I'm personally quite fond of the restored track on Eureka's 4K Blu-ray. It does have spots with objectively worse fidelity, but for the most part, it sounds a lot more natural and less shrill, particularly dialogue. It seems to be a new mixdown of stems. Technically a remix, so not everyone's cup of tea, but it's not revisionist like most new movie mixes tend to be"
Both Imprint (included in their set) and Capelight (on its own/individually) offer remastered BDs. All other BDs, including the one included in The Complete Kubrick, are sourced from the same older master from around 2010.
Director: Sofia Coppola
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All sources are almost identical, Criterion has very minor high frequency whine filtering, unlikely to be audible. See spectrograms
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.
DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: David Lean
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
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