The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Uccellacci e uccellini
Comedy, Fantasy • 1h 31m
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Umberto Bevilacqua, Renato Capogna, Alfredo Leggi, Renato Montalbano, Flaminia Siciliano, Lena Lin Solaro, Giovanni Tarallo, Vittorio Vittori, Nello Appodia, Gabriele Baldini, Lina D'Amico, Pietro Davoli, Rossana Di Rocco, Cesare Gelli, Vittorio La Paglia, Francesco Leonetti, Domenico Modugno, Rosina Moroni, Mario Pennisi, Ricardo Redi, Fides Stagni, Filippo Spoletini
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
Overview
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Criterion boxset
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BFI 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
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Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Carlotta Passolini set
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Criterion passolini set
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
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Eureka UK are considering doing a 4K and actively exploring the possibility: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24363810&postcount=264
Wonderful underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion, but NexSpec encode has clipped highlights with the occasional blockiness. The Criterion Blu-Ray, sourced from their 4K remaster, ironically makes for a more consistent and overall pleasing experience.
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Director: Ingmar Bergman
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For Blu-ray Criterion Demy Set > StudioCanal
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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See chris's review
1991 Daiei LaserDisc
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(same as all tracks since the DVD)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps
Phenomenal disc, and perhaps the single greatest testament to NexSpec's positive 180 this year. Highlights are beautifully handled and grain structure is fully intact in areas where NexSpec's (and Pixelogic's) encodes would frequently fall apart in 2025 and before then. Criterion BD encode also looks to be robust from linked caps, save for this one frame: https://slow.pics/c/cMjMefmi
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: 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
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion Box Set coming on October 20th with FiM encode
DTS:X mix most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD has additional features not found on the 4K Blu-ray
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Director: Terry Jones
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The Criterion BD, which is sold separately, has a clunky encode unlike the Criterion UHD, even if it plays better in motion than the caps would suggest. Still, provided you're equipped to play 4K discs, UHD or bust for this one. https://slow.pics/c/hmDYlKgE
Director: Paul Leni
Theatrical/Original A negative: MoC Blu-ray
European C/D negative but better picture quality: Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
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From DVDBeaver: The MoC Blu-ray is scanned from the American A negative, as opposed to the European C or D negatives used by Photoplay and others (Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray), so it is identical with the film US audiences saw in 1927
See caps for comparison
In addition, the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has sepia tinting throughout while the MoC Blu-ray has yellow for normal scenes, blue for night scenes, and some even green tintings.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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StudioCanal 4K
Director: Preston Sturges
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Preston Sturges
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