Dazed and Confused (1993)
Comedy, Drama • 1h 43m
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Sasha Jenson, Shawn Andrews, Milla Jovovich, Ben Affleck, Marissa Ribisi, Michelle Burke, Deena Martin, Cole Hauser, Christine Harnos, Mark Vandermeulen, Esteban Powell, Jeremy Fox, Jason O. Smith, Christin Hinojosa, Parker Posey, Catherine Morris, Nicky Katt, Parker Brooks, Zach Taylor, Jacob Jones, Rick Moser, Terry Mross, Kim Krizan, Zooey Greif, Julius Tennon, Priscilla Kinser, Erika Geminder, Heidi Van Horne, Katherine Asher, Kathleen Cunningham, Richard Dillard, John Swasey, Zeke Mills, Michael Gillespie, Tom Hoeck, Fred Lerner, David Blackwell, Autumn Barr, Doug Taylor, Bob Moser, Mona Lee Fultz, Chris M. Allport, Rose Barrett, Tara Battani, Adam Boster, Josh Caldwell, Nicole Emmons, Mike Enright, Chris Green, Karey Green, KaiCarra, Jessica Looney, Renée Zellweger, Anthony Pedone, Ted Perez, Damian Tamburro, Chris Western, James 'Kimo' Wills, Heath Young
Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
UHD tiers
Overview
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
Director: Richard Linklater
Director: Richard Linklater
Director: Richard Linklater
Criterion Blu-ray uses the same transfer as Sony but the encoding is slightly worse than Sony and barely noticeable see caps
Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray in viewing looks very similar to both the Criterion and Sony caps, but no side by side comparison available
Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion
Director: Richard Linklater
Criterion has English subtitles burned in for the entire film, stylized to look like an old film print.
Director: Richard Linklater
Director: Richard Linklater
WB 2007 Blu-ray
WB 2007 Blu-ray
Subsequent re-releases post 2007 remove an extra
Director: Richard Linklater
Director: Jūzō Itami
Director: Carol Reed
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source
StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray
Director: Martin Scorsese
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
2024 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook fixes duplicate shot seen on the previous Columbia Classics release and has better encoding
Original mono mix: 1990 Criterion LaserDisc/1991 Columbia LaserDisc
The 4K Blu-ray mono is only minimally worse (see blah-ray).
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: George Stevens
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is slightly better than French 4K Blu-ray see caps
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: David Lynch
Censored US version: Shout! Factory or Twilight Time Blu-ray
Uncensored version: old DVD
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray, confirmed to be uncut
Censored US version: Shout! Factory or Twilight Time Blu-ray
Uncensored version: old DVD
Director: Joachim Trier
MUBI 4K Blu-ray has zero extras
Director: David Lynch
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray.
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and doesn’t have the low-pass filter the Criterion 4K Blu-ray has.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is closer to the original DVDs than the 2015 Criterion release, not sure about whether the StudioCanal 4K is like the Criterion 4K/original DVD
Criterion 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision, StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has MEL
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Chris Columbus
Disney 4K Blu-ray has encoding issues with bitrates dipping into 40mbps, and Kaleidescape has better encoding than Disney see caps
Old Fox Blu-ray master is stretched and sharpened
Director: Tsui Hark
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray or Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray or Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray
There is a newer 4K restoration by L’Immagine Ritrovata, which should be of better scan quality. The 4K restoration used on all current 4K disc releases stems from a low-quality Cintel scanner. The newer restoration has yet to be released on home video.
Director: Peter Faiman
Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD
International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray
Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding
US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut
Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD
International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray
Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding
Australia Cut: Laserdisc
The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).
Arrow UK 4K Blu-ray > Paramount US, same black crush as the US disc but encoded by FiM and very good new supplements
Paramount US 4K Blu-ray has FEL Dolby Vision
Arrow UK 4K Blu-ray has MEL Dolby Vision
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Warner Archive Blu-ray, 4k scan
Director: Raoul Walsh
Director: Frank Tuttle
Director: René Cardona
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