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
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About the film
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.
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Director: Richard Linklater
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Director: Richard Linklater
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Director: Richard Linklater
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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
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
WB 2007 Blu-ray
Subsequent re-releases post 2007 remove an extra
Director: Richard Linklater
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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The 4K discs in both Criterion and Imprint sets are FiM encodes, but low-passed. The compression is better, but some of the grain is lost. Difference is pronounced in screen caps, but not likely to be noticed during playback, without a reference to compare it to. Comparisons
All discs use the same source transfer. It's not of the highest quality, and it includes some slight distortion, looping, clicks, pops, and hum. Criterion cleaned it up for their release, but unfortunately also lost a lot of fidelity in the process.
MGM NTSC DVD doesn't seem to have some of the more prominent distortion and has slightly different EQ but is otherwise the same.
Director: Sidney Lumet
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1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K / Capelight 4K
1.66:1: Criterion 4K but low pass filtered
Comparison between the 4Ks, Criterion on the AR choice
Other discs have unnecessary filtering and sound worse, the difference isn't substantial but audible
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: Sam Peckinpah
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
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Janus and thus Criterion likely to release 4K Blu-ray in 2027
Director: Hal Ashby
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See caps https://slow.pics/c/lVdZaG0W
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StudioCanal's 4K release is similar in encode quality, but has significant glitches in multiple frames. See comparisons 9-16 here: https://slow.pics/c/YkSVb3Ey
The pitch of the StudioCanal 4K's English audio is too high
Criterion has more extras than StudioCanal.
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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