Godard's Passion (1982)
Passion
Drama, Comedy • 1h 27m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, László Szabó, Jean-François Stévenin, Patrick Bonnel, Sophie Lucachevski, Barbara Tissier, Myriem Roussel, Magali Campos, Serge Desarnaulds, Ágnes Bánfalvy, Ezio Ambrosetti, Manuelle Baltazar, Sarah Beauchesne, Bertrand Theubet, Sarah Cohen-Sali, Catherine Van Cauwenberghe, Sophie Maire, Cornélia Mandry, Cathy Marchand, Marie-Annick Abgrall, René Mennotier, Frantisek Mandik, Attila Bokor
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago
Overview
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
TV series
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
2020 Criterion
> StudioCanal > 2009 Criterion
2007 StudioCanal DVD
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Criterion 4K Blu-ray/2020 remastered StudioCanal Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
(preference)
> StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The HDR grading has messed up highlights, so some may prefer the 2020 remastered StudioCanal Blu-ray
Criterion's subtitles seem to be better than StudioCanal's which omits too much IMO.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
No comparisons
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is a flawed master with degrain + regrain and bad encoding, but still better than the old Blu-ray
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · originaltrilogy.com (opens in a new tab)
2017 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray and subsequent 4K Blu-rays are notorius for being heavily denoised and smoothened. Alternatively, 35mm scans for the theatrical cut is also available.
For the Ultimate Edition with the T-1000 searching John's room and the happy future ending, the 2009 Skynet Blu-ray, which is the older pre-2017 transfer, but has DNR.
Director: Carol Reed
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
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
StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source
StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
2D: Spain Emon Blu-ray
3D: US Lionsgate, Germany StudioCanal, or Netherlands Entertainment One 3D Blu-ray?
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Jon Favreau
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release
US Lionsgate Blu-ray looks very different from either Italy Eagle Pictures or Germany Kinowelt Blu-ray: https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=502 but other than color grading looks better
Director: Werner Herzog
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Bandai Japan 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray
All 4K releases are sourced from the same mediocre transfer provided by Bandai, with various amounts of tweaks. Japanese disc presents it with the least tinkering.
The best attempt at improving it comes from the German/French releases from KSM/All the Anime, both of which use the same master with HDR regrading (original grade is SDR in HDR container), tasteful regraining and sharpening, in an attempt to breathe some life into the middling transfer, making for an arguably more pleasing viewing experience.
All earlier releases are from an even worse transfer, with significant black crush, with the exception of a Japanese TV airing, which doesn't suffer from that issue, but instead is heavily sharpened and suffers from poor encoding.
Comparisons: JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD (tonemapped), JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD, ESP UHD (PQ), All 1080p BDs, HDTV, HDTV filtered
Original matrixed stereo mix: Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray
Most discs include this track with comparable fidelity (which is excellent).
Dolby Atmos remix: Lionsgate US 4K / All the Anime FR 4K
6.1 remix (from Ghost in the Shell 2.0): KSM DE 4K / All the Anime FR 4K
All tracks on the Lionsgate US 4K replace the original ending song with the one heard on the English dub. As the Atmos track on the FR 4K is just a port, it also has this song replaced.
Japanese 4K includes English dub and subtitles.
French/German 4Ks are not English friendly, with no dub or subtitles.
French disc includes the Atmos track, but the German disc does not.
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: Mariano Llinás
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
For 3D: 2014 Warner Bros 2D+3D Blu-ray
For ATMOS & music-less version: 2024 Blu-ray/2013 Diamond Luxe Edition Blu-ray
For 5.1: 2014 Warner Bros 2D+3D Blu-ray
This film received multiple blu-ray versions since its initial release. Be sure on whether the Dolby Atmos track, newer extras or 3D image is preferred. The 2024 release is a reprint of the Diamond Luxe.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Caps for France vs Germany vs UK vs Turkish release https://slow.pics/c/jYBS2CWE not sure what the correct grading is but Germany release looks too dark
Director: Miloš Forman
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · filmpreserve.org (opens in a new tab)
SFFP new 4K restoration
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
Director: Gaspar Noé
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Julia Ducournau
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Curzon 4K
HDR helps considerably with the deliberately murky aesthetic. VDMS encode is overall very good despite chroma noise in flashback sequences.
Directors: Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
4K encode is low-pass filtered and noticeably so, which was unfortunately par for the course with Criterion 4Ks until sometime in 2024. Still better than the Criterion and Lionsgate Blu-Ray discs for the Dolby Vision grading alone.
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal was overseen and approved by Nicolas Roeg and has a more filmic color grade than the Warner Archive Blu-Ray.
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray
Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray announced for a November 25, 2026 release
Japanese audio: 2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray/US GKIDS Blu-ray
English dub (Disney): 1998 US Disney VHS has better sounding vocals despite altered music and sound effects, the US Disney LaserDisc has limited audio
Releases from 2010 onward have the original music and sound effects, but distorted vocals
English dub (Streamline): 1996 Japan LaserDisc, available in Ghibli Aa Ippai Collection boxset
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