An American in Paris (1951)
Music, Romance, Comedy • 1h 55m
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, Joan Anderson, Larry Arnold, Martha Bamattre, Charles Bastin, Joan Bayley, Rodney Bieber, Madge Blake, Ralph Blum, Nan Boardman, Dino Bolognese, Eugene Borden, Ann Brendon, Peter Camlin, Benny Carter, Sue Casey, Monique Chantal, Andre Charisse, Bill Chatham, Jack Chefe, Dick Cherney, Ann Codee, Louise Colombet, Allan Cook, Gino Corrado, Paul Cristo, Susan Cummings, Albert D'Arno, Viola Daniels, George Davis, Paul De Corday, René de Loffre, Gloria Dea, George Dee, Jeannine Ducasse, Art Dupuis, John Eldredge, Carli Elinor, Marietta Elliott, George Ellsworth, Ernie Flatt, Bess Flowers, Clair Freeman, Mary Jane French, Captain Garcia, Jon Gardner, Mary Gleason, Shirley Glickman, Ricky Gonzales, Ricardo Gonzáles, Alex Goudovitch, Andre Guy, Claude Guy, Patricia Hall, Betty Hannon, Jack Harmon, Jean Harrison, Lars Hensen, Marian Horosko, Don Hulbert, Dickie Humphreys, Harvey Karels, David Kasday, Paul King, Stephen Kirchner, Isabel La Mal, Tommy Ladd, Jeanne Lafayette, Judy Landon, Richard Landry, Michele Lange, Numa Lapeyre, Louise Laureau, Louis Laurent, Janet Lavis, Meredith Leeds, Diki Lerner, Ruth Lewis, Shirley Lopez, Ralph Madlener, Bert Madrid, Dudley Field Malone, Bob Mascagno, Charles Mauu, Paul Maxey, Anthony Mazzola, Leonard A. Mazzola, Greg McClure, Svetlana McLee, Mary Menzies, Sheila Meyers, Charles Millsfield, Leo Mostovoy, Noel Neill, Anna Q. Nilsson, Allen O'Locklin, Charles Owens, Alfred Paix, Jetsy Parker, Christian Pasques, Hamil Petroff, Lucien Plauzoles, Pierre Plauzoles, Albert Pollet, Waclaw Rekwart, Ricky Ricardi, Carol Risser, Marilyn Rogers, Jean Romaine, Alex Romero, Hayden Rorke, Dennis Ross, Albert Ruiz, Marilyn Russell, Betty Scott, Linda Scott, Rudolph Silva, Pat Simms, Mabel Smaney, Melba Snowden, John Stanley, Sam Strangis, Beverly Thompson, Peter Troiekouroff, Dee Turnell, Dorothy Tuttle, Maya Van Horn, Pat Volasko, Dorothy Ward, Ray Weamer, Pamela Wells, Dick Wessel, Herbert Winters, Mary Young, Lila Zali, Marie Antoinette Andrews, Felice Basso, Janine Bergez, Florence Brundage, Monica Bucky, David Carlin, Ralph Del Campo, Marie Francoise, Madeline Gradine, Linda Heller, Madge Journeay, Eileen Locklin, Wanda Lucienne, Bonnie Menzies, Roy Ossorio, Don Quinn, Anne Belle Rasmussen, Phyllis Sutton, Yves Troendle
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Overview
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering, 1.85 ratio restored for US Cut; both US and International Cuts are 4K.
No Blu-ray or DVD release until the Criterion 4K Blu-ray has presented the US in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The International Cut has never been presented in it's OAR of 1.66:1 in any home video releases.
The packaging on the back of the WB 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Sony release without the filtering; Comparison between Sony and Criterion.
Mono: 1994 LaserDisc (marginally, unfiltered) or Criterion 4K Blu-ray (filtered)
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering Comparison between the Criterion and WB.
5.1: WB 4K Blu-ray, a remix but has higher fidelity
Mono: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set)
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering; WB 4K early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed. Comparison between Criterion and WB.
6-Track 70mm mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set), 1997 MGM LaserDisc, 1998 MGM DVD
35mm Mono Mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Matrixed Stereo Remix: MGM Japan LaserDisc (1985) [G158F5509]
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Steve James
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
Director: Tony Scott
The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Warner Archive, 2k + 4k scans
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering, 1.85 ratio restored
Mono: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set)/1999 WB R1 DVD
5.1 remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Martin Rosen
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Caveat: No IMAX expanded aspect ratio
Director: James Gunn
Commentary is only on Streaming
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray (includes Extended Cut on regular Blu-ray)
Original theatrical 6.1 mix: 2009 Warner Bros Blu-ray Ultimate Edition (Theatrical Cut only)
Extended Cut 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS:X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
The film is titled Sorcerer's Stone in the US, India, and the Philippines.
Wizard's/Hogwarts Collection has all the bonus features for all the 8 films.
The lossless version of the original 6.1 mix is only available on the ultimate edition blu-ray not to be confused with the ultimate collectors edition blu-ray.
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