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
About the film
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.
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- National Film Registry
Year of Induction: 1993
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- 2026: #9402025: #9202024: #9162023: #9572022: #957
Director: Richard Brooks
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
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: Dennis Hopper
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Flicker Alley 4K confirmed for 2027 https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24404584&postcount=1
MoC audio is better https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=225532&page=3
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
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Warner Archive, 2k + 4k scans
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: Orson Welles
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Warner Bros 2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray/ Warner Bros 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)
All foreign language tracks were pitched too low, replacement disc and Ultimate Knockout Collection disc fixed the error.
The Steelbook and UK standard edition are the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.
Director: Sylvester Stallone
2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray Box Set
2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray Box Set > 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray
2023 disc has a brief moment where the aspect ratio changes from 1.85:1 to 1.78:1, 2024 release fixed the error
Both cuts of the movie are on the same disc and don’t appear to be seamlessly branched.
The Steelbook and UK standard edition are the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.
Director: John G. Avildsen
Warner Bros 2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray/ Warner Bros 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)
Original Mono: Ultimate Knockout Collection/Knockout Collection replacement disc
Original Mono: Ultimate Knockout Collection/Knockout Collection replacement disc > Knockout collection original.
The Mono mix on the initial release of the Knockout Collection is a stereo fold-down of the 5.1, it also has a missing piano cue. The replacement disc and the ultimate knockout version fixed the error.
The Steelbook and UK standard edition is the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Warner Bros 2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray/ Warner Bros 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)
Original Knockout Collection release had its 5.1 mix pitched too low, replacement disc and Ultimate Knockout Collection fixed the error.
The Steelbook and UK standard edition are the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.
Director: Michael Anderson
Arrow 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release
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