The Fountainhead (1949)
Drama, Romance • 1h 54m
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Robert Douglas, Henry Hull, Ray Collins, Moroni Olsen, Jerome Cowan, Bob Alden, John Alvin, Morris Ankrum, Lois Austin, Griff Barnett, Monte Blue, Gail Bonney, Ralph Brooks, Glen Cavender, Dorothy Christy, Tristram Coffin, Tom Coleman, G. Pat Collins, James Conaty, Bill Dagwell, Ann Doran, Lester Dorr, John Doucette, Jay Eaton, Estelle Etterre, Charles Evans, Raoul Freeman, Roy Gordon, William Haade, Creighton Hale, Jonathan Hale, Thurston Hall, Sam Harris, Paul Harvey, Henry Hebert, Russell Hicks, Bert Howard, Selmer Jackson, Fred Kelsey, Douglas Kennedy, Raymond Largay, Philo McCullough, Harold Miller, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Jack Mower, Paul Newlan, Albert Petit, Lee Phelps, Bob Reeves, Almira Sessions, George Sherwood, Paul Stanton, Larry Steers, Ruthelma Stevens, Charles Trowbridge, Tito Vuolo, Geraldine Wall, Harlan Warde, Pierre Watkin, Leo White, Josephine Whittell, Frank Wilcox, Isabel Withers, Harry Woods, John Alban, George Blagoi, James Carlisle, Charles Fogel, Herschel Graham
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Overview
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Director: King Vidor
Kino Lorber vs France Carlotta vs Germany Blu-ray ?
Kino Lorber US, and other Germany and France Blu-ray
More Drama on Blu-ray
Kino BD has original stereo mix.
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(same as all tracks since the DVD)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps
Phenomenal disc, and perhaps the single greatest testament to NexSpec's positive 180 this year. Highlights are beautifully handled and grain structure is fully intact in areas where NexSpec's (and Pixelogic's) encodes would frequently fall apart in 2025 and before then. Criterion BD encode is also more than robust.
Sources: 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
Directors: Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
Imprint 4K Blu-ray
Sources: filmalert101.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
FiM encode and none of the low-pass filtering present on the Criterion 4K, resulting in more detail and better handling of highlights on Imprint https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-4k-uhd-david-hare-rhapsodizes-over.html?m=1
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
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