Aliases: carlotta
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Director: Frank Borzage
Sources: academymuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
4K restoration has no home media release yet
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: King Vidor
Kino Lorber vs France Carlotta vs Germany Blu-ray ?
Kino Lorber US, and other Germany and France Blu-ray
Kino Lorber US and Carlotta France
Directors: Ray Ashley & Ruth Orkin & Morris Engel
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Director: Max Ophüls
French version: Criterion Blu-ray (Carlotta has no English subtitles)
German version: Filmmuseum DVD
Sources: cinema-scope.com (opens in a new tab) · fredcamper.com (opens in a new tab) · sensesofcinema.com (opens in a new tab)
French version: 2020 Carlotta Blu-ray
German version: Filmmuseum DVD
Carlotta Films corrects the mistakes of Criterion due to the compression on dark scenes and gives the gorgeous transfer of the restoration a better encode/compression and more bitrate.
The German cut, titled Lola Montez, is considered by Ophüls scholars such as Jonathan Rosenbaum, Dan Sallitt and Tag Gallagher to be superior to the French cut. It has only been reissued on the Filmmuseum DVD.
Director: Delmer Daves
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps
All audio tracks originate from the same DVD-era master, no real audible differences between them, but Carlotta is least filtered out of all
Director: Bert Stern
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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> Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps: https://slow.pics/c/s7AfL3XW
Grain is sharper/clearer on the new Carlotta/Criterion 4K; BFI's grain resolves slightly worse and more so in motion, being a standard Blu-ray; The Toho 4K's grain is softer, probably DNR'd.
BFI Player used to have the same mastering available to stream in 2019.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Artificial Eye UK Blu-ray is from a newer master than Criterion
Criterion Blu-ray is better than Artificial Eye and Carlotta
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