Named after the ironic nickname for late-1960s New York, this label was launched in 2020 by Jonathan Hertzberg, formerly of IFC Films and Kino Lorber, with Alphabet City. It reissues overlooked films from the 1960s to the 1980s, often from new scans, plus TV-movie sets such as Primetime Panic. Early discs were sold as a Vinegar Syndrome partner label; later ones go through MVD, with UK editions via Radiance.
Fun City Editions
No Fun City Editions release is the English-friendly or video pick yet. How picks are made
No Fun City Editions release is the English-friendly or video pick yet. How picks are made
1 for audio only
The best audio is Fun City Editions'; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Ivan Passer
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Audio Notes:
Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.
Best English-Friendly & Video:
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