Manuel Chiche founded The Jokers in 2014 as a French theatrical distributor of auteur and genre films, Parasite among them. Its reissue arm La Rabbia, folded into the Jokers name in 2022, produces restored classics as French Blu-ray and 4K collector's editions with books, documentaries and vinyl soundtracks: Sorcerer, Memories of Murder, Kitano films and the Infernal Affairs trilogy 4K box set with a 200-page book (2023).
Jokers
No Jokers release is the English-friendly or video pick yet. How picks are made
No Jokers release is the English-friendly or video pick yet. How picks are made
3 for audio only
The best audio is Jokers'; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Best Audio:
Original 5.1 from Jokers France 4K Blu-ray or Criterion US Blu-ray or older Blu-rays
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Maybe Umbrella Australia 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode), Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray, or Pony Canyon Japan 4K Blu-ray. All other existing 4K Blu-rays have terrible compression: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=21423337&postcount=173
The master is heavily DNR'd.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Maybe Umbrella Australia 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode), Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray, or Pony Canyon Japan 4K Blu-ray. All other existing 4K Blu-rays have terrible compression: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=21423337&postcount=173
The master is heavily DNR'd.
Best Audio:
Original 5.1 from Jokers France 4K Blu-ray or Criterion US Blu-ray or older Blu-rays
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Maybe Umbrella Australia 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode), Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray, or Pony Canyon Japan 4K Blu-ray. All other existing 4K Blu-rays have terrible compression: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=21423337&postcount=173
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