UHD New Releases, Reissues and Upgrades

[Finch]

The Evil Dead (Sony)

Confirmed to be a port of Sony's international 4K, encode different to Lionsgate's. Audio in the correct pitch and a cross-selection of archive extras where the Lionsgate had only one audio commentary. High Def reviewer thought the 2.0 was a mixdown of the 5.1 track.

[nitin]

Rocco and His Brothers (BFI) - my impressions and caps

Will wait to see how this look on my tv when I get home from overseas but the grading in those caps looks really disappointing! I think most of these after the fact HDR applications to native 4k SDR masters, especially for black and white films, are taking the wrong approach.

[nicolas]

I've felt the same for a while. Especially UK labels like BFI, Eureka and Arrow seem to add HDR whenever possible. I have to assume they do this for marketing reasons in the first place but even then they'd be able to place the SDR master in a HDR container as-is if they really wanted to make sure the presentation retains its original image characteristics.

[rrenault]

Well wasn’t BFI’s Seventh Seal UHD basically just SDR in a HDR container?

[nicolas]

Halloween 1-5 Collection (Imprint)

[Finch]

Elephant Man CC vs Studio Canal caps

Both discs look great in the caps and some people are going to prefer Criterion's SDR grade. I remember not missing the HDR/DV grade at all while watching their beautiful I Know Where I'm Going! 4K.

[ryannichols7]

I think we've trended towards Criterion for most B&W 4Ks that end up SDR for them but HDR from the UK label. definitely seems to be fairly consistent at this point. I know I've been happy with the Criterion Wages of Fear and Seven Samurai, but still often end up picking up the UK editions for unique extras...

[dwk]

It is worth noting that Criterion's Elephant Man UHD restores a fade that is missing from the StudioCanal release.

[MichaelB]

I have no issues with Curzon's Jean Vigo set remaining SDR; it looks fabulous regardless, and I'm not at all convinced that HDR would have added very much.

[tenia]

Marty Supreme (Metropolitan) tenia's review. Added to the international list

It'll be fully updated in a few minutes.

Note however that because doing comparative UHD caps is a nightmare and that we're under a heatwave in France meaning it's now 85°F in my office, I took a shortcut and chose to go ahead even if the BD caps is one set and the UHD caps another one. It's so much easier to first do the UHD caps and then try to match the BD caps, but the other way around is way more time consuming.