Reference-quality blu-rays (1 Viewer)

[Richard--W]

What are the reference quality transfers on blu-ray?
Go ahead and suggest titles to add to this master list.
1947 Black Narcissus -- Criterion
1948 The Red Shoes -- Criterion
1953 The Big Heat -- Columbia / Twilight Time
1954 White Christmas -- Paramount
1956 Bigger Than Life -- Fox / Criterion
1956 The Ten Commandments -- Paramount
1959 North By Northwest -- Warner Brothers
1962 Lawrence of Arabia -- Columbia-Sony
1963 How the West Was Won -- Warner Brothers
1966 The Sand Pebbles -- Fox
1966 The Professionals -- Columbia-Sony
1967 Quatermass and the Pit -- Hammer / Studio Canal - Optimum
1968 Rosemary's Baby -- Criterion
1972 The Godfather -- Paramount
1974 The Godfather Part 11 -- Paramount
1975 Barry Lyndon -- Warner Brothers
1980 The Shining -- Warner Brothers
1990 The Godfather Part 111 -- Paramount
1984 A Passage to India -- Columbia-Sony

 

[benbess]

Great list.
I'd add
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1951 An American in Paris
1954 White Christmas
1956 The Ten Commandments
1959 Ben-Hur
anything Pixar

 

[schan1269]

Baraka Remastered
The Dark Knight
Saving Private Ryan
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Another I think that deserves it. But only those of us that remember it in theatres actually get how good it is...
Last of The Mohicans
Lots of people bemoan it. Watch it in a theatre some time from actual film stock.

 

[Ethan Riley]

1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

 

[Charles Smith]

South Pacific
The Sound of Music
Bye Bye Birdie (Twilight Time)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Twilight Time)
The Egyptian (Twilight Time)

 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Casablanca (70th Anniversary Edition)
White Christmas
The Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur
Lawrence of Arabia
The Godfather Collection

 

[Richard V]

Zulu

 

[Douglas R]

A Passage to India

 

[Andrew Budgell]

Cleopatra (1963)

 

[Alan Tully]

Cleopatra (1963)

Ah!!! I just knew someone would put this title forward (I let the too dark Last Of The Mohicans go, but I have to say something about this). A needlessly overprocessed pictute, colours mucked about with, too cold, yellows done away with (if you wan't to see what gold looks like, look at The Egyptian..GOLD, not silver like in Cleopatra). This just about looks OK if I turn the colour right up on my telly (well a few scenes overbaked). In fact this would come under my most disappointing release of the year.
I should put a title or two forward. How The West Was Won, esp the Smilebox version, & It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

 

[Richard--W]

Keep the recommendations coming.
Endorse recommendations that have already been made or dispute them, but keep them coming.
Question: doesn't DNR do some injury to the 70th Anniversary edition of CASABLANCA?
Aren't WIZARD OF OZ, THE MUSIC MAN, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD afflicted with too much yellow? A chronic problem at Warner Home Video.

 

[Alan Tully]

One we've all missed...Jaws! As they graded it again from scratch I hoped they wouldn't muck it up, but looking at it, I think they did a bang up job. A reference Blu-ray.
...& just thought of another one, Inglourious Basterds. Whatever you think of Tarantino films, they always look good, & I think the Blu of this looks stunning, as I'm sure Django Unchained will.

 

[Dave H]

What are the reference quality transfers on blu-ray?
Go ahead and suggest titles to add to this master list.
1947 Black Narcissus -- Criterion
1948 The Red Shoes -- Criterion
1954 White Christmas -- Paramount
1956 The Ten Commandments -- Paramount
1959 North By Northwest -- Warner Brothers
1962 Lawrence of Arabia -- Columbia-Sony
1963 How the West Was Won -- Warner Brothers
1968 Rosemary's Baby -- Criterion
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey -- MGM / Warner Brothers
1972 The Godfather -- Paramount
1974 The Godfather Part 11 -- Paramount
1980 The Shining -- Warner Brothers
1990 The Godfather Part 111 -- Paramount
1984 A Passage to India -- Columbia-Sony

I have to strongly disagree with 2001: A Space Odyssey being on a list of reference quality BDs. This is an older scan with excessive edge enhancement and filtering; it really needs a new scan.

 

DNR on the 70th Anniversary of Casablanca? Not that I am aware of. The original blu-ray is the one that was over-processed.

 

[Scott Calvert]

Zulu

Let's throw in the original Patton disc while we're at it.

 

[dpippel]

I have to strongly disagree with 2001: A Space Odyssey being on a list of reference quality BDs. This is an older scan with excessive edge enhancement and filtering; it really needs a new scan.

Indeed.

 

[Richard--W]

I have to strongly disagree with 2001: A Space Odyssey being on a list of reference quality BDs. This is an older scan with excessive edge enhancement and filtering; it really needs a new scan.

Indeed.

Removed.
Why don't both of you share with us your list reference quality blu-rays?

 

[dpippel]

I throw in a few suggestions later when I have more time.

 

[schan1269]

I'll have to re-watch my copy of 2001 as I thought it was a reference disc. But I haven't cracked it open in a while either.
It was one of the first BD I bought. That coincided with when our company's employees were given an LG BD390 which coincided with Toshiba shanking the industry by losing the format war...(yeah, yeah, veiled attempt at the slight of BD...haha...)

 

[Scott Calvert]

E.T.
Taxi Driver
All The Presidents Men
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Close Encounters
The Big Heat
In Cold Blood
The Barbarian And The Geisha
Head
Easy Rider
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Blow Out
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Picture Show
The King Of Marvin Gardens
The Bible
All About Eve
Jason And The Argonauts
The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad
The Adventures Of Baron Muchausen
Citizen Kane
Sabotuer
The Trouble With Harry
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Mummy
The Bride Of Frankenstein
Barbarella
A.I.
Bigger Than Life
An Affair To Remember
In Which We Serve
This Happy Breed
Blithe Spirit
Brief Encounter
Off the top of my head. And lots more