Suburra (2015) - Unearthed Films

[nicwood]

Received the new Unearthed Films BD of Stefano Sollima's Suburra today.
It has a slip cover for those interested.

BD is a BD-50 with 5.1 and 2.0 sound in DTS-HD Master, contrary to what the cover states (Dolby Digital).
Bonus features are the full 2-hour making-of documentary, a production gallery, teaser and trailer. The menu is quite anemic with the definition of a DVD.

Image quality of the feature is unfortunately disappointing. Despite this being a digital production, there is distracting macroblocking. The digital grain overlay doesn't always render properly. Bitrates are quite low, often hovering around 15-20 Mbps, likely due to the lengthy documentary. They should have better encoded two discs or hired a better encoder.

I already have the Koch Media (now Plaion Pictures) German BD from 2015 and it looks fantastic with often double the bitrate and generally a much better definition of the images. It doesn't have English subtitles.

All in all, a disappointing release for a great film that was long overdue in the US. I'll keep it for the subtitled documentary.

[dex14]

Any other opinions on the Unearthed disc?

Is it better or the same as the UK disc?

[houseca]

I've read mostly bad reviews of the PQ on this, but it didn't stop me from getting it. Fantastic movie! I cannot figure out why it took me 7 years to see this absolute gem.

I can live with the Unearthed release, but maybe that's just me.