The Death of Stalin

[Chevron]

Originally Posted by James Luckard

Does the UK BD include the commentary that was a bonus with the UK iTunes version?

I'm in the US, where we didn't get a BD at all, just a DVD with a making-of and deleted scenes, which I didn't buy. I'm considering buying the UK BD.

According to the back of my box it has a commentary with the director and writers.

[Patsfan123]

DISC INFO:

Disc Title:     Death of Stalin – Blu-ray™
Disc Label:     DEATH_OF_STALIN
Disc Size:      40,413,247,643 bytes
Protection:     AACS
BDInfo:         0.7.5.5

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[marshman1138]

The German Blu-Ray is Region A & B

[chewbabka]

Originally Posted by marshman1138

The German Blu-Ray is Region A & B

Nice, ordered from Amazon US via "Rarewaves USA"
https://www.amazon.com/DEATH-STALIN-...s%2C160&sr=8-1

I saw this in the theater and am excited to watch it again!

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by chewbabka

Nice, ordered from Amazon US via "Rarewaves USA"
https://www.amazon.com/DEATH-STALIN-...s%2C160&sr=8-1

I saw this in the theater and am excited to watch it again!

Let us know if there's any onscreen text that ends up in German. I can't remember if there were any informational title cards or anything.

[ThePreciseClimber]

Pretty silly this never got a Blu-ray release in the USA.

Btw, is it true the German BD has a lower bitrate than the other ones? I have the UK one so I wouldn't be affected but I'm curious.

From what I recall, the UK BD already had a couple of very minor compression artefacts in dark scenes and the blacks looked a tad milky (raised black levels, perhaps?).

[Rutger Lundgren]

I don't know, I have both, but I've not compared them. The lack of English subtitles on the German disc really bothered me, so I double dipped.

[ThePreciseClimber]

Rewatched the movie on an LG C4 to properly judge the picture quality.
Overall a solid-looking movie but there were some negatives
- black levels definitely feel raised. What should be pure black, isn't.
- the artificial film grain / digital noise, whatever it may be, lurks in the darkest parts of the screen and doesn't look great.
- there is one night-time landscape shot of Moscow that's got some serious colour banding going on. Noticeably uglier than the rest of the movie.

I guess if the website ever reviewed the Blu-ray, it would get, I dunno, 4/5 for picture quality?

Google tells me that, despite utilising a 2k digital intermediate, the movie was shot on a Red Dragon camera, using the Recode RAW 5k format. So maybe, one day, the movie could receive a native 4k BD? Would be nice.

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by ThePreciseClimber

Google tells me that, despite utilising a 2k digital intermediate, the movie was shot on a Red Dragon camera, using the Recode RAW 5k format. So maybe, one day, the movie could receive a native 4k BD? Would be nice.

I very much doubt the rushes/RAW files have been archived. But even if they did Lionsgate aren't going to spend a huge amount of money rebuilding a low budget indie comedy film (that they inherited from the eOne fire sale) from scratch so they can release it on a disc format that's underperforming in the country that made it. It's a 2K film and will stay as such.

[ThePreciseClimber]

Originally Posted by darrellmaclaine

Lionsgate aren't going to spend a huge amount of money rebuilding a low budget indie comedy film

I mean, hey - we've seen lower-budget movies on 4k BD. I like to think nothing's impossible.

[darrellmaclaine]

Originally Posted by ThePreciseClimber

I mean, hey - we've seen lower-budget movies on 4k BD. I like to think nothing's impossible.

Not rebuilt from scratch though. I mean basically nobody is rebuilding 2K-finished films from their rushes in order to reversion to 4K - it isn't really a thing. Happens with SD-to-HD TV shows of course but film is a different beast. There are no doubt exceptions (isn't Panic Room one of them?), but they are unicorns.

[Ebab]

Any rumours about maybe Criterion picking this up? It’s such a brilliant, shockingly comical and accurate (where not in details then in spirit) film, as I am becoming more aware of with each viewing.

[koberulz]

Originally Posted by Ebab

Any rumours about maybe Criterion picking this up?

Is there any reason to think that there would be?

[Ebab]

Originally Posted by koberulz

Is there any reason to think that there would be?

None other than it’s an outstandingly good, critically acclaimed, culturally relevant picture with an A list cast that has yet seen only lackluster releases on disc. It has happened in the past that such seeming neglect was due to a release from Criterion being in the pipeline, which usually does take its time.

Not saying that this is a fact in this case, therefore I was asking.

[T4ffer]

I saw it in cinema at a festival and thought it was a terrible movie. 1.5/5