[LIST] directional dialogs on home media

[spoRv]

Also Pixar movies have directional dialogs - I guess because it's unnatural for kids to hear voices to come NOT where the characters are... frankly, it's quite unnatural to me too, in particular after you have heard a directional dialogs track; that's why I started this list!

[captainsolo]

The restorations of Spartacus and My Fair Lady retain their full panning dialogue-especially Spartacus. Prior to this they only had it to varying degrees but for the 7.1 new mixes they left the full panning width.

There's a number of others but I can't think off the top of my head. I should've started a list myself ages ago! 2001 on the original mix pre WB DVD has a little for example.

[magstock]

I personally appreciate it when it is an inherent choice in the original conception of the film...it's disturbing to me when it's done in the remastering to a legacy movie just for the sake of doing. Alfonso Cuaron has used it in a lot of his films for a purpose....Children of Men, Gravity, Roma. It served Uncut Gems well too with its chaos...helped to distinguish all the overlapping Altman-esque dialog. Not unusual that Skip Lievsay handled the sound design on all those films except Children of Men. It's also a much more elegant technique in modern soundtracks as opposed to older films...it can draw a lot of unnecessary attention to itself in older films because of the primitive techniques. I need to familiarize myself with more super early examples...admittedly, I have not seen Spartacus or the My Fair Lady examples you're mentioning here...

[The Griff]

Suspiria for sure - at least on the Synapse BD/UHD release.

Temple of Doom pans dialogue in the BD, DVD and especially the laserdisc. Don’t know about the UHD.

It's still there on the UHD. It's been, uh, smoothed out a bit. Sounds like they've used the stems from the 35mm release, as opposed to the 70mm that the DVD/BD did.

[spoRv]

Temple of Doom pans dialogue in the BD, DVD and especially the laserdisc. Don’t know about the UHD.

It's still there on the UHD. It's been, uh, smoothed out a bit. Sounds like they've used the stems from the 35mm release, as opposed to the 70mm that the DVD/BD did.

The 70mm was only a blowup, hence its 6-track *should* be an "upmix" from the 4-track - or am I wrong?

[wongfeihung]

Few Good Men,A (1992) - UHD-BD - front soundstage panning of dialogue

The UHD is an Atmos remix. Can this dialogue panning be found on the original stereo surround mix?

I think the last time we heard the 2.0 mix was on DVD.