Call Me by Your Name 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.5
Video		0.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		3.0
Overall		4.0

Call Me by Your Name 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Sony has released the 2017 film 'Call My By Your Name,' directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, to the UHD format. New specifications include 2160p/Dolby Vision video. No new audio tracks or supplements are included. No Blu-ray disc is included; all extras are found on the UHD disc. At time of writing, this release is exclusive to the eleven-film Sony Pictures Classics: 30th Anniversary Collection boxed set.

Call Me by Your Name 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc.

This is the first of the 11 Sony Pictures Classics 4K boxed releases that I am viewing, and I am certain that a refrain very similar to what is said below will be echoed throughout the boxed set. In short, Sony has hit a home run with Call My by Your Name on the UHD format. The studio's 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD presentation is spectacular. The Dolby Vision grading brings a new sense of brilliance to the color spectrum, an accuracy, nuance, and excellence that befits the film and the UHD format. The new grading offers, first, very impressively crisp and brilliant whites in the opening titles and the scrawled text at the 3:11 mark. The yellow titles enjoy a depth and tonal detail well beyond the Blu-ray. Natural greens delight, clothes pop, and even earthy tones around the frame enjoy a sense of pinpoint color accuracy that brings the film to life in new and exciting ways. Bright outdoor scenes (a meal at the 8:45 mark) are simply delightful; the contrast between sun-drenched portions and shadowy elements are lifelike. Skin tones are perfect, black level depth is remarkable, and whites, as noted, are intense, and not just considering the titles; clothes and other elements also delight.

The 2160p resolution brings out a picture that is flatteringly filmic. Much like the Blu-ray before it, the image is organically grainy. Grain is pure and complimentary, revealing a sophisticated and naturally cinematic presentation that is a delight for accuracy and supportive of the film content. The image is razor-sharp, bringing out much more refined and sharper details on faces, clothes, and the complex environments at the home and around town; there is no shortage of elegant depth and visual richness to be found. There are no print flaws or encode faults, either. Simply put, this is shot-on-film perfection on the UHD format. It's of reference quality top to bottom.

Call Me by Your Name 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Rather than re-encode for Dolby Atmos, Sony has left well enough alone and simply ported over the Blu-ray's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. This is not a surprise; the film is dialogue heavy and its sonic needs are modest. The track is excellent in every facet. For convenience find below the text from the original Blu-ray review:

Call Me by Your Name calls out by way of a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The track delivers crisply defined support elements, like a ringing dinner bell, in addition to richly realized environmental atmospherics, including chirping birds, light winds, rolling waves, and welcoming, location-defining din in a cafe near film's start. Add some enjoyable bursts of heightened activity, including dense rain and deep thunder in chapter six, and the track proves capable of handling its every core element with commendable ease and enriching, scene-shaping and mood-enhancing clarity. The track further enjoys wonderful musical reproduction with superb definition and space across the stage, though it's mostly front heavy, leaving the surrounds to handle, more prominently, those aforementioned support elements. Still, musical definition, particularly piano keystrokes, plays fluidly and with impressively realistic detail. Dialogue, mostly English with some scattered, subtitled French and Italian, presents, like everything else, with perfectly prioritized, positioned, and detailed cadence.

Call Me by Your Name 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This UHD release of Call Me by Your Name, as it ships in the Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary boxed set, includes the same extras from the 2018 Blu-ray. See below for a list of what's included and please click here for full coverage. As it ships in that boxed set, a non-embossed slipcover is included.

• Snapshots of Italy: The Making of Call Me by Your Name
• In Conversation with Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Luca Guadagnino
• "Mystery of Love" by Sufjan Stevens
• Audio Commentary: Actors Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg
• Theatrical Trailer

Call Me by Your Name 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

"Elegant" perhaps best describes Sony's UHD release of 'Call Me by Your Name.' While audio and supplements are unchanged from the 2018 Blu-ray, the upgraded 2160p/Dolby Vision video presentation is nothing short of a delight. This is first-class UHD workmanship that is sure to stand the test of time for many years to come as a flagship for the format. As it ships in the Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary boxed set, this release comes very highly recommended.