The Square (2017)
Drama • 2h 31m
Director: Ruben Östlund
Cast: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary, Christopher Læssø, Lise Stephenson Engström, Lilianne Mardon, Marina Schiptjenko, Annica Liljeblad, Elijandro Edouard, Daniel Hallberg, Martin Sööder, John Nordling, Maja Gödicke, Nicki Dar, Josephine Schneider, Sofie Hamilton, Robert Hjelm, Anna-Stina Malmborg, Gunnar Häglund, Nina Strand, Erik Sundfeldt, Peggy Johansson, Jonas Dahlbom, Sofica Ciuraru, Stefan Gödicke, Mia Svenheimer, Per Magnus Johansson, Erika Jareman, Julia Sporre, Clemens Poellinger, Copos Pardaliam, Pauline Hansson, Pierre Elmqvist, Madeleine Barwén Trollvik, Tiby, Johan Jonason, Bo Melin, Sonya Flores Espinosa, Joakim Lamotte, Kolya Hardy, Bobcats, Eva Kumler, Robert Oskarsson, Kalle Soukas, Jan Wallin, Roger Andersson, Geica Pruteanu, Marcel Macau, Simona Ciuraru, Papusa Ciuraru, Omar Ahmed, Ceikh Secka Sosse, Oliver Roque Sakari, Ali Al-Anbari, Mohammad Admirza, Torleif Svensson, John Rindefjäll, Julia Frej, Nicole Walker, Konrad Olsson, Jimmy Guo, Christel Elsayah, Holly Astera, Sara Bourke, Peter Vitanen, Amélie Juliusson, Linda Anborg, Emelie Beckius, Peter Díaz, Sarah Giercksky, Fareed Ahmedi, Daniel Kristiansson, Janet Leon, Uri Levanon, Jan Lindwall, Iman Mirbioki, Marga Pettersson, Moa Enqvist Stefansdotter, Henric Wassberg, Cicci Green, Denise Wessman
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About the film
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
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New 4K restoration recently screened at Venice Film Festival https://variety.com/2026/film/news/apichatpong-weerasethakuls-4k-restorations-match-factory-1236843949/
Director: Claude Lelouch
French Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray has English subtitles and is better than Criterion Blu-ray see caps and comparison
Director: David Lynch
Criterion standard BD encode, sold separately, is not very good
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (Taiwan 4K Blu-ray is not low passed as the US 4K Blu-ray and has better grain and fine detail retention)
Theatrical Cut: Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray
Redux Cut: Lionsgate vs Eagle Pictures?
Final Cut: Lionsgate or Eagle Pictures, both are not great (visible chroma noise)
Theatrical: Germany 4K Blu-ray/US Blu-ray DD 5.1 (1979 mix)
In the Lionsgate US/UK 6-disc set, there are 4 discs of the main feature. For whatever reason, the 4K discs lack the *original track. The Germany 4K Blu-ray release is different on this matter.
UBD: Final Cut: Atmos, DD2.0
UBD: Redux/Theatrical: Atmos
BD: Final Cut: Atmos, DD2.0
BD: Redux/Theatrical: Dtru5.1 (Redux mix?), DD5.1 (?), DD5.1 (Theatrical only), DD2.0 (downmix??)
As a result the Theatrical Cut has 4 tracks, The Redux has 3. Differences are unclear.
BD: Hearts of Darkness
BD: Special Features
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Criterion 4K Blu-ray releasing January 2027
France The Jokers 4K Blu-ray
France The Jokers 4K Blu-ray has the least DNR (UK Artificial Eye might be similar? Both better than Universal 4K Blu-ray)
Criterion even though doesn’t have 4K, it has the B&W version and a lot of extras.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > BFI 4K Blu-ray. caps Criterion presents the master as originally graded in SDR whereas FiM added HDR / Dolby Vision for the BFI.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray's audio mix has more detail than BFI’s and same applies to the subtitles, covering both English and France spoken word
Director: Luis Buñuel
Director: Ruben Östlund
Criterion US 4K Blu-ray > Alamode Germany. HDR10 grade on the Germany disc was not approved by the filmmakers, Criterion's SDR only master is the most faithful representation and the Germany disc is not English-friendly
German 4K Blu-Ray
German 4K Blu-Ray has Atmos track
Director: Ruben Östlund
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
US Magnolia Blu-Ray or British Artificial Eye Blu-Ray?
US and British Blu-Rays have different extras
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
2010 US Kino Lorber or 2012 UK Artificial Eye
2017 JP Kadokawa Blu-ray has the best encoding out of all the older discs.
Kino Lorber and Artificial Eye Blu-ray use the same master, between the two the PQ on Kino's release is slightly better, but the difference is negligible. However, Artificial Eye also includes the 2.0 stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 mix, while Kino only includes 5.1 mix.
The 4K restoration (Criterion, 4K etc) are cropped to 2.35:1, have revisionistic colour grading and other changes.
Caps: old master, old master vs 4K restoration
Wong Kar-Wai on the framing:
With Fallen Angels, I have changed the format to cinemascope, because it was originally what I had intended to release the film in. When we were cutting the film, we accidentally turned the Steenbeck on anamorphic instead of standard. I felt that the film looked much more interesting because it enhanced the distance of the characters on top of the extreme wide angle that we shot on. Back then, it was impossible to shoot a film in standard and release it in anamorphic. With this restoration, we have successfully fulfilled this wish.
4k transfer. Shochiku Blu-ray is similar
Curzon 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
Supposed to have better translation than Criterion.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Theatrical Cut: UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray
2023 "Director's" Cut: Unreleased
Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream
Theatrical Cut: Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray has best encoding
2023 "Director's" Cut: Unreleased
Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream
Theatrical Cut: UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray > Criterion
Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream > Criterion Blu-ray
Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream > Criterion Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: 2011/2018 RU Blu-ray
Passion According to Andrei Cut: ??
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
France Rimini 4K Blu-ray see caps vs Artificial Eye Blu-ray
UK Artificial Eye vs France Carlotta no comparison
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