Best English-friendly, video & audio release · updated 6 months ago
Overview
A depiction of life in wartime Britain during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
Director: Jan Švankmajer
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Directors: Cecil M. Hepworth & Percy Stow
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Dennis Hopper
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
BFI Blu-ray has better detail. Severin 4K Blu-ray has HDR but poor encode.
BFI Blu-ray renders grain structure better than Severin 4K Blu-ray’s disappointing encode, although Severin does feature an HDR grading with Dolby Vision. Furthermore, Severin’s soundtrack is worse due to the noise reduction applied.
Severin 4K Blu-ray has very good extras that are more relevant to the film
Director: John Cassavetes
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Sources: blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray: intact grain compared to Toho/BFI UHDs' DNR'd master
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is good, derived from the 1995 Criterion LaserDisc (which would be minimally better due to its lack of filtering) see blah-ray
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
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Director: Werner Herzog
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
DE Koch Media is presented in the correct 25fps and is likely better compressed than UK Dogwoof (29 vs 14 Mbps), but it doesn’t have English subtitles.
US Drafthouse is in 24fps for Region A compatibility, and is encoded at around 30 Mbps.
(Although bitrate does not solely determine the quality of the encode, the difference is large enough here and there are no publicly available caps.)
No info on the JP VAP Blu-ray.
DE Koch Media and US Drafthouse feature a lossless 5.1 track. Dogwoof offers only AC-3.
TV series
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Best format: UHD Blu-ray
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Bert Stern
Best format: 1080p Blu-ray
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