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Godard's Passion (1982)
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Godard's Passion (1982)

Passion

Drama, Comedy • 1h 27m

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Lionsgate DVD

DVD

Best English-friendly release · updated 1 year ago

Overview

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.

Release details

Best Video Release

DVD only

TSPDT
2026: #835
2025: #821
2024: #808
2023: #768
2022: #768
Length
87 mins
Type
Movie
Alternative Titles
Passion

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TV series

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2020 Criterion

Video Notes:

> StudioCanal > 2009 Criterion

Best Audio:

2007 StudioCanal DVD

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Superior Imports
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray/2020 remastered StudioCanal Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

English-Friendly Notes:

(preference)

Video Notes:

> StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The HDR grading has messed up highlights, so some may prefer the 2020 remastered StudioCanal Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2000 Optimum DVD

Additional Info:

Criterion's subtitles seem to be better than StudioCanal's which omits too much IMO.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> BFI Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2003 R2 BFI DVD

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or MUBI Blu-ray

Best Video:

No comparisons

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion, 2k transfer

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is a flawed master with degrain + regrain and bad encoding, but still better than the old Blu-ray

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Best Video:

Potemkine

Video Notes:

Potemkine has Blu-ray, not sure how good

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

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Director: James Cameron

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2015 Lionsgate Blu-ray 

Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · originaltrilogy.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:
  • 2015 Lionsgate Blu-ray (but it's missing the extra scenes in the Ultimate Edition)

  • 2017 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray and subsequent 4K Blu-rays are notorius for being heavily denoised and smoothened. Alternatively, 35mm scans for the theatrical cut is also available.

  • For the Ultimate Edition with the T-1000 searching John's room and the happy future ending, the 2009 Skynet Blu-ray, which is the older pre-2017 transfer, but has DNR.

Best Audio:
  • Original Kodak/ORC CDS mix:  Japan Pioneer DVD in DTS/ac3 5.1

  • Original Dolby Stereo SR: USA Widescreen LaserDisc and others.

Audio Notes:

Differences of mixes on various releases: see thread and more info here.

Additional Info:

2017 Blu-ray (which has the DNRed transfer), the 2009 Skynet Edition Blu-ray, and the 2000 Ultimate Edition DVD have exclusive extras. The 2003 Extreme Edition DVD has some exclusive easter eggs.

Director: Carol Reed

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray

Best Audio:

StudioCanal/LG UHDs

Audio Notes:

StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source

Additional Info:

StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Spain Emon Blu-ray
3D: US Lionsgate, Germany StudioCanal, or Netherlands Entertainment One 3D Blu-ray?

Best Audio:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Jon Favreau

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original 5.1 Mix: UK Momentum Pictures DVD

Director: Anthony Minghella

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Video Notes:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray looks very different from either Italy Eagle Pictures or Germany Kinowelt Blu-ray: https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=502 but other than color grading looks better

Director: Werner Herzog

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

UK Lionsgate Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Best Video:

2015 UK Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Sophie Hyde

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Tom Gormican

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Director: Mamoru Oshii

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Bandai Japan 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

All 4K releases are sourced from the same mediocre transfer provided by Bandai, with various amounts of tweaks. Japanese disc presents it with the least tinkering.

The best attempt at improving it comes from the German/French releases from KSM/All the Anime, both of which use the same master with HDR regrading (original grade is SDR in HDR container), tasteful regraining and sharpening, in an attempt to breathe some life into the middling transfer, making for an arguably more pleasing viewing experience.

All earlier releases are from an even worse transfer, with significant black crush, with the exception of a Japanese TV airing, which doesn't suffer from that issue, but instead is heavily sharpened and suffers from poor encoding.

Comparisons: JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD (tonemapped), JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD, ESP UHD (PQ), All 1080p BDs, HDTV, HDTV filtered

Best Audio:

Original matrixed stereo mix: Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray
Most discs include this track with comparable fidelity (which is excellent).

Dolby Atmos remix: Lionsgate US 4K / All the Anime FR 4K
6.1 remix (from Ghost in the Shell 2.0): KSM DE 4K / All the Anime FR 4K

All tracks on the Lionsgate US 4K replace the original ending song with the one heard on the English dub. As the Atmos track on the FR 4K is just a port, it also has this song replaced.

Additional Info:

Japanese 4K includes English dub and subtitles.
French/German 4Ks are not English friendly, with no dub or subtitles.
French disc includes the Atmos track, but the German disc does not.

More Drama on Blu-ray

Director: Mariano Llinás

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Germany Absolut Medien OOP Blu-ray

English-Friendly Notes:

Alternatively, HD Streaming on Apple TV or Amazon from Grasshopper

Best Video:

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

For 3D: 2014 Warner Bros 2D+3D Blu-ray

Best Audio:
Additional Info:
  • This film received multiple blu-ray versions since its initial release. Be sure on whether the Dolby Atmos track, newer extras or 3D image is preferred. The 2024 release is a reprint of the Diamond Luxe. 

  • 2024 Blu-ray/2013 Diamond Luxe Edition Blu-ray has new extras not present on previous releases

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

UK New Wave Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:
Video Notes:
Best Audio:

Germany Universum Blu-ray or France Memento Blu-ray seems to be better than UK New Wave Blu-ray? https://slow.pics/c/LD1gLnYF

US Blu-ray only has 2.0 and no DTS-HD MA 5.1

Additional Info:

UK New Wave Blu-ray, compared to the US Adopt Blu-ray, has the making of documentary and no burned in subtitles

Director: Miloš Forman

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally

Audio Notes:

Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.

Director: F. W. Murnau

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

MoC OOP Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · filmpreserve.org (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

SFFP new 4K restoration

Director: Gaspar Noé

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Artificial Eye 3D Blu-ray

Director: Julia Ducournau

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Curzon 4K

Additional Info:

HDR helps considerably with the deliberately murky aesthetic. VDMS encode is overall very good despite chroma noise in flashback sequences.

Directors: Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie

Best format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

4K encode is low-pass filtered and noticeably so, which was unfortunately par for the course with Criterion 4Ks until sometime in 2024. Still better than the Criterion and Lionsgate Blu-Ray discs for the Dolby Vision grading alone.

Director: John Schlesinger

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal Blu-ray

Additional Info:

StudioCanal was overseen and approved by Nicolas Roeg and has a more filmic color grade than the Warner Archive Blu-Ray. 

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Best format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray announced for a November 25, 2026 release

Best Audio:

Japanese audio: 2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray/US GKIDS Blu-ray

English dub (Disney): 1998 US Disney VHS has better sounding vocals despite altered music and sound effects, the US Disney LaserDisc has limited audio

Releases from 2010 onward have the original music and sound effects, but distorted vocals

English dub (Streamline): 1996 Japan LaserDisc, available in Ghibli Aa Ippai Collection boxset

Additional Info:

2012 US Disney Blu-ray has dubtitles. US GKIDS Blu-ray has bonuses that are absent on the US Disney Blu-ray

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