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6,199 films · page 107 of 310

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Lucio Fulci

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cauldron Films 4K Blu-ray

Director: Adrian Lyne

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Australia Imprint Blu-ray

Directors: Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney Celebrating Mickey Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

While available on Disney Celebrating Mickey Blu-ray, you can also watch it in HD Streaming everywhere after it went in public domain

Director: Robert Clampett

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two Blu-ray

Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray suffers from the Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

Best Audio:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray from blah-ray:

Audio Notes:

Both the Plaion and Arrow audio tracks sound like they received little/any high- or low- frequency attenuation, but the audio on the new Kino Lorber restoration is much more detailed. It's likely that it was transferred from different (superior) analogue elements. It sounds excellent.

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxset

Best Video:

BFI or Flicker Alley Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxsets

Video Notes:

BFI or Flicker Alley Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxsets use the same restoration, no comparison available

Additional Info:

BFI Blu-ray has commentaries while Flicker Alley doesn't

Director: Ida Lupino

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2013 Kino Lorber Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

2013 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is better than the Kino Lorber 2019 Remastered Blu-ray which supposed used a "newer" 2K restoration

From caps while 2013 Blu-ray is more sharpened, more details are indeed kept in the older Blu-ray than the newer one.

Director: Brian De Palma

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray despite issues

Best Audio:

Laserdisc Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 matrix Dolby Surround, VHS hifi 2.0 Dolby Surround, Cinema DTS

Additional Info:

The film was remixed for the first DVD to remove a great deal of the bass and tame the LFE channel. Every version since uses this revised mix. Only the Laserdisc and release prints have the original theatrical 5.1 discrete mix. The 2.0 matrix version also has the low end intact on LD and VHS. Just demo the main title or the aquarium restaurant glass explosion and you’ll note the difference immediately.

The first DVD while porting the LD and vhs master is where the audio remix happened. The remix still sounds good but it was an unnecessary compromise to place on one of the great mixes of all time. The UHD also uses the remix.

The Paramount UHD is ok though it has some frozen grain and some HDR issues as expected of a screwy Paramount master.

Director: Sidney Olcott

Best English-Friendly:

Grapevine OOP Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparison available

Directors: Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton

Best English-Friendly:

MoC Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 Blu-ray boxset

Best Video:

MoC or Kino Lorber Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 Blu-ray boxset

Video Notes:

(a newer restoration by Lobster Films compared to the older 1920-1923 boxset)

No comparison between MoC and Kino Lorber available

Additional Info:

MoC boxset has more extras and commentary tracks, while also providing a 184-page book, a substantially better extras package compared to Kino Lorber

Director: Michael Wadleigh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Director: Ivan Reitman

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2022 Sony Ultimate Collection 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Only 2022 'Ultimate Collection' has dolby vision. 2022 ‘Ultimate Collection’ also has a higher average bitrate.

Best Audio:

1989 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Tim Burton

Best English-Friendly:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Theatrical Cut: Warner Bros US 2-disc Deluxe Edition DVD set

Extended Cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: Cinema DTS

Extended Cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray

TV series

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Shout! Factory Complete Series DVD boxset

Video Notes:

US NCircle DVD set has compression issues

Director: Feng Xiaogang

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

Video Notes:

Only has DVD releases and no Blu-rays

Director: A. Edward Sutherland

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Director: Stephen Norrington

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(France 4K Blu-ray has Dolby Vision, but removes the theatrical forced subtitles, also has some shots worse than the Warner Bros 4K)

Best Audio:

DTS-HD 6.1 from the Blu-ray?

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical Cut: 2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director's Cut: 2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Better compression than Sony

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

US Ignite 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

US Ignite 4K Blu-ray see caps