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Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Plaion Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Germany Plaion Blu-ray has the best encoding, and both MoC and Kino Lorber Blu-ray have Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

For encoding, Plaion > MoC > Kino Lorber

Director: Lee Chang-dong

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Criterion Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is superior to Japan Blu-ray see comparison 

Best Video:

Japan Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Japan Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration. It has more details and avoids Criterion's highlight clipping, but most likely suffers the Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps It also doesn't has English subtitles.

Criterion also has the correct OAR at 2.35:1 while Japan Blu-ray is 2.39:1

Director: Cy Endfield

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US OOP Twilight Time Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

US OOP Twilight Time Blu-ray > UK Paramount Blu-ray or US Inspired Blu-ray

The UK Blu-ray not only have some DNR applied, it's also squeezed and cropped: see comparison

The color contrast from Twilight Time is however possibly suffering the Quicktime Gamma Bug, but that's an easier issue to fix than DNR or cropped images.

Director: Roger Corman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Shout! Factory Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

UK Arrow has the best encoding, but only US Shout! Factory has the fixed Quicktime Gamma Bug.

Both Germany and UK Arrow suffered from the bug, see caps comparing 0.88 gamma fix

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Explosive Media Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray not only suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug, but also has slightly worse encoding see caps comparing 0.88 gamma

Director: Abraham Polonsky

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is significantly worse with potential DNR see caps

OOP Olive Films Blu-ray seems to be the same transfer as Arrow but with Quicktime Gamma Bug see comparison

Director: John M. Stahl

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray

Directors: Louis J. Gasnier & George B. Seitz & Leopold Wharton

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

Only parts survived, available on Youtube or Grapevine DVD Pearl White: Queen of the Serials

Director: D.W. Griffith

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Youtube Library of Congress official HD Streaming

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Directors: Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Blu-ray

Director: Emile de Antonio

Best English-Friendly & Video:

New Yorker DVD

Video Notes:

New Yorker DVD also available on streaming platforms sometimes

Director: Michael Roemer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Joel Schumacher

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2019 Shout! Factory Blu-ray

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

Additional Info:

BD 1080p Comparison: https://slow.pics/c/6hg4Y5fB (USA-Shout! vs AUS-Imprint vs GER-NamelessMedia vs AUS-Shock)

Director: Sam Raimi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Director: Tex Avery

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 2 Blu-ray

Director: Fred M. Wilcox

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros DVD

Director: John Woo

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

The DTS-HD 5.1 from some of the international Blu-rays and the TrueHD 5.1 on the 4K Blu-ray are similar.

Director: Les Blank

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Les Blanks Films Blu-ray

Sources: lesblank.com (opens in a new tab)

Director: J.J. Abrams

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

The DTS-HD 5.1 from some of the international Blu-rays and the TrueHD 5.1 on the 4K Blu-ray are similar.

Additional Info:

Best Buy exclusive DVD has Bonus Disc with featurettes not found on Blu-ray/4K Blu-ray

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

Flicker Alley DVD or Kino Lorber DVD

Video Notes:

Flicker Alley DVD or Kino Lorber DVD no comparisons available