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Director: Maurice Schwartz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber The Jewish Soul: Ten Classics of Yiddish Cinema Blu-ray

Director: Tony Scott

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Turbine Blu-ray or Australia Imprint Blu-ray?

Director: Abel Ferrara

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Audio:

Arrow/Lionsgate 2.0

Audio Notes:

Arrow/Lionsgate 2.0 sounds good, LaserDisc [ID7612IV] maybe better?

Director: Quentin Tarantino

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray Germany Cut: Germany Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Universal 4K Blu-ray Germany Cut: Germany Universal 4K Blu-ray

Director: Tom Holland

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray > Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray (Capelight fixes some magenta color faults of the Shout! Factory Release)

Director: Joel Coen

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Universal Blu-ray

Director: William Friedkin

Director: P.J. Hogan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Original Theatrical Version: US Universal Widescreen Edition NTSC DVD

Cut UK Home Video Version: US Universal or International Sony Blu-ray?

Video Notes:

(caveat: DNR applied)

Best Audio:

Original Theatrical Version: Cinema DTS

Cut UK Home Video Version: US Universal Blu-ray for DTS-HD MA track

Additional Info:

International Sony Blu-ray releases have the original DVD extras

Director: Tom Holland

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Eureka Blu-ray's stereo

Audio Notes:

Eureka Blu-ray's stereo sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray stereo

Additional Info:

Twilight Time has an isolated score

Director: David Cronenberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Vertigo 4K Blu-ray

Director: Andrew Fleming

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing
Video Notes:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray poor encode, HBO MAX stream doesn't have the sudden bitrate drops issue, remastered Shout! Factory Blu-ray included with the 4K maybe better?

Additional Info:

Sony Special Edition DVD has an isolated score

Directors: Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Director: Charles Vidor

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

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray (review)

Audio Notes:

A new transfer from the optical soundtrack negative.

Additional Info:

the older Blu-ray is included in the Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Richard Attenborough

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

See caps for Kino: caps. Here’s a particularly egregious example.

Additional Info:

Kino Lorber has a exclusive commentary

Director: Ilya Naishuller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Germany Capelight

Audio Notes:

Germany Capelight has Atmos, for the commentaries, France Metropolitan

Additional Info:

Germany Capelight has Atmos and more extras

TV series

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Shout! Factory Blu-ray or Australia Via Vision Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparison available, but they usually share the same discs

TV series

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

HD Streaming

TV series

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

UK Anime, Ltd. Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Limited Edition has "Theatrical Edition" versions of the series with 5.1 surround sound

Director: Mel Brooks

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber

Best Audio:

Original 70mm 6-track mix (4.1): Arrow 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: MGM Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Arrow fixed the audio glitches found on Kino Lorber's disc.
The 5.1 remix on Arrow's disc sounds terribly tinny.

Director: John Singleton

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray (included in John Singleton's Hood Trilogy set)

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

Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray is better than the earlier Sony 4K Blu-ray, which suffered from low-pass filtering and poor compression. Caps

Best Audio:

Original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

A better transfer than the Sony 4K Blu-ray

The Sony 4K Blu-ray includes an earlier 5.1 remix, which is mostly faithful to the original mix and lightly enhances and opens it up, as well as Dolby Atmos remix which is slightly more aggressive.

Criterion's release also includes a different Atmos remix to the one included from Sony, significantly more aggressive than previous releases, going for a more "immersive" feel.