Films

The best release of every film, picked by the community. How we decide

6,193 films · page 136 of 310

Director: Les Blank

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Zhang Yimou

Best English-Friendly:

Most likely WCL China Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

WCL China Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WCL China Blu-ray probably best transfer https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=19502187&postcount=Crocodile124 over Imprint Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li

Director: Kim Ki-duk

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Umbrella Blu-ray

Director: Yuri Norstein

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Deaf Crocodile Treasures of Soviet Animation Vol 3 - The Short Films of Yuri Nostein Blu-ray

Directors: Humphrey Jennings & Stewart McAllister

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

BFI The Complete Humphrey Jennings Collection Vol. 2 Blu-ray

Directors: Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

RaroVideo DVD

Director: William A. Wellman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2018 Kino Lorber Remastered Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

New 2k scan with very different color http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews55/nothing_sacred_blu-ray.htm  but overall much better compared to the older Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Additional Info:

MoMA has just scanned from the original separations, and it's the only version of this classic with accurate Technicolor. This new restoration is now streaming on Criterion Channel

Directors: Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Trigon Film DVD

Sources: tiff.net (opens in a new tab)

Director: Víctor Erice

Video format: No Home Media

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Trigon Film DVD

Sources: bampfa.org (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

New 4k restoration but no release yet https://bampfa.org/event/quince-tree-sun

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany)

Audio Notes:

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany) are the same, and significantly better than the 4K restoration (Shout! Factory, Arrow, Kino Lorber), and a bit better than the MGM NTSC DVD.

Director: Norman Jewison

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MGM/Fox Blu-ray

Director: Jacqueline Audry

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Icarus Blu-ray

Director: Wang Tung

Video format: DVD

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

Best Video:

Taiwan DVD

Video Notes:

Taiwan DVD see link but not English friendly

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

France Carlotta DVD

Video Notes:

France Carlotta DVD but only has French subtitles 

Director: Joseph Henabery

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kickstarter Blu-ray by Edward Lorusso

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

Director: Edgar Jones

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Included in Edward Lorusso Shipwrecked Kickstarter Blu-ray extras

Director: William Sterling

Best English-Friendly:

2004/2010 US Screen Media DVD

Best Video:

2010 Spain Divisa DVD (caveat: mostly cropped to 16:9)

Video Notes:

(caveat: 4:3 pan and scan transfer with no menus or subtitles)

Best Audio:

2010 Spain Divisa DVD

Additional Info:

Most US VHS and DVD releases are bootlegs that are cropped and/or of poor picture quality

Director: Agnès Varda

Video format: SD Streaming

Director: Michael Haneke

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

No comparisons available, UK Curzon Blu-ray boxset, Australia Umbrella Blu-ray boxset, US Strand Releasing OOP Blu-ray, or very old France TF1 Blu-ray