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Director: Werner Herzog

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory vs BFI?

Best Video:

Shout! Factory US vs BFI UK Herzog collection, no comparison

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2024 Kino Lorber Fear and Desire Blu-ray extra

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

Video Notes:

4k resto included in Kino Lorber Fear and Desire, worse on 4k than Blu-ray https://criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=812039#p812039 
See caps: The Seafarers 2012 Blu-ray vs 2024 Blu-ray vs 4K Blu-ray: https://slow.pics/c/AQhszlGn 

Director: King Vidor

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber vs France Carlotta vs Germany Blu-ray ?

Best Video:

Kino Lorber US, and other Germany and France Blu-ray

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray vs Cult Films?

Director: Fritz Lang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC vs Kino Lorber Blu-ray?

Director: Glauber Rocha

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion vs Mawu Blu-ray?

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Miloš Forman

Best English-Friendly:

UK Second Run Blu-ray

TV series

Best English-Friendly:

US Milestone vs UK Arrow Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Milestone vs UK Arrow Blu-ray or no comparison

Director: Luis Buñuel

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

StudioCanal has 4k, good encode, accuracy of the color grading is debatable vs Criterion

Director: Werner Herzog

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory vs BFI?

Best Video:

US Shout! Factory vs BFI vs StudioCanal Germany

Video Notes:

No comparison

Directors: Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

BFI vs Criterion?

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

BFI and Criterion

Video Notes:

BFI and Criterion same HD resto, no comparisons

Director: F. W. Murnau

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC

Video Notes:

MoC vs Kino Lorber no comparison, Kino Lorber is the same old restoration

Director: F. W. Murnau

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Director: Fritz Lang

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber vs MoC?

Best Video:

Kino Lorber and MoC same resto, no comparison

Director: F. W. Murnau

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

MoC vs Kino Lorber Blu-ray, where Kino Lorber is supposedly a new restoration, different tint but darker and less shadow details http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_73/early_murnau_blu-ray.htm 

Director: Tod Browning

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber vs MoC Blu-ray?

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

MoC vs Kino Lorber?

Best Video:

MoC vs Kino Lorber no comparison, but seems to be the same restoration

Director: Nacho Vigalondo

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray

Director: Paul Weitz

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray > US Universal 4K Blu-ray

Universal 4K Blu-ray has these issues:

  • based on 88 Films' already good restoration,

  • BD-100, but 52GB was used

  • Too dark, wrong colors

Additional Info:

Universal Blu-ray has exclusive extras not on the 88 Films release

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook