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Director: Jean Genet
Director: Chantal Akerman
Sources: tv.apple.com (opens in a new tab)
Germany iTunes
Germany iTunes has HD streaming, otherwise DVD only
Director: Kidlat Tahimik
Sources: mubi.com (opens in a new tab)
MUBI has HD streaming or DVD
Director: D.W. Griffith
Director: Bruno Dumont
Director: Gregg Araki
Camera Obscura Blu-ray/Strand Releasing Blu-ray
Director: Daniel Haller
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
BFI Blu-ray is better than the decade old OOP Shout! Factory Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver review http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_146/die_monster_die_blu-ray.htm
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
~2020 WEB-DL
~2020 WEB-DL but has some distortion and an annoying 60 Hz hum (+ harmonics). The disc has most of its bass removed though which I find more jarring but ymmv
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
> Sony International, both a huge step up from old Blu-ray, but Sony international applied additional filtering: https://slow.pics/c/Cba9eFdD
Also they are cropped to 1.78 from 1.85
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
> Curzon, see caps https://slow.pics/c/mbpnweKM and see grade reference from promo images https://slow.pics/c/TfGmRNDL
Almost every source has an entirely different look. Only two that match promo images are Criterion and CG Entertainment's Italy 1080 release (for 4K they did their own HDR regrade)
Director: Sean Baker
Criterion/Capelight Germany/Madman Australia 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Neither Criterion nor Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray has good encoding https://slow.pics/c/bWhRoxpi also see Criterion review with disappointing compression per Geoff D
See nic's review for more: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23180007&postcount=29.
Since posting this, I watched the Capelight in full and the anomalies the caps reveal didn’t bother me in motion. I did look out for issues and can’t really complain. The trickiest scenes are those set in daylight, particularly in the third act, and the Criterion looks terrible here. Unfortunately the caps are just from the first hour but in doing comparisons with the discs, I noticed that Capelight managed to resolve detail more evenly and makes for a more satisfying experience in my mind.
Australia Madman is very similar to Criterion, see caps provided by Joel https://slow.pics/c/9MDRLoOl and https://slow.pics/c/1EVsFQCZ