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Director: John Cassavetes
Director: Peter Weir
Theatrical Cut: Second Sight 4K Blu-ray Director's Cut: Second Sight 4K Blu-ray or old master
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
(Criterion/Second Sight Blu-ray. Up to preference)
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Eureka/Gaumont Blu-ray (preference)
Gaumont/Eureka is a newer restoration than Kino Lorber but has problems with automatic clean-up and ghosting.
Director: David Lynch
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray slightly better
Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has best encoding. France Potemkine and Criterion UHDs slightly worse.
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Director: Douglas Sirk
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion is new 2K restoration, but wrong aspect ratio (1.85:1 instead of AR 2.00:1)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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Director: Béla Tarr
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Curzon 4K Blu-ray has better encode than Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is worse.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2007 Criterion DVD/2011 StudioCanal Blu-ray
2017 StudioCanal Blu-ray might(?) be the same.
Directors: Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
& Pathé 4K Blu-ray have different gradings (preference). Opening scene on Criterion looks significantly worse, but similar elsewhere.
Director: Michael Cimino
2020 Shout! Factory 4K
2020 Shout! Factory 4K slightly better than StudioCanal in HDR10. Similar in DV
35mm mix: 1991 Universal LaserDisc
70mm mix: StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray
35mm mix: 1991 Universal LaserDisc marginally better than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is downmix.
70mm mix: StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is remix.