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

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Late Spring (1949)

Director: Yasujirō Ozu

Best English-Friendly:

Hong Kong/Japan Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France Carlotta Blu-ray

Video Notes:

France Carlotta Blu-ray has best encoding of France/Hong Kong/Japan. Criterion/BFI are older master

Best Audio:

2004 Tartan DVD

Audio Notes:

(Raro/Madman/Shochiku DVDs probably similar)

4.3

Pather Panchali (1955)

Director: Satyajit Ray

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Apu Trilogy 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2003 Artificial Eye DVD

4.3

L'Avventura (1960)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2022 Lobster Films

Video Notes:

2022 Lobster Films has a newer 2020 4K restoration, their encoding is often bad, but no caps to verify yet. Criterion is older 4k restoration

4.1

The Firemen's Ball (1967)

Director: Miloš Forman

Best English-Friendly:

Arrow Blu-ray

3.7

The Naked Island (1960)

Director: Kaneto Shindo

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion

Video Notes:

Criterion > Eureka MoC

4.2

Persepolis (2007)

Directors: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

Best English-Friendly:

English dub on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or older Sony/StudioCanal Blu-ray

4.2

Othello (1951)

Director: Orson Welles

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

3.8

Shame (1968)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 2k transfer

Best Audio:

2004 MGM DVD

4.2

The Unknown (1927)

Director: Tod Browning

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers boxset, 2k resto

3.8

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

4.4

Mikey and Nicky (1976)

Director: Elaine May

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

4.1

Claire's Knee (1970)

Director: Éric Rohmer

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion and Potemkine

Video Notes:

Criterion and Potemkine both have boxsets

3.9

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Director: Federico Fellini

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Essential Fellini

3.9

It's a Gift (1934)

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber but old resto

3.4

Dear Diary (1993)

Director: Nanni Moretti

Best English-Friendly:

US Film Movement Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Film Movement

3.9

1900 (1976)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Plaion/Plaion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Germany Plaion/Plaion Blu-ray is the new 4K restoration

3.9

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Director: Victor Sjöström

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion HD transfer

4.1

Deep Red (1975)

Director: Dario Argento

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.9

Atlantics (2019)

Director: Mati Diop

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion possibly? Or Streaming

Best Video:

France Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Netflix annouced supposedly Criterion, but not yet. France has Blu-ray

3.7

Night of the Demon (1957)

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

Video Notes:

UK Indicator seems to be the best

3.8

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