Films

ArtcraftBlu-ray is a great new 4K restoration encoded by FiM and should be much superior to an older 2K restoration by Grapevine

Strong VDMS encode of a 4K scan.

No comparisons available against France Potemkine or Japan IVC. They are presumably from the same master, but do not feature English subs.

TBD: BFI Blu-ray’s mono sounds clean. No hiss but not noticeably muffled/filtered either. No known comparisons against older releases.

Arrow includes three audio tracks, matrixed stereo, discrete 4.0, and a 5.0 surround remix. Unfortunately, only the first one is usable. The 4.0 desyncs partway through. The 5.0 has incorrect (lower) pitch. Fortunately, the matrixed stereo track sounds great, but it is still a major disappointment.

There has been no replacement disc announced. See nicwood's BR post.

> Le Chat Qui Fume 4K Blu-ray > Umbrella 4K Blu-ray see caps

Second Sight uses the same Le Chat Qui Fume master, but encoded by FiM and applied Dolby Vision. Umbrella's encoding is visibly worse than Le Chat Qui Fume.

Mondo Vision Blu-ray and Anchor Bay DVD have an alternate audio track with an unauthorized soundtrack.

Has 4K restoration done but no releases yet

(only on the UK Collector's Edition)

Isolated score is on the DVD

Paramount France 3D Blu-ray has both 3D and 2D formats included, as well as both the original French audio with English subtitles and the English dub.

US Blu-ray has no 3D option and only has the English dub.

Criterion 4K Blu-ray; caps

Mosfilm official 4K Youtube Streaming is the only release for the new 4K restoration. Mosfilm's release has no sepia, and whether or not if this is the original color grading is still under debate.

For other releases: Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray is best, but all releases of the 2K restoration have issues:

• German Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray is 2K upscale and has incorrectly pitched Russian audio. See caps

• Criterion Blu-ray/Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray have yellow tint on sepia scenes

• France Potemkine (Standalone) has raised blacks and poor encoding

• France Potemkine (Boxset) has orange tint on sepia scenes and poor encoding

• Netherlands Lumière has correct sepia scenes, good encode, but gamma is slightly off.

• Italy General Video Recording has correct sepia scenes but gamma is off (more so than Netherlands Blu-ray and worse encode)

BD caps & 4K impressions + release comparison EN audio but no EN subtitles

UK Second Sight 4K Blu-ray is FiM encoded and superior to French Severin or German 4K Blu-ray: see comparison

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray caps. The HDR10 base layer is bright, so I'd recommended to watch it in Dolby Vision.

4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray is missing the isolated score and Martian dub from the DVD