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Director: Akira Kurosawa

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

France Carlotta

Video Notes:

France Carlotta > Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps: https://slow.pics/c/s7AfL3XW

Grain is sharper/clearer on the new Carlotta/Criterion 4K; BFI's grain resolves slightly worse and more so in motion, being a standard Blu-ray; The Toho 4K's grain is softer, probably DNR'd.

Best Audio:

Toho 1993 LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

BFI Player used to have the same mastering available to stream in 2019.

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

A24 US Blu-ray

Best Video:

Netflix 4K Streaming

Director: Park Chan-wook

Best English-Friendly:

AUS Madman 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Decal Releasing USA 4K Blu-ray - October 2026

Best Video:

HDR: GER Plaion 4K Blu-ray
SDR: AUS Madman 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Italy/Germany Plaion 4K Blu-ray for Atmos

Director: Lisa Cholodenko

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

5.1 remix: Criterion Blu-ray
Original matrixed stereo: Universal NTSC DVD

Audio Notes:

The 5.1 track is a new mix from the original elements, rather than a straight transfer.

Additional Info:

Criterion booklet notes:
> High Art is presented in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Supervised and approved by director Lisa Cholodenko, this new 4K restoration was undertaken by the Academy Film Archive and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in conjunction with the Sundance Institute, using the 35 mm original camera negative. The 5.1 surround soundtrack was remastered from the DA-88 edit masters and mix masters. Funding was provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Frameline, the Sundance Institute, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Red Hook Post, and Monkeyland Audio.

Director: Richard Stanley

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Umbrella 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video & Audio:

AU Umbrella 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

AU Umbrella 4K Blu-ray > US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray 

The US/Theatrical Cut on the Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is AI upscaled and has DNR, along with Kino Lorber's usual poor compression.

Director's Cut uses a proper transfer but suffers from terrible compression, even by Kino standards.

The Umbrella with its FiM encode looks blurrier due to a slight low-pass filter, but is still far better than Kino.

Audio Notes:

AU Umbrella 4K Blu-ray and US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are the same.

The 5.1 track is a direct port of the lossy NTSC DVD track.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair

Video format: Lost Film

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Director: Frank Tuttle

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial Streaming

Complete copies survive in Library of Congress

Director: Clarence G. Badger

Video format: Lost Film

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Only segments survive

Director: Dorothy Arzner

Video format: No Home Media

Director: Frank Tuttle

Video format: No Home Media

Director: Richard Wallace

Video format: No Home Media

Sources: filmforum.org (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Restoration available in 35mm, no home release

Director: Frank Lloyd

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial streaming

Additional Info:

MoMA has 35mm print but no release yet

Director: Sam Wood

Video format: Lost Film

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Director: William A. Wellman

Video format: Lost Film

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Director: Clarence G. Badger

Video format: Lost Film

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Additional Info:

Fragments of color sequence survived and preserved in UCLA

Director: William C. deMille

Video format: Lost Film

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Additional Info:

Some small segments were found see clip 1 clip 2 and clip 3

Director: Nat Ross

Video format: Lost Film

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Director: Frank R. Strayer

Video format: Lost Film

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Additional Info:

53 seconds of trailer survives

Director: Wallace Worsley

Video format: Lost Film

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Directors: Henry Otto & Chester Bennett

Video format: Lost Film

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