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6,200 films · page 83 of 310

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best Video:

Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Jonathan Wacks

Director: Arthur Penn

Best Video:

MoC OOP Blu-ray

Video Notes:

MoC OOP Blu-ray is slightly better than Olive Films OOP Blu-ray

Director: Dave Fleischer

Best Video:

ClassicFlix Fleischer Cartoons: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Blu-ray

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Also available in official HD Streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urxyp4wEgw

Director: Bill Gunn

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or MoC OOP Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber or MoC OOP Blu-ray, no comparison available

Directors: Jeffrey Friedman & Rob Epstein

Best Video:

Milestone Blu-ray

Director: Edward James Olmos

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Shout! Factory Blu-ray is better encoded than older Universal HD-DVD see caps

Directors: Kathy Levitt & Christine Lesiak & Michie Gleason

Video format: HD Streaming

Director: Larry Clark

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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Director: Joseph DeFrenes

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial Youtube

Director: Gaspar Noé

Best Video:

Arrow Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

(Arrow's presentation is in 25 fps, which is apparently Noé's preference)

Director: William Wyler

4K · Excellent
Best Audio:

1991 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

The 4K Blu-ray 5.0 is the original mix, but more muffled than LaserDisc and even the previous Blu-ray's gentle remix. The Atmos mix is revisionist.

Additional Info:

The 50th Anniversary box set has some exclusive extras.

1991 LaserDisc is Dolby Stereo matrix encoded from the original six track master and this was later upgraded to a 5.1 Dolby Digital version prepared for the first DVD. The 5.1 version may have had some slight tweaking in the process. This was reused for the DVD CE boxset and then the 5.1 on Blu-ray seems like a slight upgrade of the DVD track. (The first pressing from the UCE boxset had audio defects rampant on the Blu-ray. These were corrected for standalone pressings.) All 5.1s sound roughly the same as the LaserDisc 2.0 in terms of the mix, but the LaserDisc PCM mastering seems like the only one that is direct without any major processing.

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Best Video:

2D version: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

3D version: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Director: Freida Lee Mock

Video format: HD Streaming

Director: John Sayles

Best Video:

Criterion or UK 88 Films Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Criterion or UK 88 Films Blu-ray are from director-approved 4K restoration with minimal differences see caps

Additional Info:

Both Criterion and 88 Films have the same audio

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray director-approved 4K restoration

Director: Andrew Noren

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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Directors: Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske

Director: Nancy Hamilton

Video format: SD Streaming

Best Video:

Amazon SD Streaming

Director: Alan Parker

Best Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray