BFI

156 films on Best Blurays

Based in United KingdomFounded 1933shop.bfi.org.uk ↗

Founded in 1933, the British Film Institute is a London charity that runs the BFI National Archive and publishes Blu-rays for the UK market. Releases lean on archive restorations of British cinema, silent film, documentary and world classics, usually with booklets and short films as extras. The BFI Flipside line, launched in 2009, revives overlooked British films, and UHD discs began with The Seventh Seal in 2021.

Aliases: bfi

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The Silence (1963)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

BFI Blu-ray better encode than Criterion Blu-ray

4.0

Winter Light (1963)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

2022 BFI Boxset Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Tartan DVD, Criterion DVD

4.2

Scorpio Rising (1963)

Director: Kenneth Anger

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

3.8

Band of Outsiders (1964)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> BFI Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2003 R2 BFI DVD

Gertrud (1964)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection

3.9

Red Beard (1965)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

BFI UK Blu-ray

4.4

The Pawnbroker (1965)

Director: Sidney Lumet

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

While Olive Films Blu-ray is better encoded than BFI Blu-ray, it suffers from the Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)

Director: Richard Lester

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

> Kino Lorber, see DVDBeaver comparisons http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_70/the_knack_and_how_to_get_it_blu-ray.htm

3.2

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

Director: Daniel Haller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

BFI Blu-ray is better than the decade old OOP Shout! Factory Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver review http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_146/die_monster_die_blu-ray.htm

3.0

Persona (1966)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2022 BFI Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2003 Tartan UK DVD

4.4

Titicut Follies (1967)

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Boxset Blu-ray

4.0

Targets (1968)

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Audio:

~2020 WEB-DL

Audio Notes:

~2020 WEB-DL but has some distortion and an annoying 60 Hz hum (+ harmonics). The disc has most of its bass removed though which I find more jarring but ymmv

4.0