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Carlotta

62 films on Best Blurays

Based in FranceFounded 1998carlottafilms.com ↗

Vincent Paul-Boncour and Jean-Pierre Gardelli set up Carlotta Films in Paris in 1998 to bring restored heritage films back to French cinemas. A DVD line followed in 2002 and Blu-ray in 2008. The catalogue leans on American, Japanese and Italian classics, silent cinema and auteurs such as Ozu, Pasolini and Fassbinder, with deluxe titles issued as Ultra Collector boxes that include a book.

Aliases: carlotta

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Director: François Truffaut

Best English-Friendly:

UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK Artificial Eye vs France Carlotta no comparison

Directors: Jim Tao & Chang Yi & Edward Yang & Ko I-chen

Best English-Friendly:

OOP Taiwan and Korea Blu-ray

Best Video:

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Carlotta France boxset Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol. 2

Director: John Carpenter

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray or Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode)

Video Notes:

Sony 4K Blu-ray and France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode) are similar

Director: Wim Wenders

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray/Carlotta 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray/StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray have worse encodes.

Best Audio:

R5 Carmen Video DVD

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Best English-Friendly:

Taiwan Sony Blu-ray

Best Video:

Carlotta Blu-ray, HD transfer, also available in a set

Best Audio:

2006 Japan Kinokuniya DVD

Director: Masahiro Shinoda

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Channel Streaming

Best Video:

2024 Carlotta FR Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2009 Shochiku JP NTSC DVD

Audio Notes:

The audio track on the new 4K restoration sounds flat and lifeless, both its low and high frequencies were significantly attentuated.

Director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Criterion Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

US Criterion Blu-ray : See caps. Criterion and 88 Films share a regraded and brighter master; Carlotta didn't follow the regrade and its image is very dark.

Audio Notes:

Mono spectrograms

Director: Wim Wenders

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

UK Curzon 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2023 Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray, France subs only

Best Audio:

Old R2 DVD 2.0

Director: Emir Kusturica

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Streaming

Best Video:

Carlotta France Blu-ray vs Germany Winkeler?

Director: Claire Denis

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

FiM encode; BFI shows noticeable macroblocking

Best Audio:

MGM DVD

Audio Notes:

No dip around 10 kHz, wider dynamic range, more natural EQ; BFI & Carlotta BDs are identically worse; HMAX Streaming is similar to the BDs but has worse dynamics

Director: Jang Sun-woo

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Blue Kino Korea

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

Best Video:

Carlotta (France)

Video Notes:

Carlotta (France) far better than Blue Kino (Korea); caps

Best Audio:

Both Blu-rays are the same

Additional Info:

Carlotta is not English-friendly

Director: Ang Lee

Best English-Friendly:

US Film Movement Blu-ray or Australia Imprint Blu-ray?

Director: Edward Yang

Best English-Friendly:

Korea Nova Media Blu-ray

English-Friendly Notes:

Korea Nova Media Blu-ray probably > Criterion

Best Video:

2018 Carlotta France Blu-ray

Best Audio:

?

Director: Chen Kaige

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

France Carlotta 4K > Criterion 4K

Director: Ang Lee

Best English-Friendly:

US Olive Films Blu-ray or Australia Imprint Blu-ray?

Director: Jane Campion

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2014 StudioCanal Blu-ray 5.1, 2012 Lionsgate Blu-ray 2.0

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

Criterion is filtered. Comparisons

Director: Edward Yang

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray is FiM encoded and superior to Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps but the Carlotta release is not English friendly

Best Audio:

2011 Criterion Blu-ray

Additional Info:

A user writes: 'the 5.0 mix does not closely resemble the matrixed stereo track included on all prior releases (save for a 2003 French DVD which had 5.1). There is significant dialogue emphasis in the 5.0 mix while the older stereo mix has ambient sounds and dialogue mixed at nearly the same loudness. Additionally, the 5.0 mix has minor limiting in select loud sequences and a strange distorted quality on occasion (one notable example is the sound of a plane taking off which plays during a static shot of clouds in the sky). The stereo mix included on the FRA UHD/BD is a downmix of the 5.0 track.'

Director: Béla Tarr

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray has better encode than Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray is worse.

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