Cohen

21 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 2 in 4K19 in HD

Best 4K release by tier:

Excellent
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Based in United StatesFounded 2008cohenmedia.net (opens in a new tab)

Films where Cohen's release is the pick. How picks are made

Real-estate developer Charles S. Cohen founded this New York distributor in 2008 to release foreign-language and art-house films in North America. In 2011 it bought Raymond Rohauer's library, now the Cohen Film Collection, and has since restored and issued Buster Keaton, D. W. Griffith and Merchant Ivory titles on Region A Blu-ray. It owned the UK's Curzon from 2019 until Fortress Investment Group took it over in 2024.

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Films where Cohen's release is the pick. How picks are made

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

Director: Jacques Rivette

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4k resto, good bitrate but teal, no info on Potemkine France

Best Audio:

2004 New Yorker DVD

4.2

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Directors: Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton

Best English-Friendly:

MoC or Cohen Blu-ray

Best Video:

MoC/Cohen

Video Notes:

MoC/Cohen > Kino Lorber

4.0

Seven Chances (1925)

Director: Buster Keaton

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC/Cohen Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Eureka/Cohen newer restoration than Kino Lorber

3.9

Sudden Fear (1952)

Director: David Miller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

3.8

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Director: Julie Dash

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

3.7

Tristana (1970)

Director: Luis Buñuel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Cohen restored themselves, significantly better than StudioCanal https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=11902&d2=11795&c=4648

3.7

The Beauty of the Devil (1950)

Director: René Clair

Best English-Friendly:

Cohen Blu-ray

Best Video:

Cohen Blu-ray or Gaumont (no EN subs)

3.7

Padre Padrone (1977)

Directors: Vittorio Taviani & Paolo Taviani

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen/Arrow/Screenbound Pictures Taviani Brothers Collection Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparisons

3.7

City of Women (1980)

Director: Federico Fellini

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Cohen Blu-ray is the best with the least amount of DNR or sharpening among Germany StudioCanal, UK MoC and France Gaumont. Even though Cohen doesn't have the best encoding, it's definitely the most superior release. See caps-a-holics caps

3.7

Hester Street (1975)

Director: Joan Micklin Silver

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Cohen Blu-ray is a newer 4K restoration than earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.7

Under the Sun of Satan (1987)

Director: Maurice Pialat

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Cohen Media Blu-ray or France Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparisons, but both US Cohen Media Blu-ray and France Gaumont Blu-ray are English friendly, and Japan Kinokuniya Blu-ray isn't

3.6

It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

Director: René Clair

Best English-Friendly:

Cohen Blu-ray

Best Video:

Cohen Blu-ray, 4k scan

3.5

The Damned (1947)

Director: René Clément

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparisons but Cohen is the only Blu-ray that's English-friendly

3.5

The Iron Mask (1929)

Director: Allan Dwan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

Video Notes:

"a full frame 35 mm fine grain positive was scanned at 4K at an historically appropriate 21 frames per second. Following this, more than 160 hours of digital clean up was completed at 2K"

3.5

The Black Pirate (1926)

Director: Albert Parker

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Douglas Fairbanks Double Feature Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Cohen Douglas Fairbanks Double Feature Blu-ray is slightly better than 2010 Kino Lorber Blu-ray and potentially a different transfer, see comparison caps

3.5