Criterion

699 films on Best Blurays

Based in United StatesFounded 1984criterion.com ↗

Based in New York, Criterion has released classic and contemporary films since 1984, giving each title a spine number and adding commentaries, essays and supplements. Many discs use new restorations it supervises, and 4K UHD releases began in November 2021. North American Blu-rays are Region A locked, with a smaller Region B UK line since 2016; Janus Films is a sister company, and Steven Rales has owned both since 2024.

Aliases: cc, criterion

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The Wagoner (1963)

Director: Ousmane Sembène

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Black Girl Blu-ray

3.8

8½ (1963)

Director: Federico Fellini

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Image Entertainment DVD

Audio Notes:

Image Entertainment DVD is slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD (all basically the same)
Other Blu-ray releases are all much worse.

4.3

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Scorsese Shorts Blu-ray

3.4

Mothlight (1963)

Director: Stan Brakhage

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion By Brakhage boxset

3.6

Tom Jones (1963)

Director: Tony Richardson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion/BFI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Criterion/BFI Blu-ray no comparisons, both have theatrical and directors cut

2.9

Bay of Angels (1963)

Director: Jacques Demy

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion The Essential Jacques Demy set Blu-ray

Best Video:

Only in Criterion

3.8

The Executioner (1963)

Director: Luis García Berlanga

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2016 Criterion Blu-ray

Best Audio:

?

4.0

Shock Corridor (1963)

Director: Samuel Fuller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

France is using the same transfer

3.9

Winter Light (1963)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly:

Best Video:

2022 BFI Boxset Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Tartan DVD, Criterion DVD

4.2

Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

Director: Alain Resnais

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is 4k transfer, not sure Potemkine or Spain import

3.8

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Box Set coming October 20th with FiM encode

Best Audio:

1994 LaserDisc (marginally)

4.3

Red Desert (1964)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> BFI. France Carlotta Blu-ray is a new, flawed 4K resto, which has heavy frozen grain

Best Audio:

1999 Image Entertainment DVD

4.0

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Director: Richard Lester

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray second pressing from March 2022 as first pressing has shots in one scene placed in wrong order

3.9

Band of Outsiders (1964)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Best Audio:

2003 R2 BFI DVD

Nothing But a Man (1964)

Director: Michael Roemer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

4.1

It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Scorsese Shorts Blu-ray

3.4

Black God, White Devil (1964)

Director: Glauber Rocha

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion vs Mawu Blu-ray?

3.8

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Director: Jacques Demy

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

For Blu-ray Criterion Demy Set > StudioCanal

4.1

I Am Cuba (1964)

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

4.5

Charulata (1964)

Director: Satyajit Ray

Best English-Friendly:

Artificial Eye UK Blu-ray

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

English-Friendly Notes:

Artificial Eye UK Blu-ray is from a newer master than Criterion

Best Video:

Carlotta France Blu-ray. Comparisons

Best Audio:

Criterion Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is better than Artificial Eye and Carlotta

4.2

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