Curzon

32 films on Best Blurays

Best video release:

Best 4K release by tier:

Excellent
13
Solid
4

Based in United KingdomFounded 1976film.curzon.com (opens in a new tab)

Curzon Film is the UK distribution arm of the Curzon cinema group, which began as Artificial Eye in 1976 and dropped the Curzon Artificial Eye name in 2016. It handles world and independent cinema in UK cinemas, on its Curzon Home Cinema streaming service and on Region B DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Cohen Media Group owned it from 2019; Fortress Investment Group took over in 2024.

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How we pick the best Curzon releases

18 in 4K

Best video release on UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Memories of Murder (2003)

Director: Bong Joon Ho

4K · Excellent

Best Video, Audio & English-Friendly:

Curzon/Artificial Eye UK 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Korea disc is near-identical, caps

4.4

Paris, Texas (1984)

Director: Wim Wenders

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

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

4.4

Central Station (1998)

Director: Walter Salles

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray, nic's review, caps

Best Audio:

Original matrixed Dolby Stereo: Curzon 4K Blu-ray
Surround mix: Vision Film Polish PAL DVD (2000)

Audio Notes:

The surround mix is fully discrete, not a mere decode or upmix of the Dolby Stereo LCRS track. This mix has never appeared on any other releases.

4.4

Wings of Desire (1987)

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

4.3

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

Director: Béla Tarr

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

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

Best Audio:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray/Carlotta Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray is worse.

4.3

Three Colors: Blue (1993)

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray (meh compression) / Curzon 4K Blu-ray (visible chroma noise)

Best Audio:

Miramax DVD?

4.1

The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2023 Curzon 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2006 Criterion US DVD

4.1

L'Atalante (1934)

Director: Jean Vigo

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray with much better encoding than the Gaumont Blu-ray with the same 4K restoration see caps

Criterion Blu-ray uses an older restoration

4.0

Three Colors: White (1994)

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

3.8

À propos de Nice (1930)

Directors: Jean Vigo & Boris Kaufman

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

3.7

Zero for Conduct (1933)

Director: Jean Vigo

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

3.7

Taris (1931)

Director: Jean Vigo

4K · Excellent

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Curzon 4K Blu-ray

3.5

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14 in HD

Best video release on Blu-ray or HD streaming · by Letterboxd rating

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Director: Lars von Trier

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Curzon Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Curzon Blu-ray > Germany Plaion or France Potemkine

4.2

Caché (2005)

Director: Michael Haneke

Best Video, Audio & English-Friendly:

2025 Curzon UK Blu-ray (Haneke boxset)

Video Notes:

2025 Curzon UK Blu-ray or 2013 TF1 FR Blu-ray (caps)

Curzon has a slightly better encode and preserves all the noise of the digital source, but ends up obscuring actual detail in some shots. Both are quite good, only caveat being that the TF1 disc is slightly cropped and has a black bar on top.

Audio Notes:

2008 Artificial Eye UK and 2025 Umbrella AU discs have incorrect pitch. TF1 FR disc is missing 7 minutes of audio in the left channel. See spectrograms.

4.0