London independent Eureka Entertainment runs the spine-numbered Masters of Cinema series (since 2004, wholly owned since 2008) alongside Eureka Classics and Montage Pictures. Its catalogue leans on silent and early cinema, classic Hollywood, world cinema and Hong Kong martial arts, usually with booklets and new commentaries. Discs are aimed at the UK market and are generally Region B.
Eureka
37 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 8 in 4K29 in HD10 more for audio only
Best 4K release by tier:
- Excellent3
- Solid2
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Films where Eureka's release is the pick. How picks are made
Films where Eureka's release is the pick. How picks are made
8 in 4K
Best video release on UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray https://slow.pics/c/0hKki5xV?canvas-mode=fit-width
Director: Orson Welles
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray/Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
MoC 4K Blu-ray and Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray are similar
Best English-Friendly & Video:
2022 Eureka UK 4K Blu-ray
Director: Jackie Chan
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Eureka 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Good 4K Blu-ray upgrades of Ritrovata's flawed restorations
Director: Jackie Chan
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Eureka 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Good 4K Blu-ray upgrades of Ritrovata's flawed restorations
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray
Directors: Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Eureka MoC 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Probably. No comparison with French Factoris Films 4K Blu-ray, but former has Dolby Vision and higher bitrate.
Additional Info:
For standard Blu-ray, the MoC/Cohen are a 4k transfer https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=112722&page=5
29 in HD
Best video release on Blu-ray or HD streaming · by Letterboxd rating
Video Notes:
Eureka Blu-ray has better encode than Flicker Alley Blu-ray. Kino Lorber/BFI are older restoration and are worse.
Director: Fritz Lang
Best Video:
1984 Giorgio Moroder restoration: MoC Blu-ray or Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Video Notes:
2001 Murnau restoration: MoC 2-disc DVD set > Kino Lorber 1-disc Restored Authorized Edition DVD
2010 Murnau complete restoration: MoC Blu-ray > Kino Lorber Blu-ray
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
MoC slightly better than Criterion http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_69/kwaidan_blu-ray.htm
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Eureka MoC Blu-ray, see caps
MoC is sourced from an earlier scan, but still looks more detailed than the later 4K restoration released by Kadokawa in Japan, which has some black crush and DNR. French Capricci disc is sourced from the same scan as MoC but with much worse encoding and wrong levels.
Best Audio:
1991 Daiei LaserDisc
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:
Eureka Masters of Cinema Blu-ray
Video Notes:
Eureka Blu-ray slightly better than Kino Lorber. Note that the Eureka release has ~6 seconds of cuts due to BBFC rules.
Audio Notes:
Eureka has original mono.
10 for audio only
The best audio is Eureka's; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Director: King Hu
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Audio Notes:
But all are within the margin of error, minus Criterion
Best Video:
2025 Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray
Video Notes:
With better detail and grading than the China 4K Blu-ray. Comparisons
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Best Audio:
2006 R2 Eureka! DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Director: Al Reinert
Best Audio:
Eureka Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Director: Sidney Lumet
Best Audio:
Eureka Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:
Best Video:
StudioCanal EU
Video Notes:
StudioCanal EU has elevated blacks and inaccurate colors, Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encode.
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Best Audio:
2001 Kino Lorber DVD or 2003 Eureka DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Video Notes:
All very old restoration, but Kino Lorber > Germany Universum > MoC. Kino Lorber Germany Blu-ray has more noise reduction while English version's noise reduction is kept at minimum. MoC has very week encoding and crushed blacks.
Sources:
caps-a-holic on MoC vs Germany
DVDBeaver on Kino Lorber vs MoC
Director: John Huston
Best Audio:
Eureka Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Audio Notes:
> StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Older DVD or LaserDisc probably even better
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Additional Info:
All blu-ray releases so far is from the 2010 scan.
Director: Tom Holland
Best Audio:
Eureka Blu-ray's stereo
Audio Notes:
Eureka Blu-ray's stereo sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray stereo
Best English-Friendly & Video:
Additional Info:
Twilight Time has an isolated score
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Additional Info:
USA Paramount has the best video transfer with the least amount of artifacts: https://slow.pics/c/sjZ3mqF6
Olive Films Blu-ray and Eureka MoC Blu-ray are sourced from the same restoration and are both very good.
Apart from some mild attenuation, the audio is the same on all releases of the newest restoration and is relatively untampered with: https://slow.pics/c/bWF9EGuM
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