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Filmmuseum

5 films on Best Blurays

Based in GermanyFounded 2005edition-filmmuseum.com ↗

Published by the Munich Film Museum since 2005, this numbered DVD series pools restorations from German-language film archives, including the Austrian Film Museum and the Deutsche Kinemathek, with backing from the Goethe-Institut. It covers silent films with newly commissioned scores, documentaries and independent cinema of the 1960s to 1980s. Discs are PAL, region-free and bilingual, with English subtitles and extensive archival extras.

Aliases: filmmuseum

Director: George Nichols

Director: G.W. Pabst

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Filmmuseum PAL DVD

Sources: edition-filmmuseum.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Germany Filmmuseum PAL DVD https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/product_info.php/info/p81_Die-freudlose-Gasse.html has the most complete version of 151 minutes in its sixth 2020 edition of the DVD.

Although MoMA is also going to show a "2025 restoration" also from Filmmuseum so hopefully a newer home release is going to be soon.

Directors: Leo McCarey & Fred Guiol

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Filmmuseum Max Davidson Comedies DVD

Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

The Internet Archive seems to have the same file as the DVD

Director: Max Ophüls

Best English-Friendly:

French version: Criterion Blu-ray (Carlotta has no English subtitles)

German version: Filmmuseum DVD

Sources: cinema-scope.com (opens in a new tab) · fredcamper.com (opens in a new tab) · sensesofcinema.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

French version: 2020 Carlotta Blu-ray

German version: Filmmuseum DVD

Additional Info:

Carlotta Films corrects the mistakes of Criterion due to the compression on dark scenes and gives the gorgeous transfer of the restoration a better encode/compression and more bitrate.

The German cut, titled Lola Montez, is considered by Ophüls scholars such as Jonathan Rosenbaum, Dan Sallitt and Tag Gallagher to be superior to the French cut. It has only been reissued on the Filmmuseum DVD.

Director: Michael Verhoeven

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Filmmuseum DVD

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