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Kino Lorber

421 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 94 in 4K307 in HD20 in SD7 more for audio only5 more announced

Best 4K release by tier:
Based in United StatesFounded 1976kinolorber.com (opens in a new tab)

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

New York distributor formed in 2009 when Kino International merged with Lorber HT Digital. Its home-video catalogue runs from silent films and world cinema (Kino Classics) to Hollywood titles licensed from MGM, Paramount, Universal and others under the Kino Lorber Studio Classics line, including a growing 4K UHD slate. Discs are Region A and many use studio-supplied masters.

94 of 421 films match · Page 2 of 5

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

Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is a fine release with no glaring encode issues, the new master is also fine but graded to look quite dim in HDR/DV. Unsure whether that's really respectful to the source

Best Audio:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray / Paramount EU Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Old Warner Bros US release is inferior.

Director: Abel Ferrara

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber/101 Films 4K Blu-ray

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber and 101 Films are bit idential. For extras, 101 Films Adds a new extra (~25 min) with Abel Ferrara

Best Audio:

1993 Live Home Video LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1993 Live Home Video LaserDisc is not only better, but also has the correct music see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmm8J7EDNM 

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: John Schlesinger

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

5.1 remix sounds good and likely came from original audio stems.

WB/Paramount Blu-ray has lossy restored mono

Director: George Stevens

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has unusually strong encode but only a minimal upgrade over the excellent Eureka Blu-ray

Director: Howard Hawks

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is a flawed master with degrain + regrain and bad encoding, but still better than the old Blu-ray

Director: Rian Johnson

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray screenshots

Director: John Woo

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Director: Ben Stiller

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Note: only the theatrical in 4k, Director's Cut has not been upgraded

Director: Phil Alden Robinson

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · lddb.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray caps

Best Audio:

Closest to original: 1993 MCA Laserdisc or other laserdiscs probably

Audio Notes:

DVD is about the same also. Blu-rays only have upmixes (and the 2.0 track from Kino Lorber is a downmix)

Director: Peter Collinson

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

UK Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK Paramount 4K Blu-ray has good colours, but worse encode and no mono track. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has bad colours but better encode and mono track.

Video Notes:

(preference)

Best Audio:

2002 R2 Paramount DVD/2009 Paramount Blu-ray/2023 Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Director: Chris Noonan

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

But it is not well-compressed see caps

Best Audio:

(The Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray 5.1 was not well-handled, contains inaudible artifacts but is largely the same with the last Universal Blu-ray)

Director: Hal Ashby

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.

Audio Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.

Director: Michael Winner

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray see caps

Director: Michael Winner

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Director: Kinka Usher

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Director: Guillermo del Toro

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray 

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

Video Notes:

But has AI upscaling on opticals, see caps

Best Audio:

Kino Lorber has 5.1, Lionsgate Blu-ray has 7.1, don't know which sounds better and closest to the theatrical mix.

Director: Peter Berg

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Universal Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Universal Blu-ray has a higher bitrate DTS-HD 5.1 track

Director: Roger Donaldson

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray?

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray? see caps by The HDR Dissector

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