Eureka Entertainment's UK series for classic and art-house cinema grew out of a director-focused website launched in 2001, issued its first DVDs in 2004 and moved to Blu-ray in 2008. Releases carry spine numbers and usually a booklet, with commentaries, interviews and essays from critics and scholars. The catalogue runs from silent films and Japanese classics to Hollywood studio titles and recent art-house work.
Masters of Cinema
85 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 10 in 4K75 in HD7 more for audio only
Best 4K release by tier:
- Excellent4
- Solid2
Films where Masters of Cinema's release is the pick. How picks are made
Also known as: MoC
75 of 85 films match · Page 4 of 4
Films where Masters of Cinema's release is the pick. How picks are made
Director: John Frankenheimer
Director: Bill Gunn
Best English-Friendly:
Kino Lorber or MoC OOP Blu-ray
Best Video:
Kino Lorber or MoC OOP Blu-ray, no comparison available
Director: Fritz Lang
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Additional Info:
MoC > Kino Lorber, former has correct aspect ratio (and higher bitrate and looks better/less compressed) while the latter has a squished aspect ratio, see DVDBeaver for comparison
Best English-Friendly & Video:
MoC Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
Cohen Blu-ray is suspected to have incorrect gamma level, while also have a different grading than MoC see caps for gamma correction and caps-a-holic
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Video Notes:
MoC OOP Blu-ray has slightly better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray see caps
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Video Notes:
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Video Notes:
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Video Notes:
MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Best English-Friendly:
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Best Video:
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or OOP MoC Blu-ray
Video Notes:
Kino Lorber Blu-ray or OOP MoC Blu-ray have different grading see caps
Additional Info:
Subjective, but the concertina score by Bernard Wrigley on the OOP MoC Blu-ray is generally regarded as very weak. For example, it frequently doesn't match the action. The Meg Morley score on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray is considered superior.
5 for audio only
The best audio is Masters of Cinema's; the video and English-friendly picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating
Director: Leo McCarey
Best Audio:
MoC Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Best Audio:
Only the MoC edition has the Gaylord Carter organ score from the old VHS/LaserDisc release while Criterion has only the orchestral score by Robert Israel and electronic/percussion score by Alloy Orchestra.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: John Ford
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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