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How we pick the best MoMA releases

The New York museum's Film Library, started in 1935, is the oldest film archive in the world and holds more than 30,000 films, restored at its Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center. Rather than selling discs, MoMA licenses its restorations, often of American silents with their original tints, to labels such as Kino Lorber, and some appear first as festival screenings or HD streams.

How we pick the best MoMA releases

Directors: Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

HD Streaming

Best Video:

HD Streaming from new MoMA 4K restoration

4 announced

MoMA's release is announced; until it is out, the picks are other releases · by Letterboxd rating

Director: Victor Sjöström

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Blu-ray 

  • New 4K digital restoration of the 1928 theatrical-release version, preserved and digitally restored by the MoMA, with original soundtrack

  • New 2K digital restoration of the 1983 variable-frame-rate version, with a score by Carl Davis

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Upcoming Release:

In 2021, a 4K restoration was premiered by MoMA which has yet to receive home video release.

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Retroformat HD Streaming

Director: D.W. Griffith

Upcoming Release:

New digitized edition of MoMA’s definitive 1979 photochemical restoration, no release yet https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11556

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Mastered in HD from the Museum of Modern Art's 35mm restoration, with original color tints

Director: Raoul Walsh

Upcoming Release:

New restoration by MoMA and Film Foundation https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11558 no release yet

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Grapevine OOP Blu-ray

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