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Olive Films

23 films on Best Blurays

Based in United StatesFounded 2003

Farhad Arshad started Olive Films in 2003 in St. Charles, outside Chicago, and the label stopped operating in July 2023. It licensed deep catalogue from Paramount, Republic and MGM, putting out obscure classics, B-westerns and noirs on DVD and Blu-ray, many for the first time on home video, usually as bare-bones discs in the original aspect ratio. The pricier Olive Signature line added restorations and extras.

Aliases: olive, olive films

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Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Olive Films Blu-ray OOP

Director: Dave Fleischer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films  Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray

Director: Tay Garnett

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: Sam Wood

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Directors: Owen Crump & John Huston

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: John Huston

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: Sam Wood

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: John Huston

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: Frank Borzage

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Amazon US HD Streaming

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

Video Notes:

Amazon US HD Streaming is from the 2018 UCLA restoration. Olive Films Blu-ray is from an older scan and quite rough. caps

Best Audio:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Olive Films Blu-ray is again rough, with distortion, crackle and other issues, but sounds much more natural. With some EQ the restored track can be significantly improved

Director: Jean Renoir

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: John Huston

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: André de Toth

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Sources: cinema.ucla.edu (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

New UCLA restoration from Original Camera Negative

Director: William A. Seiter

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: Max Ophüls

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

2017 Olive Films Signature Blu-ray

English-Friendly Notes:

(Jokers 4K Blu-ray has forced France subs)

Best Video:

The Jokers 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

The Jokers 4K Blu-ray has raised black levels/gamma issue, good when fixed

Best Audio:

1992 Republic Pictures LaserDisc

Director: Douglas Sirk

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: David Miller

Best English-Friendly:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Olive Films Blu-ray or France Rimini Blu-ray but no comparison, likely from the same source

Director: Michael Gordon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films OOP Blu-ray

Director: Don Siegel

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or 2018 Olive Films/BFI or 2012 Olive Films/Italy Sinister Films Blu-ray

English-Friendly Notes:

All three are not ideal.

Video Notes:

All three are not ideal.

  • Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has frozen grain, sharpening, lots of debris, and handles lesser materials. The supposed non-Superscope version is false advertising. It merely reveals more picture information. 

Best Audio:

1992 Republic Pictures LaserDisc PCM Mono

Additional Info:

Criterion LaserDisc has exclusive commentary. Olive Films Signature Blu-ray and BFI Blu-ray each have exclusive extras. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has exclusive commentary.

Director: Frank Capra

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Olive Films Blu-ray

Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Best Video:

All Blu-ray are OOP and no comparisons available

US Olive Films or France Rimini or Germany vocomo

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