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Radiance

41 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 14 in 4K27 in HD4 more announced

Best 4K release by tier:
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Based in United KingdomFounded 2022radiancefilms.co.uk (opens in a new tab)

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

Francesco Simeoni, Arrow's director of content for twelve years, set up this UK label in 2022 to release library titles on Blu-ray, from art-house films to genre classics. Discs are sold in the UK and, through a distribution deal with MVD, in North America, with on-disc extras and booklets of new and archival writing. Transmission, an imprint launched in 2025, issues cult films in new 4K restorations.

Also known as: Transmission

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

Il Sorpasso (1962)

Director: Dino Risi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Italy Cecchi Gori DVD/Netherlands Homescreen DVD

4.3

Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989)

TV series

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

4.2

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

Director: Luis Buñuel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Radiance Blu-ray is new 4K restoration

4.2

Il Posto (1961)

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

4.2

La Terra Trema (1948)

Director: Luchino Visconti

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

4.0

L'Amour fou (1969)

Director: Jacques Rivette

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

4.0

Simon of the Desert (1965)

Director: Luis Buñuel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

4.0

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

Director: Elio Petri

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

4.0

Häxan (1922)

Director: Benjamin Christensen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Radiance Blu-ray or OOP Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

France Potemkine Blu-ray has exclusive extras and scores

4.0

Senso (1954)

Director: Luchino Visconti

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

3.8

Rapture (1979)

Director: Iván Zulueta

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Altered Innocence vs Radiance Blu-ray?

3.8

The Eel (1997)

Director: Shōhei Imamura

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Radiance Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

Radiance Blu-ray is the same as R2J DVD https://slow.pics/c/Cg7bPY18

3.8

A Gentle Woman (1969)

Director: Robert Bresson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Upcoming Radiance Blu-ray is the only Blu-ray so far, although it's only an HD transfer, not 4K like other recent Bresson releases

3.8

Deadly Circuit (1983)

Director: Claude Miller

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Radiance UK Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Radiance UK Blu-ray (caps)

3.5

The House Is Black (1963)

Director: Forugh Farrokhzad

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio Blu-ray

Yokohama BJ Blues (1981)

Director: Eiichi Kudō

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

What Happened Was... (1994)

Director: Tom Noonan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Radiance Blu-ray (caps)

4K restoration from the Original Camera Negative

Suzhou River (2000)

Director: Lou Ye

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Radiance Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Caps and more caps. In addition, note that the US Strand Blu-ray is erroneously presented at 30 fps.

Best Audio:

(Maybe) Taiwan Welcome Music Blu-ray: OG mono mix

Audio Notes:

All other Blu-rays feature the 5.1 remix only. Per the technical information on page 22 here, new foleys and effects were added to the remix.

Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)

Director: Jacques Rivette

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Video Notes:

FiM encoded, 4K restoration for both theatrical and director's version

The Brick and the Mirror (1966)

Director: Ebrahim Golestan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio Blu-ray

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