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172 Films

BFI

172 Included Films

The British Film Institute, also a UK label

Aliases: bfi

Type: Label/Studio/Platform

Suspense. poster
Letterboxd
1080p Blu-ray
Best Video:

No comparison available, three options:

Best Video:

No comparison available, three options:

Kid Auto Races at Venice poster
Letterboxd
DVD
Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley or BFI Chaplin at Keystone DVD

Best Video:

Flicker Alley or BFI Chaplin at Keystone DVD restoration conflation of two 35mm nitrate prints held by the BFI, see silentera

Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley or BFI Chaplin at Keystone DVD

Best Video:

Flicker Alley or BFI Chaplin at Keystone DVD restoration conflation of two 35mm nitrate prints held by the BFI, see silentera

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Twilight Time Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Twilight Time Blu-ray

The Immigrant poster
Letterboxd
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxset

Best Video:

BFI or Flicker Alley Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxsets use the same restoration, no comparison available

Additional Info:

BFI Blu-ray has commentaries while Flicker Alley doesn't

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxset

Best Video:

BFI or Flicker Alley Charlie Chaplin Mutual Comedies Blu-ray boxsets use the same restoration, no comparison available

Additional Info:

BFI Blu-ray has commentaries while Flicker Alley doesn't

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset is much better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray boxset

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset is much better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray boxset

Ten Nights in a Bar Room poster
Letterboxd
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray 

Best Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber boxset

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray 

Best Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber boxset

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

MoC and BFI differing restorations and scores

Best Video:

2006 Restoration: Eureka Blu-ray
1995 photochemical restoration: BFI Blu-ray that some may prefer

Best Audio:

Eureka with Murnau institute restoration featuring score based on original score, BFI uses Photoplay restoration with James Bernard score

Additional Info:

Both Eureka and BFI BDs are worthy of owning. Each restoration has unique positives and extras. The James Bernard score on the BFI is outstanding and the image tinting is different to how the Murnau institute official restoration was done. The Eureka MOC BD is stuffed with extras and remains one of the best made BDs of all time. Whatever you do: AVOID THE KINO BD!!! It uses the same Murnau institute restoration but drops frames for the whole feature-thus it loses a significant portion of the film! This was never acknowledged or addressed. The Kino BD remains one of the worst BDs of all time for this reason.

Nosferatu poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

MoC and BFI differing restorations and scores

Best Video:

2006 Restoration: Eureka Blu-ray
1995 photochemical restoration: BFI Blu-ray that some may prefer

Best Audio:

Eureka with Murnau institute restoration featuring score based on original score, BFI uses Photoplay restoration with James Bernard score

Additional Info:

Both Eureka and BFI BDs are worthy of owning. Each restoration has unique positives and extras. The James Bernard score on the BFI is outstanding and the image tinting is different to how the Murnau institute official restoration was done. The Eureka MOC BD is stuffed with extras and remains one of the best made BDs of all time. Whatever you do: AVOID THE KINO BD!!! It uses the same Murnau institute restoration but drops frames for the whole feature-thus it loses a significant portion of the film! This was never acknowledged or addressed. The Kino BD remains one of the worst BDs of all time for this reason.

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray is slightly superior to BFI but Criterion is 1080i and BFI is 1080p see caps 

Criterion also only has English intertitles while BFI has both

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray is slightly superior to BFI but Criterion is 1080i and BFI is 1080p see caps 

Criterion also only has English intertitles while BFI has both

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

2012 BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

The 2025 BFI Blu-ray isn't a new remaster, and itonly has a Pet Shop Boys score. it's somehow more cropped than the 2012 BFI Blu-ray.

See caps https://slow.pics/c/MaYpZjsV 2012 BFI Blu-ray > 2025 BFI Blu-ray (cropping) > 2010 Kino Lorber Blu-ray (worse PQ)

For the length it's also different and not just intros:

  • BFI 2025: 1:15:06

  • BFI 2012: 1:08:49

  • Kino Lorber: 1:12:12 the Russian intertitles playlist is 1:11:48

Best English-Friendly:

2012 BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

The 2025 BFI Blu-ray isn't a new remaster, and itonly has a Pet Shop Boys score. it's somehow more cropped than the 2012 BFI Blu-ray.

See caps https://slow.pics/c/MaYpZjsV 2012 BFI Blu-ray > 2025 BFI Blu-ray (cropping) > 2010 Kino Lorber Blu-ray (worse PQ)

For the length it's also different and not just intros:

  • BFI 2025: 1:15:06

  • BFI 2012: 1:08:49

  • Kino Lorber: 1:12:12 the Russian intertitles playlist is 1:11:48

1080p Blu-ray
Best Video:

France Pathé Blu-ray, 4k resto. It has both original negative image cut (not tinted) and a first gen tinted cut owned by BFI but not English-friendly

The Crazy Ray poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best Video:

France Pathé Blu-ray, 4k resto. It has both original negative image cut (not tinted) and a first gen tinted cut owned by BFI but not English-friendly

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray or OOP fixed Image Entertainment Blu-ray

Best Video:

1925 silent version: BFI Blu-ray for HD reconstruction (complete 1925 print is lost)
1929 silent version: OOP fixed Image Entertainment Blu-ray

1930 sound version: 2003 Image Entertainment DVD (excellent transfer, but severely compromised by indiscriminate over-use of the restoration process)

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray or OOP fixed Image Entertainment Blu-ray

Best Video:

1925 silent version: BFI Blu-ray for HD reconstruction (complete 1925 print is lost)
1929 silent version: OOP fixed Image Entertainment Blu-ray

1930 sound version: 2003 Image Entertainment DVD (excellent transfer, but severely compromised by indiscriminate over-use of the restoration process)

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

No comparison between Milestone (Kino Lorber) and BFI but Milestone has a lot of shorts

Best Video:

No comparison between Milestone (Kino Lorber) and BFI but Milestone has a lot of shorts

Best English-Friendly:

No comparison between Milestone (Kino Lorber) and BFI but Milestone has a lot of shorts

Best Video:

No comparison between Milestone (Kino Lorber) and BFI but Milestone has a lot of shorts

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray (sold through Kino Lorber in US)

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray (sold through Kino Lorber in US)

DVD
Best English-Friendly:

BFI DVD

Best Video:

BFI PAL DVD is likely the original source, especially considering Kino Lorber DVD is PAL converted to NTSC.
See https://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=36341 

Best English-Friendly:

BFI DVD

Best Video:

BFI PAL DVD is likely the original source, especially considering Kino Lorber DVD is PAL converted to NTSC.
See https://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=36341 

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

Eureka Blu-ray has better encode than Flicker Alley Blu-ray. Kino Lorber/BFI are older restoration and are worse.

Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

Eureka Blu-ray has better encode than Flicker Alley Blu-ray. Kino Lorber/BFI are older restoration and are worse.

Hell-Bound Train poster
Letterboxd
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray 

Best Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber boxset

Library of Congress also have an official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2021604059/

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray 

Best Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber boxset

Library of Congress also have an official HD Streaming https://www.loc.gov/item/2021604059/

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray or unreleased 4K restoration

Best Video:

4k transfer, no disc https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/films/lage-dor/ 

L'Âge d'or poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray or unreleased 4K restoration

Best Video:

4k transfer, no disc https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/films/lage-dor/ 

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

BFI vs Criterion?

Best Video:

BFI and Criterion same HD resto, no comparisons

Best English-Friendly:

BFI vs Criterion?

Best Video:

BFI and Criterion same HD resto, no comparisons

No, No, Nanette poster
Letterboxd
No Home Media
Best Video:

According to the George Eastman Museum 2015 Book "The Dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935", the BFI National Archive holds a 35mm incomplete nitrate print 160 ft.

Best Video:

According to the George Eastman Museum 2015 Book "The Dawn of Technicolor, 1915-1935", the BFI National Archive holds a 35mm incomplete nitrate print 160 ft.

172 films

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