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3064 films on Best Blurays

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Films where Blu-ray is in a pick or an upcoming release.

Director: Allan Dwan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

Video Notes:

"a full frame 35 mm fine grain positive was scanned at 4K at an historically appropriate 21 frames per second. Following this, more than 160 hours of digital clean up was completed at 2K"

Director: William A. Seiter

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Joe May

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Director: Jean Epstein

Best English-Friendly:

MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

MoC Blu-ray cmoming soon

Director: James W. Horne

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Flicker Alley Laurel & Hardy: Year Three Blu-ray

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Director: Dziga Vertov

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Video Notes:

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

Director: Pál Fejős

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Lonesome Blu-ray extra

Video Notes:

Probably the same as the Universal 4K restoration

Director: Luis Buñuel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Given that Indicator Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and Kino Lorber uses the same transfer judging from different screenshots, Indicator is most likely to be better encoded.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Via Vision or StudioCanal Blu-ray?

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray has incorrect aspect ratio for pre-2024 restorations of both silent and sound versions

Director: William Wyler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is a brand new 4K restoration from William Wyler’s personal 35mm print

Director: Richard Thorpe

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Eric Grayson Kickstarter/Dr. Film Blu-ray

Sources: kickstarter.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

See restoration details

Director: Dudley Murphy

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Cohen Syncopation Blu-ray 1080p extras

Sources: loc.gov (opens in a new tab)

Director: Frank Capra

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Frank Capra Boxset Blu-ray

Director: G.W. Pabst

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

> Kino Lorber, same restoration, but better encoding. The aspect ratio is slightly difference but not sure which is the correct one. See DVDBeaver

Director: Pál Fejős

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Lonesome Blu-ray extra

Director: George Schnéevoigt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Norway Norske Filmklassikere Blu-ray

Sources: therealmofsilence.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Norway Norske Filmklassikere Blu-ray see review by The Realm of Silence

  • Uses the same restoration from previous Flicker Alley DVD but at 16fps

  • Contains a new score based on Ole Olsen's 1893 opera Lajla , which was originally intended to be used with the film by the director George Schnéevoigt in 1929

Director: Fritz Lang

Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

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

Director: Murray Roth

Video format: DVD

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray The Jazz Singer

Video Notes:

Warner Archive Blu-ray The Jazz Singer has it included as extras on one of the DVDs

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