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Director: John S. Robertson

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray, old HD master

Director: D.W. Griffith

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: moma.org (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

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

Video Notes:

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

Director: Norbert A. Myles

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Milestone Blu-ray

Director: Oscar Micheaux

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset

Video Notes:

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

Director: Edgar Jones

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Included in Edward Lorusso Shipwrecked Kickstarter Blu-ray extras

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Best English-Friendly:

Artcraft Blu-ray

Best Video:

Artcraft Blu-ray 4K restoration encoded by FiM

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC OOP Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

MoC OOP Blu-ray has slightly better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray see caps

Director: Oscar Apfel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Pioneers of African American Cinema boxset Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

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

Director: William C. deMille

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Grapevine Blu-ray

Sources: filmforum.org (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

New 4K restoration from original nitrate print, see film forum

Director: George Melford

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Kino Lorber OOP Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber OOP Blu-ray is exactly the same restoration as the later Paramount Blu-ray, however Paramount Blu-ray runs at a much faster 24fps while Kino Lorber runs at 21fps. According to Paul Cuff's research into the correct fps and length, Kino Lorber is closest to the original 22fps by repeating frames to achieve 21fps in 24fps.

Audio Notes:
  • Kino Lorber has the same Bellon score as Paramount VHS and Paramount Blu-ray, but obviously Paramount Blu-ray runs a faster tempo due to changed fps

  • The Bellon score never uses the “Kashmiri Song” that is cited in the film’s intertitles and sung by Valentino on screen. This may well be because the intertitles of the VHS version (for which the score was composed) are from the reissue print, which changes the wording of the Sheik’s song—and thus loses the context of the original song.

  • While no substitute for a real orchestra, the theatre organ score by Ben Model for the Kino Lorber edition at least quotes the “Kashmiri Song” at the appropriate moments.

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Director: F. W. Murnau

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

MoC vs Kino Lorber Blu-ray, where Kino Lorber is supposedly a new restoration, different tint but darker and less shadow details http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_73/early_murnau_blu-ray.htm 

Director: Tod Browning

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber vs MoC Blu-ray?

Director: Rex Ingram

Best English-Friendly:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray, 4K restoration

Director: Fred Niblo

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Film Preservation Society Blu-ray

Sources: hometheaterforum.com (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Film Preservation Society Blu-ray is a newer restoration than the previous Cohen one. From various review like Robert Harris and Damn Fool Crusade this new restoration is really good.

Directors: Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray

Director: F. W. Murnau

Video format: No Home Media

Best English-Friendly:

No Blu-ray

Best Video:

No releases

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

1921 version: Image Entertainment DVD

1972 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Victor Sjöström

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion HD transfer

Director: Frank Borzage

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Undercrank Frank Borzage: 1922 Silents Blu-ray

Director: Frank Borzage

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Undercrank Frank Borzage: 1922 Silents Blu-ray

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