Blu-ray

3065 films on Best Blurays

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Best releases · 3065

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

They Drive by Night (1940)

Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.5

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.4

The Great McGinty (1940)

Director: Preston Sturges

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is 4K restoration, no comparison with Elephant Films France

3.5

I Love You Again (1940)

Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Best English-Friendly:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray 4K restoration

3.6

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.7

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Director: Boris Ingster

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Rhythm on the River (1940)

Director: Victor Schertzinger

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Director: Dorothy Arzner

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray 4K transfer

3.5

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Director: Busby Berkeley

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.3

The Great Dictator (1940)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Germany Kinowelt Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray and Germany Kinowelt Blu-ray are similar

Audio Notes:

Kadokawa/MK2/Park Circus/Artificial Eye probably even better

4.3

Christmas in July (1940)

Director: Preston Sturges

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray, new 4K master

3.7

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Explosive Media Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray not only suffers from Quicktime Gamma Bug, but also has slightly worse encoding see caps comparing 0.88 gamma

3.7

Arise, My Love (1940)

Director: Mitchell Leisen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.5

Fantasia (1940)

Directors: Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield & Wilfred Jackson & Ben Sharpsteen & James Algar & T. Hee & Hamilton Luske & Samuel Armstrong & Jim Handley & Norman Ferguson & David Hand & Ford Beebe Jr.

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Censored: 2010 Disney Blu-ray
Uncensored: 35mm Scan

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

See caps of Blu-ray vs DVD

Best Audio:

1991 CAV LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

1991 CAV LaserDisc includes an approximation of the original Fantasound mix in Dolby Surround using the surviving magnetic mixdown, using Stokowski's original mixing notes as a reference. Original aggressive pans and dynamic range are left in tact.

The 2000 DVD uses this same mix in discrete 5.0, but with some unnecessary dynamic range compression + a redub of all Deems Taylor audio with Corey Burton.

The 7.1 mix on the 2010 Blu-ray sounds poor, having been hit with excessive noise reduction, dynamic range compression, original aggressive pans no longer in tact, and the channel usage no longer resembles Stokowski's original intended sound design.