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3065 films on Best Blurays

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

Director: Edwin L. Marin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from technicolor negatives

Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: John Sturges

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Richard Thorpe

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice

Best Audio:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono

Audio Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.

Additional Info:

The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.

Director: Anthony Mann

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Abraham Polonsky

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is significantly worse with potential DNR see caps

OOP Olive Films Blu-ray seems to be the same transfer as Arrow but with Quicktime Gamma Bug see comparison

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · 2019.tiff-jp.net (opens in a new tab) · web.nhk (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2015 BFI Blu-ray

Best Audio:

BFI Blu-ray, Kadokawa Blu-ray

Additional Info:

(A 4K restoration was shown 2019-2021-2025, but no signs of a home video release so far)

Director: Charles Walters

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Ida Lupino

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

HD restoration by Paramount from a 4K scan of the 35mm fine grain

Director: Jean Cocteau

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

BFI

Video Notes:

BFI > Criterion

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Fox Blu-ray better encode than Criterion Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2003 Fox DVD

Audio Notes:

2003 Fox DVD slightly better

Directors: Compton Bennett & Andrew Marton

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Roy Rowland

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Michael Gordon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Olive Films OOP Blu-ray

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Directors: Federico Fellini & Alberto Lattuada

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Essential Fellini Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Luis Buñuel

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

DVD 

Sources: film-foundation.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Japan IVC Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Japan IVC Blu-ray but not English-friendly

Film Foundation has 4k restoration https://www.film-foundation.org/world-cinema but no EN-friendly release yet

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Director: George Cukor

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

4K Streaming

Best Video:

4K Streaming, Spain Sony Blu-ray, OOP UK Arrow Blu-ray, or OOP US Twilight Time Blu-ray

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