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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: Richard Brooks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray (caps)

Kadokawa JP Blu-ray has incorrect levels and looks slightly washed out. Criterion has slightly worse encoding, but both are solid in that regard.

Best Audio:

Eureka MoC DVD

Additional Info:

MoC has a different translation from Criterion.

Director: Stanley Donen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Walter Lang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Director: Jean Renoir

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray (flawed restoration)

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Best Video & Audio:

BFI or Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(both from the same flawed restoration)

Additional Info:

The BFI and Gaumont Blu-ray releases are both from the same restoration by Éclair. Although this restoration is much superior in detail to the old Criterion DVD, like many Éclair restorations, it has issues with colour. There is a definite yellow cast to the footage, making skin tones appear sickly and dampening the impact of the colour. The image is also murkier than the Criterion. 

As Renoir scholar Tag Gallagher notes: "I talked a lot toward the end about the light blue walls (Criterion); but when I got the BFI blu I was greatly deflated, because the walls are light gray!"

That said, as visible in the screen caps at DVD Beaver, the Criterion has compromised colour too, and often looks too blue/magenta. There is a regraded edition of the BFI Blu-ray out there on the high seas.

The audio on the Blu-ray releases is slightly compressed, but better than earlier DVD releases and relatively full frequency.

The BFI is most likely the best English-friendly release as it includes English subtitles for the bonus features.

Director: Shirley Clarke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Milestone The Magic Box Blu-ray

Director: John Ford

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection

Director: John Sturges

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Mikio Naruse

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

WCL China Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France Coin Germany mire Cinema 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(not English friendly)

Best Audio:

Arrow Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Arrow Blu-ray is the less manipulated track, but according to cbc: "I find it sounds a bit shrill at times, and the 4K Blu-ray is not bad at all, it does lose some high freq detail but I would probably prefer it for watching"

Director: Raoul Walsh

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: John Sturges

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Roy Rowland

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Lee Sholem

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Director: Delbert Mann

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 2022 4K restoration Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 2022 4K restoration Blu-ray although it's still using the incorrect 1.37:1 aspect ratio, see Robert Furmanek's from 3D Film Archive's comment
Otherwise, the new restoration is better in PQ than older releases: https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=17660&d2=15881&s1=198260&s2=168249&i=0&l=0 

Director: Robert Aldrich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

HD transfer slightly better than Carlotta

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Director: Luis Buñuel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US VCI Blu-ray or UK Second Run Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

US VCI Blu-ray or UK Second Run Blu-ray share the same 4K restoration transfer and look essentially the same see caps

Best Audio:

2001 R2 Films Sans Frontières DVD

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