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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: Ken Jacobs

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Ken Jacobs Collection, Vol. 1 Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Ken Jacobs Collection, Vol. 1 Blu-ray is a new MoMA 2K restoration

Directors: David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin & Albert Maysles

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Boxset Blu-ray

Director: Peter Collinson

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

UK Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK Paramount 4K Blu-ray has good colours, but worse encode and no mono track. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has bad colours but better encode and mono track.

Video Notes:

(preference)

Best Audio:

2002 R2 Paramount DVD/2009 Paramount Blu-ray/2023 Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

Director: Éric Rohmer

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Rohmer Potemkine set

Video Notes:

Rohmer Potemkine set vs Criterion set?

Best Audio:

Netherlands 2006 Homescreen DVD

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Plaion Germany Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Includes Director's Cut and Roadshow Version

Same master as old WB Blu-ray but better encoding

Director: Robert Downey Sr.

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Indicator Blu-ray or US Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

UK Indicator Blu-ray or US Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray no comparison available but both from the same Academy 4K restoration

Director: Jim O'Connolly

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Gordon Parks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Haskell Wexler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray is slightly better than MoC Blu-ray: while both are from a 4K restoration approved by director, MoC is more sharpened but gamma is flatter see caps

Best Audio:

Paramount DVD and potentially Paramount LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

Paramount DVD and potentially Paramount LaserDisc see blah-ray

Criterion and MoC Blu-ray has the same audio, and additional (destructive) hiss reduction was applied, and one segment was made significantly louder.

Also, every home video release except the 1982 Paramount VHS cassette replaces Wild Man Fischer's 'Merry-Go-Round' in the roller derby scene with a version of 'Sweet Georgia Brown' by Brother Bones. Two very different songs, and one must assume that the tone of the scene has changed considerably

Director: Robert Bresson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Upcoming Radiance Blu-ray is the only Blu-ray so far, although it's only an HD transfer, not 4K like other recent Bresson releases

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2007 Criterion DVD/2011 StudioCanal Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

2017 StudioCanal Blu-ray might(?) be the same.

Director: Toshio Matsumoto

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2014 King Records Blu-ray

TV series

Best English-Friendly:

US Milestone vs UK Arrow Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Milestone vs UK Arrow Blu-ray or no comparison

Director: Federico Fellini

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Eureka MoC slightly better than Criterion

Director: Sergei Parajanov

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Second Sight Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

But Ritrovata yellow across all BDs

Director: Don Taylor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Director: Luchino Visconti

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion resto bad? but no other BDs

Director: Sydney Pollack

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

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