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3065 films on Best Blurays

Type: Format

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

Director: Jacques Rivette

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 2k transfer

Director: Robert Taylor

Best English-Friendly:

Scorpion Blu-ray

Director: Martin Scorsese

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray Scorsese Shorts

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Joseph Sargent

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray is a port of 2000 MGM DVD and superior to Kino Lorber. LaserDisc likely minimally better.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Brian De Palma

Best English-Friendly:

Arrow Blu-ray

Best Video:

Arrow

Video Notes:

Arrow > Shout! Factory

Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly:

Likely Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Germany Plaion Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparisons available, but from online reviews and other Billy Wilder releases, Germany Plaion Blu-ray is likely better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Director: Ralph Steiner

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray

TV series

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Director: John Cassavetes

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray or BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion = BFI, both HD resto: source

Director: Chantal Akerman

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion boxset

Director: Guy Hamilton

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

4K Streaming

Sources: 007homemedia.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

4K Streaming SDR master on streaming seems to look quite a bit better than the Blu-ray

MGM Blu-ray is the best physical media release

Caps of the 4K SDR master: 007 on Home Media: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Best Audio:

MGM 1993 LaserDisc

Director: John Guillermin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Fox Blu-ray

Video Notes:

US Fox Blu-ray > International Warner Bros

Director: Mel Brooks

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Director: Jacques Tati

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Paramount 2008 Blu-ray Coppola Restoration

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

The Paramount 4K "restoration" is a desecration. It has completely revisionist color timing, harsh HDR, treatment of stock footage, bad encoding, selective DNR and grain management so bad that the entire screen frequently freezes up with only characters moving around in grain soup. It is so bad that the film's restorer Robert Harris publicly washed his hands of it saying essentially the 2007 restoration (with Willis and Coppola supervising) is how the film was intended and made. This is Paramount's modern version done their way. The new 1080p SDR Blu-rays in print are the crap 4K desecration master with the same problems still there just harder to spot and with crap encodes. Part II overall fares better than the first film but it has all the same problems. Randomly some shots are the worst in the trilogy looks mushy and manipulated to death.
The mono option is an unnecessarily processed version of the lossy mono from the 2008 Blu-ray. The 2008 Blu-ray of the 2007 Coppola Restoration while an imperfect outdated disc is LIGHT YEARS better than this 4K desecration. The only truly major issue is that it is very slightly redder than the 2007 finished master as seen on DCPs. The lossy mono on the 2008 Blu-ray is the best version of the original mix known to exist as it is better than the late 80's mastering for VHS and LaserDisc.
DFIC review of the hideous crap 4K Blu-rays: https://youtu.be/0uw6-Kcy_UA?si=ob1nDg0wTCvemjH0

Director: Peter Davis

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

HD restoration supervised by Peter Davis and Richard Pearce

Director: Richard Rush

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: Sydney Pollack

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Director: John Waters

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

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