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The Criterion Collection

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Pinkus's Shoe Palace poster

3.0

Pinkus's Shoe Palace (1916)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion To Be or Not To Be Blu-ray extras

Best Video:

Criterion To Be or Not to Be Blu-ray extras

Pinkus's Shoe Palace poster

Pinkus's Shoe Palace (1916)

3.0

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion To Be or Not To Be Blu-ray extras

Best Video:

Criterion To Be or Not to Be Blu-ray extras

The Kid poster

4.2

Director: Charlie Chaplin

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

1921 version: Image Entertainment DVD

1972 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

1921 version: Image Entertainment DVD

1972 version: Criterion Blu-ray

The Kid poster

4.2

Director: Charlie Chaplin

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

1921 version: Image Entertainment DVD

1972 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

1921 version: Image Entertainment DVD

1972 version: Criterion Blu-ray

The Phantom Carriage poster

4.1

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Director: Victor Sjöström

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion HD transfer

The Phantom Carriage poster

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

4.1

Director: Victor Sjöström

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion HD transfer

Häxan poster

4.0

Director: Benjamin Christensen

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

UK Radiance Blu-ray or OOP Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK Radiance Blu-ray or OOP Criterion Blu-ray

Additional Info:

France Potemkine Blu-ray has exclusive extras and scores

Häxan poster

4.0

Director: Benjamin Christensen

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

UK Radiance Blu-ray or OOP Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK Radiance Blu-ray or OOP Criterion Blu-ray

Additional Info:

France Potemkine Blu-ray has exclusive extras and scores

Safety Last! poster

4.1

Safety Last! (1923)

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray, 2K transfer

Safety Last! poster

Safety Last! (1923)

4.1

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray, 2K transfer

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate poster

3.5

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD. 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate poster

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)

3.5

Director: Charlie Chaplin

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD. 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Looking for Sally poster

Looking for Sally (1925)

Director: Leo McCarey

1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Love Affair Blu-ray 1080i extras

Looking for Sally poster

Looking for Sally (1925)

Director: Leo McCarey

1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Love Affair Blu-ray 1080i extras

The Freshman poster

3.8

The Freshman (1925)

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

The Freshman poster

The Freshman (1925)

3.8

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Master of the House poster

3.6

Master of the House (1925)

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray is slightly superior to BFI but Criterion is 1080i and BFI is 1080p see caps

Criterion also only has English intertitles while BFI has both

Master of the House poster

Master of the House (1925)

3.6

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray is slightly superior to BFI but Criterion is 1080i and BFI is 1080p see caps

Criterion also only has English intertitles while BFI has both

Mighty Like a Moose poster

3.5

Mighty Like a Moose (1926)

Director: Leo McCarey

1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Love Affair Blu-ray 1080i extras

Mighty Like a Moose poster

Mighty Like a Moose (1926)

3.5

Director: Leo McCarey

1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Love Affair Blu-ray 1080i extras

For Heaven's Sake poster

3.7

For Heaven's Sake (1926)

Director: Sam Taylor

HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion HD Streaming on Apple TV or Fandago at Home

Best Video:

Criterion HD Streaming on Apple TV or Fandago at Home, no Blu-ray available

For Heaven's Sake poster

For Heaven's Sake (1926)

3.7

Director: Sam Taylor

HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion HD Streaming on Apple TV or Fandago at Home

Best Video:

Criterion HD Streaming on Apple TV or Fandago at Home, no Blu-ray available

Underworld poster

3.8

Underworld (1927)

Director: Josef von Sternberg

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Underworld poster

Underworld (1927)

3.8

Director: Josef von Sternberg

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

The Kid Brother poster

3.8

The Kid Brother (1927)

Director: Ted Wilde

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray, 4K restoration

The Kid Brother poster

The Kid Brother (1927)

3.8

Director: Ted Wilde

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray, 4K restoration

The Unknown poster

3.8

The Unknown (1927)

Director: Tod Browning

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers boxset, 2k resto

The Unknown poster

The Unknown (1927)

3.8

Director: Tod Browning

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers boxset, 2k resto

Speedy poster

3.8

Director: Ted Wilde

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Speedy poster

3.8

Director: Ted Wilde

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

The Last Command poster

4.0

The Last Command (1928)

Director: Josef von Sternberg

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray although MoC OOP Blu-ray looks similar, it's likely slightly worse

Best Audio:

Only the MoC edition has the Gaylord Carter organ score from the old VHS/LaserDisc release while Criterion has only the orchestral score by Robert Israel and electronic/percussion score by Alloy Orchestra.

The Last Command poster

The Last Command (1928)

4.0

Director: Josef von Sternberg

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray although MoC OOP Blu-ray looks similar, it's likely slightly worse

Best Audio:

Only the MoC edition has the Gaylord Carter organ score from the old VHS/LaserDisc release while Criterion has only the orchestral score by Robert Israel and electronic/percussion score by Alloy Orchestra.

The Docks of New York poster

3.8

The Docks of New York (1928)

Director: Josef von Sternberg

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

The Docks of New York poster

The Docks of New York (1928)

3.8

Director: Josef von Sternberg

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

The Circus poster

4.1

The Circus (1928)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

1928 version: Image Entertainment DVD

1969 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

1928 version: Image Entertainment DVD
1969 version: Criterion Blu-ray > UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver caps. Japan Kadokawa Blu-ray is the same as AE BD and inferior to Criterion too

The Circus poster

The Circus (1928)

4.1

Director: Charlie Chaplin

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

1928 version: Image Entertainment DVD

1969 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

1928 version: Image Entertainment DVD
1969 version: Criterion Blu-ray > UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray, see DVDBeaver caps. Japan Kadokawa Blu-ray is the same as AE BD and inferior to Criterion too

Lonesome poster

3.8

Lonesome (1928)

Director: Pál Fejős

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Lonesome poster

Lonesome (1928)

3.8

Director: Pál Fejős

1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Two Timid Souls poster

Two Timid Souls (1928)

Director: René Clair

1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Japan has 4k restoration in Blu-ray but no EN subs

Janus acquired the rights so hopefully a Criterion release some day

Two Timid Souls poster

Two Timid Souls (1928)

Director: René Clair

1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Japan has 4k restoration in Blu-ray but no EN subs

Janus acquired the rights so hopefully a Criterion release some day

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