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1046 films on Best Blurays

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Films where DVD is in a pick or an upcoming release.

Director: Kon Ichikawa

Best Video:

Criterion/BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2010 R4 Madman DVD

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2022 BFI Boxset Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Tartan DVD, Criterion DVD

Director: Federico Fellini

4K · Excellent

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Image Entertainment DVD

Audio Notes:

Image Entertainment DVD is slightly better than Criterion 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD (all basically the same)
Other Blu-ray releases are all much worse.

Director: Jack Smith

Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

New Yorker DVD

Best Video:

No Blu-ray

Director: Joseph Losey

4K · Excellent

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Alternative: Universal DVD

Director: Elia Kazan

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

Streaming or DVD

Director: Emile de Antonio

Best Video:

New Yorker DVD

Video Notes:

New Yorker DVD also available on streaming platforms sometimes

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Director: George Pal

Sources: mega.nz (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

Best Audio:

Warner Bros NTSC DVD

Audio Notes:

The old DVD's track has significantly better detail compared to BD, especially on the score. The BD has some extra detail on dialogue, but also exhibits strange artifacting (e.g. sample 3, 0:20) which suggests possible AI "enhancement" or some other form of aggressive filtering. In contrast, DVD appears to be completely unfiltered and sounds good throughout. Samples

As the BD is significantly rolled off, a lot of the detail (real or fabricated) is buried in the mix and not audible during normal playback.

Director: Blake Edwards

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray with audio issues

Best Audio:

MGM Letterbox LaserDisc, 2004 DVD mono, or Shout! Factory Blu-ray mono

Additional Info:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray introduces pitch issues on the mono mix. LaserDisc mono is from worn element but sounds mostly natural with possibly some attempts at noise reduction. MGM 2004 DVD mono transfer is higher quality without the wear but may have some processing applied. Shout! Factory Blu-ray is the same MGM mono now in lossless but seems to be EQ'd a bit differently. LaserDisc, DVD or Blu-ray is a toss up but those are your three options. The Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is useless due to the pitch issues. The remixes are very poor.

Director: Andy Warhol

Video format: DVD

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2003 R2 BFI DVD

Directors: Rolf Forsberg & Tom Rook

Best Video:

Vision Video DVD

Sources: visionvideo.com (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Also available on Vision Video Youtube Streaming but strongly suspect that the DVD will have much better compression than Youtube

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray > BFI. France Carlotta Blu-ray is a new, flawed 4K resto, which has heavy frozen grain

Best Audio:

1999 Image Entertainment DVD

Director: Marlen Khutsiyev

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

HD Streaming or DVD

Director: Andy Warhol

Best Video:

RaroVideo DVD

Video Notes:

RaroVideo DVD but only has 1 hour instead of the full 8 hour

Director: Harry Smith

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

2020 Criterion

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

2020 Criterion > StudioCanal > 2009 Criterion

Best Audio:

2007 StudioCanal DVD

Director: Terence Young

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain

Best Audio:

UK mix: 1984 CBS Fox VHS Hifi but missing one scene
International mix: WB 4K Blu-ray though source origin is unknown

1995 MGM stereo remix: 1998 LaserDisc and 2000 DVD fix gunbarrel dropout

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