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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: John Hentz

Best Video:

NFL Films The Legends Of Autumn DVD

Director: Pietro Germi

Video format: DVD

Best Video:

Italy Orizzonti DVD

Video Notes:

Italy Orizzonti DVD is likely a legit release

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo

Best English-Friendly:

UK Cult Films Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2021 StudioCanal France Blu-ray

Video Notes:

2021 StudioCanal France Blu-ray has best encoding of the three (France/UK/Italy) that use the 4K restoration

Best Audio:

Italy DVD?

Directors: Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey

Best Video & Audio:

RaroVideo DVD

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Best Video:

DVD only

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best Video:

2022 BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2003 Tartan UK DVD

Directors: Bill Jersey & Barbara Connell

Best Video:

Docurama OOP DVD

Sources: filmpreservation.org (opens in a new tab) · pbs.org (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Also available on NFPF official SD Streaming https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/a-time-for-burning-1966 which has better compression than PBS "HD" Streaming

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Potemkine

Video Notes:

Potemkine has Blu-ray, not sure how good

Director: Glauber Rocha

Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only, no restoration ongoing

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Original: 35mm scans or Disney LaserDisc (1.33:1 open matte)

Restored: Disney Limited Issue DVD (1.33:1 open matte)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Later Disney DVDs and Blu-ray are altered

Best Audio:

35mm scans or Disney LaserDisc

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

4K · Excellent

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

& Pathé 4K Blu-ray have different gradings (preference). Opening scene on Criterion looks significantly worse, but similar elsewhere.

Best Audio:

2024 Criterion 4K Blu-ray/2017 Criterion Blu-ray/2005 Criterion DVD

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

4K · Solid
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1999 R1 WB DVD/2005 R2 WB DVD

Director: Michael Snow

Best Video:

Re:Voir DVD

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Ingmar Bergman set, 2k scan

Best Audio:

2008 France Opening DVD

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent

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

Video Notes:

Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering; WB 4K early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed. Comparison between Criterion and WB.

Best Audio:

6-Track 70mm mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set), 1997 MGM LaserDisc, 1998 MGM DVD
35mm Mono Mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Matrixed Stereo Remix: MGM Japan LaserDisc (1985) [G158F5509]
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Roman Polanski

4K · Disappointing
Best Video:

Paramount disappointing 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1998 Paramount LaserDisc or 2004 R2 Paramount DVD

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 2k transfer

Best Audio:

2004 MGM DVD

Directors: Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas

Best Video:

Trigon Film DVD

Sources: tiff.net (opens in a new tab)

Director: Shadi Abdel Salam

Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD for the 2009 restoration

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