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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: Costa-Gavras

Best English-Friendly:

Spain Resen Blu-ray (Bootleg) or Criterion DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France ARTE

Video Notes:

France ARTE has Costa-Gavras Coffret boxset Germany/Spain also have releases

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: Glauber Rocha

Best Video:

DVD

Director: Haskell Wexler

Best 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: Jean-Pierre Melville

4K · Solid

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: Barry Mahon

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

SD: OOP Something Weird DVD

HD: Amazon Prime Streaming (with RiffTrax commentary)

Best Audio:

OOP Something Weird DVD

Directors: Robert M. Fresco & Denis Sanders

Best Video:

National Archives DVD

Director: Madeline Anderson

Best Video:

Icarus Films OOP DVD

Director: Claude Chabrol

Best Video:

UK Arrow DVD

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Sources: tv.apple.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Germany iTunes

Video Notes:

Germany iTunes has HD streaming, otherwise DVD only

Director: Michael Sarne

Best Video:

Fox 2018 DVD

Director: Michael Verhoeven

Best Video:

Germany Filmmuseum DVD

Director: Basil Dearden

Best Audio:

Universal PAL DVD

Audio Notes:

(caveat: it's missing a minute of footage, plus usual PAL speed-up)

All Blu-ray tracks originate from the same transfer, but with strong noise gating and terrible EQ, adding a compensatory bass and treble boost, sounding boomy and accentuating the hiss despite less detail.

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Japan

Video Notes:

Japan and France have Blu-ray

Director: Mike Hodges

4K · Excellent
Best Video:

BFI 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2000 R1 WB DVD (slightly)

Director: Tunç Başaran

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Director: George Lucas

Best Video:

Original US cut, European cut, and Italian cut: 35mm scans

1977 reissue cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc

2004 George Lucas director's cut: Warner Bros Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original US cut, European cut, and Italian cut: 35mm scans

1977 reissue cut: Warner Bros LaserDisc

2004 George Lucas director's cut: Warner Bros DVD

Director: Dušan Makavejev

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Ken Russell

Best English-Friendly:

BFI DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

4K restoration of the director's cut to be screened in October

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