Spain

26 films on Best Blurays

Type: Region

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Best releases · 26

All tagged · 32

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

The Wind (1928)

Director: Victor Sjöström

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Spain DVD? Or unreleased restoration

Sources: nitrateville.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

MoMA resto no Blu-ray https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=35725

4.0

Bed of Roses (1933)

Director: Gregory La Cava

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: moma.org (opens in a new tab) · cinema.ucla.edu (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial Spain DVD

Video Notes:

MoMA has 35mm and UCLA has 16mm print

3.3

La Bête Humaine (1938)

Director: Jean Renoir

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Best Video:

StudioCanal France and Spain

Video Notes:

StudioCanal France and Spain have BDs

3.8

Adam's Rib (1949)

Director: George Cukor

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Only Spain Regasa has Blu-ray, otherwise 35mm

3.8

Born Yesterday (1950)

Director: George Cukor

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

4K Streaming

Best Video:

4K Streaming, Spain Sony Blu-ray, OOP UK Arrow Blu-ray, or OOP US Twilight Time Blu-ray

3.7

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Director: Alain Resnais

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion

Best Audio:

Spain Filmax DVD

4.2

Placido (1961)

Director: Luis García Berlanga

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Spain Divisa Blu-ray

3.8

Z (1969)

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

4.4

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)

Director: William Sterling

Best English-Friendly:

2004/2010 US Screen Media DVD

Best Video:

2010 Spain Divisa DVD (caveat: mostly cropped to 16:9)

Video Notes:

(caveat: 4:3 pan and scan transfer with no menus or subtitles)

Best Audio:

2010 Spain Divisa DVD

Additional Info:

Most US VHS and DVD releases are bootlegs that are cropped and/or of poor picture quality

3.1

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Director: Víctor Erice

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Spain Vertice Cine Blu-ray

4.2

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany)

Audio Notes:

All pre-4K BDs (Twilight Time US, Suevia Spain, Imprint Australia, Koch Media Germany) are the same, and significantly better than the 4K restoration (Shout! Factory, Arrow, Kino Lorber), and a bit better than the MGM NTSC DVD.

4.0

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Best English-Friendly:

Australia Imprint Blu-ray

Best Video:

Imprint Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Australia Imprint Blu-ray for surround Russian and English audio/Spain A Contracorriente for monaural Russian audio

Additional Info:

The Spain Blu-ray has the lossless mono mix (the main feature is not English-friendly however), alongside an exclusive conversation in English (with optional Spain subtitles)

The Japan DVD has a "It Is Wonderful to Create" documentary (though the disc is not English-friendly)

4.3

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

Director: Alan Parker

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Spain and Italy Blu-rays are bootlegs. Others listed on Blu-ray.com are placeholders don't actually exist.
2005 US DVD

HDTV stream for HD

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

4.2

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Director: Martin Brest

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly:

Paramount Spain/Italy 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Spain/Italy 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Spain/Italy 4K Blu-ray > US 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Paramount Home Video US LaserDisc [LV 1134-WS]

3.6

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Director: Gus Van Sant

Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK/Germany/Spain/Japan WB Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

UK/Germany/Spain/Japan WB Blu-ray > Criterion on encoding

3.9

Chungking Express (1994)

Director: Wong Kar-Wai

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray has original SDR master while Plaion Germany and France has a subtle additional HDR-regrade. Either one is good depending on user preference.
Important to note, Criterion 4K Blu-ray still has different color timing from 2008 Criterion Blu-ray see https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=15680&d2=15679&s1=165346&s2=165329&i=10&l=0

Best Audio:

Original mono is on the 1996 Japan DVD and 2005 Spain Boxset DVD. But 2008 Criterion Blu-ray’s 5.1 remix at least is in the correct pitch. All 5.1 tracks on later 4K-resto BDs have a raised pitch. Furthermore, the 2008 5.1 and 4K-resto 5.1 differ in content in the scene where Tony Leung drinks coffee in slow-mo, with the 2008 version having only background / ambient sound, while the 4K-resto version plays Faye Wong’s song. Note that it's quite easy to pitch correct the 4K-resto 5.1 to match the original pitch and only a delay adjustment is needed to sync.

4.3