Italy
68 films on Best Blurays
Also known as: IT, ITA, Italian
Type: Region
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Films where Italy is in a pick or an upcoming release.
Director: Elvira Notari
Italy Penny Video Blu-ray
Italy Penny Video Blu-ray, English-friendly
Director: Elvira Notari
Italy Penny Video Blu-ray
Italy Penny Video Blu-ray, English friendly
Director: King Vidor
Sources: harvardfilmarchive.org (opens in a new tab)
There is a Italy DVD but not sure how legit.
Havard Film Archive has a 35mm restoration
Director: William Wyler
Italy Plaion 4K Blu-ray
Italy Plaion 4K Blu-ray > Paramount 4K Blu-ray (marginally)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or 2018 Olive Films/BFI or 2012 Olive Films/Italy Sinister Films Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
All three are not ideal.
All three are not ideal.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has frozen grain, sharpening, lots of debris, and handles lesser materials. The supposed non-Superscope version is false advertising. It merely reveals more picture information.
1992 Republic Pictures LaserDisc PCM Mono
Criterion LaserDisc has exclusive commentary. Olive Films Signature Blu-ray and BFI Blu-ray each have exclusive extras. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has exclusive commentary.
Italy CG Entertainment Blu-ray
Director: Dino Risi
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Italy Cecchi Gori DVD/Netherlands Homescreen DVD
Director: Sergio Leone
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Arrow's English mono is from the soundtrack negatives, with light noise reduction but still the highest quality anywhere. The main title is restored from the 1985 LaserDisc analog mono.
The 1985 CBS/Fox LaserDisc for untouched English mono despite element defects and an incomplete print used. The main title on this LaserDisc is the highest quality version known to exist.
The Arrow 5.1 is a careful upmix from their mono restoration to create a purist multichannel mix.
The Italy mono exists in lesser quality but Arrow performed additional restoration work to improve what they could.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2021 StudioCanal France Blu-ray
2021 StudioCanal France Blu-ray has best encoding of the three (France/UK/Italy) that use the 4K restoration
Italy DVD?
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber, see caps https://slow.pics/c/P4E9uTHR
Arrow 4K Blu-ray for English dub, Kino Lorber 2017 Blu-ray for Italy dub
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Italy Plaion 4K Blu-ray
Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray
Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray > Paramount 4K Blu-ray
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
2023 Eagle Pictures Italy 4K Blu-ray
Color is fine
TV series
UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray
Italy Dynit 4K Blu-ray
Any of the Blu-rays, they're all the same with only minor differences (Dynit 4K Blu-ray is 24-bit). Previous sources are from an inferior transfer, and minor censorship.
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