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Netherlands

12 films on Best Blurays

Type: Region

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

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray is new 2K master.

Best Audio:

Lumière Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Lumière Blu-ray best, but wrong pitch and needs correcting

Director: Dino Risi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Italy Cecchi Gori DVD/Netherlands Homescreen DVD

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical Cut: UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray

2023 "Director's" Cut: Unreleased

Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Theatrical Cut: Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray has best encoding

2023 "Director's" Cut: Unreleased

Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream

Video Notes:

Theatrical Cut: UK Artificial Eye Blu-ray > Criterion

Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream > Criterion Blu-ray

Passion According to Andrei Cut: MosFilm Youtube Stream > Criterion Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: 2011/2018 RU Blu-ray

Passion According to Andrei Cut: ??

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: Andrei Tarkovsky

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion

Best Audio:

Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray marginally better

Director: David Fincher

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

2025 WB 4K Blu-ray or the 1997 New Line DVD (CCE colors)/Netherlands Blu-ray (2000 restoration) for a purist version

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

Best Video:

2025 WB 4K Blu-ray, better detail and everything, or the 1997 New Line DVD (CCE colors)/Netherlands Blu-ray (2000 restoration) for a purist version

Video Notes:
  • 4K caveat: A variety of VFX set pieces and touch-ups were added in scenes throughout the film, probably for continuity or consistency, although they might be unnecessary or revisionist. Clouds are added to clear sky of the last act.

  • AI is used to fix an unwanted camera movement in one scene.

  • some shots had been further stabilized, resulting in strange motion blur.

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Audio Notes:

Also has missing dialog intact.
But it can be argued that the Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray 5.1 (remix) is technically a better mix.

Additional Info:

More info on the different color grades over the years: https://notonbluray.com/blog/the-case-of-se7en/

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Spain Emon Blu-ray
3D: US Lionsgate, Germany StudioCanal, or Netherlands Entertainment One 3D Blu-ray?

Best Audio:

US Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Canada Blu-ray or Netherlands Blu-ray?

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

Video Notes:

Better than Constantin Germany 4K Blu-ray and Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray's encode is awful.

Director: David Ayer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Netherlands/Germany Splendid Film Blu-ray

Directors: Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

USA Lionsgate/A24 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

USA Lionsgate/A24 4K Blu-ray for Dolby Atmos mix

Netherlands Remain in Light 4K Blu-ray for the alternate Auro-3D mix

Audio Notes:

(caveat: no English subtitles for Mandarin/Cantonese dialogue)

Director: Michael Mann

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Netherlands Remain in Light or UK Universal 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Netherlands Remain in Light or UK Universal 4K Blu-ray, See caps: Ferrari (2023) | Slowpoke Pics

Best Audio:

Netherlands Remain in Light

Additional Info:

All three discs come from the same master and share the same Dolby Vision grade, with identical dynamic metadata and CMv4.0 on all three. The Eagle Pictures disc is the only Profile 7 FEL, the Remain in Light and Universal UK discs are both MEL. On paper that gives the Italian finer coding precision, but it doesn't buy anything on this film, the grain is heavy enough to hide base layer quantisation on its own and none of the three discs bands. It also costs something, the Eagle Pictures encode noticeably smooths grain in flatter, low contrast areas, so a fair bit of fine texture that both other discs keep is simply gone. Edges and overall definition are fine, but the Dutch and UK discs clearly hold the film's texture better and are the ones to get. Between those two it's very close, with the Dutch keeping slightly more grain across most of the scenes checked. Worth noting as well, the Dutch and UK discs have their title cards in English while the Italian keeps them in Italian.
Caps comp: Ferrari (2023) | Slowpoke Pics

Directors: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

France/Dutch 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

France/Dutch 4K Blu-ray, see caps

Best Audio:

A24 4K Blu-ray or France/Dutch 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Excellent Atmos mix

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