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171 films on Best Blurays

Out of Print. The label/studios are no longer producing these discs, so they will be really hard to find.

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Includes 22 films that name OOP only in the notes.

Directors: Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie

Best English-Friendly:

UK LUX DVD

Best Video:

UK LUX DVD or Germany Steidl OOP DVD

Director: Stanley Kramer

Best Video:

UK BFI Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

UK BFI Blu-ray is very similar to Germany Capelight Blu-ray but Capelight is slightly more sharpened see caps

Both Kino Lorber and Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray suffer from Quicktime Gamma Bug see caps

Director: Roman Polanski

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK Screenbound Blu-ray

Additional Info:

The UK disc has supposedly had some revisionist changes done along with DNR. The disc is OOP. Tentative alternative is Criterion DVD

Director: Arthur Penn

Best Video:

MoC OOP Blu-ray

Video Notes:

MoC OOP Blu-ray is slightly better than Olive Films OOP Blu-ray

Director: John Hubley

Best Video:

The Believer OOP DVD

Sources: store.mcsweeneys.net (opens in a new tab) · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

The full disc seems to be available on Internet Archive

Director: George Sidney

Best Video:

Sony Blu-ray

Video Notes:

While no comparison available, Twilight Time Blu-ray is OOP and reviewers say the transfer is likely the same

Director: Ralph Nelson

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is minimally better encoded than Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray see caps

Director: Cy Endfield

Best Video:

US OOP Twilight Time Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

US OOP Twilight Time Blu-ray > UK Paramount Blu-ray or US Inspired Blu-ray

The UK Blu-ray not only have some DNR applied, it's also squeezed and cropped: see comparison

The color contrast from Twilight Time is however possibly suffering the Quicktime Gamma Bug, but that's an easier issue to fix than DNR or cropped images.

Director: Billy Wilder

Best English-Friendly:

Olive Films Blu-ray

Best Video:

All Blu-ray are OOP and no comparisons available

US Olive Films or France Rimini or Germany vocomo

Director: Daniel Haller

Director: Bruce Brown

Best Video:

OOP US Monterey Video Blu-ray or OOP UK Second Sight Blu-ray

Video Notes:

OOP US Monterey Video Blu-ray or OOP UK Second Sight Blu-ray share the same restoration, but no comparison available

HD Streaming is available otherwise

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: Larry Peerce

Best Video:

UK Eureka Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

UK Eureka Blu-ray marginally better than US Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray see caps

Directors: Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub

Best English-Friendly:

US Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Blu-ray OOP

Director: Gordon Douglas

Best English-Friendly:

US Twilight Time OOP Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Twilight Time OOP or Germany WVG Medien

Director: Isao Takahata

Best English-Friendly:

US OOP Discotek Blu-ray

Best Video:

4K restoration semi-regularly airing on Toei Channel in Japan

Runner-up: Japan Studio Ghibli "The Collected Works of Isao Takahata" Blu-ray Box Set

Director: Jacques Demy

Best English-Friendly:

Arrow UK Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow UK Blu-ray or Twilight Time US Blu-ray but OOP, no comparison

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

Director: Madeline Anderson

Best Video:

Icarus Films OOP DVD

Director: Federico Fellini

Best English-Friendly:

US RaroVideo Blu-ray or UK MoC Blu-ray, both OOP

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

Best Video:

US RaroVideo Blu-ray or UK MoC Blu-ray

Video Notes:

US RaroVideo Blu-ray or UK MoC Blu-ray has no discernible difference even though MoC has more bitrate, see caps Both OOP

Italy Eagle Pictures Blu-ray is also OOP, not English-friendly and has no caps for comparison.

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