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Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

2026: #221
2025: #220
2024: #220
2023: #219
2022: #219

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

& Pathé 4K Blu-ray have different gradings (preference). Opening scene on Criterion looks significantly worse, but similar elsewhere.

Director: Ken Loach

2026: #222
2025: #222
2024: #218
2023: #223
2022: #223
Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video & Audio:

MoC

Video Notes:

MoC > Criterion

Director: Jean Vigo

2026: #223
2025: #219
2024: #217
2023: #214
2022: #214

Director: Vittorio De Sica

2026: #224
2025: #224
2024: #222
2023: #215
2022: #215

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

2026: #225
2025: #227
2024: #226
2023: #235
2022: #235
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Koker Trilogy

Director: John Ford

2026: #226
2025: #223
2024: #221
2023: #222
2022: #222
Best Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Director: Joel Coen

2026: #227
2025: #250
2024: #253
2023: #261
2022: #261
Best Video:

2018 Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS, DVD 5.1

Director: Michel Gondry

2026: #228
2025: #254
2024: #252
2023: #257
2022: #257

Director: William Wyler

2026: #229
2025: #239
2024: #246
2023: #247
2022: #247
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · academymuseum.org (opens in a new tab) · filmfestival.tcm.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1985 Embassy LaserDisc

Additional Info:

New restoration was confirmed in around 2021-2023? Screened in 2025&2026

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

2026: #230
2025: #226
2024: #224
2023: #220
2022: #220
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2023 Toho Blu-ray

Video Notes:

2023 Toho Blu-ray is new 4K restoration. No English subs.

Best Audio:

R5 Triumph Video DVD

Director: Bong Joon Ho

2026: #231
2025: #235
2024: #242
2023: #248
Best English-Friendly:

UK Artificial Eye 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray releasing January 2027

Best Video:

France The Jokers 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

France The Jokers 4K Blu-ray has the least DNR (UK Artificial Eye might be similar? Both better than Universal 4K Blu-ray)

Criterion even though doesn’t have 4K, it has the B&W version and a lot of extras.

Director: Preston Sturges

2026: #232
2025: #228
2024: #228
2023: #237
2022: #237
Best Video & Audio:

Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow Blu-ray slightly better than Criterion Blu-ray, not sure about France Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

(Arrow Blu-ray better than Criterion)

Director: Robert Zemeckis

2026: #233
2025: #279
2024: #292
2023: #298
2022: #298
Best Video:

2020 Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

Directors: Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

2026: #234
2025: #238
2024: #237
2023: #231
2022: #231
Best Video:

2018 WB 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

There are some questioning around the color timings https://fanrestore.com/thread-3435.html

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Additional Info:

The Ultimate Matrix Collection DVD/Blu-ray has extras not on the 4K Blu-ray box set

Different colors in the 4K compared to the DVD (both original and 2003)/2009 Blu-ray/Theatrical cut.

There are some questioning around the color timings https://fanrestore.com/thread-3435.html

Director: Robert Altman

2026: #235
2025: #237
2024: #235
2023: #239
2022: #239

Director: Theo Angelopoulos

2026: #236
2025: #230
2024: #231
2023: #227
2022: #227
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

No Blu-ray, only DVD

Director: Glauber Rocha

2026: #237
2025: #231
2024: #230
2023: #225
2022: #225

Director: John Cassavetes

2026: #238
2025: #229
2024: #229
2023: #230
2022: #230
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

2K transfer, not sure about France

Director: Forugh Farrokhzad

2026: #239
2025: #233
2024: #232
2023: #241
2022: #241
Best Video:

Radiance Treasures from the Golestan Film Studio Blu-ray

Director: Roberto Rossellini

2026: #240
2025: #232
2024: #233
2023: #229
2022: #229
Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

BFI Blu-ray is newer master than Criterion