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Director: King Vidor

2026: #241
2025: #241
2024: #236
2023: #234
2022: #234

Video format: DVD

Upcoming Release:

Flicker Alley new 4K restoration 

Best Video:

2013 Bach Films DVD

Director: Andrzej Wajda

2026: #242
2025: #234
2024: #238
2023: #233
2022: #233

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

2026: #243
2025: #236
2024: #234
2023: #232
2022: #232
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray > BFI. France Carlotta Blu-ray is a new, flawed 4K resto, which has heavy frozen grain

Best Audio:

1999 Image Entertainment DVD

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

2026: #244
2025: #243
2024: #240
2023: #242
2022: #242
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

Director: David Lynch

2026: #245
2025: #246
2024: #243
2023: #238
2022: #238
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

Best Audio:

Original mono: 1984 Columbia LaserDisc

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

2026: #246
2025: #242
2024: #244
2023: #240
2022: #240

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Best Video:

France Bach Films

Video Notes:

France Bach Films has Blu-ray

Director: Nicholas Ray

2026: #247
2025: #248
2024: #250
2023: #252
2022: #252
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray. New master unreleased

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 2k transfer. 4K master unreleased

Best Audio:

2003 R2 Columbia DVD

Director: Vincente Minnelli

2026: #248
2025: #249
2024: #245
2023: #243
2022: #243
Best Audio:

1991 MGM LaserDisc

Director: Mike Nichols

2026: #249
2025: #260
2024: #260
2023: #267
2022: #267

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

2026: #250
2025: #247
2024: #251
2023: #245
2022: #245

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Best Video:

France Bach Films

Video Notes:

France Bach Films has Blu-ray

Director: Steven Spielberg

2026: #251
2025: #251
2024: #268
2023: #259
2022: #259

Director: Michael Haneke

2026: #252
2025: #245
2024: #247
2023: #251
2022: #251
Best Video & Audio:

2025 Curzon UK Blu-ray (Haneke boxset)

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

Video Notes:

2025 Curzon UK Blu-ray or 2013 TF1 FR Blu-ray (caps)

Curzon has a slightly better encode and preserves all the noise of the digital source, but ends up obscuring actual detail in some shots. Both are quite good, only caveat being that the TF1 disc is slightly cropped and has a black bar on top.

Audio Notes:

2008 Artificial Eye UK and 2025 Umbrella AU discs have incorrect pitch. TF1 FR disc is missing 7 minutes of audio in the left channel. See spectrograms.

Director: Yasujirō Ozu

2026: #253
2025: #240
2024: #239
2023: #226
2022: #226
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Carlotta Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Carlotta Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion

Best Audio:

Shochiku DVD

Directors: Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell

2026: #254
2025: #244
2024: #241
2023: #246
2022: #246

Director: William Friedkin

2026: #255
2025: #270
2024: #270
2023: #285
2022: #285
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray retains the revisionist colors with minor tweaks, has OG mono

Best Audio:

Theatrical: 1985 WB LaserDisc (mono). 1997 WB DVD has the 1979 70mm reissue remix.

Director: Michael Mann

2026: #256
2025: #268
2024: #264
2023: #264
2022: #264
Best Video:

Theatrical Cut: Old Warner Bros DVD or fan restoration

Revised Cut: 2012 Japan Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Theatrical Cut: Old Warner Bros DVD or fan restoration

Revised Cut: 2012 Japan Blu-ray for less revisionist colors, 2022 Disney 4K Blu-ray is controversially regraded and too dark overall.

Best Audio:

LaserDisc 2.0 (restores censored dialog). Comparison of 5.1 mixes
For the 5.1: LaserDisc AC3 vs US DVD AC3 vs Japan DVD DTS

Director: Vincente Minnelli

2026: #257
2025: #253
2024: #249
2023: #249
2022: #249
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Director: Terrence Malick

2026: #258
2025: #252
2024: #248
2023: #244
2022: #244
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 4k transfer

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

2026: #259
2025: #256
2024: #261
2023: #286
2022: #286
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Theatrical Cut: 2020 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: 2013 Arrow Blu-ray

Director: Julie Dash

2026: #260
2025: #258
2024: #254
2023: #250
Best Video:

Cohen Blu-ray