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Director: Ousmane Sembène
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Criterion similar to BFI http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_69/black_girl_blu-ray.htm
Director: Harold Ramis
2023 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
US Criterion 4K Blu-ray > UK MoC 4K Blu-ray > Australia Imprint > US Kino Lorber better encoding
The MoC, Criterion and Imprint UHDs were encoded by FiM making all 3 very close. The higher bitrate helped in deciding and some luck; however Criterion is the most consistent one of all 3. Imprint has some scenes with more splotchy grain while MoC is quite close to Criterion but has some more blocking in dark scenes (e.g.: comp #27). With Criterion’s superior audio, it ensures complete consistency.
From cbc: "I'm personally quite fond of the restored track on Eureka's 4K Blu-ray. It does have spots with objectively worse fidelity, but for the most part, it sounds a lot more natural and less shrill, particularly dialogue. It seems to be a new mixdown of stems. Technically a remix, so not everyone's cup of tea, but it's not revisionist like most new movie mixes tend to be"
Both Imprint (included in their set) and Capelight (on its own/individually) offer remastered BDs. All other BDs, including the one included in The Complete Kubrick, are sourced from the same older master from around 2010.
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4k transfer. Shochiku Blu-ray is similar
Kino Lorber/Metrograph Blu-ray better
Director: G.W. Pabst
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Marguerite Duras
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2007 Criterion DVD/2011 StudioCanal Blu-ray
2017 StudioCanal Blu-ray might(?) be the same.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray for video or Criterion Blu-ray for subtitles
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
See detailed review However Criterion has better subtitles
Old BFI Blu-ray > Criterion Blu-ray > BFI 4K Blu-ray > Toho Blu-ray See DonaldMcDonald's post
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Director: Bob Fosse
Criterion, 2k transfer
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2023 Criterion 4K Blu-ray (bad compression) / Curzon 4K Blu-ray (visible chroma noise and meh compression)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Japan TC Entertainment
Encoding wise Japan TC Entertainment > old UK StudioCanal Blu-ray (see caps) > Paramount Blu-ray (see cap)
StudioCanal Blu-ray seems to possibly suffer from Quicktime Gamma Bug
Both Paramount and Japan Blu-ray are 1.78:1, not the original aspect ratio of 1.85:1
No caps or comparison available for Imprint or other releases.
