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Director: Alfred Hitchcock

2026: #381
2025: #367
2024: #370
2023: #355
2022: #355

Director: Rob Reiner

2026: #382
2025: #388
2024: #390
2023: #401
2022: #401
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1998 Criterion DVD Stereo

Director: Michael Haneke

2026: #383
2025: #382
2024: #382
2023: #373
2022: #373
Best English-Friendly:

Sony Blu-ray

Best Video:

Sony

Video Notes:

Sony > Artificial Eye

Director: Monte Hellman

2026: #384
2025: #381
2024: #376
2023: #385
2022: #385
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Less bitrate but MoC uses too much DNR

Director: Roberto Rossellini

2026: #385
2025: #380
2024: #385
2023: #378
2022: #378
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion or BFI Blu-ray?

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

Best Video:

Criterion

Video Notes:

Criterion darker and more contrast than BFI and Plaion Germany see cap https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=2461

Director: Leo McCarey

2026: #386
2025: #370
2024: #379
2023: #371
2022: #371
Best Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

2026: #387
2025: #373
2024: #381
2023: #376
2022: #376

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: David Lynch

2026: #388
2025: #376
2024: #377
2023: #372
2022: #372

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray slightly better

Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has best encoding. France Potemkine and Criterion UHDs slightly worse.

Best Audio:

?

Director: Yasujirō Ozu

2026: #389
2025: #379
2024: #368
2023: #397
2022: #397
Best Video:

2024 BFI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

2024 BFI Blu-ray is new 4K restoration

Director: Jim Jarmusch

2026: #390
2025: #377
2024: #378
2023: #398
2022: #398
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Not sure about foreign

Director: Lars von Trier

2026: #391
2025: #394
2024: #403
2023: #416
2022: #416

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

Video Notes:

(needs gamma correction)

The movie was shot in HD and  France Potemkine Blu-ray (needs gamma correction) has slightly stronger encoding than Italy Eagle Pictures 4K Blu-ray. Curzon Blu-ray is the worst of all three (not by much) see caps.

Director: Jonathan Glazer

2026: #392
2025: #390
2024: #414
2023: #433
2022: #433
Best Video:

Lionsgate Blu-ray vs StudioCanal Blu-ray vs Itunes 4K Streaming?

Director: Luis Buñuel

2026: #393
2025: #391
2024: #384
2023: #375
2022: #375
Best Video:

Cohen Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Cohen restored themselves, significantly better than StudioCanal https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?d1=11902&d2=11795&c=4648

Directors: Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas

2026: #394
2025: #392
2024: #387
2023: #386
2022: #386
Best Video:

Trigon Film DVD

Sources: tiff.net (opens in a new tab)

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

2026: #395
2025: #401
2024: #395
2023: #414
2022: #414

Director: Jacques Tati

2026: #396
2025: #393
2024: #389
2023: #384
2022: #384

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)

Video Notes:

Criterion/StudioCanal Blu-ray > BFI. New restoration unreleased.

Best Audio:

Old R2 DVD 1.0

Director: François Truffaut

2026: #397
2025: #399
2024: #413
2023: #406
2022: #406
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray 2K transfer

Best Audio:

WB DVD

Director: Robert Altman

2026: #398
2025: #428
2024: #439
2023: #452
2022: #452

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber has new 4k resto, not sure about color grading

Best Audio:

?

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2026: #399
2025: #398
2024: #394
2023: #388
2022: #388
Best English-Friendly:

StudioCanal UK Blu-ray

Best Video:

StudioCanal UK Blu-ray: VDMS-encoded 4K master

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

2026: #400
2025: #389
2024: #393
2023: #381
2022: #381
Best Audio:

1986 Pioneer LaserDisc