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They Shoot Pictures, Don't They with "The 1,000 Greatest Films" list.

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Director: Mário Peixoto

2026: #401
2025: #397
2024: #392
2023: #391
2022: #391
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion world cinema project no 2, Blu-ray

Director: Errol Morris

2026: #402
2025: #403
2024: #401
2023: #408
2022: #408
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 2k transfer

Director: Sally Potter

2026: #403
2025: #395
2024: #397
2023: #382
2022: #382

Directors: Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield & Wilfred Jackson & Ben Sharpsteen & James Algar & T. Hee & Hamilton Luske & Samuel Armstrong & Jim Handley & Norman Ferguson & David Hand & Ford Beebe Jr.

2026: #404
2025: #418
2024: #417
2023: #419
2022: #419
Best Video:

Censored: 2010 Disney Blu-ray
Uncensored: 35mm Scan

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

Video Notes:

See caps of Blu-ray vs DVD

Best Audio:

1991 CAV LaserDisc

Audio Notes:
  • 1991 CAV LaserDisc includes an approximation of the original Fantasound mix in Dolby Surround using the surviving magnetic mixdown, using Stokowski's original mixing notes as a reference. Original aggressive pans and dynamic range are left in tact.

  • The 2000 DVD uses this same mix in discrete 5.0, but with some unnecessary dynamic range compression + a redub of all Deems Taylor audio with Corey Burton.

  • The 7.1 mix on the 2010 Blu-ray sounds poor, having been hit with excessive noise reduction, dynamic range compression, original aggressive pans no longer in tact, and the channel usage no longer resembles Stokowski's original intended sound design. 

Director: Roberto Rossellini

2026: #405
2025: #400
2024: #404
2023: #392
2022: #392

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Director: Georges Franju

2026: #406
2025: #411
2024: #409
2023: #405
2022: #405

Director: Roman Polanski

2026: #407
2025: #408
2024: #407
2023: #394
2022: #394

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

UK 4K teased by 88 Films https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=24252379

Video Notes:

Carlotta France 4K Blu-ray > Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (better encode on Carlotta without any low-pass filtering, more extras and English subtitles on Vinegar Syndrome)

Director: D.W. Griffith

2026: #408
2025: #409
2024: #405
2023: #389
2022: #389
Best English-Friendly:

Twilight Time Blu-ray

Best Video:

Twilight Time

Video Notes:

Twilight Time > BFI >> Kino Lorber/MoC

Director: George A. Romero

2026: #409
2025: #414
2024: #408
2023: #402
2022: #402
Best English-Friendly:

Second Sight 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2020 Second Sight 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Theatrical: 2017 Midnight Factory Blu-ray or 2013 Japan Happinet Blu-ray

European: 5.1 remix on 2016 Midnight Factory and 2021 ESC 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Theatrical: 2017 Midnight Factory Blu-ray or 2013 Japan Happinet Blu-ray

European: 5.1 remix on 2016 Midnight Factory and 2021 ESC 4K Blu-ray much more detailed than all mono mixes

Director: Woody Allen

2026: #410
2025: #407
2024: #398
2023: #393
2022: #393
Best Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow slightly better than US

Director: Lucrecia Martel

2026: #411
2025: #404
2024: #399
2023: #410
2022: #410

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best Video:

Apple TV 4K Streaming

Director: Dario Argento

2026: #412
2025: #406
2024: #402
2023: #409
2022: #409
Video Notes:

(some may prefer Synapse's grading, while some prefer Shameless's grading)

Best Audio:

4.0 track on the Synapse 4K Blu-ray

Directors: Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell

2026: #413
2025: #405
2024: #396
2023: #387
2022: #387

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

2026: #414
2025: #402
2024: #415
2023: #400
2022: #400
Video Notes:

Germany Plaion/Plaion Blu-ray is the new 4K restoration

Director: Sofia Coppola

2026: #415
2025: #413
2024: #418
2023: #437
2022: #437
Best Video:

Various old Blu-rays

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray cancelled.

Director: Maren Ade

2026: #416
2025: #450
2024: #487
2023: #511
2022: #511
Best Video:

Sony Blu-ray vs Soda 

Director: Jean Cocteau

2026: #417
2025: #410
2024: #411
2023: #399
2022: #399
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

BFI

Video Notes:

BFI > Criterion

Directors: David Hand & Ben Sharpsteen & William Cottrell & Larry Morey & Perce Pearce & Wilfred Jackson

2026: #418
2025: #416
2024: #410
2023: #412
2022: #412
Best Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Mono track is on the included Blu-ray; 4K Blu-ray missing original mono. LaserDisc probably better

Director: Vittorio De Sica

2026: #419
2025: #412
2024: #416
2023: #396
2022: #396
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Criterion new 4k transfer

Video Notes:

Criterion new 4k transfer > Arrow

Director: Elia Kazan

2026: #420
2025: #417
2024: #406
2023: #424
2022: #424