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Director: Max Ophüls

2026: #421
2025: #421
2024: #421
2023: #413
2022: #413
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Arrow

Director: Eduardo Coutinho

2026: #422
2025: #431
2024: #451
2023: #444
2022: #444
Best Video:

Mawu UK Blu-ray

Director: Jack Clayton

2026: #423
2025: #447
2024: #443
2023: #441
2022: #441
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray or maybe 2020 Capelight Blu-ray?

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion

Video Notes:

Criterion > BFI & 2012 Capelight, not sure about 2020 Capelight

Best Audio:

2012 Capelight Blu-ray?

Director: Roberto Rossellini

2026: #424
2025: #423
2024: #424
2023: #417
2022: #417
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, 2k transfer, source can't be improved

Director: Sidney Lumet

2026: #425
2025: #442
2024: #469
2023: #472
2022: #472
Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2006 WB DVD

Director: Agnès Varda

2026: #426
2025: #427
2024: #425
2023: #449
2022: #449
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Varda Set

Director: Ingmar Bergman

2026: #427
2025: #420
2024: #431
2023: #443
2022: #443
Best English-Friendly:

TV Cut: Criterion Blu-ray

Theatrical Cut: BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

TV Cut: Japan Blu-ray

Theatrical Cut: BFI Blu-ray

Best Audio:

?

Director: Leos Carax

2026: #428
2025: #432
2024: #423
2023: #431
2022: #431

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory BD (caveat: burned-in English subtitles)

Best Video:

France Potemkine Blu-ray

Additional Info:

The Indomina release (and possibly some other releases) censor a scene of full frontal nudity via optical blurring, the Shout release is uncensored.

Director: Leo McCarey

2026: #429
2025: #419
2024: #412
2023: #407
2022: #407
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

Best Audio:

Criterion

Audio Notes:

Sony Blu-ray maybe better?

Director: Jane Campion

2026: #430
2025: #429
2024: #433
2023: #427
2022: #427
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion

Video Notes:

Criterion better

Directors: Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey

2026: #431
2025: #422
2024: #419
2023: #420
2022: #420
Best Video & Audio:

RaroVideo DVD

Director: James Whale

2026: #432
2025: #425
2024: #422
2023: #432
2022: #432
Upcoming Release:

Universal Complete Legacy Collection 4K Blu-ray set on September 26 2026

Best Audio:

?

Director: Steven Spielberg

2026: #433
2025: #466
2024: #465
2023: #489
2022: #489
Best Video:

US Paramount Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray Dec 15th

Video Notes:

US Paramount Blu-ray > International WB Blu-ray

Director: Francesco Rosi

2026: #434
2025: #424
2024: #420
2023: #404
2022: #404
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow Blu-ray

Best Video:

Arrow

Video Notes:

Not sure about StudioCanal France

Director: Wong Kar-Wai

2026: #435
2025: #436
2024: #428
2023: #418
2022: #418

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2022 Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

2021 Criterion Blu-ray

Director: Andrzej Żuławski

2026: #436
2025: #430
2024: #427
2023: #440
2022: #440

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

Video Notes:

Second Sight 4K Blu-ray > Le Chat Qui Fume 4K Blu-ray > Umbrella 4K Blu-ray see caps

Second Sight uses the same Le Chat Qui Fume master, but encoded by FiM and applied Dolby Vision. Umbrella's encoding is visibly worse than Le Chat Qui Fume.

Additional Info:

Mondo Vision Blu-ray and Anchor Bay DVD have an alternate audio track with an unauthorized soundtrack.

Director: Martin Scorsese

2026: #437
2025: #439
2024: #456
2023: #488
2022: #488
Best Video:

2019 Universal 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

France Seven7 has Dolby Vision and Atmos unlike the US disc but was most likely encoded in the wrong color space

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS, Blu-ray 5.1, DVD 5.1

Director: Mike Leigh

2026: #438
2025: #445
2024: #458
2023: #454
2022: #454
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

BFI new 4k transfer

Video Notes:

BFI new 4k transfer > Criterion

Directors: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

2026: #439
2025: #498
2024: #523
2023: #530
2022: #530

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

2026: #440
2025: #476
2024: #455
2023: #480
2022: #480