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Director: George Cukor
Director: Jean Renoir
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
(both from the same flawed restoration)
The BFI and Gaumont Blu-ray releases are both from the same restoration by Éclair. Although this restoration is much superior in detail to the old Criterion DVD, like many Éclair restorations, it has issues with colour. There is a definite yellow cast to the footage, making skin tones appear sickly and dampening the impact of the colour. The image is also murkier than the Criterion.
As Renoir scholar Tag Gallagher notes: "I talked a lot toward the end about the light blue walls (Criterion); but when I got the BFI blu I was greatly deflated, because the walls are light gray!"
That said, as visible in the screen caps at DVD Beaver, the Criterion has compromised colour too, and often looks too blue/magenta. There is a regraded edition of the BFI Blu-ray out there on the high seas.
The audio on the Blu-ray releases is slightly compressed, but better than earlier DVD releases and relatively full frequency.
The BFI is most likely the best English-friendly release as it includes English subtitles for the bonus features.
Director: Brian De Palma
2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Sources: parkcircus.com (opens in a new tab)
Like previous releases, the 4K Blu-ray was scanned from an interpositive rather than the original camera negative at Paul Thomas Anderson’s request which may explain the softness.
DE Koch Media is presented in the correct 25fps and is likely better compressed than UK Dogwoof (29 vs 14 Mbps), but it doesn’t have English subtitles.
US Drafthouse is in 24fps for Region A compatibility, and is encoded at around 30 Mbps.
(Although bitrate does not solely determine the quality of the encode, the difference is large enough here and there are no publicly available caps.)
No info on the JP VAP Blu-ray.
DE Koch Media and US Drafthouse feature a lossless 5.1 track. Dogwoof offers only AC-3.
2021 WB 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
All Blu-ray seem to be similar, not sure
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray is new 2K master.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Carlotta Passolini set
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Theatrical: Image Entertainment LaserDisc International: Criterion Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2000 Image Entertainment DVD
Directors: Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Director: Victor Sjöström
Sources: nitrateville.com (opens in a new tab)
MoMA resto no Blu-ray https://nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=35725
StudioCanal 4k transfer



















