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Director: Lindsay Anderson

2026: #441
2025: #426
2024: #442
2023: #436
2022: #436
Best English-Friendly:

MoC or Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

MoC = Criterion

Video Notes:

But better extras

Director: George Cukor

2026: #442
2025: #437
2024: #426
2023: #448
2022: #448
Best Video:

Theatrical cut / Roadshow cut: 35mm scans

Restored cut: WB Blu-ray

Director: Ingmar Bergman

2026: #443
2025: #433
2024: #435
2023: #423
2022: #423
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2022 BFI Boxset Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Tartan DVD, Criterion DVD

Director: Jean Renoir

2026: #444
2025: #451
2024: #440
2023: #426
2022: #426
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray (flawed restoration)

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

Best Video & Audio:

BFI or Gaumont Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(both from the same flawed restoration)

Additional Info:

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: Sergei Parajanov

2026: #445
2025: #434
2024: #430
2023: #442
2022: #442
Best Video:

Japan Sergei Parajanov Boxset Blu-ray

Director: Brian De Palma

2026: #446
2025: #487
2024: #475
2023: #467
2022: #467
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1993 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

2026: #447
2025: #521
2024: #511
2023: #510
2022: #510
Best Video & Audio:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Sources: parkcircus.com (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

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.

Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

2026: #448
2025: #459
2024: #466
2023: #474
2022: #474
Best English-Friendly:

UK Dogwoof Blu-ray vs US Drafthouse Blu-ray: see below

Best Video & Audio:

DE Koch Media

Video Notes:

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.

Audio Notes:

DE Koch Media and US Drafthouse feature a lossless 5.1 track. Dogwoof offers only AC-3.

Director: Frank Darabont

2026: #449
2025: #435
2024: #444
2023: #429
2022: #429
Best Video:

2021 WB 4K Blu-ray

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

Best Audio:

2008 US Blu-ray 5.1

Audio Notes:

(the 2021 4K's 5.1 was flawed, with unnecessary bad tweaking)

Directors: Humphrey Jennings & Stewart McAllister

2026: #450
2025: #465
2024: #453
2023: #439
2022: #439
Best Video & Audio:

BFI The Complete Humphrey Jennings Collection Vol. 2 Blu-ray

Director: Roy Andersson

2026: #451
2025: #457
2024: #460
2023: #456
2022: #456
Best English-Friendly:

Artificial Eye Blu-ray?

Best Video:

All Blu-ray seem to be similar, not sure

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

2026: #452
2025: #454
2024: #437
2023: #445
2022: #445
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Netherlands Lumière Blu-ray is new 2K master.

Best Audio:

Lumière Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Lumière Blu-ray best, but wrong pitch and needs correcting

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

2026: #453
2025: #438
2024: #441
2023: #451
2022: #451
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Carlotta Passolini set

Director: Charlie Chaplin

2026: #454
2025: #446
2024: #447
2023: #430
2022: #430

Directors: Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton

2026: #455
2025: #441
2024: #463
2023: #453
2022: #453
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray, 4k transfer

Director: Josef von Sternberg

2026: #456
2025: #440
2024: #432
2023: #446
2022: #446
Best English-Friendly:

Indicator Blu-ray or Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Indicator

Video Notes:

Indicator similar to Criterion but more extras

Director: Luchino Visconti

2026: #457
2025: #444
2024: #462
2023: #438
2022: #438
Best Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Director: Victor Sjöström

2026: #458
2025: #448
2024: #438
2023: #428
2022: #428

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Spain DVD? Or unreleased restoration

Sources: nitrateville.com (opens in a new tab)

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2026: #459
2025: #474
2024: #470
2023: #464
2022: #464

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

Japan Blu-ray OOP

Director: Jean Renoir

2026: #460
2025: #449
2024: #436
2023: #425
2022: #425
Best English-Friendly:

StudioCanal Blu-ray

Best Video:

StudioCanal 4k transfer