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

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Director: Thomas Vinterberg

2026: #461
2025: #456
2024: #446
2023: #421
2022: #421
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 2k transfer

Directors: Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei Eisenstein

2026: #462
2025: #463
2024: #452
2023: #455
2022: #455

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

Amazon HD Streaming or DVD

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

2026: #463
2025: #443
2024: #434
2023: #422
2022: #422

Director: Georges Méliès

2026: #464
2025: #458
2024: #449
2023: #435
2022: #435
Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley or Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: vesglobal.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Either Flicker Alley or Arrow Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(Unsure whether the "new" restoration is more on the restoring other lost films or actually A Trip to the Moon. Regardless, there's no more news after the announcement.)

Director: Pedro Costa

2026: #465
2025: #471
2024: #454
2023: #447
2022: #447

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Japan Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Japan Blu-ray but not english friendly, otherwise Criterion DVD

Director: Guillermo del Toro

2026: #466
2025: #467
2024: #516
2023: #531
2022: #531
Best Video:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Cineverse 4K Blu-ray announced with a new 4K restoration from the original negatives

Video Notes:

Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray and 2011/2013 Optimum Blu-ray both have issues, up to preference. UK Optimum/Japan Amuse Soft Blu-ray is better, Criterion is worse

Japan Amuse Soft Blu-ray is better encoded than the Optimum, is in the original 1.85 ratio, and has the original colors

Best Audio:

2011 Optimum Blu-ray has audio in wrong pitch, fixed in 2013 reissue in the Zavvi exclusive Steelbook. Criterion has correct 5.1 and a 7.1 mix.

Additional Info:

Criterion and Optimum Blu-rays have exclusive extras

Director: Maurice Pialat

2026: #467
2025: #452
2024: #461
2023: #465
2022: #465
Best English-Friendly:

France Gaumont Blu-ray

Best Video:

Gaumont BR

Director: Godfrey Reggio

2026: #468
2025: #453
2024: #448
2023: #470
2022: #470
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Arrow

Video Notes:

Arrow has better encode than Criterion

Additional Info:

OOP IRE DVD is open matte, Criterion Blu-ray has more extras than Arrow

Director: Akira Kurosawa

2026: #469
2025: #461
2024: #482
2023: #468
2022: #468
Best English-Friendly:

Australia Imprint Blu-ray

Best Video:

Imprint Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Australia Imprint Blu-ray for surround Russian and English audio/Spain A Contracorriente for monaural Russian audio

Additional Info:

The Spain Blu-ray has the lossless mono mix (the main feature is not English-friendly however), alongside an exclusive conversation in English (with optional Spain subtitles)

The Japan DVD has a "It Is Wonderful to Create" documentary (though the disc is not English-friendly)

Directors: Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen & T. Hee & Wilfred Jackson & Norman Ferguson & Jack Kinney & Bill Roberts

2026: #470
2025: #469
2024: #457
2023: #477
2022: #477
Best Video:

Disney UK Blu-ray or bootleg 35mm scan

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Disney UK Blu-ray or bootleg 35mm scan having less DNR and digital repaint/recomposit

Director: Jacques Demy

2026: #471
2025: #484
2024: #477
2023: #462
2022: #462
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Demy Set

Video Notes:

But terrible DNR from master for all releases

Director: Isao Takahata

2026: #472
2025: #462
2024: #467
2023: #458
2022: #458
Best English-Friendly:

2025 US GKIDS Blu-ray

Best Video:

2015 Japan Isao Takahata boxset Studio Ghibli Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Japanese audio: 2015 Japan Isao Takahata boxset Studio Ghibli Blu-ray

English (1998 dub): 1998 US VHS

English (2012 dub): 2012 US Sentai Filmworks Blu-ray/2025 US GKIDS Blu-ray

English (2025 dub): Netflix Streaming

Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

2026: #473
2025: #488
2024: #473
2023: #457
2022: #457

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

New Yorker DVD

Best Video:

No Blu-ray

Director: John Huston

2026: #474
2025: #479
2024: #480
2023: #466
2022: #466
Best Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray see nic's review "fantastic restoration, beautifully graded with tasteful HDR and solid encoding"

Audio Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray from nic: "4.0 audio is brilliantly detailed, rich and spacious without audible filtering or processing"

Director: François Truffaut

2026: #475
2025: #460
2024: #450
2023: #434
2022: #434

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Artificial Eye Blu-ray

Best Video:

Carlotta 4K Blu-ray

Director: Jia Zhangke

2026: #476
2025: #485
2024: #472
2023: #493
2022: #493
Best English-Friendly:

DVD, or Blu-ray soon?

Sources: bbs.blufans.com (opens in a new tab)

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

2026: #477
2025: #492
2024: #481
2023: #481
2022: #481
Best English-Friendly:

Cinema Guild vs New Wave Blu-ray?

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Not sure which Blu-ray is better

Director: Gus Van Sant

2026: #478
2025: #477
2024: #483
2023: #495
2022: #495

Director: John Ford

2026: #479
2025: #481
2024: #474
2023: #490
2022: #490
Best Audio:

Japan IVC Blu-ray

Director: Park Chan-wook

2026: #480
2025: #516
2024: #508
2023: #539
2022: #539
Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Neon 4K Blu-ray, Arrow 4K Blu-ray, Umbrella Blu-ray, and Korea Plain Archive Blu-ray all have differing extras