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

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Director: Abbas Kiarostami

2026: #541
2025: #519
2024: #517
2023: #521
2022: #521
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Not sure about France

Director: F. W. Murnau

2026: #542
2025: #532
2024: #529
2023: #518
2022: #518
Best Video:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber AR is squished; MoC is correct. Unsure on France Potemkine

Director: Lynne Ramsay

2026: #543
2025: #566
2024: #563
2023: #556
Best Video & Audio:

Fun City Blu-ray

Director: Robert Bresson

2026: #544
2025: #561
2024: #549
2023: #546
2022: #546
Video Notes:

Gaumont France is 4k transfer, not sure about Japan

Director: Louis Feuillade

2026: #545
2025: #527
2024: #506
2023: #525
2022: #525
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Eureka/Gaumont Blu-ray (preference)

Best Video:

Gaumont/Eureka

Video Notes:

Gaumont/Eureka is a newer restoration than Kino Lorber but has problems with automatic clean-up and ghosting.

Director: Werner Herzog

2026: #546
2025: #524
2024: #514
2023: #499
2022: #499

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory vs BFI?

Best Video:

US Shout! Factory vs BFI vs StudioCanal Germany

Video Notes:

No comparison

Director: Luchino Visconti

2026: #547
2025: #528
2024: #515
2023: #498
2022: #498
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion resto bad? but no other BDs

Directors: Sergei Eisenstein & Dmitriy Vasilev

2026: #548
2025: #536
2024: #535
2023: #517
2022: #517

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD?

Best Video:

France

Video Notes:

France has Blu-ray

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

2026: #549
2025: #538
2024: #550
2023: #537
2022: #537

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

2026: #550
2025: #556
2024: #545
2023: #529
2022: #529
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1987 WB LaserDisc

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

2026: #551
2025: #550
2024: #552
2023: #557
2022: #557

Director: Patricio Guzmán

2026: #552
2025: #546
2024: #541
2023: #548
2022: #548
Best Video:

US or UK Blu-ray?

Director: Souleymane Cissé

2026: #553
2025: #537
2024: #526
2023: #549
2022: #549
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Sources: ritzcinemas.com.au (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2k restoration, DVD only https://www.ritzcinemas.com.au/movies/yeelen-1987 

Director: Derek Jarman

2026: #554
2025: #539
2024: #527
2023: #496
2022: #496

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Any

Director: Sydney Pollack

2026: #555
2025: #601
2024: #592
2023: #632
2022: #632

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

2026: #556
2025: #578
2024: #575
2023: #595
2022: #595
Best Video:

Various Blu-ray available

Director: Satyajit Ray

2026: #557
2025: #534
2024: #531
2023: #509
2022: #509

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Artificial Eye DVD

Audio Notes:

Artificial Eye DVD probably better

Director: Orson Welles

2026: #558
2025: #551
2024: #542
2023: #534
2022: #534
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 Columbia VHS (slightly)

Director: Peter Weir

2026: #559
2025: #552
2024: #546
2023: #535
2022: #535
Best Video:

Theatrical Cut: Second Sight 4K Blu-ray Director's Cut: Second Sight 4K Blu-ray or old master

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

(Criterion/Second Sight Blu-ray. Up to preference)

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne

2026: #560
2025: #542
2024: #532
2023: #527
2022: #527