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Director: John Carpenter

2026: #581
2025: #593
2024: #586
2023: #612
2022: #612
Upcoming Release:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray possibly teased?

Best Audio:

1994 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Jim Jarmusch

2026: #582
2025: #564
2024: #554
2023: #554
2022: #554

Director: Akira Kurosawa

2026: #583
2025: #565
2024: #570
2023: #569
2022: #569

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

179 min cut: Criterion Blu-ray

159 min cut: Fox Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

179 min cut: Toho 4K Blu-ray

159 min cut: Fox Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray

Director: Federico Fellini

2026: #584
2025: #570
2024: #557
2023: #541
2022: #541
Best Video:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Eureka MoC slightly better than Criterion

Director: Fritz Lang

2026: #585
2025: #577
2024: #572
2023: #567
2022: #567
Best Video:

Eureka Blu-ray

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

2026: #586
2025: #583
2024: #573
2023: #565
2022: #565
Best Audio:

Universal Blu-ray

Director: John Boorman

2026: #587
2025: #615
2024: #620
2023: #606
2022: #606
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

2027 Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1984 WB LaserDisc

Director: Luis Buñuel

2026: #588
2025: #585
2024: #576
2023: #570
2022: #570
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion

Video Notes:

Criterion > StudioCanal

Director: David Fincher

2026: #589
2025: #606
2024: #625
2023: #643
2022: #643
Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical: Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Director's: US Paramount Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

Theatrical: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, see more in Geoff's review

Director's: US Paramount Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Director's: US Paramount Blu-ray > WB Blu-ray

Director: John G. Avildsen

2026: #590
2025: #648
2024: #641
2023: #651
2022: #651
Best Video:

Warner Bros 2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray/ Warner Bros 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)

Upcoming Release:

Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original Mono: Ultimate Knockout Collection/Knockout Collection replacement disc

Audio Notes:

Original Mono: Ultimate Knockout Collection/Knockout Collection replacement disc > Knockout collection original.

The Mono mix on the initial release of the Knockout Collection is a stereo fold-down of the 5.1, it also has a missing piano cue. The replacement disc and the ultimate knockout version fixed the error. 

Additional Info:

The Steelbook and UK standard edition is the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.

Director: Peter Jackson

2026: #591
2025: #596
2024: #594
2023: #591
2022: #591
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Caveat: mostly great video but the 4K Blu-rays have had additional DNR applied in some scenes on top of the DNR that had been applied in post-production and was already present on the DVDs & Blu-rays

The 2020 Blu-ray (the one without the green tint) may be better than the 4K Blu-ray?

Best Audio:

New Line Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

New Line Blu-ray have the original 6.1 mixes

Additional Info:

4K Blu-ray set is missing extras from the old Blu-ray/DVD releases

The 2011 Blu-ray notoriously had a green tint, the 2020 one removes it.

Director: Erich von Stroheim

2026: #592
2025: #571
2024: #565
2023: #558
2022: #558

Video format: SD Streaming

Best Video:

Vitaphone Soundtrack Project restoration SD Streaming

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

Video Notes:

Vitaphone Soundtrack Project restoration SD Streaming see NitrateVille post

Director: Rob Reiner

2026: #593
2025: #687
2024: #706
2023: #775
2022: #775
Upcoming Release:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray releasing December 14 2026

Video Notes:

Like many of Capelight's other releases, the 4K Blu-ray is low-passed but still looks good.

Best Audio:

30th Anniversary Shout! Factory BD has the original stereo mix

Director: Chen Kaige

2026: #594
2025: #574
2024: #560
2023: #543
2022: #543

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

WCL China Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WCL China Blu-ray is the only Blu-ray available as of Aug 2026

Director: Sarah Maldoror

2026: #595
2025: #575
2024: #564
2023: #550
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 4

Director: Stanley Kubrick

2026: #596
2025: #612
2024: #609
2023: #607
2022: #607
Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering, 1.85 ratio restored

Best Audio:

Mono: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set)/1999 WB R1 DVD
5.1 remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Miloš Forman

2026: #597
2025: #579
2024: #624
2023: #609
2022: #609
Best English-Friendly:

UK Second Run Blu-ray

Director: Roman Polanski

2026: #598
2025: #598
2024: #599
2023: #608
2022: #608
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

All use dated master. France Carlotta maybe slightly better? Or Criterion

Director: Dennis Hopper

2026: #599
2025: #580
2024: #581
2023: #562
2022: #562

Director: Howard Hawks

2026: #600
2025: #609
2024: #602
2023: #597
2022: #597