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Director: David Lynch

2026: #701
2025: #682
2024: #685
2023: #684
2022: #684
Best Video:

Censored US version: Shout! Factory or Twilight Time Blu-ray

Uncensored version: old DVD

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

Upcoming Release:

2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray, confirmed to be uncut

Director: Todd Haynes

2026: #702
2025: #716
2024: #714
2023: #715

TV series

2026: #703
2025: #688
2024: #674
2023: #668
2022: #668
Best English-Friendly:

US Milestone vs UK Arrow Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Milestone vs UK Arrow Blu-ray or no comparison

Director: Ridley Scott

2026: #704
2025: #703
2024: #716
2023: #696
2022: #696

Directors: Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin & David Maysles

2026: #705
2025: #696
2024: #686
2023: #708
2022: #708
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion HD transfer

Directors: Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub

2026: #706
2025: #699
2024: #693
2023: #688
2022: #688
Best English-Friendly:

US Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Blu-ray OOP

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

2026: #707
2025: #707
2024: #704
2023: #759

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

2026: #708
2025: #705
2024: #689
2023: #700

Directors: David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin & Albert Maysles

2026: #709
2025: #713
2024: #697
2023: #722
2022: #722
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

Director: Dušan Makavejev

2026: #710
2025: #698
2024: #680
2023: #678
2022: #678
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Cristian Mungiu

2026: #711
2025: #708
2024: #710
2023: #706
2022: #706

Director: Richard Linklater

2026: #712
2025: #711
2024: #702
2023: #698
2022: #698

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray/Germany Warner Bros Blu-ray both basically the same see caps

Additional Info:

Germany Blu-ray has English audio 

Germany Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion but by StudioCanal 

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

2026: #713
2025: #693
2024: #749
2023: #735
2022: #735
Best Video:

UK vs US Blu-ray?

Director: Bill Forsyth

2026: #714
2025: #695
2024: #684
2023: #685
2022: #685
Best Video:

UK Spirit Entertainment Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

UK Spirit Blu-ray better encode than Criterion Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Criterion Blu-ray (mono mix)

Additional Info:

The UK Blu-ray is a marginally better encode than the Criterion, with better preseveration of detail: https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=5302

The Criterion Blu-ray presents the original mono mix. Most other Blu-rays and DVDs are remixed either to stereo or 5.1 surround, with loss of detail and very little actual separation.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

2026: #715
2025: #715
2024: #698
2023: #691
2022: #691
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow/US remastered abkco Blu-ray or Germany Bildstörung Blu-ray depending on preference

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Umbrella 4K Blu-ray, part of Alejandro Jodorowsky Collector’s Edition, scheduled for November 2026 release

Best Video:

Even though Arrow/US remastered abkco Blu-ray are the newer restoration, the Germany Bildstörung Blu-ray seeming look better in many of the scenes see caps  ut the grading might also be over-exposed see caps
Ultimately it's up to personal preference.

Director: David Fincher

2026: #716
2025: #752
2024: #745
2023: #814
2022: #814
Best Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

4K Blu-ray has exclusive “unrated” audio with a small change to one line under the request of David Fincher (removed the poor dub over of frickin’ in the line “Screw it, let’s gut the f**kin’ nerd.”).

Director: William Wyler

2026: #717
2025: #725
2024: #728
2023: #729
2022: #729
Best Audio:

1991 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

The 4K Blu-ray 5.0 is the original mix, but more muffled than LaserDisc and even the previous Blu-ray's gentle remix. The Atmos mix is revisionist.

Additional Info:

The 50th Anniversary box set has some exclusive extras.

1991 LaserDisc is Dolby Stereo matrix encoded from the original six track master and this was later upgraded to a 5.1 Dolby Digital version prepared for the first DVD. The 5.1 version may have had some slight tweaking in the process. This was reused for the DVD CE boxset and then the 5.1 on Blu-ray seems like a slight upgrade of the DVD track. (The first pressing from the UCE boxset had audio defects rampant on the Blu-ray. These were corrected for standalone pressings.) All 5.1s sound roughly the same as the LaserDisc 2.0 in terms of the mix, but the LaserDisc PCM mastering seems like the only one that is direct without any major processing.

Director: Robert Bresson

2026: #718
2025: #709
2024: #701
2023: #692
2022: #692
Best English-Friendly:

France Gaumont Blu-ray

Best Video:

Germany/France/Japan

Video Notes:

Germany/France/Japan has Blu-ray, 4K restoration

Director: Christopher Nolan

2026: #719
2025: #763
2024: #797
2023: #829
2022: #829
Best Video:

Spain Selecta Vision 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · linkedin.com (opens in a new tab) · dvdcompare.net (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Collector's edition of a new restoration from Umbrella

Video Notes:

Spain Selecta Vision 4K Blu-ray > other releases and old 2006 release - impressions of Selecta Vision release

Director: John Ford

2026: #720
2025: #700
2024: #683
2023: #674
2022: #674
Best Audio:

1992 MGM LaserDisc

Additional Info:

The audio on the Warner Archive Blu-ray is appalling. It starts to cutoff at around 6kHz to have nothing above 10kHz. The LaserDisc is much more full-frequency.