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

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Director: Jack Smith

2026: #781
2025: #767
2024: #753
2023: #720
2022: #720
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: John Huston

2026: #782
2025: #769
2024: #777
2023: #750
2022: #750
Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

2026: #783
2025: #773
2024: #759
2023: #728
2022: #728
Best English-Friendly:

Film Movement Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Film Movement new 2k restoration

Director: H. C. Potter

2026: #784
2025: #775
2024: #764
2023: #731
2022: #731
Best Video:

Germany Anolis Blu-ray

Director: Glauber Rocha

2026: #785
2025: #770
2024: #760
2023: #727
2022: #727
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Tim Burton

2026: #786
2025: #831
2024: #826
2023: #835
2022: #835
Best Video:

Fox/Disney 4K Blu-ray

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

Upcoming Release:

-

Video Notes:

The compression is poor, but it still beats the previous Blu-ray. (Luminance plot)

Best Audio:

1991 Fox Video LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

?

The 4K Blu-ray only has Atmos which is possibly the original mix, but the previous Blu-ray’s 4.0 sounds good too.

Additional Info:

More Chroma artifacts

Director: David Lean

2026: #787
2025: #778
2024: #763
2023: #770
2022: #770
Best English-Friendly:

UK ITV Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK very old transfer

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2026: #788
2025: #797
2024: #784
2023: #776
2022: #776
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2026: #789
2025: #771
2024: #758
2023: #794
2022: #794
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Best Video:

Carlotta France boxset Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol. 2

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov

2026: #790
2025: #783
2024: #769
2023: #744
2022: #744

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

Japan IVC Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Japan IVC Blu-ray but no English subtitle, otherwise only DVD

Director: Michael Haneke

2026: #791
2025: #802
2024: #783
2023: #777
2022: #777
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 2k eclair scan

Director: Lasse Hallström

2026: #792
2025: #820
2024: #814
2023: #790
2022: #790
Best Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Arrow Blu-ray has better encode than Criterion

Director: Orson Welles

2026: #793
2025: #779
2024: #766
2023: #734
2022: #734

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray > StudioCanal: Although Criterion is low-pass filtered, StudioCanal exhibits very clear and distracting macroblocking.

Best Audio:

TBD: UHDs sound muffled, but old YT clips sound clear. Need to look into DVDs and possibly VHS.

Directors: Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker

2026: #794
2025: #895
2024: #899
2023: #930
2022: #930
Best Audio:

1990 Paramount LaserDisc

Director: Erich von Stroheim

2026: #795
2025: #781
2024: #768
2023: #749
2022: #749
Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray

Best Video:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray new 4K restoration

Director: Víctor Erice

2026: #796
2025: #816
2024: #832
2023: #809
2022: #809

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

2026: #797
2025: #780
2024: #787
2023: #787
2022: #787
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Carlotta Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Carlotta Blu-ray better encoding than Criterion

Director: Josef von Sternberg

2026: #798
2025: #784
2024: #786
2023: #782
2022: #782

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

2026: #799
2025: #791
2024: #773
2023: #763
2022: #763
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion much superior, in Classic Hitchcock boxset too, old HD transfer

Director: Elaine May

2026: #800
2025: #858
2024: #873
2023: #894
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto