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Director: Luis Buñuel

2026: #81
2025: #80
2024: #88
2023: #86
2022: #86
Best Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Radiance Blu-ray / Criterion DVD

Additional Info:

Radiance's audio is ported from the Criterion DVD, see Blah-ray

Director: Steven Spielberg

2026: #82
2025: #91
2024: #92
2023: #94
2022: #94

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1995/1997 MCA LaserDisc

Director: Stanley Kubrick

2026: #83
2025: #86
2024: #86
2023: #90
2022: #90
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 for US Cut; both US and International Cuts are 4K.

Best Audio:

US Cut: 1999 WB DVD/Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

No Blu-ray or DVD release until the Criterion 4K Blu-ray has presented the US in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The International Cut has never been presented in it's OAR of 1.66:1 in any home video releases.

The packaging on the back of the WB 4K Blu-ray incorrectly states it as 1.85:1 when the movie is actually 1.78:1 as is the original Blu-ray. 

Director: Robert Bresson

2026: #84
2025: #81
2024: #78
2023: #78
2022: #78
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray, 2K restoration

Best Audio:

2004 New Yorker DVD

Director: David Lynch

2026: #85
2025: #90
2024: #87
2023: #87
2022: #87

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

Upcoming Release:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray in December

Video Notes:

Subtle difference in encoding to the Criterion in encoding, trading blows in different shots, with Plaion taking a slight edge with less highlight blocking

Best Audio:

1993 MGM LaserDisc/2000 Region 1 MGM DVD

Audio Notes:

Criterion's 2.0 sounds muffled due to noise reduction and EQ.
Plaion's 2.0 lacks bass and has a very bright EQ, more resembling the 5.1 remix. Plaion’s 2.0 doesn't have any filtering unlike the Criterion, see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23831289&postcount=110

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

2026: #86
2025: #85
2024: #84
2023: #83
2022: #83
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Kadokawa Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kadokawa Blu-ray is new 4K restoration

Best Audio:

1991 Daiei LaserDisc

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

2026: #87
2025: #87
2024: #83
2023: #84
2022: #84
Video Notes:

Color is fine

Director: Ingmar Bergman

2026: #88
2025: #84
2024: #82
2023: #79
2022: #79

Director: John Ford

2026: #89
2025: #83
2024: #91
2023: #93
2022: #93
Best Video:

2022 Paramount Presents Blu-ray disc included in 4K Blu-ray set

Sources: x.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Same master, but less bitrate starved.

Best Audio:

1980s Paramount VHS

Additional Info:

The encode on the BD is preferable to the UHD. Same master, but less bitrate starved: https://x.com/SadHillDevan/status/1530057783885721607?s=20 and see caps

Director: Robert Altman

2026: #90
2025: #92
2024: #90
2023: #89
2022: #89
Best Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Director: Orson Welles

2026: #91
2025: #89
2024: #85
2023: #85
2022: #85
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k restoration

Best Audio:

1989/1993 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Robert Bresson

2026: #92
2025: #88
2024: #89
2023: #88
2022: #88
Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray/Criterion Blu-ray (preference)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

BFI and Criterion BDs are same restoration, but BFI is much darker and Criterion is much brighter. Unsure which is correct.

Director: Charlie Chaplin

2026: #93
2025: #93
2024: #93
2023: #92
2022: #92

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

And it has both 1925 version and 1942 version

Director: Chris Marker

2026: #94
2025: #95
2024: #95
2023: #95
2022: #95
Best English-Friendly:

English version: France/Japan Blu-ray

French version: Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France/Japan BDs

Video Notes:

The France/Japan Blu-ray has no English subtitles for the French version.

Newer restoration than Criterion. Unsure how the two compare.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

2026: #95
2025: #94
2024: #94
2023: #91
2022: #91
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection

Director: Chris Marker

2026: #96
2025: #96
2024: #96
2023: #98
2022: #98
Best English-Friendly:

English version: France Blu-ray

French version: Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France Blu-ray

Video Notes:

The France Blu-ray has no English subtitles for the French version.

Newer restoration than Criterion.

Director: Agnès Varda

2026: #97
2025: #97
2024: #97
2023: #97
2022: #97
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Varda box

Best Audio:

2000 Criterion DVD

Director: François Truffaut

2026: #98
2025: #99
2024: #98
2023: #96
2022: #96
Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

BFI Blu-ray has better encode than Criterion

Best Audio:

2001 MK2 DVD

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

2026: #99
2025: #98
2024: #102
2023: #100
2022: #100

Directors: Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid

2026: #100
2025: #100
2024: #99
2023: #99
2022: #99
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Maya Deren Collection