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Director: Charlie Chaplin

2026: #821
2025: #818
2024: #820
2023: #810
2022: #810
Best English-Friendly:

1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD. 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

1923 version: Image Entertainment DVD 1976 version: Criterion Blu-ray

Directors: Ben Sharpsteen & Norman Ferguson & Bill Roberts & Jack Kinney & Wilfred Jackson & Samuel Armstrong

2026: #822
2025: #836
2024: #828
2023: #801
2022: #801

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

1995 LaserDisc or 2001 60th anniversary release DVD

Best Audio:

1995/1982 LaserDisc, DVD only contains 5.1 remix

Director: Quentin Tarantino

2026: #823
2025: #845
2024: #852
2023: #855
2022: #855
Best English-Friendly:

International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray Germany Cut: Germany Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

International Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Universal 4K Blu-ray Germany Cut: Germany Universal 4K Blu-ray

Director: Mel Brooks

2026: #824
2025: #808
2024: #795
2023: #832
2022: #832

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

Eclair new 4k resto,
StudioCanal UK lower bitrate and yellow tint,
Kino Lorber did color correction on top of that, but maybe the old Shout! Factory/MoC 2k transfer with better color but worse details is better overall
Check caps-a-holic, and discussion https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=217927&page=7

Director: John Ford

2026: #825
2025: #832
2024: #822
2023: #799
2022: #799
Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive

Director: Ingmar Bergman

2026: #826
2025: #823
2024: #831
2023: #807
2022: #807
Best Video:

BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

BFI newer master than Criterion (standalone and boxset)

Best Audio:

Tartan DVD

Director: René Clément

2026: #827
2025: #812
2024: #799
2023: #830
2022: #830
Best English-Friendly:

StudioCanal Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

StudioCanal UK/France

Video Notes:

StudioCanal UK/France has Blu-ray, kinda old transfer

Additional Info:

There is a 4K DCP but no home release yet

Director: Jia Zhangke

2026: #828
2025: #819
2024: #811
2023: #795
2022: #795
Best Video:

US Big World Pictures Blu-ray

Director: Maurice Pialat

2026: #829
2025: #810
2024: #818
2023: #812
2022: #812
Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

Eureka MoC

Video Notes:

Eureka MoC > Cohen

Director: Samuel Fuller

2026: #830
2025: #809
2024: #816
2023: #818
2022: #818
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

France is using the same transfer

Director: Werner Herzog

2026: #831
2025: #826
2024: #848
2023: #851
2022: #851
Best Video:

2015 UK Lionsgate Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Criterion Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

2026: #832
2025: #811
2024: #815
2023: #806
2022: #806
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion vs StudioCanal Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion, UK StudioCanal, France TF1 Blu-ray all new resto, no comparison

Director: Martin Scorsese

2026: #833
2025: #1004
2024: #876

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2004 WB DVD

Director: Manoel de Oliveira

2026: #834
2025: #813
2024: #812
2023: #774
2022: #774

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Unreleased restoration or DVD

Sources: filmlinc.org (opens in a new tab)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

2026: #835
2025: #821
2024: #808
2023: #768
2022: #768
Best English-Friendly:

Lionsgate DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Jean Eustache

2026: #836
2025: #866
2024: #849
2023: #896
2022: #896

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion coming soon

Sources: filmlinc.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

New 4k resto, waiting for Criterion to release https://www.filmlinc.org/films/my-little-loves/ 

Director: Harmony Korine

2026: #837
2025: #843
2024: #834
2023: #796
2022: #796

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Old DVD

Audio Notes:

Old DVD slightly better

Director: Josef von Sternberg

2026: #838
2025: #870
2024: #859
2023: #883
Best Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

Indicator Blu-ray is slightly sharper than Criterion Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps

Additional Info:

Indicator Blu-ray has more extras than Criterion Blu-ray

Director: Don Siegel

2026: #839
2025: #842
2024: #854
2023: #847
2022: #847
Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or 2018 Olive Films/BFI or 2012 Olive Films/Italy Sinister Films Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

All three are not ideal.

All three are not ideal.

  • Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has frozen grain, sharpening, lots of debris, and handles lesser materials. The supposed non-Superscope version is false advertising. It merely reveals more picture information. 

Best Audio:

1992 Republic Pictures LaserDisc PCM Mono

Additional Info:

Criterion LaserDisc has exclusive commentary. Olive Films Signature Blu-ray and BFI Blu-ray each have exclusive extras. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has exclusive commentary.

Director: Joseph Cornell

2026: #840
2025: #817
2024: #805
2023: #813
Best Video:

Kino Lorber Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray