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

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Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

2026: #841
2025: #857
2024: #866
2023: #863

Director: Toshio Matsumoto

2026: #842
2025: #839
2024: #833
2023: #837

Director: Céline Sciamma

2026: #843
2025: #824
2024: #829
2023: #825
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Pyramide France Blu-ray

Video Notes:

But they're close

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

2026: #844
2025: #830
2024: #862
2023: #897
2022: #897

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France Metropolitan 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Lionsgate DVD for the original 5.1

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

2026: #845
2025: #849
2024: #856
2023: #843
2022: #843
Best Video:

UK ICON 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

UK ICON 4K Blu-ray (caps)

UK 4K Blu-ray has a slightly better encode than US Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray and Germany StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

5.1 mix is flawed on Shout! Factory/ICON, a phasey upmix instead of the proper discrete surround. The UHD 2.0 tracks are downmixes of that track.
2008 Fox Blu-ray sounds great, very close to the original 70mm mix, only with split surround.
2001 DVD has the original mix as 4.1 and matrixed 2.0.

Imprint 4K has a 4.0 track. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray has a different 5.1, unclear if it's the same as Fox BD.

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne

2026: #846
2025: #838
2024: #838
2023: #816
2022: #816
Best Video:

New Yorker Video DVD

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

Upcoming Release:

4K restoration screened in 2023, no Blu-ray yet 

Director: Lindsay Anderson

2026: #847
2025: #825
2024: #819
2023: #845
2022: #845

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly:

HD Streaming or WB DVD

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

Best Video:

HD Streaming only

Video Notes:

Criterion has the rights to it, but no news on releases https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=375463 

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

2026: #848
2025: #827
2024: #830
2023: #833
2022: #833

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

UK BFI or France Carlotta

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

UK BFI and France Carlotta very similar

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

2026: #849
2025: #837
2024: #825
2023: #800
2022: #800
Best Video:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray, see caps

MoC is sourced from an earlier scan, but still looks more detailed than the later 4K restoration released by Kadokawa in Japan, which has some black crush and DNR. French Capricci disc is sourced from the same scan as MoC but with much worse encoding and wrong levels.

Best Audio:

1991 Daiei LaserDisc

Director: Raoul Walsh

2026: #850
2025: #847
2024: #841
2023: #822
2022: #822
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Director: Peter Watkins

2026: #851
2025: #840
2024: #836
2023: #836
2022: #836
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Chantal Akerman

2026: #852
2025: #860
2024: #857
2023: #877
Best Video:

BFI Chantal Akerman: Volume 2 Blu-ray

Director: Kathleen Collins

2026: #853
2025: #829
2024: #823
2023: #820
Best Video:

US Milestone Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Milestone US has Blu-ray

Director: Gaspar Noé

2026: #854
2025: #835
2024: #860
2023: #848
2022: #848
Best Video:

Indicator Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

UK Indicator is good, not sure about US

Director: Miklós Jancsó

2026: #855
2025: #879
2024: #905
2023: #895
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4k resto

Director: Kaneto Shindo

2026: #856
2025: #828
2024: #835
2023: #857
2022: #857
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion

Video Notes:

Criterion > Eureka MoC

Director: Mike Nichols

2026: #857
2025: #888
2024: #898
2023: #974
2022: #974
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Director: Fritz Lang

2026: #858
2025: #869
2024: #855
2023: #854
2022: #854
Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

Eureka MoC

Video Notes:

Eureka MoC > Kino Lorber

Director: Akira Kurosawa

2026: #859
2025: #834
2024: #824
2023: #797
2022: #797

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Japan

Video Notes:

Japan and France have Blu-ray

Director: Kira Muratova

2026: #860
2025: #851
2024: #863
2023: #893
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

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

Best Video:

4K restoration is done! and Janus seems to have the rights, but no releases yet.