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Director: Paul Verhoeven

2026: #861
2025: #856
2024: #861
2023: #874
2022: #874
Best Video:

2022 Sony 4K Blu-ray

Directors: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud

2026: #862
2025: #844
2024: #847
2023: #891
Best English-Friendly:

English dub on StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or older Sony/StudioCanal Blu-ray

Director: Jacques Rivette

2026: #863
2025: #883
2024: #880
2023: #885
2022: #885
Best Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

2026: #864
2025: #848
2024: #869
2023: #875
Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber 4k resto

Additional Info:

The audio on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray comes from a better source than the various DVDs and the previous HD version on streaming. This audio is relatively untampered with, and is likely the best available source as no laserdisc was ever issued.

Directors: William Keighley & Michael Curtiz

2026: #865
2025: #878
2024: #870
2023: #849
2022: #849
Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

2008 WB Blu-ray (from a 2003 transfer)

Best Audio:

1988 Criterion LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(Still not great)

Director: Alain Resnais

2026: #866
2025: #854
2024: #934
2023: #938
2022: #938

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

New Yorker DVD?

Director: Philip Kaufman

2026: #867
2025: #855
2024: #842
2023: #839
2022: #839
Best Video:

WB Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: John Ford

2026: #868
2025: #862
2024: #844
2023: #828
2022: #828
Best English-Friendly:

WB Blu-ray

Best Video:

Warner Archive

Director: John Waters

2026: #869
2025: #846
2024: #839
2023: #888
2022: #888
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

Director: Éric Rohmer

2026: #870
2025: #863
2024: #887
2023: #872
2022: #872
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion and Potemkine

Video Notes:

Criterion and Potemkine both have boxsets

Director: Emir Kusturica

2026: #871
2025: #853
2024: #865
2023: #878
2022: #878

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Streaming

Best Video:

Carlotta France Blu-ray vs Germany Winkeler?

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

2026: #872
2025: #850
2024: #840
2023: #819
2022: #819
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Tod Browning

2026: #873
2025: #874
2024: #871
2023: #853
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers boxset, 2k resto

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

2026: #874
2025: #867
2024: #853
2023: #826
2022: #826
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

2020 Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray

Video Notes:

2020 Germany StudioCanal Blu-ray is new 4K restoration

Directors: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet

2026: #875
2025: #859
2024: #850
2023: #856
Best English-Friendly:

Grasshopper DVD

Sources: store.grasshopperfilm.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Grasshopper DVD Also available in Projectr SD Streaming

Director: Frederick Wiseman

2026: #876
2025: #915
2024: #911
2023: #882
Best Video:

BFI Boxset Blu-ray

Director: Blake Edwards

2026: #877
2025: #872
2024: #858
2023: #844
2022: #844
Best Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Hal Ashby

2026: #878
2025: #983
2024: #999
2023: #973
2022: #973
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray disappointing

Director: Paul Verhoeven

2026: #879
2025: #897
2024: #894
2023: #900
Best Video & Audio:

Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)

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

Video Notes:

The subtitles on the initial release has some issues.

Audio Notes:

The 5.1 track on the initial release has an error. This is corrected on the later "v2" discs.

Director: Ingmar Bergman

2026: #880
2025: #861
2024: #851
2023: #860
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 2k transfer

Best Audio:

2004 MGM DVD