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

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TV series

2026: #881
2025: #885
2024: #881
2023: #890

Director: Rob Reiner

2026: #882
2025: #1044
2024: #1089

Directors: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet

2026: #883
2025: #864
2024: #846
2023: #838
2022: #838

Director: Mati Diop

2026: #884
2025: #880
2024: #912
2023: #917

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion possibly? Or Streaming

Best Video:

France Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Netflix annouced supposedly Criterion, but not yet. France has Blu-ray

Director: Ettore Scola

2026: #885
2025: #871
2024: #864
2023: #834
2022: #834

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

None?

Best Video:

StudioCanal France

Video Notes:

StudioCanal France has Blu-ray

Director: John Cassavetes

2026: #886
2025: #873
2024: #874
2023: #884

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or Twilight Time?

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray uses same old Sony master

Director: Carlos Saura

2026: #887
2025: #875
2024: #924
2023: #903
2022: #903
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI

Director: Federico Fellini

2026: #888
2025: #898
2024: #888
2023: #889
2022: #889
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion Essential Fellini

Director: John Boorman

2026: #889
2025: #957
2024: #1049
Best English-Friendly & Audio:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

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

Audio Notes:

(Arrow 4K Blu-ray's mono seems to be out of sync, suggested by comparisons. Issue is TBC officially)

Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray is FiM encoded, see caps

Additional Info:

Arrow LE will have an exclusive 3rd disc which will not be on the standard edition

Director: Alan Clarke

2026: #890
2025: #944
2024: #938
2023: #951
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Alan Clarke Boxset

Directors: Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam

2026: #891
2025: #877
2024: #875
2023: #901
2022: #901
Best Video:

2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Majority of film (theatrical and extended cuts): 1991 Columbia US VHS (or possibly 1994 Columbia LaserDisc?)

32-second scene (extended cut): 1993 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: John Huston

2026: #892
2025: #884
2024: #878
2023: #859
2022: #859
Best English-Friendly:

Altitude/Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Altitude UK / Capelight Germany 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

UK/Germany 4K Blu-ray

Director: Boris Barnet

2026: #893
2025: #876
2024: #868
2023: #842
2022: #842
Best English-Friendly:

DVD

Best Video:

DVD only

Director: Kelly Reichardt

2026: #894
2025: #909
2024: #907
2023: #902
Best Video:

UK Soda boxset or US Oscilloscope Blu-ray

Director: James Cameron

2026: #895
2025: #962
2024: #980
Best Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Fox Blu-ray for original cuts without the extra scene added in the re-release and AI upscaling

Newer Blu-ray/4K has the extra scene, but is poor and has excessive AI upscaling

Additional Info:

An additional scene was added to the ending of the movie in the 2022 re-release: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=493908

Director: Marcel Carné

2026: #896
2025: #911
2024: #962
2023: #939
2022: #939
Best Video:

France StudioCanal 2025 4K Blu-ray

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

Video Notes:

StudioCanal 2025 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray uses a new 4K restoration. Even though France release, they included EN subtitles.

For Blu-ray, StudioCanal 2025 Blu-ray > Kino Lorber > StudioCanal.

See DVDBeaver comparisons

Director: Zhang Yimou

2026: #897
2025: #881
2024: #872
2023: #846
2022: #846
Best English-Friendly:

Most likely WCL China Blu-ray

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

Best Video:

WCL China Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WCL China Blu-ray probably best transfer https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=19502187&postcount=Crocodile124 over Imprint Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li

Director: Preston Sturges

2026: #898
2025: #889
2024: #877
2023: #867
2022: #867

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

HD Streaming

Director: John Huston

2026: #899
2025: #887
2024: #884
2023: #869
2022: #869

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

Best Audio:

Eureka Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Eureka Blu-ray > StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Older DVD or LaserDisc probably even better

Additional Info:

All blu-ray releases so far is from the 2010 scan.

Director: Kim Ki-duk

2026: #900
2025: #891
2024: #883
2023: #881
2022: #881
Best Video & Audio:

Umbrella Blu-ray