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

1,020 films · page 48 of 51

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

2026: #941
2025: #992
2024: #996
2023: #999
2022: #999

Director: Claude Chabrol

2026: #942
2025: #933
2024: #914
2023: #955
2022: #955
Best Video:

UK Arrow DVD

Director: David Lynch

2026: #943
2025: #1031
2024: #1030
Upcoming Release:

British StudioCanal 4K Blu-Ray upcoming

Best Audio:

5.1 on 4K Blu-ray is a remix. Original 5.1 is best on 2012 Japan Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Martin Scorsese

2026: #944
2025: #922
2024: #921
2023: #920
2022: #920
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

StudioCanal and Universal Blu-ray have DNR. 4K master also exists, unreleased

Director: Brian De Palma

2026: #945
2025: #975
2024: #984
2023: #1000
2022: #1000
Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

1993 Universal LaserDisc

Additional Info:

Carlito’s Way was released theatrically in both Dolby Stereo and DTS. The 2.0 on the Arrow UHD is the original stereo mix, unknown if the 5.1 mix on the  Arrow disc is the original DTS mix.

Director: William Wyler

2026: #946
2025: #926
2024: #932
2023: #972
2022: #972
Video Notes:

Italy Plaion 4K Blu-ray > Paramount 4K Blu-ray (marginally)

Director: Hollis Frampton

2026: #947
2025: #923
2024: #918
2023: #909
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion A Hollis Frampton Odyssey Blu-ray

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

2026: #948
2025: #960
2024: #1039

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

2026: #949
2025: #961
2024: #1077
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1999 R1 WB DVD/2005 R2 WB DVD

Director: William Dieterle

2026: #950
2025: #938
2024: #935
2023: #919

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber US and Carlotta France

Director: Chantal Akerman

2026: #951
2025: #1020
2024: #1014
Best English-Friendly:

BFI Chantal Akerman: Volume 2 Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Chantal Akerman: Volume 2 Blu-ray or US Icarus Blu-ray

Video Notes:

BFI Chantal Akerman: Volume 2 Blu-ray or US Icarus Blu-ray but no comparisons

Director: Stan Brakhage

2026: #952
2025: #940
2024: #929
2023: #908
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion By Brakhage boxset

Director: Richard Linklater

2026: #953
2025: #928
2024: #946
2023: #969
2022: #969

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Germany Blu-ray has English audio 

Germany Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion but by StudioCanal 

Director: Frank Borzage

2026: #954
2025: #932
2024: #933
2023: #918
2022: #918

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

Video Notes:

4K restoration has no home media release yet

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

2026: #955
2025: #934
2024: #943
2023: #956
2022: #956
Best Video:

Lionsgate Blu-ray

Director: John Woo

2026: #956
2025: #929
2024: #927
2023: #964
2022: #964

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

Upcoming Release:

Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow has a different grade and a better encode than the Shout! Factory, though the difference in either is not major. Imprint release, which leaves Shout! Factory's master and subtitles as is, is encoded by FiM. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24473097&postcount=56

Best Audio:

Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD

Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)

Audio Notes:

Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)

Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD

Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)

Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.

Imprint presumably used the Shout! Factory original mix and left it as is, though no official confirmation.

Additional Info:

Arrow has a much better translation.

Arrow LE has the Taiwan Extended Cut which will not be present on the standard edition. However, Imprint is FiM and has its own archival extras not present on the Arrow.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

2026: #957
2025: #999
2024: #994
2023: #966
Best Video:

1991 Home Video Cut: Paramount 2008 Blu-ray

Theatrical Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, but it has problems described below in the additional info section, and worse encoding than the Coda cut.

Coda Cut: Paramount 4K Blu-ray, but it has problems described below in the additional info section, and also has slightly better encoding than the Theatrical/1991 Home Video cuts on 4K.

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

LaserDisc for original mix

Additional Info:

The Paramount 4K "restoration" is a desecration. It has completely revisionist color timing, harsh HDR, treatment of stock footage, bad encoding, selective DNR and grain management so bad that the entire screen frequently freezes up with only characters moving around in grain soup. It is so bad that the film's restorer Robert Harris publicly washed his hands of it saying essentially the 2007 restoration (with Willis and Coppola supervising) is how the film was intended and made. This is Paramount's modern version done their way. The new 1080p SDR Blu-rays in print are the crap 4K desecration master with the same problems still there just harder to spot and with crap encodes. Part III fares best of the three and these issues are at their most minimal-but they're still there. The new Coda version is given prominence with lesser encodes for the other two versions. The original mix was remixed into 5.1 decades ago and we have yet another version of this instead of the original Dolby Stereo SR as heard on the LaserDisc release.
The 2008 Blu-ray of the 2007 restoration, while an imperfect outdated disc, is LIGHT YEARS better than this 4K desecration. The only truly major issue is that it is very slightly redder than the 2007 finished master as seen on DCPs.
DFIC review of the hideous crap 4K Blu-rays: https://youtu.be/0uw6-Kcy_UA?si=ob1nDg0wTCvemjH0

Despite being restored alongside the Coppola Restorations of The Godfather: Parts I and II, the Part III restoration is not officially labelled a Coppola Restoration.

Director: Costa-Gavras

2026: #958
2025: #966
2024: #975
2023: #987
2022: #987
Best English-Friendly:

Spain Resen Blu-ray (Bootleg) or Criterion DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

France ARTE

Video Notes:

France ARTE has Costa-Gavras Coffret boxset Germany/Spain also have releases

Director: Peter Jackson

2026: #959
2025: #949
2024: #971
2023: #976
2022: #976
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K Blu-ray caveat: mostly great video but the 4K Blu-rays have had additional DNR applied in some scenes on top of the DNR that had been applied in post-production and was already present on the DVDs & Blu-rays

The 2020 Blu-ray may be better than the 4K Blu-ray?

Best Audio:

New Line Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

New Line Blu-ray have the original 6.1 mixes

Additional Info:

4K Blu-ray set is missing extras from the old Blu-ray/DVD releases

Director: George Lucas

2026: #960
2025: #942
2024: #957
2023: #942
2022: #942
Best Video:

Original 1973 cut: 35mm scans

1978 reissue cut: 2011 Universal Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original 1973 cut: 35mm scans

1978 reissue cut: 1992 Japan CIC Video LaserDisc