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Director: Joel Coen

2026: #961
2025: #935
2024: #939
2023: #971
2022: #971
Best Video:

Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD

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

Video Notes:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21782879#post21782879 - comparison. StudioCanal is a massive improvement to the Criterion but still flawed in some areas (chroma noise)

Director: Don Siegel

2026: #962
2025: #943
2024: #931
2023: #923
2022: #923
Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

WB 4K Blu-ray despite extreme frozen grain in moments, overzealous HDR brightness in outdoor sequences, color timing shifts in some shots

Best Audio:

Original Mono Mix: 1990's LaserDisc stereo remix folded back to mono, original VHS and Beta Hifi, WB 4K Blu-ray mono

Director: Dino Risi

2026: #963
2025: #941
2024: #990
Best Video:

Radiance Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Italy Cecchi Gori DVD/Netherlands Homescreen DVD

Director: Robert Clouse

2026: #964
2025: #1229
2024: #1286

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

Video Notes:

But compression is not very good. The two cuts are (by mistake?) separate videos on one disc.

Best Audio:

Criterion Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Also see review

Director: Jean Renoir

2026: #965
2025: #948
2024: #950
2023: #940
2022: #940

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Criterion

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k transfer

Best Audio:

France M6 Video Blu-ray

Directors: Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub

2026: #966
2025: #945
2024: #930
2023: #910

Video format: HD Streaming

Best Video:

Youtube HD Streaming or DVD

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

Video Notes:

It has DCP showings but no Blu-ray releases.

Director: Orson Welles

2026: #967
2025: #959
2024: #961
2023: #916
2022: #916
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Criterion 4k resto

TV series

2026: #968
2025: #963
2024: #948
2023: #926

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

There was 16mm color print screening

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev

2026: #969
2025: #953
2024: #965
2023: #980
2022: #980
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Kino Lorber

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber > Artificial Eye, see review

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa

2026: #970
2025: #979
2024: #973
2023: #986
Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray

Director: Ivan Reitman

2026: #971
2025: #973
2024: #1022
Best Video:

2022 Sony Ultimate Collection 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Only 2022 'Ultimate Collection' has dolby vision. 2022 ‘Ultimate Collection’ also has a higher average bitrate.

Best Audio:

1989 Criterion LaserDisc

Director: Sam Mendes

2026: #972
2025: #956
2024: #947
2023: #944
2022: #944
Best Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Aleksei German

2026: #973
2025: #950
2024: #941
2023: #925
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow Blu-ray

Best Video:

Arrow 2k resto

Director: King Vidor

2026: #974
2025: #972
2024: #954
2023: #933
2022: #933
Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber vs France Carlotta vs Germany Blu-ray ?

Best Video:

Kino Lorber US, and other Germany and France Blu-ray

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

2026: #975
2025: #952
2024: #944
2023: #922
2022: #922
Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical: Arrow 4K Blu-ray or Criterion 4K Blu-ray (preference)

TV: Arrow Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Theatrical: Arrow 4K Blu-ray and Criterion 4K Blu-ray have different gradings (preference)

TV: Arrow Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

(unsure about Criterion, which lacks the 5.1 on the Arrow)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

2026: #976
2025: #955
2024: #981
2023: #958
2022: #958
Best Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.

Audio Notes:

DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix

Additional Info:

Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: David Perlov

2026: #977
2025: #951
2024: #1025

Director: Walter Ruttmann

2026: #978
2025: #1030
2024: #989
2023: #970
2022: #970
Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray

Director: Louis Malle

2026: #979
2025: #990
2024: #1041
Best Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray uses new restoration and is superior.
Criterion is in 1.66:1, while Curzon UK / Gaumont France was in 1.37:1. Note: Criterion is the original aspect ratio.

Director: Bong Joon Ho

2026: #980
2025: #986
2024: #988
2023: #988
2022: #988

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly:

Artificial Eye Blu-ray?

Best Video:

France 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

DNR-affected, low-res original 2K DI upscaled but strong compression and Atmos