Harry Dean Stanton movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. Ridley Scott
The transfer finally gets the color timing right after years of home video versions that never matched the theatrical. Looks really good on an OLED. The Aliens 4K got hit with AI upscaling controversy, but the original Alien's transfer is clean. The Filmarena steelbook is the collector's item if you can find one, otherwise the standard 4K is the same disc.
20th Century Studios · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Wim Wenders
S-Tier Curzon Film 4K. Wim Wenders' film about a man wandering out of a Texas desert. The Criterion 4K generated huge excitement just from people posting about seeing it in a theater. The Curzon encoding is slightly better than Criterion's, but both look great. People watched this for the first time and couldn't stop thinking about it for days. Breaking Bad fans keep spotting the influence.
Curzon Film · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Alex Cox
Criterion 4K. The conversation about what the film is really about produced one of the best single-sentence readings of any film on the internet. One of those discs where some buyers reported defective copies, but the transfer itself is clean once you get a good pressing. The film stock is fine-grained enough that it looks pristine in 4K.
Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray
