Harry Dean Stanton · 1984

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 · Limited Edition

dir. John Milius

Shout! Studios put John Milius's 1984 Cold War survival fantasy on 4K in 2022 with a strong A-Tier transfer. Best Buy got an exclusive Steelbook the same year and collectors who bought the standard Shout pressing first felt the usual burn. The old DVD was famously soft, so this is the first time the Colorado mountains and the school-bus invasion footage have looked sharp. The cast runs deep past Swayze and Sheen, with Powers Boothe, Lea Thompson, and a brief Harry Dean Stanton appearance most people forget about.

Shout! Studios · Collector's Edition

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

dir. John Binder

Kino Lorber Studio Classics put John Binder's 1984 UFO satire on 4K in March 2026. The film never had a Blu-ray release, going straight from DVD to UHD. The new Dolby Vision master came from a 4K scan of the 35mm OCN and looks grain-heavy with natural color. Cindy Williams, Fred Ward, and Harry Dean Stanton as a fake faith healer running a UFO-cult con job in rural Arizona. Binder records the commentary alongside producer Jeanne Field and historian Daniel Kremer.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray