1956 on 4K UHD

dir. Stanley Kubrick

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Part of the Hitchcock Classics Collection Volume 3, which Gruv has discounted as low as $18 USD with coupons. Collectors call this the weaker of Hitchcock's two versions of the story (the 1934 British original is preferred by purists) but the Doris Day performance and "Que Sera, Sera" sequence make it the more visually interesting disc.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Satyajit Ray

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Charles Walters

S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. The Technicolor pops.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Jean-Pierre Melville

A-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Melville's heist film. If you like Melville, this is where to start alongside Le Samourai.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. George Stevens

Warner's June 2022 4K is from a new restoration of George Stevens' 1956 Texas epic, native 4K HDR10 in the original 1.66:1 framing. The Edna Ferber adaptation runs over three hours and Warner's bitrate shows it on a single BD-100 disc. The Mexican color and Giffin Reata sky shots get the dynamic range they were graded for.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Kon Ichikawa

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. John Ford

Warner Bros. 4K steelbook announced, release date placeholder currently showing December 30. One comment called it 'one of the best looking 4K remasters I've seen.' Top 3 for several people in the thread, others waiting to see the final artwork before committing.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Cecil B. DeMille

Still coming up in Easter and Passover context. Someone rewatched it ahead of their Ben-Hur collector's edition arriving and the comments went to Spartacus comparisons. The 4K is A-Tier.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Don Siegel

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

dir. Eldar Ryazanov

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

Vinegar Syndrome · Limited Edition

dir. Fred M. Wilcox

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

Warner Bros. · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Leslie Norman

The first 4K release of the Hammer film often pegged as the missing Quatermass entry, restored by Hammer and Silver Salt for the 70th anniversary. Three cuts are on the discs, the UK 1.66:1 theatrical, the 1.37:1 as-filmed version, and the US 1.85:1. The Limited Collector's Edition drops the digipak into a leather-feel slipcase with a 120-page book, art cards, and a poster of the original one-sheets. The standard 4K covers the same three cuts without the deluxe packaging. £123 vs £74 direct from Hammer's shop, street date July 27 2026.

Hammer Films · Limited Edition

dir. Dick Powell

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.