1962 on 4K UHD

dir. Akira Kurosawa

Criterion and BFI both released Yojimbo/Sanjuro in 4K, and the BFI version has Dolby Vision while the Japanese release is SDR. Packaging disappointed some collectors because BFI used a cardboard slip instead of a hardbox like Seven Samurai got. People want matching hardboxes for the whole Kurosawa 4K run, but space-conscious collectors are fine with slimmer packaging. The SDR debate matters here since the Criterion release also lacks HDR grading.

Criterion Collection · Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa

dir. David Lean

The post calling this disc a personal benchmark for the format stayed one of the week's biggest threads. The replies are a collective argument for 70mm on 4K, with Suspiria, Vertigo, Ben-Hur, Blade Runner, and The Sound of Music all named. Shot on film, all of them, with restorations that match the source. If you don't own this one yet, the community is running out of patience.

Sony Pictures · Steelbook (60th Anniversary Limited Edition)

dir. Terence Young

Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Jean-Pierre Melville

A-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Melville's noir about informers. The UK Blu-ray was the previous go-to before Kino's 4K arrived, and the cafe scenes benefit most from the cleaner master.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Riccardo Freda

In late 19th century London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.

dir. John Frankenheimer

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Orson Welles

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Howard Hawks

A-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Howard Hawks safari film with John Wayne.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Robert Mulligan

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

Universal Pictures · 60th Anniversary Edition

dir. John Ford

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Kenji Misumi

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive family is massacred for keeping the secret. Armed with an unbeatable swordfighting technique, Shingo embarks on the path of the masterless samurai in search of vengeance and a path beyond his own ignominious origins.

dir. Ishirō Honda

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.

dir. Stanley Kubrick

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.

Warner Bros. · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Hermann Leitner, Rudolf Nussgruber

A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.

dir. Luis Buñuel

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.

Radiance Films · Restored

dir. Luis Buñuel

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Radiance Films · Restored