Blu-ray.com Reviewers Best of 2018 and Your Favourite Releases

[OgamiittoMcJ]

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=24385


another great year, still got loads to watch, and still to buy

my favourites

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Others

[DefLeppard]

Fav BDs from 2018 that I currently own -

Arrow-



Eureka-



pH-



All those box set and BD premier releases deserve to be in this list.

Second Sight-



Berlin Alexanderplatz and Heimat easily fall into this list but I am yet to get these ones.

Technically I do not have these below ones in my possession yet but are in transit-



And for the obivous reason -




2018 has been an eventful year ;Managed to get some of these OOP releases through eBay and Amz at great bargain price..

[Show spoiler]@ eBay-
C$22 each-


$45-



$20



~110 ($65+ shipping $49)



~$90


~$20






@ Amz

$20


£20

[Gerby]

My 10 favourites of 2018

[Patient-X]

[stepeanut]

My top ten:






Also, I’d like to give a shout out to Jay Glennie’s book about the making of Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s 1970 film Performance. A stunning piece of work that is not only beautiful to look at, but further enhances our collective knowledge of the film:

https://performance-book.com

[FantasticMrFox]

My 25 favorites of 2018 that I own:

[Aclea]

Top ten
NIGHT OF THE DEMON
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH - Criterion, natch
POLICE STORY
SEIHUN SUZUKI - THE EARLY YEARS – yes, I’m cheating by including both volumes
MERRILY WE LIVE – been waiting for this one to get a release for a long, long time: one of the funniest screwball comedies of the 30s
INGMAR BERGMAN’S CINEMA
HAMMER Volume Three: Blood and Terror
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA
SUSPIRIA - Synapse
DOCTOR WHO – Series Twelve

Honourable mentions
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
AU REVOIR LÀ-HAUT (aka SEE YOU UP THERE)
BILLY BUDD
CASH ON DEMAND
LE CORBEAU
GERONIMO: An American Legend
THE GREAT SILENCE
GUMSHOE
THE HANGING TREE
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO
HOME FROM THE HILL
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956, Signature edition)
THE LAST HUNT
LET’S MAKE LOVE
MY COUSIN RACHEL (1952)
THE OUTER LIMITS
QUAI DES ORFEVRES
THE COMPLETE SARTANA
THE SEA HAWK (1940)
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS - German release
YEAR OF THE DRAGON – German release

Borderline eligibility
DEEP RED – missed the UK two-disc edition, so I’m including the US release in this year’s list
ERIC ROHMER COLLECTION – December 2017 release but couldn’t get a copy in stock at HMV until January
FOUR FACES WEST – borderline if we’re being pedantic since it was really a late December 2017 release
THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM – another very late December 2017 title

[Firefly2193]

I've not seen or even yet own all of them, but these are the releases I'm most happy studios and boutiques have put out. Ingmar Bergman's Cinema a clear winner for the year. An incredible package, beautifully put together that I can't wait to explore in 2019.

[Grethiwha]

I feel like this should be one of the most popular year-end topics, yet every year I struggle to even find a thread like this; I'm far more interested in what the community's top blu-ray releases of the year are, than what their top theatrical releases are. Why is this thread only at one page? Cause it's hidden in the UK subforum? Anyways, here are my top 10 releases of the year (for now):



The three newest films on this list - A Taxi Driver, Mandy, and The Shape of Water, all have more elaborately-packaged editions in other regions, which I've been tempted by at different times over the last year, but I've stuck to the standard editions. Unremarkable releases aside, these are some of my favourite films of the last two years and deserve inclusion for that reason.

Wild at Heart is a movie I keep rewatching, and liking more every time I see it. When I bought the French release last year, I just wanted to rewatch it, and I didn't think I liked the movie enough to care if the version I had was region B-locked and had some French text or whatever. Now I've watched the movie twice since then (including a couple hours ago), and I think it might be one of my favourite movies now, so I'm quite happy to have, for my money, a much more definitive edition of the film. An honourable mention also to another "Shout Select" Nic Cage Collector's Edition: Valley Girl is another pretty awesome release.

The Great Silence is one of my favourite movies since I watched it a few years back (in really low quality), so this is definitely one of the biggest releases of the year for me – haven't got around to watching it yet, but I will soon!

I got on a real John Waters kick last year, and Female Trouble, now watching it again on Criterion blu-ray (loaded with great extras), is goddamn hilarious, definitely one of his best. I'm so glad Criterion is releasing these stupid movies, and I can't wait for Polyester this year (with scratch and sniff cards included I trust). However, my favourite Criterion release of the year is definitely Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - an absolutely stunning release of one of the most audio-visually stunning movies ever made.

Ichi the Killer is another movie, like the Dead or Alive Trilogy last year, that I'd watched in super-low quality years ago and thought was okay, but decided to revisit thanks to the new blu-ray, and to my surprise ended up totally loving on my second viewing. These are films I feel I could revisit again and again, and I'm so glad this era of Miike's work is getting some decent treatment on blu.

But my absolute favourite releases of the year are Third Window's simultaneously announced Sion Sono releases: The Whispering Star and Antiporno. With any new Sion Sono release, it's up in the air whether any kind of English-friendly release will exist whatsoever – this is my favourite filmmaker, and I'm always wondering how and if I can actually see his new stuff. Third Window previously said The Whispering Star was way too risky for them (being Sono's least marketable film in decades), and I figured Antiporno was out of their price range as well – I figured Whispering Star, and by extension the associated feature documentary The Sion Sono, was a lost cause, and Antiporno, unless maybe Eureka picks it up, nobody would. Then Third Window announced all of this at once, and made my damn year with these fantastic releases.

[adamhopelies]

Two titles really stood out for me this year.





My top ten would be rounded out by the following, in no particular order.-

A Matter Of Life And Death -Criterion
Sam Fuller - Indicator
Charlie Bubbles - Indicator
Night Of The Living Dead - Criterion
Godard / Gorin - Arrow
Cold Water - Criterion
True Stories - Criterion
The Magnificent Ambersons - Criterion

Honourable mention goes to MoC's The Last Waltz, which is by far the most exciting thing I've ever worked on.

[samdaman94]

In no order...

Escape from New York 4K
The Fog 4K
Prince of Darkness 4K
They Live 4K
2001: A Space Odyssey 4K
The Deer Hunter 4K
Lucky/Partly Fiction
Mission: Impossible Fallout 4K
First Reformed
Won't You Be My Neighbor?

[stepeanut]

DVDBeaver poll results:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/Blu-ray_and...ay-of-the-year

[magnetiques]

Stand-out for me was my grail finally in 4k with great encoding:



actually no one's mentioned Cure, classic film and the best-yet presentation from MoC:

[adamhopelies]

Sight & Sound’s annual home video list is up.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-m...-blu-rays-2018

[Yami]

1. Ingmar Bergman's Cinema

How could it not be? One of the most comprehensive home video releases ever, dedicated to the work of one of my favourite directors. It seems churlish to have any criticism of it, only that it is so comprehensive that the exclusions seem even more bizarre.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Second Sight have had a great year and this is the highlight - a great presentation, at the correct frame rate with some terrific extras. Bring on World on a Wire.

Jean-Luc Godard + Jean-Pierre Gorin: Five Films

My favourite Arrow Academy release of the year. Here's hoping that Arrow continue to release Godard's less traditionally celebrated works.

Early Hou Hsiao-Hsien

I've been asking/begging for HHH releases for years now, so this was a very welcome follow up to MoC's release of Daughter of the Nile last year. Undoubtedly an essential release, with the only negative being that, well, two out of the three films are not very good. Fingers crossed that local releases of the likes of A Time to Live, A Time to Die, Dust in the Wind, and Millennium Mambo will happen.

Cold Water

An Olivier Assayas film that I've wanted to see for years, and it didn't disappoint. A fantastic release from Criterion too, who really had a banner year and re-asserted their place on top of the boutique label food chain with Bergman, this, Dietrich / Von Sternberg, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Age of Innocence, The Tree of Life, Andrei Rublev, and A Matter of Life and Death.

[RossyG]

So many great releases this year. I’d like to highlight the efforts of Australia’s Umbrella Entertainment, who continued their Ozploitation releases in 2018 with...

Fair Game
Razorback
Next of Kin
Frog Dreaming
Chain Reaction
Felicity/Centrespread

I also greatly appreciated their releases of...

Death Wish 4/5
Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye

[Fnord Prefect]

For anyone who's interested:








Honourable DVD mentions:



EDIT: And how could I forget? (see avatar)

[FantasticMrFox]

Originally Posted by Grethiwha

I feel like this should be one of the most popular year-end topics, yet every year I struggle to even find a thread like this; I'm far more interested in what the community's top blu-ray releases of the year are, than what their top theatrical releases are. Why is this thread only at one page? Cause it's hidden in the UK subforum?

There's also a thread in the US forums but with equally participation ...
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ight=best+2018

[RossyG]

My problem is remembering what's come out.

[lateralspin]

Arrow release of Candyman is one of my favourite releases of the year in terms of packaging.