Best/Worst companies for subtitles?

[ravenus]

Usually it's only the major studios that can afford to subtitle extras. Boutique studios will only subtitle foreign language extras. The BFI being a publicly supported venture may have some contractual obligation for subtitling of all its releases so as to not isolate hearing impaired audiences. One thing I dislike about Criterion is that if a film has multiple languages, then the English portions are not subtitled. I wish they offered an option of full subtitling, as it can be helpful especially when characters have thick accents while speaking English.