Subject line says it all, I really wanna blow away my very picky friends with a screen filling transfer!!! Looking for sharpness, good colour tone etc etc
Hannibal--very nice transfer and cinematography beautiful Italian location shots. Ten Commandments--gorgeous Technicolor Below--good submarine/ghost movie and effective 5.1 soundtrack.
These are all 1:85 aspect ratio so won't have black bars on your widescreen set.
I don't mind the black bars of 2:35+ aspect ratio films on my widescreen set, but if one is trying to impress the uninitiated filling the screen overcomes the blackbar phobia they sometimes have.
Vanilla Sky's another good one. Also, here's one that will give your sound system a good workout too: Queen's "We Will Rock You" concert disc, especially the DTS edition
You'll see CHARLOTTE GRAY pop up a lot as a reference-quality ISF-standard transfer... and I totally agree. The flesh tones, color rendition and black level in this title are astonishing. Not to mention it's a pretty damn good movie.