François Périer

9 films on Best Blurays2 in 4K6 in HD1 in SD

François Périer photo

François Périer, (10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), born François Pillu in Paris, was a French actor. He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales in 1948. He was the narrator of the French-language version of Fantasia.

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Sylvia and the Ghost (1946)

Leading role · Director: Claude Autant-Lara

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Channel HD Streaming

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Channel HD Streaming is significantly better than r France M6 Vidéo DVD see caps

Criterion Eclipse Series 45 DVD is likely worse than its HD streaming

3.6

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Leading role · Director: Federico Fellini

Best English-Friendly & Video:

StudioCanal Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

StudioCanal Blu-ray > Criterion, contrast is more accurate according to my (vanshady) viewing of 4K DCP as well as this post

Best Audio:

1999 R1 Criterion DVD

4.4

Orpheus (1950)

Leading role · Director: Jean Cocteau

Best English-Friendly:

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Video Notes:

BFI > Criterion

4.1

Silence Is Golden (1947)

Leading role · Director: René Clair

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Pathé France Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Pathé France has 4k restoration in Blu-ray

3.6

Le Samouraï (1967)

Leading role · Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

& Pathé 4K Blu-ray have different gradings (preference). Opening scene on Criterion looks significantly worse, but similar elsewhere.

Best Audio:

2024 Criterion 4K Blu-ray/2017 Criterion Blu-ray/2005 Criterion DVD

4.2

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

Supporting role · Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray marginally better

4.2

Z (1969)

Supporting role · Director: Costa-Gavras

Best English-Friendly:

Spain Resen Blu-ray (Bootleg) or Criterion DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Video Notes:

France ARTE has Costa-Gavras Coffret boxset Germany/Spain also have releases

4.4

What? (1972)

Small role · Director: Roman Polanski

Best English-Friendly:

Severin Blu-ray

2.6

Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)

Small role · Directors: René Clair & Jean Delannoy & Henri Verneuil & Michel Boisrond & Christian-Jaque & Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Henri Decoin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Lorber DVD

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