L'Âge d'or (1930)
Romance, Comedy, Drama • 1h 3m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst, Josep Llorens Artigas, Lionel Salem, Germaine Noizet, Duchange, Bonaventura Ibáñez, Jean Aurenche, Jacques Brunius, Luis Buñuel, Jean Castanier, Juan Castañe, Pancho Cossío, Simone Cottance, Marie Berthe Ernst, Juan Esplandiu, Pedro Flores, Claude Heymann, Valentine Hugo, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Marval, Juan Ramón Masoliver, Jaume Miravitlles, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, Jaime Otero, Joaquin Peinado, Roland Penrose, Valentine Penrose, Domingo Pruña, Jacques Prévert, Pierre Prévert, Joaquín Roa, Raymond de Sarka, Paul Éluard
Best video release
4k transfer, no disc https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/films/lage-dor/
About the film
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
- TSPDT
- 2026: #1692025: #1672024: #1662023: #1612022: #161
- Alternative Titles
- The Golden Age, Age of Gold
Director: Luis Buñuel
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Luis Buñuel
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray uses a newer 4k scan than Criterion Blu-ray or older StudioCanal Blu-ray see https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=4373
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal has 4k, good encode, accuracy of the color grading is debatable vs Criterion
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion and StudioCanal very similar
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Martin Rosen
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Director: F. W. Murnau
2006 Restoration: Eureka Blu-ray
1995 photochemical restoration: BFI Blu-ray
Eureka with Murnau institute restoration featuring score based on original score, BFI uses Photoplay restoration with James Bernard score
Both Eureka and BFI Blu-rays are worthy of owning. Each restoration has unique positives and extras. The James Bernard score on the BFI is outstanding and the image tinting is different to how the Murnau institute official restoration was done. The Eureka MoC Blu-ray is stuffed with extras and remains one of the best-made Blu-rays of all time. Whatever you do: AVOID THE Kino Lorber Blu-ray!!! It uses the same Murnau institute restoration but drops frames for the whole feature - thus it loses a significant portion of the film! This was never acknowledged or addressed. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray remains one of the worst Blu-rays of all time for this reason.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Video format: 4K Streaming
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Film Masters youtube (raw scan)
More Romance on Blu-ray
Director: Robert Altman
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Cinematrographe's HDR grading is overcooked, which is a known VinSyn tendency. Additionally, their booklet mis-credits the encode to FiM.
YMMV, but for some, the included BD encoded by Marcus Johnson—ironically may make for a more pleasing experience.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Vincent Sherman
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Compton Bennett
4K restoration from original technicolor negatives
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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