Grapevine

17 films on Best Blurays

Best video release:

Based in United Statesgrapevinevideo.com (opens in a new tab)

Run from Phoenix by Jack and Jason Hardy, Grapevine sold rare silent and early sound films from the VHS era onward, later on DVD and, from about 2017, a small line of Blu-rays. Transfers varied in quality and usually came with new organ, synth or compiled scores. Retail sales ended on 6 September 2023 when Jack Hardy retired.

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How we pick the best Grapevine releases

8 in HD

Best video release on Blu-ray or HD streaming · by Letterboxd rating

So This Is Paris (1926)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best Video & English-Friendly:

OOP Grapevine Blu-ray

3.7

What Price Glory (1926)

Director: Raoul Walsh

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Grapevine OOP Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

New restoration by MoMA and Film Foundation https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11558 no release yet

3.5

Ella Cinders (1926)

Director: Alfred E. Green

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Grapevine OOP Blu-ray

3.5

Miss Lulu Bett (1921)

Director: William C. deMille

Best Video & English-Friendly:

Grapevine Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

New 4K restoration from original nitrate print, see film forum

3.4

The Italian Straw Hat (1928)

Director: René Clair

Best English-Friendly:

Grapevine Blu-ray

Best Video:

The latest and best restoration from official screencaps are from Shout! Factory Silent Film Festival + Cinémathèque Française https://silentfilm.org/preservation/the-italian-straw-hat/ which is from Original Camera Negative and original France title negative. Janus seems to have acquired the rights https://www.janusfilms.com/films/2259 The Grapevine Blu-ray (including their updated 2K transfer) or the Flicker Alley DVD might be the ones referred in the above Shout! Factory Silent Film Festival as "US viewers have had to be satisfied with either the alternate version that was released in the United States in 1931, or hybrids that supplement the US version with additional footage"