France
217 Films
France
217 Included Films
Aliases: fra, french, france, fr
Type: Region

Directors: Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp
France Lobster Films Blu-ray though a very weak encoding caps, is a newer master (4K scan of MoMA first gen nitrate print) than Cohen/MoC, which are themselves a newer master than Kino Lorber.

Directors: Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp
France Lobster Films Blu-ray though a very weak encoding caps, is a newer master (4K scan of MoMA first gen nitrate print) than Cohen/MoC, which are themselves a newer master than Kino Lorber.

Director: René Clair

Director: René Clair

Director: René Clair

Director: René Clair

Directors: Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
MoC/Cohen is 4k transfer https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=112722&page=5

Directors: Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
MoC/Cohen is 4k transfer https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=112722&page=5

Director: F. W. Murnau

Director: F. W. Murnau

Director: Frank Borzage

Director: Frank Borzage

Director: René Clair
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 OCN 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"

Director: René Clair
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 OCN 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"

Director: John Murray Anderson

Director: John Murray Anderson





Director: Dorothy Arzner
Indicator Blu-ray is superior, France Elephant Films Blu-ray has some filtering applied see comparison

Director: Dorothy Arzner
Indicator Blu-ray is superior, France Elephant Films Blu-ray has some filtering applied see comparison

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Indicator Blu-ray has better encoding than Criterion Blu-ray, both 4K restoration, see DVDBeaver caps
No caps on France Elephant Films Blu-ray

Director: Josef von Sternberg
Indicator Blu-ray has better encoding than Criterion Blu-ray, both 4K restoration, see DVDBeaver caps
No caps on France Elephant Films Blu-ray

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Director: René Clair

Director: René Clair

Director: René Clair

Director: René Clair

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Elephant Films France Blu-ray , but it seems to be a HD restoration, different from the 4K DCP restoration

Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Elephant Films France Blu-ray , but it seems to be a HD restoration, different from the 4K DCP restoration

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Director: Josef von Sternberg


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