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Jean Epstein
Première Vague
(1926-1928)

 

Contents: Mauprat (1926), La Glace à trois faces [The Three-Sided Mirror] (1927), Six et demi, onze [Six-and-a-Half Times Eleven] (1927) and La Chute de la maison Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] (1928).

This two-disc collection of films features films Jean Epstein directed for his own production company.

coverPotemkine Films / Agnès B. DVD
2014 DVD edition

Jean Epstein: Première Vague (1926-1928), black & white, color-tinted black & white, and color-toned black & white, 271 minutes total, not rated, including Mauprat (1926), black & white, color-tinted black & white, and color-toned black & white, 89 minutes, not rated, La Glace à trois faces [The Three-Sided Mirror] (1927), black & white, 38 minutes, not rated, Six et demi, onze [Six-and-a-Half Times Eleven] (1927), black & white, 83 minutes, not rated, and La Chute de la maison Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] (1928), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated.

Potemkine Films / Agnès B. DVD,
EDV2390, unknown UPC number.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 PAL DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 6.4 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 50 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate, and Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 224 Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; two plastic trays DVD in cardboard wraps; €39,90.
Release date: 3 June 2014.
Country of origin: France

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 9 / additional content: 8 / overall: 8.

This PAL DVD collection has been mastered from high-quality 35mm source materials, most of them held by La Cinémathèque française film archive.

The films are presented with music scores performed by Neil Brand, Stephen Horne and Gabriel Thibaudeau.

The supplemental material includes an interview with Cristophe Wall-Romana, and an alternative ending for Six et demi, onze (1928).

North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

 
France: Click the logomark to purchase this Region 0 PAL DVD edition from Amazon.fr. Your purchase supports Silent Era.
Other silent era JEAN EPSTEIN films available on home video.

Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

 
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