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A better bet might be to wait for Barnes and Noble's year end 40% off all Blu-rays sale

Flicker Alley's Blu-Rays are listed at almost twice MSRP to begin with on Barnes & Noble's website, though.

Okay, the best bet then is an elaborate nighttime heist of Flicker Alley's warehouse

Thank you, guys, for your feedback. I'll keep an eye out for B&N and Black Friday sales.

Specs for Flicker Alley's L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier, 1928) release announced:

- NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- NEW SCORE BY OLIVIER MASSOT, preformed by the National Orchestra of Lyon under the direction of Timothy Brock
- Vintage score by Rodney Sauer, preformed by the Mont Alto Orchestra
- The Making of L'Argent (Autour de L'Argent): A pioneering documentary, directed by L'Herbier's assistant Jean Dreville, featuring incredible footage of the cast and crew during the actual production as well as the director's comments recorded later in 1971 (39 minutes). Presented with two new music scores.
- Prometheus Banker (Prométhée Banquier): A perfect thematic complement to L'Argent, complete with new restoration, this short film by Marcel L'Herbier tells the story of a banker-seducing vampire (15 minutes).
- Souvenir Booklet: Featuring an essay by Mireille Beaulieu and collection of unique photographs and promotional material recently discovered in Mrs. L'Herbier's collection.
- REGION-FREE

Thanks for the heads up about L'ARGENT -- glad to have pre-ordered that one.

Finch wrote: Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:32 pm Beaver on The Last Warning

Also The Man Who Laughs

The Charley Bowers Blu-Ray is available for $16.98 on Amazon as of right now.

L.A. wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2019 9:57 pm Fragment of an Empire @ Beaver.

L’Argent as well.

Someone at Blu-ray.com just posted an email reply they received from Joshua at Flicker Alley confirming two expected but as of yet unannounced December releases:

Hi Phil,

Thank you for reaching out. We have two more releases slated for this calendar year. The Film Noir Foundation has partnered with us on the release of Trapped. That title will hit the shelves on December 17th. We are also cueing up for a Soviet trilogy called, The Bolshevik Trilogy by V. I. Pudovkin. That will get released on December 17th as well. Let me know if you have any additional questions.

Talk soon,
Joshua Hoover
Flicker Alley, LLC

Can't wait to revisit Pudovkin's films. Mother seems to be a strong case of a film that was acclaimed everywhere for many decades, enough to be a symbol of soviet silent cinema next to Battleship Potemkin, but fell through the crack recently.

It is to be hoped that the Bolshevik Trilogy is on pressed discs.

Trapped preorder.
Trapped trailer.

I assume that the Pudovkins will be from the Blackhawk library. It's the case that some of the versions of Soviet films (and "foreign" films in general) in that collection are a less than ideal (not the most integral versions or recent restorations), but I'd be curious to hear more about these specifically....

Are there recent restorations of the Pudovkin films? From what I've read, the old 1999 Image DVD of Mother is from a 1968 print. I don't think I've ever seen another version.

Not sure! For instance, I don't know if the version of Storm Over Asia/Heir to Genghis Khan on the KinoAcademia series is likewise from a midcentury Gosfilmofond restoration or something newer. That's one of the ones in that series I haven't picked up yet.

Lobster Films' Facebook page has a bit of a trailer for their upcoming release of the Pudovkins, which will probably give a good idea of what the Flicker Alley release will be like.

As per their latest newsletter, Flicker Alley is releasing J.L. Anderson's Spring Night, Summer Night sometime next year.

This is another Nicolas Winding Refn restoration project, following Indicator's release of Night Tide. I wonder how many more of them will make it to disc.

The Bolshevik Trilogy - Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin coming in March.

Wow that looks fantastic. And it includes Chess Fever!!!

The Bolshevik Box isn't listed on the Flicker Alley website. Unusual, in that their new releases are usually announced via e-mail with a discount code from Flicker Alley themselves.

I thought that was strange to. It's always possible Amazon jumped the gun with the listing. Wouldn't be the first time.

Maybe the email will follow shortly but is slightly late because of the holiday season.