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Magnificently available!

posted 12 years ago by Florestan51
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In a beautiful 3-DVD presentation set, "Coffret Frank Borzage", released by Carlotta in November 2010 and available from Amazon France. The set contains three of his Gaynor/Farrell movies, the other two being "Seventh Heaven" and "Lucky Star", as well as other Borzage movies and his three contributions to NBC's Screen Directors Playhouse (1955-56), viz., "Day is Done", "A Ticket for Thaddeus", and "The Day I Met Caruso", and various commentaries. You can turn off the French subtitles, of course. The set also contains a beautiful booklet of scenes from the movies (with French annotations). Just exquisite!

[–] JonasEB 12 years ago

Well, the U.S. box has been available since 2008 and the BFI released them in the UK in two sets over the next two years.

A bigger deal than the French DVDs are the French Blu-rays released at the same time. Admittedly, Street Angel, in extremely problematic condition, doesn't advance much but Seventh Heaven does improve in many ways...and Lucky Star is an absolute must, one of the very best silent Blu-rays.

[–] Florestan51 12 years ago

Thanks for the information. That's interesting, as I had been searching for one of the supplementary items ("The Day I Met Caruso") for some years without success, and it only showed up relatively recently on Amazon France in the French DVD set. I don't know why it didn't show up earlier on the U.S. or U.K. sites.

Thanks for the recommendation on the French Blu-ray set.

[–] JonasEB 12 years ago

Oh, sorry, the Screen Director's Playhouse episodes are only available in the French DVD/Blu-ray series, the U.S. and U.K. editions don't have those (just the films.)

The Blu-rays duplicate everything on the DVDs. The reconstruction of The River is standard definition but I'm not sure about the SDP episodes, I never checked them (The Blu-rays are region free discs and the main films, in 1080p, will play on any system around the world but the special features are 1080/50i, a PAL compatible signal, so they won't play on NTSC systems without a region free Blu-ray player.)