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With a career spanning over thirty years, Louis Malle was one of the giants of French cinema. After he burst onto the scene as one of the pioneers of the French New Wave with “Lift To The Scaffold”, Malle quickly achieved a reputation as a great director who was unafraid to embrace a wide array of subjects – many famously controversial. Working both in Hollywood and his native France, Malle imprinted his films with subtlety, intelligence and a sharp eye for the mores of human behaviour that set him apart from his contemporaries.
This collection brings together some gems from Malle’s later career, including "Le Souffle au Coeur", "Lacombe Lucien", "Black Moon", "Au Revoir les Enfants" and "Milou en Mai"
Extra DVD Features:
• Interview with Vincent Malle, Louis Malle's brother on all the films
• An analysis of the character of Joseph by Guy Magen
You'll need a TV that can playback PAL DVDs, Bruce. I'm not sure if this release will be encoded as region 2; if so, you'll need a multi-region DVD player. Unless, you live in Europe, of course!
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bruce-129
17 years ago
Thanks ... but when will it be on American format?
I do not have anything that will view PAL format.
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PsychoDingo
12 years ago
4.5 years later...
Hopefully you have discovered multi-region DVD players by now. If not, or in case others who read this need some help getting to the promised land, there are DVD players sold in the US for $35 and up, which will play Region 2 / PAL DVDs on NTSC televisions.
Sometimes they require you to enter a secret code to open a hidden menu that unlocks all regions. You might find a place that gives video equipment help, and lets you lookup info about making your current player into a multi-region player, if you were to google: dvd region unlock
On flat screen televisions / monitors, PAL and NTSC don't matter. For CRT type NTSC televisions, you'll need a DVD player with a selectable output format (can be cheap and easy to find).
Don't allow DVD Regions to keep you from watching great movies.
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bruce-129
12 years ago
Thanks, I got a copy of the movie and most DVD player now will play just about anything, not to mention computers. I mostly use my computer connected to my HDTV for movies anyway.
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PsychoDingo
12 years ago
How about we continue this conversation in 4.5 years?
I'm glad to hear you are no longer bound by DVD marketing regions. Hopefully more and more people will follow suit and experience true movie watching freedom.
Often times, I watch movies on my computer as well. My monitor is better than my tv. I just rip the DVDs with the DVD Decrypter software, making them region free, and play them back with Windows Media Player Classic Home Cinema or VLC.
What do you use to play movies on your computer?
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bruce-129
12 years ago
> What do you use to play movies on your computer?
It really looks great on my Apple DVD Player program on my iMac 27" 2560x1400 resolution screen.
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PsychoDingo
12 years ago
Does the Apple setup require you to designate a DVD Region for your DVD drive, making you use multiple drives for multiple DVD Regions, or does it ignore DVD Regions altogether?
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bruce-129
12 years ago
You know ... I am not sure. I think my copy must be the American region because I have never had a problem with it. My copy is one movie in a collection of Louis Malle movies. I also have a collection of Malle's documentaries. The documentaries are not as memorable as some of Malle's movies. There is just something about "May Fools" that I have always liked. I think it is the graceful blending of all these social forces on a regular family that is being broken up by the times yet still remains a family. One wonders what that family would look like today.
I guess we can be pretty sure that this is one movie that will not be grasped by Hollywood for a commercial remake.
My favorite Malle movies are:
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
May Fools (1990)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
"May Fools" and "My Dinner WIth Andre" are the movies I might have seen more times
than any other movies, save another of my favorites "Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)"
which was probably the movie that pushed me out of the mainstream and into the
foreign and small movie genre. I like that there seems to always be something new to
notice on these movies, maybe depending on my circumstances or mood I always get
something new from these movies.
You must know much more about computers than I because I don't get a lot of this region stuff.
I remember one time I bought a copy of "Harakiri" one of the best non-Kurosawa Japanese samurai
movies and when I got it it would not play. I was so mad! It was a long time ago and very expensive
and I did not even know about regions and format, etc. Why can't things just work? Why did they
do these regions anyway?
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