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Gribiche
(1926)

This feature drama, directed by Jacques Feyder, stars Jean Forest and Françoise Rosay, with Rolla Norman, Cécile Guyon, Charles Barrois, Armand Dufour, Alice Tissot, Andrée Canti, Major Heitner and Hubert Daix.

Flicker Alley
2013 DVD edition

French Masterworks: Russian émigrés in Paris 1923-1928 (1923-1928), black & white and color-toned black & white, 660 minutes, not rated, including Gribiche (1926), color-tinted black & white, and color-tinted and color-toned black & white, 112 minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, FA0029,
UPC 6-17311-67659-8, ISBN 1893967654.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 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 ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; five-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; $59.95.
Release date: 14 May 2013 (prerelease announced date: 30 April 2013).
Country of origin: USA

Our first look at this DVD edition was quite favorable, with the disc mastered from 35mm materials held by La Cinémathèque française ranging in quality from very-good to excellent.

The film is accompanied by a music score arranged by Rodney Sauer and performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

The edition is accompanied by a 28-page booklet with an essay by Lenny Borger, with notes on the films of the collection.

We enthusiastically recommend this edition of Jacques Feyder’s Gribiche. Unfortunately, the edition is now out-of-print.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .