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A Page of
Madness
(1926)

This Avant-Garde film was directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Flicker Alley
2017 Blu-ray Disc edition

A Page of Madness (1926), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Portrait of a Young Man (1931), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Flicker Alley, distributed by MovieZyng,
FA-M3048, UPC 8-18522-01839-3.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R BDMV); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $24.95.
Release date: 1 June 2017.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has been mastered from a high-definition scan of a 16mm reduction print from Film Preservation Associates’ Blackhawk Films collection.

The film is accompanied by a soundtrack performed by The Alloy Orchestra.

Supplementary material includes Portrait of a Young Man with a new piano score by Judith Rosenberg; and “Cinema Then, Cinema Now,” Professor Jerry Carlson hosts a discussion on A Page of Madness with psychoanalyst Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg and film historian Joseph Anderson.

This Region 0 Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition is available directly from FLICKER ALLEY through . . .

Loving the Classics
201? DVD edition

A Page of Madness (1926), black & white, 70 minutes, not rated.

Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 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; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.99.
Release date: 201?
Country of origin: USA

This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.

For now, this is our recommended home video edition of the film.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .