Duncan, the man!When, some while back, I purchased my code-free DVD player online,
or my all-region DVD player as you prefer, I envisioned the
subsequent purchase of a festering list of titles, mostly French,
that I had hitherto been unable to catch up with on the big screen
or via VHS video and American-manufactured DVDs. Naturally I had
not bothered beforehand to research the practicability of the plan,
and I soon became disenchanted at the number of title searches on
French Amazon (amazon.fr) which came up empty. I had just assumed
that the Frenchman's pride in his cultural heritage ensured that
things like Yves Allégret's Une Si Jolie Petite Plage, Georges
Franju's Pleins Feux sur l'Assassin, André Delvaux's Un Soir un
Train, and Jacques Demy's Trois Places pour le 26 would have been
preserved posthaste on DVD, even if without English subtitles,
exclusively for the French market. I seemed to have been sorely
mistaken.
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Topic - Duncan Shepherd's extended meditation on French films such as Classe Tous Risques. - clarkjohnsen 14:23:08 05/03/06 (22)
- Question - mishmashmusic 08:03:12 05/04/06 (5)
- It depends on the player - Jack G 10:11:53 05/04/06 (2)
- That's right, but I think it depends on where the film source was produced, doesn't it? - Audiophilander 10:40:00 05/04/06 (1)
- Re: That's right, but I think it depends on where the film source was produced, doesn't it? - Jack G 10:59:28 05/04/06 (0)
- Answer: IMO, the best region free player is the upconverting Oppo. - Audiophilander 09:32:31 05/04/06 (0)
- And a good question it is. - clarkjohnsen 08:35:18 05/04/06 (0)
- Re: Yes, a real shame. - patrickU 07:20:17 05/04/06 (5)
- "You may find in America more French titles ( the good one ) than in France." Not surprising. - clarkjohnsen 08:37:23 05/04/06 (4)
- Re: "You may find in America more French titles ( the good one ) than in France." Not surprising. - patrickU 09:14:10 05/04/06 (3)
- If it's Pilsner Urquell you're speaking of... - clarkjohnsen 09:39:38 05/04/06 (2)
- Re: If it's Pilsner Urquell you're speaking of... - patrickU 09:57:06 05/04/06 (1)
- No. *Votre* santé! nt - clarkjohnsen 10:14:08 05/04/06 (0)
- Unless I'm mistaken, you get one or more of those titles free with every shipment of... - Audiophilander 22:25:50 05/03/06 (9)
- Re: Here is a film for you------- - patrickU 07:23:38 05/04/06 (8)
- It may be "Magnifique!" but I doubt it'll strike his interest. nt - clarkjohnsen 08:39:11 05/04/06 (7)
- Re: It may be "Magnifique!" but I doubt it'll strike his interest. nt - patrickU 09:15:31 05/04/06 (6)
- Oh! That was *very* unkind! nt - clarkjohnsen 09:36:50 05/04/06 (5)
- Re: Yes, that was---- - patrickU 09:54:07 05/04/06 (4)
- 'The " Grey Poupon " mustard was an allusion to me.' - Actually, the insinuations about cinema snobbery... - Audiophilander 15:26:37 05/04/06 (2)
- Re: Oh, sorry..--- - patrickU 01:09:35 05/05/06 (1)
- You flatter yourself; maybe you need to be taken down a notch: - Audiophilander 10:09:59 05/05/06 (0)
- Oh! I did not "get" that... nt - clarkjohnsen 10:01:37 05/04/06 (0)