Original Criterion Collection 400 Blows

I got it at a Flea Market for 2 bucks today!!!
Its gonna be a great 4th of July!!

Lindsay Crane

What is the difference between Criterion's version of Francois Truffaut's 400
blows and Fox Lorber's?

Will Criterion ever rerelease it?

-DVDfanatico

>"Lindsay Crane"

>I got it at a Flea Market for 2 bucks today!!!
>Its gonna be a great 4th of July!!

DVDfanatico

DVDfanatico wrote:
> What is the difference between Criterion's version of Francois Truffaut's
> 400 blows and Fox Lorber's?

Criterion's disc has several extras not found on the FL disc:

<http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=5&section=feature>

The transfers are also different. DVD Beaver hasn't directly compared the
FL disc with the re-issued Criterion, but here's the FL disc (2002)
compared with the original Criterion (199:

<http://207.136.67.23/film/dvdcompare/400blows.htm>

....and here's the Criterion re-issue (2003) compared with the original
Criterion (199 and the French R2 PAL disc (2002):

<http://207.136.67.23/film/dvdcompare/400blows-new.htm>


> Will Criterion ever rerelease it?

It's already happened: you can get the new disc as part of the boxed _The
Adventures of Antoine Doinel_ set:

<http://www.criterionco.com/asp/boxed_set.asp?id=185>

HTH,

doug

--
"Something burst, just out of reach..."
--Wire

Douglas Bailey

says...

> What is the difference between Criterion's version of Francois
> Truffaut's 400 blows and Fox Lorber's?

Criterion's is better quality.

> Will Criterion ever rerelease it?

They have, albeit only in the boxed set of all the Antoine Doniel films.

-- jayembee

jayembee