Finally some dvd representation (and in Region 1 no less!)

LA BELLE CAPTIVE from Koch Lorber




Koch is also releasing MURIEL by Alain Resnais.

Very cool. I've been waiting a long time to see a Robbe-Grillet film.

Hope Koch Lorber treats the transfer with respect and don't just convert/port a PAL transfer to NTSC without doing the necessary adjustments to insure the best transfer.

. . . there is some reason for hope - Koch Lorber's recent DVD of Claude Sautet's wonderful UN COEUR EN HIVER/A HEART IN WINTER (1992), with Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Beart, was a restored 1.66:1 HD transfer, supervised by the picture's Director of Photography, and, we thought, turned out well - no assurance here, but a positive indication . . .

Koch's UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG disc is nice, a great improvement over the old Fox Lorber (not a difficult feat, but still...), and transfered at the correct speed.

rumor has it they're releasing Phillipe Grandrieux's SOMBRE and possibly LA NOUVELLE VIE - two of the best 'TRUE mod-horror' flicks of the last decade!!

I wonder if we'll see more Robbe-Grillet releases coming up. What's the rights situation like with his films?

Reviewed at DVD Beaver.

It's a pity that there is no comparison with the Japanese Imagica disc.