2002 Criterion Collection edition

Entr’acte (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with À Nous la liberté (1931), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Criterion Collection, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 1 chapter stop, keep case, $39.95.
DVD release date: 20 August 2002.
Country of origin: USA

As would be expected, this edition of Entr’acte (1924) from The Criterion Collection is the best available on DVD home video.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

This subpar collection offers a terrible edition of the René Clair film, and would doubtless outrage quality-minded collectors purchasing this disc. The video transfer has been prepared from a bad 16mm reduction print, which is very contrasty and full of sequences with closed-up shadow detail and highlights that are blasted out to near-whiteness.

The film is presented with the nondescript orchestral score from the 16mm print.

We’re not mincing words here, avoid this edition like the plague.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other French silent era films available on DVD home video:
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Au secours! (1924)
Ballerinas in Hell: A Georges Méliès Album (1898-1912)
Le ballet mécanique (1924)
Captain Fracasse (1928)
The Chess Player (1927)
Un chien Andalou (1929)
The Comedy of Max Linder (1907-1913)
La coquille et le clergyman (1928)
The Crazy Ray (1923)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1925)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913) (1896-1953)
The Italian Straw Hat (1928)
Judex (1916-1917)
Landmarks of Early Film, Volume 1 (1904-1908)
Laugh with Max Linder (1908-1921)
The Lumière Brothers’ First Films
The Magic of Méliès (1904-1908)
Méliès the Magician (1898-1997)
The Movies Begin (1894-1913)
Napoléon (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
La roue (1922)
La terre (1921)
Les vampires (1915-1916)

Other historical silent era film collections on DVD home video:
Biograph Productions, Volume 1 (1896-1905)
Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers (1895-1910)
Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon (1900-1906)
More Treasures from American Film Archives (1894-1931)
The Movies Begin (1894-1913)
The Origins of Film (1900-1926)
Treasures from American Film Archives (1893-1960)

Other silent era avant-garde films available on DVD home video:
Anémic cinéma (1926)
Anthology of Surreal Cinema, Volume 1 (1924-1928)
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and ’30s (1921-1947)
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema, 1928-1954 (1928-1954)
Le ballet mécanique (1924)
La coquille et le clergyman (1928)
The Crazy Ray (1923)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La folie du Docteur Tube (1915)
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film (1894-1947)