Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Francois Truffaut Collection – in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Robert Harris]

This is one of those cases in which quantity and price beats quality.

Kino is releasing (among other Truffaut films) a package of four films - The Wild Child (1970), Small Change (1976 ), The Man Who Loved Women (1977 ) and The Green Room (1978) for a street price of $36 or $8/ film.

For those who lack these titles in their libraries, it's a steal.

And quality is fine with the exception of The Wild Child, which appears to be an older transfer, and is just okay. All are 1.66 aspect ratio, and derived from dupe elements. All are in French with optional English sub-titles.

Image – Wild Child 3.25 / The other three titles are a 4.

Audio – 4

Pass / Fail – Pass

Works up-rezzed to 4k - All except Wild Child

Recommended

RAH

 

[Angelo Colombus]

I have the old 2001 MGM dvd releases of The Wild Child & Small Change and very happy for the much needed upgrade even if The Wild Child is just ok. I wish there were commentaries or other extras besides the trailers on them.

 

[Richard Kaufman]

Truffaut deserves much better than this.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Truffaut deserves much better than this.

I agree and waiting for Criterion to release Two English Girls and The Adventures of Antoine Doniel box set on Blu-ray.

 

[lark144]

The one I'm most interested in is Wild Child, which, as I recall, had extraordinary black and white photography by Nestor Almendros, as well as being one of Truffaut's greatest. Mr. Harris, how problematic is the master?

 

[Robert Harris]

The one I'm most interested in is Wild Child, which, as I recall, had extraordinary black and white photography by Nestor Almendros, as well as being one of Truffaut's greatest. Mr. Harris, how problematic is the master?

Beautifully layered black & white, with superb shadow detail, but not at all highly resolved, a bit worn, less than perfectly stable and quite grainy.

other than that…

 

[lark144]

Beautifully layered black & white, with superb shadow detail, but not at all highly resolved, a bit worn, less than perfectly stable and quite grainy.

other than that…

Thanks. Sounds like that slightly trampled, half slice of prosciutto in an Alberto Sordi comedy. Tasty, but...

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Have the Truffaut Collection and did a a/b comparison to the old MGM discs and a big improvement especially on The Green Room which looked dark and murky on the dvd. I did notice that on Small Change there was a slight zoom in on the Blu-ray when compared to the dvd so you do lose some of the picture on all four sides. Overall very happy but i wish there were more extras on the discs like a commentary.