Abel Gance’s Napoleon to get Blu-ray release

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(Sorry, even though I did a search, I just saw this referred to in one of the sticky threads)

Abel Gance’s Napoleon to get UK-wide theatrical, online and Blu-ray/DVD release:

The BFI today announces a new chapter in the epic history of one of the world’s greatest films: Abel Gance’s Napoleon (1927). In the culmination of a 50-year project, Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow and the BFI National Archive have completed a new digitally restored version of Abel Gance’s cinematic triumph. From Autumn 2016, for the first time ever, audiences across the UK will be able to experience this extraordinary cinematic masterpiece with Carl Davis’s magnificent score when the film goes on theatrical release in UK cinemas and is available on BFI DVD/Blu-ray and BFI Player.

This legendary 5½ hour film was first presented, partially restored, at the BFI London Film Festival in 1980. The latest digital restoration of Napoleon will have its premiere screening with a live performance by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Carl Davis’s score (the longest ever composed for a silent film) in early November 2016 at the Royal Festival Hall.

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