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Lowry_Sam wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:46 pm106€, which is not much more than I paid to see the Brownlow version w live accompaniment in Oakland 13 years ago. (I did get to see the Coppola version for free when it screened at the university I attended in the 80s however.)

I was also at this on the Friday and Saturday (I went twice because I flew across the country to get to Oakland) and it remains a highlight of my cinema-going life, hence the avatar(s) I use everywhere.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but the English subtitles Potenkine said would be on their release of Napoléon have subsequently disappeared from their shop listing, so in all probability, there won't be any English subtitles for the French intertitles in this version of the film.

Funnily enough, the only issue I have had with the tariffs so far was with a FNAC order. Most of the order got in before the deadline, but FNAC were late shipping the Blu-ray of À nos amours and I also sneakily ordered a 4K UHD copy of Les Choristes, even though it wasn't out until 3 September. Both were shipped separately and came in in September, and DHL Express (which is FNAC's only shipping method to the USA, as far as I know) issued a tariff of over $20 each on movies that cost me about $50 together. I did make a big effort to try to convince DHL that movies were exempt as informational materials, but it didn't work, so I just decided to do without. One of them has gone back and been processed and refunded by FNAC, but I got an odd text from DHL a few days ago that they would keep the other one for another 10 days to let me pay up.

I've also noted the import fees now listed at Amazon checkouts, too. I have a very strong dislike of paying these tariffs for whatever reason (even though I'm well aware that others have to do it all the time), so hopefully they go away ASAP. I fear the longer they are around, the less chance we have of re-instituting de minimis. I'd also really like to order from FNAC again in the future, because DHL Express has been excellent for me before now. I suspect, for example, that Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) will be like Army of Shadows and only come to 4K UHD in France, despite having English subtitles. The remastered UK Blu-ray is available to pre-order in the US import shops, but the French 4K UHD release is not, possibly because they can't confirm the 4K UHD disc has English subtitles.

McCrutchy wrote: Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:16 amI'm not sure if you're aware, but the English subtitles Potenkine said would be on their release of Napoléon have subsequently disappeared from their shop listing, so in all probability, there won't be any English subtitles for the French intertitles in this version of the film.

It's been confirmed first-hand that there are no subtitles of any kind.

Not that there'd have been much point including French SDH subs, what with it being a silent film with French intertitles, but it does mean that the Oppo 203 trick of substituting your own SRT file for existing subs on the disc won't work.