powerknowledge Jan 18, 2012 @giannirenna: True (Méliès directed hundreds of films), but Flicker Alley did release two very nice multi-disc collections of his copious surviving work on DVD several years ago. I've come THIS CLOSE to spending the $80+ on those sets a dozen times, but have always pulled back in the hopes that a BD release would be forthcoming. Fingers crossed. Might happen soon...



Side note: the restoration in the clip is GORGEOUS (having shown at least a half-dozen different restorations to introductory film classes over the years, I'm thrilled to see the film finally looking so exceptional). Still, I hope that the score here is only one of those provided: I detest anachronistic scoring for silent films (Kino's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" DVD has an especially jarring, Zorn-y one; Alloy Orchestra seems to be the only scoring group that "gets" how to balance modern instrumentation and source images) and Méliès had an intended "narration script" to be read with the film (see Kino's "The Movies Begin" and "Landmarks of Early Film, V1" discs) that absolutely should be present as an optional track.