Thanks for all the good supplements!

I'm glad it's being discussed. Interest in this film is good.
The Oakland events are shining more light on it and I'm very glad.
I'm not even looking for reviews of the new cut. I don't really want to know.
If you reviewed it Chris I would have listened. I want to see it with my own eyes before drawing conclusions from someone else's impressions if I can help it.
I'm sure we'll see some new books and scores of essays on the new release.
Nothing wrong with that. I wish more people cared.

Gance has shortcomings- don't think I'm just putting him on a pedestal here.
His importance in cinema history can never be downplayed. He influenced some big names.
Believe it or not I've never seen La Roue- on vhs or DVD or otherwise.
That one might be more important than Napoleon.
I should find it.
Napoleon was a logistical nightmare- even a logistical holocaust, if you count how Kubrick eventually gave up. (He couldn't get the Romanian army to play his soldiers- it fell through on him). And then Waterloo with Rod Steiger popped up....perfect storm against Kubrick's production.

Gance's Napoleon will always be the first epic on Napoleon and right now, it's the last.
We STILL don't have anybody willing or capable of Frankensteining this for all times?
WE NEED IT.