The "Grand" version is due out on DVD and Blu-Ray in Nov. Hopefully it will also be available in theaters by then. It's something I want to see on a big screen.
French label Potemkine is preparing 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Abel Gance's film Napoléon (1927). The two releases will introduce the recent 4K restoration of the Grand Version of the film, completed at Cinémathèque Française under the supervision of Georges Mourier. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on November 4.
The 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray combo pack will have two 4K Blu-rays and three Blu-rays. The Blu-ray release will have three Blu-rays. The label has announced that both releases will have optional English subtitles.
Description: A massive biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple-image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
The music at the French premier:
"The score was a brand-new one by Simon Cloquet-Lafollye utilizing dozens of pieces of classical music."
https://silentology.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/reactions-to-the-paris-premiere-of-the-new-napoleon-1927-restoration/