dwk wrote:Lee Kline and Phoebe Harmon are giving a presentation at the Wexner Center.[/url] Hopefully a member of this forum will be able to attend, as I doubt that it'll be livestreamed.
I was there. The restoration demo was very nice, with some teasing and some confirmation:
A lot of it was video of their software & artists working through footage, mostly of Manchurian Candidate & A Brighter Summer Day. Unrestored Man-Can footage looked good already (project in Frankenheimer's preferred 1.75), and ABSD did not. That restoration is kind of heroic.
They walked through some of the processes, peppered with anecdotes about David Lynch and Wes Anderson's cinematographer, among others. RGB bubbles are a thing with wet gate scans, who knew.
For the description of chroma breathing, they showed a very warped frame of what looked like a cinemascope arctic expedition. Or a desert expedition, it was very bleak looking. They couldn't say what it was yet.
They also showed clips from Here Comes Mr. Jordan, a b&w open matte 16mm shot from what I took to be a John Waters film with a bearded transvestite and another woman beating up someone who resembled Divine on a grotty city street, and a few clips from Blood Simple, one with a burnt-out hole in the frame. The story was that the negative cutter smoked like a stack. Also, ABSD generated 13 terabytes of data in 4K and took 4 months of work (off & on) for the artists to restore. (Maybe it was 17 TB-- my handwriting is bad.)
Dave Filipi mentioned today that the Manchurian Candidate restoration will probably not be touring due to rights issues. Then we got to watch it in a 4K DCP. Wexner is a really amazing film center, and seeing these things projected in true 4K is a treat. That's about all I can remember since I went to four movies there today and it all seems so long ago.
I'll post a bit about the Brighter Summer Day blu-ray & resto in that thread, since I walked away with a copy and watched it last night.