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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#501 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sun Nov 08, 2020 1:41 pm

Catalogue from the European Federation of Film Archives, Oct. 2020:
https://ace-film.eu/wp-content/uploads/ ... alogue.pdf
Includes:
Comizi d´amore, 1965, with outtakes
Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, 1964, new resto from OCN
She Didn´t Say No!, 1958
Der Kampf ums Matterhorn, 1928
Derborence, 1985
Maria do Mar, 1930
Ung flukt, 1958
Several Czechoslovakian, Yugoslavian, Bulgarian and Albanian films from various decades
Melies shorts

Source: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24503 - discussion about Jugoslovenska Kinoteka Belgrade DVD releases

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#502 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:22 pm

Images from the Eastman Museum´s 2019 resto of Joan the Woman, including Handschiegl color effects:
https://www.eastman.org/recent-restorations

Also a 2019 resto of Sally, Irene and Mary (Goulding, 1925) - scroll down for trailer

There is also a list of restorations, including several Leo Hurwitz films.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#503 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:55 pm

Trailer for the Lobster resto of Love Affair (1939):
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... &start=300 (scroll down)
DVD+Blu combo release Dec. 11, 2020 (French title: "Elle et lui")

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#504 Post by Michael Kerpan » Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:37 pm

Maybe the title for this thread should add ... "and Devastations".

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#505 Post by hearthesilence » Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:46 pm

At least the Love Affair trailer looks pretty good, though the contrast feels a touch muted.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#506 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:43 pm

Michael Verhoeven´s "O.K." (1970) restored by the München Filmmuseum:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5280

DVD edition upcoming from the Museum, as noted Dec. 07, 2020 in the German Filmmuseum Edition thread:
https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/prod ... _o-k-.html

UCLA will restore "Hey, Mama" (1967), a documentary on the Oakwood neighborhood of Venice, California:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archi ... t-hey-mama

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#507 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Dec 19, 2020 2:51 pm

For the record -- a 2014 interview on the resto of La Grande Illusion:
https://www.nouvelobs.com/cinema/201203 ... enoir.html


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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#509 Post by Calvin » Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:36 am

The CNC's latest go around has financed restorations of Renoir's The Elusive Corporal, Gance's Story of a Poor Young Man, Fejos' Gardez le sourire, and a trio of Jean-Pierre Mocky films amongst others.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#510 Post by aox » Tue Dec 29, 2020 1:35 pm

hearthesilence wrote:
Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:46 pm
At least the Love Affair trailer looks pretty good, though the contrast feels a touch muted.
Even with weak contrast, it is almost a revelation compared to the print up on Amazon Prime right now.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#511 Post by yoloswegmaster » Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:46 pm

Calvin wrote:
Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:36 am
The CNC's latest go around has financed restorations of Renoir's The Elusive Corporal, Gance's Story of a Poor Young Man, Fejos' Gardez le sourire, and a trio of Jean-Pierre Mocky films amongst others.
Thanks for linking this! Does anyone know if the CNC fully or partially pays for restorations?

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#512 Post by tenia » Tue Dec 29, 2020 5:50 pm

It usually is partial funds.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#513 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:43 pm

Surprised to see Can Dialectics Break Bricks? in there, since a restoration premiered at Rotterdam this year and has been making the rounds at other festivals. (Rotterdam also screened an "animated version" that was apparently just the film with a watercolor filter slapped over it.) Reimbursement of money already spent, perhaps?

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#514 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:37 pm

Digitally restored films by John H. Collins, made at the Edison Studios (negatives housed at the MoMA):
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5284
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6846

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#515 Post by Stefan Andersson » Tue Jan 19, 2021 2:19 pm

Dr. X (1932) restoration upcoming:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/monster ... l#p1612485 - scroll down for before/after video comparison

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#516 Post by L.A. » Sun Jan 31, 2021 4:19 pm

Remastered Drive (Steve Wang, 1997) coming in May from MVD Rewind.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#517 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:55 am

Les Blank´s and Chris Strachwitz´s "I Went to the Dance" has been restored in 5K. Go here and scroll down to the 24 Beats per Second section:
https://www.sxsw.com/festivals/film/lineup/

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#518 Post by L.A. » Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:32 am

Georgian National Film Center in Tbilisi plans to restore silent and sound film classics.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#519 Post by Stefan Andersson » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:01 am

Les jeunes loups (Carné, 1968), restored (probable French Blu and/or DVD release from Coin de Mire Cinéma upcoming):
https://coindemirecinema.com/news/resta ... -loups-140

A censored swimmingpool scene has been restored (976 frames).
The available A/V materials are listed in exhaustive, exemplary fashion, including foreign dubs, trailers and length of overture and exit music (soundtrack over black screen, "rideau musicale" in French; this is/was apparently common in European films, even those not of roadshow length) for the main feature.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#520 Post by L.A. » Wed Mar 03, 2021 7:50 am

Native Son (Pierre Chenal, 1951) has been restored and is now uncut.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#521 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:40 pm

Upcoming 4K resto, from OCN, of Assault on Precinct 13 (1976):
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=28218

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#522 Post by Stefan Andersson » Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:14 pm

Scott MacQueen on restoring Dr X:
http://www.videoattic.com/2021/03/video ... -1932.html

Interesting quote:
"We are currently working with The Film Foundation on William Deiterle’s All That Money Can Buy (1941) from the best and most complete elements, and Laurel and Hardy’s Pack Up Your Troubles. Parajanov: The Last Spring, is a documentary about the iconoclast Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov; the legendary Harold Lloyd-Preston Sturges collaboration, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock."

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#523 Post by yoloswegmaster » Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:35 pm

The Hidden Fortress has been restored in 4K.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#524 Post by Stefan Andersson » Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:44 am

"Cenere" (1916) starring Eleonora Duse has been restored by Cineteca Milano. Streaming online March 22-31 (USA only):
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=31413
Piano score by Ben Model.

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