Recent Film Restorations

[Stefan Andersson]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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.

[Stefan Andersson]

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")

[Michael Kerpan]

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

[hearthesilence]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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

[L.A.]

Georgian National Film Center in Tbilisi have completed restoration work of eight cinema classics from the 1920s.

[Calvin]

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.

[aox]

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.

[yoloswegmaster]

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?

[tenia]

It usually is partial funds.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

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?

[Stefan Andersson]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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

[L.A.]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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/

[L.A.]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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.

[L.A.]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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

[Stefan Andersson]

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."

[yoloswegmaster]

The Hidden Fortress has been restored in 4K.

[Stefan Andersson]

"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.

[Big Ben]

This was missed here but Shochiku has restored a bunch of their films for their centenary. Films from Oshima, Ozu, Imamura and Shinoda are included.