Recent Film Restorations

[MichaelB]

He must be referring to the arrangement or the recording rights - there's no way the song itself is still in copyright.

[Never Cursed]

On the second Monday of each month, The Film Foundation will make one of its restorations available for free screening for 24 hours, with special interviews about the film and its restoration process also available. The first film, available on May 9, is I Know Where I’m Going!, featuring an introduction by Martin Scorsese and interviews with Joanna Hogg, Tilda Swinton, Kevin Macdonald, and (of course) Thelma Schoonmaker.

Subsequent films include:
La Strada (Federico Fellini)
Kummatty (G. Aravindan)
A double feature of Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer) and The Chase (Arthur D. Ripley)
Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror)
One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
Moulin Rouge (John Huston)
Lost Lost Lost (Jonas Mekas)

and others yet to be announced.

[Fred Holywell]

Presumably the problem was with the performance/recording rather than the mid-19th-century song?

I would imagine so. Regardless, I found this published in September 2008, written by Jonathan Rosenbaum:

"...the once-memorable and semi-audacious use of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” over the final credits — a very significant reprise of a song that plays over a climactic fistfight provoked by anti-Mexican behavior in the movie’s penultimate sequence — is no longer part of the movie on the DVD, presumably because the owners of the song rights demanded too much money."

Interesting. The old Capitol LP soundtrack lists "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" as the end title music. Saw Giant in a revival theater many years ago, but no idea what the end music might have been back then.

[hearthesilence]

Presumably the problem was with the performance/recording rather than the mid-19th-century song?

I would imagine so. Regardless, I found this published in September 2008, written by Jonathan Rosenbaum:

"...the once-memorable and semi-audacious use of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” over the final credits — a very significant reprise of a song that plays over a climactic fistfight provoked by anti-Mexican behavior in the movie’s penultimate sequence — is no longer part of the movie on the DVD, presumably because the owners of the song rights demanded too much money."

Interesting. The old Capitol LP soundtrack lists "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" as the end title music. Saw Giant in a revival theater many decades ago, but no idea what the end music might have been back then.

Maybe Rosenbaum got the song title wrong?

[Stefan Andersson]

Info in German re: the Filmmuseum Munchen resto of Golem, including the rediscovered original music score:
https://www.richard-siedhoff.de/upload/ ... Weimar.pdf

Some technical details about the resto of Giant:
https://www.film-foundation.org/giant-kj

Technical info about the resto of I Know Where I´m Going!:
https://delphiquest.com/film-foundation ... e-im-going

[Stefan Andersson]

L´Insoumis (Alain Cavalier, 1964), digital restoration by WB, showing at MoMA May 4:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/7847

[Fred Holywell]

Now and then TCM shows a nice widescreen copy of L'Insoumis, in French with English subs. A welcome change after years of their running the cropped, English dubbed version, Have I the Right to Kill.

[Ribs]

Cannes Classics 2022

[ryannichols7]

Cannes Classics 2022

easily the biggest news here being The Trial, restored from the original camera negative. one hopes Criterion is working with Canal on bringing out a loaded edition of my favorite Welles movie, possibly with what remains of Filming 'The Trial' as well as the usual scholarly contributions from Rosenbaum/Naremore, Callow, McBride, and others. looking forward to this!

[Roger Ryan]

Cannes Classics 2022

easily the biggest news here being The Trial, restored from the original camera negative. one hopes Criterion is working with Canal on bringing out a loaded edition of my favorite Welles movie, possibly with what remains of Filming 'The Trial' as well as the usual scholarly contributions from Rosenbaum/Naremore, Callow, McBride, and others. looking forward to this!

Agreed. I'm also hoping the new restoration doesn't include the superimposed text credits at the end (as the current Studio Canal Blu-ray has) which are not only redundant (given that Welles is reading the credits for you on the soundtrack), but cause cognitive dissonance since they do not appear on-screen in synch with Welles' narration. I have no idea if the French version of the film ("Le Procès") had these on-screen credits when the film was released in 1962, but they look newly-created (as does the title) on the Blu-ray.

[andyli]

No scan / resto resolutions are provided for The Trial and Daisies. I'd hope for 4k in both cases since they are both produced in 2022 and the original camera negatives are involved.

[Computer Raheem]

Cannes Classics 2022

[JakeStewart]

It was probably too long a title for an international market, but the literal translation of God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun is much better.

[Stefan Andersson]

The Argyle Secrets (Cy Endfield, 1948) restored by The Film Noir Foundation and UCLA:
https://arthurlyonsfilmnoir.ning.com/pa ... :Page:2939

[tenia]

This bit is actually what got me the most excited : "This presentation is a preview of the French release of Mike De Leon’s entire restored body of work, slated 2022-2023."

[Calvin]

This bit is actually what got me the most excited : "This presentation is a preview of the French release of Mike De Leon’s entire restored body of work, slated 2022-2023."

A number of his films have already been restored by ABS-CBN and the Asian Film Archive, but I don't think there have been any physical releases anywhere yet. I'm hoping that Kani Releasing gets some out, following their great release of Brocka's Cain and Abel.

[Calvin]

One from the Heart is next up on American Zoetrope's to-do list

[senseabove]

That is excellent news.

[beamish14]

One from the Heart is next up on American Zoetrope's to-do list

For God’s sake, make it the originally released version and not the cut that’s about 8 minutes shorter. The re-release looked spectacular in 35mm, but it wasn’t even billed as being a recut

Someone should ask this gentleman if Wim Wenders’ cut of Hammett is on the docket, too

[senseabove]

For God’s sake, make it the originally released version and not the cut that’s about 8 minutes shorter. The re-release looked spectacular in 35mm, but it wasn’t even billed as being a recut

Probably should've assumed it, but I didn't know Coppola'd recut this one. Can't find much about it, though, beyond discussion of the extras on previous releases, and those are mixed about the history (e.g. mondo digital describes it as the original, but the BD.com review describes it as an "early" version, which seems to imply unused alternate). Was the recut done during the restoration in the early oughts/for home video release? Has the original cut ever had a home video release, and is there any more detailed delineation of the differences?

[beamish14]

For God’s sake, make it the originally released version and not the cut that’s about 8 minutes shorter. The re-release looked spectacular in 35mm, but it wasn’t even billed as being a recut

Probably should've assumed it, but I didn't know Coppola'd recut this one. Can't find much about it, though, beyond discussion of the extras on previous releases, and those are mixed about the history (e.g. mondo digital describes it as the original, but the BD.com review describes it as an "early" version, which seems to imply unused alternate). Was the recut done during the restoration in the early oughts/for home video release? Has the original cut ever had a home video release, and is there any more detailed delineation of the differences?

The recut was made for the theatrical re-release in 2002 (I think). The cut scenes look perfect, and they’re on the DVD/Blu-Ray. They’re from the first act, and I think slot somewhere after the first 20 minutes. It’s one block of scenes; basically a chunk of what, I guess, were the 2nd/3rd reels

[senseabove]

Interesting, so no integral home video release of the original cut, then. Thanks, beamish. Good news is Mockoski said he would "like to make every version available, much like what we have done for our other titles," so you may get your wish!

[jmj713]

Has there been any talk or news in recent years of a restoration for Dead Man's Letters (1986)?

[jmj713]

Has this news been mentioned? https://www.horrorsociety.com/2022/01/1 ... ollection/

City Zero would be great for Criterion to release.

[yoloswegmaster]

Already posted in the Vinegar Syndrome thread back in January since Deaf Crocodile will be putting it on home video, so there is basically no chance that Criterion will be putting these out.