Recent Film Restorations

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

It's played in Los Angeles several times since the New Beverly ran it as part of their Frank Perry month back around 2017 and it seems to sell out every single time.

[Stefan Andersson]

Cinema Reborn 2025:
https://cinemareborn.com.au/2025-Program

Some titles:
a 2024 restoration of Le diable probablement
Holiday, Cukor (detailed technical restoration info online)
The Fall of Otrar
Pépé le Moko
What I Have Written, John Hughes, 1996

[Stefan Andersson]

Song, Richard Eichberg, 1928, restored by Filmmuseum Düsseldorf; showing at the 2025 Internationale Stummfilmtage, Munich:

https://www.muenchner-stadtmuseum.de/fi ... S_ganz.pdf
(p. 77)
Stummfilmtage program on p. 72-78.

[Stefan Andersson]

Rouletabille chez les Bohémiens (Fescourt, 1922) and L´Occident (Fescourt, 1928):
https://www.fondation-jeromeseydoux-pat ... taurations

[Stefan Andersson]

Pakeezah restoration by Film Heritage Foundation announced in Nov. 2024:
https://www.instagram.com/filmheritagef ... mg_index=1

No mention of Pakeezah here:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/pr ... storation/

Bluray announced, unknown if it is based on the above restoration
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Pakeezah-Blu-ray/384941/

Maya Mirga, 1984:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/fi ... iriga1984/

[Stefan Andersson]

Love in a Fallen City
Boat People
Women, Kwan
https://carlottafilms.com/films/nouvell ... ngkongais/

[brundlefly]

Pakeezah restoration by Film Heritage Foundation announced in Nov. 2024:
https://www.instagram.com/filmheritagef ... mg_index=1

No mention of Pakeezah here:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/pr ... storation/

Bluray announced, unknown if it is based on the above restoration
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Pakeezah-Blu-ray/384941/

Maya Mirga, 1984:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/fi ... iriga1984/

Kamal Amrohi's Stunningly beautiful "Pakeezah" is announced to be released on April 1, 2025, in Blu Ray format by Leomark Studios. I have not seen any reviews of it anywhere. If anyone has any information, please let us know.
I didn't know where to post this (I couldn't find Leomark Studios in Boutique Labels), so I am putting it here. Mods, please move it as appropriate.

The back of that Pakeezah blu-ray (per photos on Amazon) has no mention of the FHF but does have a 2025 copyright by Shemaroo. It may mean nothing, but this is the version of Pakeezah Shemaroo uploaded to YouTube five months ago as "HD."

[Stefan Andersson]

The back of that Pakeezah blu-ray (per photos on Amazon) has no mention of the FHF but does have a 2025 copyright by Shemaroo. It may mean nothing, but this is the version of Pakeezah Shemaroo uploaded to YouTube five months ago as "HD."
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Thanks very much for this update!

[Stefan Andersson]

12 animated shorts, mainly by Dave Fleischer and George Pal, restored by Seth McFarlane and The Film Foundation:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/back ... 2025-04-11

[criterionsnob]

Not sure if this is new news, but there's a new restoration of The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos).

[Stefan Andersson]

Sarah Maldoror films at MoMA: "eight new restorations, including her debut short Monangambééé (1968) and her groundbreaking Sambizanga (1972)":
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5810

[Stefan Andersson]

Restorations at 2025 TCM Film Festival:

Animal Crackers
"4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm nitrate composite dupe negative provided by the British Film Institute. 4K scanning by Deluxe London. Restoration services by NBCUniversal StudioPost."

The Big Combo - world premiere restoration
"DCP courtesy of Ignite Films. Restoration created by the UCLA Film and Television Archive with funding from The Film Foundation."

Hud - world premiere restoration
"DCP courtesy of Paramount Pictures Archive and Janus Films."

The Incredible Shrinking Man
"4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm original negative and 3 channel dialogue/music/effects master. Restoration services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost."

https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/

[dwk]

Restorations at 2025 TCM Film Festival:
The Incredible Shrinking Man
"4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm original negative and 3 channel dialogue/music/effects master. Restoration services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost."

Anyone know if this is actually new, or is it the same 4K restoration that Criterion used for their Blu-ray?

[Hogfather]

Restorations at 2025 TCM Film Festival:
The Incredible Shrinking Man
"4K Restoration by Universal Pictures from the 35mm original negative and 3 channel dialogue/music/effects master. Restoration services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost."

Anyone know if this is actually new, or is it the same 4K restoration that Criterion used for their Blu-ray?

They both have the same credits, but the Criterion edition only has a monaural track.

[miha]

Pakeezah restoration by Film Heritage Foundation announced in Nov. 2024:
https://www.instagram.com/filmheritagef ... mg_index=1

No mention of Pakeezah here:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/pr ... storation/

Bluray announced, unknown if it is based on the above restoration
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Pakeezah-Blu-ray/384941/

Maya Mirga, 1984:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/fi ... iriga1984/

Great it gets a proper restoration. The Shemaroo version is a digital remastering and not a restoration. These remasterings go from awful to watchable, but generally lack the authentic film look. I wish they would restore "Mughal E Azam" and "Umrao Jaan" properly. And all the Raj Kapoor classics, of course.

[Aunt Peg]

2K restoration of the largely forgotten Australian film Summerfield (1976) by Ken Hannam. It did pretty good box office when first released: https://www.ritzcinemas.com.au/movies/f ... field-1977

I understand Umbrella was involved with the restoration so hopefully a Blu Ray will be forthcoming in the near future.

[Stefan Andersson]

Interesting 2018 interview with film restorer Davide Pozzi, L´Immagine Ritrovata:
https://digitalcine-fr.translate.goog/4 ... r_pto=wapp

Discussion of restoring Leone´s Dollars films, Bruce Lee films, Storaro reinterpreting the color grading of 1900 (which was then changed a bit by Bertolucci), Angelopoulos wanting to re-edit (title not specified), Olmi redoing The Tree of Wooden Clogs and Arrow releasing both Olmi´s and Ritrovata´s restorations.

[hearthesilence]

Staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) were told by email late Thursday night that they were being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately, and if this plays out as expected, this is going to be extremely bad for film preservation (not to mention a lot of other things). The National Film Preservation Foundation alone has been funded with over a million dollars from the NEH, and a quick search in their database will show how every archive and preservation foundation has relied on their support.

[Stefan Andersson]

Films by Nikos Koundouros in 4K:
Ogre of Athens
1922
Magic City
Young Aphrodites
https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/melbou ... oundouros/

[spectre]

This was last year (I only got to The Ogre of Athens, but it was wonderful experiencing it for the first time on the big screen!)

[FrauBlucher]

Indiewire on the 1926 Beau Geste restoration that will premiere at this years TCM Film Fest. Interestingly this will tour afterwards via Rialto Pictures. Could that lead to a Criterion release

[dwk]

New 4K restoration of Chaplin's Gold Rush

[Tom Amolad]

Sounds like this is the 1925 version. Does this mean the Chaplin family is getting closer to delcaring that the official version?

[JSC]

I suppose the proof would be if Chaplin's 1942 score (minus the voice over) is somehow synced to
the final result.

[Stefan Andersson]

Films by Guy Gilles, 2K:
L´amour à la mer
Au pan coupé
Le clair de terre
https://theatredutemple.com/2024/12/04/ ... -de-terre/

Pêcheur d´ islande, Baroncelli, 2K:
https://theatredutemple.com/2024/12/04/ ... aroncelli/