Recent Film Restorations

[Matt]

Revivals section of 2025 NYFF:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/daily/63r ... announced/

In terms of home video speculation, Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is co-presented by Cinématographe. Howard Brookner's Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is co-presented by Janus/Criterion.

Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest [Aranyer Din Ratri] has Criterion/Janus and the World Cinema Project as co-presenters, and Flora Gomes' Mortu Nega is presented by the World Cinema Project. There hasn't been a new World Cinema Project/Criterion box since September 2022.

Erich von Stroheim's Queen Kelly is forthcoming from Milestone Films and Kino Lorber.

[CSM126]

In terms of home video speculation, Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is co-presented by Cinématographe.

If this is as good as A Safe Place then I can’t wait to ignore it.

[beamish14]

In terms of home video speculation, Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is co-presented by Cinématographe.

If this is as good as A Safe Place then I can’t wait to ignore it.

Haha! Jaglom really is an odd one to get the 4K treatment, and he probably paid for the restoration himself.

He personally kept a play of his on stage in Los Angeles for at least a year. I remember seeing bus ads for it all the time, but you couldn’t pay people to go to it

[Stefan Andersson]

Sweetie, 4K:
https://miff.com.au/program/film/sweetie#top

Nightshift, Robina Rose, 4K:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/robina- ... vant-garde
https://miff.com.au/program/film/nightshift#top

Will, Jessie Maple, 4K:
https://miff.com.au/program/film/will#top

[Stefan Andersson]

In the White City, Tanner:
https://www.rockawayfilmfestival.org/20 ... white-city

Die tolle Lola, Lilian Harvey:
https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfueh ... ola-12441/

Grosstadschmetterling, Anna May Wong:
https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfueh ... ing-12435/
https://foerderverein-filmkultur.de/arc ... rling.html

Dinty, Anna May Wong:
https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.c ... useum.html

[nicolas]

6 films by Werner Herzog were restored: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GgDaVTv_nUw

Aguirre
Fitzcarraldo
Nosferatu
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser
Stroszek
Woyzeck

[Stefan Andersson]

Bullet in the Head, 4K, 131 minutes:
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/bullet-in-the-head/

Lineup of restored HK classics:
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/hong-k ... -classics/

[jmj713]

With her latest film being submitted for the Oscars by Jordan (https://deadline.com/2025/08/oscars-202 ... 236497668/) I would love to see Criterion or anyone else pick up her 2009 classic Amreeka and restore it, right now only a DVD exists, I believe. Who has the rights to it?

[Stefan Andersson]

Restorations underway:
"Iraq’s first-ever motion picture, Anwar Sha-ul’s Alia and Issam (1948)" and a Seijun Suzuki project:
https://thefilmverdict.com/asian-restor ... at-cannes/

[Stefan Andersson]

Becky Sharp (1935), 4K:

"In 2017, the Paramount Archive , using around 50 reels of film inclusive of three-strip OCN, preserved the title in 4k. The work was performed by Technicolor Creative Services." The last reel is still a dupe.

See post 123 onwards:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... 368/page-7

[Stefan Andersson]

Les perles de la couronne and six other Sacha Guitry films in 4K:
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/si-gu ... ait-conte/

El Sur, 4K:
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/le-sud/

[tenia]

El Sur is getting a French video release end of this year (Le chat qui fume), BD at least, possibly UHD too.
Si Versailles m'était conté is getting a French UHD/BD release in December (Rimini).

[Stefan Andersson]

Black Girl (Ossie Davis, 1972)
Magnificent Matador (Boetticher, 1955)
Vanity Fair (1932, with Myrna Loy)
No. 5 Checked Out (Ida Lupino, 1956)
and other UCLA restorations, on TCM Sept. 25
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archi ... 2025-09-08

Black Girl also in the Revivals section of NYFF:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/daily/63r ... announced/

[beamish14]

I’ve been interested in seeing Black Girl for years. It’s never been widely available

[Stefan Andersson]

Screenshots comparing the Cohen Media/MoC edition of The Thief of Baghdad (1924) with an ARTE broadcast of a restoration which the writer, Paul Cuff, credits to Photoplay Productions:
https://therealmofsilence.com/ - Sept. 10 post

The ARTE version "contains the original credit sequence. The version presented both on the Kino DVD and the Cohen/MoC Blu-ray has a different (less elaborate) font for the main title, then dissolves straight to the image of the Holy Man and child in the desert /../ In the Photoplay version, the more elaborate title is followed by full credits of cast and crew, then the desert prologue scene /.../ the major difference is that the image in the Photoplay restoration is darker, the colours more saturated /../ the overall difference in colour and contrast makes a big difference".

The MoC edition, but not the Cohen one, is credited to Photoplay here:
https://www.silentera.com/video/thiefOfBagdadHV.html

Mr. Cuff also discusses the film´s soundtracks in depth.

[beamish14]

A number of new restorations debuting at Beyond Fest, including The Day of the Dolphin and Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot

[Stefan Andersson]

Programming for the 2025 Festival Lumière has started to go online.
Some restorations and archival treasures:
L´amour à mort (Resnais)
Ashima, Liu Qiong (1964)
Ombre et lumière, Henri Calef (1951), Simone Signoret, Maria Casarès
La Famille Homolka, Jaroslav Papousek (Ecce Homo Homolka, 1969)
Le Glas des va-nu-pieds, Stanislav Barabás (Zvony pre bosych, 1965)
Le Milieu du monde, Alain Tanner (1974)
Orochi, Futagawa Buntaro (1925)
Knock, Guy Lefranc (1951), Louis Jouvet
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... ssics.html
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... astes.html

Konrad Wolf films:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... emand.html

Also:
La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance de Georges Mourier (2025, 54min) - documentary on the 14-year restoration.
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... inema.html

[Michael Kerpan]

I've seen (and liked) Orochi and Millieu du monde....

[Stefan Andersson]

Some restorations showing in New York:
Vie privée, Malle
Noir et blanc, Devers
Remparts d´argile, Bertuccelli
Le grand soir, Reusser
Notre musique, Godard
Boulevard, Duvivier
https://lallianceny.org/event/version-r ... d-version/

The 2024 edition of the above event had L´Aigle a Deux Têtes, La vie conjugale (both films), Détruire, dit-elle, Jonah Who Will be 25 in the year 2000, Samba Traoré, La Rose de la Mer, and more:
https://letterboxd.com/lallianceny/list ... sion-2024/

[Stefan Andersson]

The Brave Bulls, international version, Rossen, 4K:
https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/ - Sept. 10, 2025 post
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar ... ls-2025-11
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043359/al ... at_dyk_alt

Festival Lumière - links to individual film pages, with restoration information, now live. Example: Lumière et compagnie, 4K:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... inema.html

Some other pages:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... ssics.html
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... ouvet.html
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... astes.html

[yoloswegmaster]

Interesting that Kino Lorber is credited for the restoration for Wild at Heart.

[dwk]

Looking forward to seeing how Kino screws up Wild at Heart

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Looking forward to seeing how Kino screws up Wild at Heart

Fingers crossed that Criterion eventually gets it a la Lost Highway.

[nicolas]

Wow, that is depressing news.

[dwk]

I could see Univeraal licensing it to Arrow in the UK (assuming that Universal still has the UK rights and hasn't already licensed it to that one crummy UK label that I can never remember the name of.)