Recent Film Restorations

[Stefan Andersson]

7th Heaven showing in L.A. Nov. 24 in 4K:

https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 2a67cb81db

The Best Years of Our Lives, 4K:

https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 3fb6a9e86a

[Calvin]

The latest round of CNC funded restorations includes another Michel Deville film (La Femme en bleu), Raul Ruiz's Days in the Country, and Tati's Parade. The most costly restoration appears to actually be of two films - Mon Coeur au ralenti and La Madone des Sleepings, both based on Maurice Dekobra novels and directed by Marco de Gastyne though the latter film was mostly directed by Maurice Gleize after Gastyne fell ill.

Gastyne thankfully recovered and went on to direct La Merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc, which I would sorely love to see on one of these restoration lists one day...

[domino harvey]

The latest round of CNC funded restorations includes another Michel Deville film (La Femme en bleu)

I could see this one appealing to Radiance. A good film but not one that’s going to do a great job showing Deville’s mastery however

[Stefan Andersson]

The latest round of CNC funded restorations includes another Michel Deville film (La Femme en bleu)

Also:
La Planète sauvage, Laloux
Dans ma peau, de Van
Rois et Reine, Desplechin
Un conte de Noel, Desplechin

[Stefan Andersson]

Gastyne thankfully recovered and went on to direct La Merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc, which I would sorely love to see on one of these restoration lists one day...

Restored by Renée Lichtig in the 80´s and released on SECAM VHS by René Chateau:
viewtopic.php?t=9784
https://schreckbabble.wordpress.com/about/
https://annhardingstreasures.blogspot.c ... -1929.html

"The film was reconstructed and restored by Renée Lichtig at the Cinémathèque française in 1983-1986 from an incomplete 35mm nitrate negative and a condensed 17.5mm reduction print previously owned by Simone Genevois. A new restoration was scheduled to begin in 2012."
"Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format and Hypergonar 35mm anamorphic 2.66:1 format."
https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/V/V ... n1929.html

[Calvin]

I'm not sure an 80s restoration really counts for much in the present day but that comment about 2012 is intriguing. Any ideas if it happened? I've not seen anything regarding it being screened in recent years

[Lowry_Sam]

7th Heaven showing in L.A. Nov. 24 in 4K:

https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 2a67cb81db

I would love to see a Borzage silent box. (UHD would make it even better). A search for other 4K restorations turned up Man's Castle & History Is Made At Night. The only other of his silents I see a restoration for is The Valley Of Silent Men, so I guess this was just a resto for Academy Award wins and not part of a broader project of restoring his films or has anyone heard otherwise?...then of course there's Fox/Disney to contend with.

[Stefan Andersson]

7th Heaven showing in L.A. Nov. 24 in 4K:

https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 2a67cb81db

I would love to see a Borzage silent box. (UHD would make it even better). A search for other 4K restorations turned up Man's Castle & History Is Made At Night. The only other of his silents I see a restoration for is The Valley Of Silent Men, so I guess this was just a resto for Academy Award wins and not part of a broader project of restoring his films or has anyone heard otherwise?...then of course there's Fox/Disney to contend with.

Back Pay, 1922, 2K on bluray:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=32239

Street Angel, "Preserved and restored by The Museum of Modern Art"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/10739

The Lady, 1925, "Digital restoration by Library of Congress, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and the Cohen Collection"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8917

The First Year, 1926, 35mm "Preservation funded by the Film Foundation and Hollywood Foreign Press Association"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4395

Secrets, 1924, "Digital restoration courtesy Cineteca di Bologna"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9761

The River, 1929, on DVD:
https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/prod ... river.html

Bad Girl, "35mm print preserved and restored by The Museum of Modern Art, funded by Twentieth Century Fox"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9571
on bluray:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19606

Little Man What Now, 2K, Disputed Passage, Desire, A Farewell to Arms on bluray:
https://kinolorber.com/search?q=Frank+B ... 6PhLUaZ4bi

[hearthesilence]

I posted before about Street Angel but here it is again because it's important they get the best and latest restoration from MoMA, not Fox:

I mentioned this in a different thread, but Twentieth Century Fox funded a 4K restoration of Street Angel from nitrate elements held by MoMA, which also premiered it in 2019, and on Sunday, MoMA unveiled an "updated" restoration. Similar to 7th Heaven, they were able to continue their own work on the previous 4K restoration because Street Angel also entered the public domain as of this year.

With that in mind, perhaps there's real hope that MoMA's latest restorations for both films can see a physical release, especially if Disney/Fox no longer has a say.

[Stefan Andersson]

The Lacemaker, Goretta, DCP restoration:
https://filmforum.org/film/the-lacemake ... le-huppert

The Trout, Losey, DCP restoration:
https://filmforum.org/film/the-trout-isabelle-huppert

[tenia]

I suppose La truite will be sourced from the same thing that the French BD : https://testsbluray.com/2022/04/25/test ... la-truite/
I've seen La dentellière in DCP last year, and it looked like a 25yo HD master, despite tech details stating some work done in 2016 and then some more in 2020.

[A Tempted Christ]

Solaris, Mirror and Stalker now all have 4K masters available and have received screenings in Russia.
Slight differences in framing and grading compared to the previous 2K masters, noticeably in Stalker's controversial monochrome scenes. The compression is pretty bad but you can check out the new restorations on Mosfilm's Youtube channel.
Some fans on Russian forums are claiming AI was used which would be devastating if true but I didn't notice anything while randomly checking scenes, so at the very least it's not glaringly obvious.

[andyli]

It feels increasingly necessary to preserve good old 2K restorations before the arrival of generative AI. Film restoration is heading to a terrifying place. I'll hold on to my Criterion editions dearly.

[Lowry_Sam]

It feels increasingly necessary to preserve good old 2K restorations before the arrival of generative AI. Film restoration is heading to a terrifying place. I'll hold on to my Criterion editions dearly.

Now I feel (slightly) vindicated in my laziness to resell OOP titles before they get released on a new format, missing out on making some $$$.
(My original Wong Kar Wai blus helped with that too).

[beamish14]

It feels increasingly necessary to preserve good old 2K restorations before the arrival of generative AI. Film restoration is heading to a terrifying place. I'll hold on to my Criterion editions dearly.

I’ve held onto many DVDs (e.g. the Criterion releases of Solaris and Do the Right Thing) as a result of atrocious color changes in HD “upgrades”

[beamish14]

Putney Swope

Really hope that more Downey restorations are imminent

[vanshady]

Is it different from Indicator’s Putney Swope release?

[criterionsnob]

Sony has released a 4K remastered trailer for Safe.

[andyli]

The Criterion transfer was already from a 4K master. This trailer looks very similar to that so it could be the same restoration.

[beamish14]

Is it different from Indicator’s Putney Swope release?

It appears to be

[A Tempted Christ]

Is it different from Indicator’s Putney Swope release?

Both Vinegar Syndrome's 2019 release and Indicator's recent disc were sourced from the same 4K restoration done by Academy and Film Foundation with Hobson/Lucas funding. Vinegar Syndrome's blurb reads "NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM VARIOUS 35MM PRE-PRINT ELEMENTS" but Chris' review goes into detail, mentioning the 35mm OCN as the primary source and a fine grain master positive to fill in the gaps.

[ellipsis7]

Not sure if this is the right thread, but anyway...

Paris’s Cinémathèque Française closes doors over bedbug infestation

[Stefan Andersson]

Restoring rediscovered Taiwanese films:
https://thefilmverdict.com/reviving-the ... torations/
https://taiyupian.uk/the-films/
https://www.austinfilm.org/series/unlea ... of-taiwan/
https://www.screendaily.com/screen-netw ... 06.article
https://taiwantoday.tw/AMP/culture/taiw ... g-the-past
https://www.tfai.org.tw/en/mediaNews/de ... 407236001b
https://taiwaninsight.org/2017/10/16/th ... ge-cinema/
https://www.moc.gov.tw/global_outreach/ ... 31&s=19102
Mention of A City of Sadness restoration:
https://web.theculvertheater.com/films/ ... HO00000519
Trailer with Era International logo:
https://thefilmstage.com/hou-hsiao-hsie ... storation/
https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2023/07/pr ... -heritage/

Restoring Basque-language medium-length films:
https://thefilmverdict.com/basque-glori ... sebastian/

[vanshady]

Restoring rediscovered Taiwanese films:
https://thefilmverdict.com/reviving-the ... torations/

I wonder how new Vive L’Amour 4k scan would compare to the Film Movement 2K scan BD

[Stefan Andersson]

Parts of The Cat Creeps (Rupert Julian, 1930) rediscovered, along with soundtrack discs; reconstruction aims for completion in 2026:
https://www.ipm.org/news/2025-11-21/fil ... y-archives