Milestone
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Lowry_Sam
- Joined: Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:35 pm
- Location: San Francisco, CA
Re: Milestone
Guess I'll wait for a Kino sale to re-order 
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domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm
Re: Milestone
Oddly the DVD still has the old date. Wonder what's going on
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kekid
- Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:55 am
Re: Milestone
Any update on when the restored Queen Kelly might be released on the Blu Ray / 4K?
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therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:40 pm
Re: Milestone
This doesn't answer that, but the new restoration is apparently streaming right now. Pretty frustrating there's been no response about the physical release delay yetkekid wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 5:03 am Any update on when the restored Queen Kelly might be released on the Blu Ray / 4K?
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Stefan Andersson
- Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:02 am
Re: Milestone
In-depth review of Queen Kelly and Pamela Hutchinson´s book:
https://therealmofsilence.com/ - Aug. 2, 2026 post
"there are now a few extra fragments of Stroheim’s original footage that were absent from the 1985 restoration, but these amount to a matter of seconds rather than minutes. We see Regina dictating a letter that releases Wolfram from their engagement, and Wolfram/his adjutant excitedly planning to leave. /.../ these moments are merely glimpses of otherwise lost and/or unrealized sequences of much greater length. To this material, Milestone have added footage from other productions (shots of Africa from a travel documentary from 1929; church bells from a contemporary Paramount production), together with reframed/repeated footage from earlier scenes shot by Stroheim."
"there are also some lovely production stills (usually shown with zooming/panning to enliven them), production designs, and a lot of explanatory titles. These titles are brief"
https://therealmofsilence.com/ - Aug. 2, 2026 post
"there are now a few extra fragments of Stroheim’s original footage that were absent from the 1985 restoration, but these amount to a matter of seconds rather than minutes. We see Regina dictating a letter that releases Wolfram from their engagement, and Wolfram/his adjutant excitedly planning to leave. /.../ these moments are merely glimpses of otherwise lost and/or unrealized sequences of much greater length. To this material, Milestone have added footage from other productions (shots of Africa from a travel documentary from 1929; church bells from a contemporary Paramount production), together with reframed/repeated footage from earlier scenes shot by Stroheim."
"there are also some lovely production stills (usually shown with zooming/panning to enliven them), production designs, and a lot of explanatory titles. These titles are brief"
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drdoros
- Joined: Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:36 pm
Re: Milestone
Well, technically true, and not... The Regina dictating the letter, I believe, was in the 1985 version. The two minutes of footage from other productions (Martin and Osa's footage of what they told von Stroheim was Dar-es-Salaam which actually turned out to be Mobassa, and the wedding bells from The Wedding March were purchased to be in Queen Kelly. Because the Kennedy papers were not available in 1985, these were new discoveries and new additions. The use of "reimagine" was my reluctance to use "restoration" since that's not possible. Anyway, it's a fair critique. I do feel the 2025 version, thanks to digital editing and blowups, is a better version. Is it the best? I hope someone will come along and take another try some time in the distant future when more footage is found.