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The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:14 am What are the details on The Smiling Lieutenant restoration? They have it listed as over ten minutes longer. I know it's one of Lubitsch's racier films, so is it discovered footage from an alternate edit? Also, that Forbidden Paradise restoration is two years old already. MoMA restored it and I had the priviledge of seeing it at the Academy Museum a few years ago.

Hogfather wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:45 am

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:14 am What are the details on The Smiling Lieutenant restoration? They have it listed as over ten minutes longer. I know it's one of Lubitsch's racier films, so is it discovered footage from an alternate edit? Also, that Forbidden Paradise restoration is two years old already. MoMA restored it and I had the priviledge of seeing it at the Academy Museum a few years ago.

Some interesting search results on The Smiling Lieutenant: UCLA Film & Television Archive seems to have spearheaded this restoration, or at least a restoration of similar length to the Cinematheque version.. But it also looks like there are prints of various lengths floating around, including official prints from Universal. This print owned by Universal is longer than the Criterion version, but shorter than the UCLA version.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:19 pm The Man Who Has His Hair Cut Short, Delvaux:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/45795.html

Stefan Andersson wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 5:43 pm

Hogfather wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:45 am

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:14 am What are the details on The Smiling Lieutenant restoration? They have it listed as over ten minutes longer. I know it's one of Lubitsch's racier films, so is it discovered footage from an alternate edit? Also, that Forbidden Paradise restoration is two years old already. MoMA restored it and I had the priviledge of seeing it at the Academy Museum a few years ago.

Some interesting search results on The Smiling Lieutenant: UCLA Film & Television Archive seems to have spearheaded this restoration, or at least a restoration of similar length to the Cinematheque version.. But it also looks like there are prints of various lengths floating around, including official prints from Universal. This print owned by Universal is longer than the Criterion version, but shorter than the UCLA version.

This article lists an uncut 94-min. version and a cut 89-min. version:
https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.c ... enant.html

A listing of the UCLA restoration at 88 mins.:
https://bampfa.org/event/smiling-lieutenant-2

"the original camera negative survived (a rare thing for Paramount nitrate) and served as the basis for a gorgeous restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.":
https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/2011 ... roduction/

Stefan Andersson wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2025 6:26 pm Fundraising project to restore the films of Paul Cox:

"The first film to be restored is “Vincent – the Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh” (1987) starring John Hurt. Restoration will be done in association with Hanway Films UK, a leading international sales company who hold the Paul Cox collection. Why "Vincent"? because there is still market demand for “Vincent” and once restored the proceeds from sales, after distribution costs, will go into restoring the next Paul Cox film and so on and so on – hopefully becoming self-sufficient. Hence restoring Paul Cox’s legacy film-by-film. We are aiming to release "Vincent" in the Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival 2025."

Source:
https://artists.australianculturalfund. ... on-project

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