Recent Film Restorations

[vertigo]

Le goût des autres, Agnès Jaoui, 4K:

Finally, one of my favourite films, the trouble, and it's a big trouble, is that they speak so much, and I don't not remember what class of French accent they talk. Oops, it could be a northern accent, that is impossible for me to understand.

[Stefan Andersson]

UCLA Festival of Preservation 2026; 11 films, including:
"Black Girl (1972), directed by civil rights icon Ossie Davis /.../ restoration world premieres of Maurice Tourneur’s painterly silent drama Lorna Doone (1922), the Constance Bennett screwball comedy Merrily We Live (1938), André de Toth’s L.A. noir Pitfall (1948) and delightful Fleischer Studios cartoons. Also /.../ a new restoration of Budd Boetticher’s The Magnificent Matador (1955), filmed in Mexico in dazzling three-color Eastmancolor. The work of prolific and pioneering director Lela Swift will be a focus of the Festival’s television offerings, preserved from rare kinescopes and shown with original commercials."
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/ucla-festiv ... eservation

On an earlier restoration of Lorna Doone:
https://grokipedia.com/page/lorna_doone_1922_film

[Stefan Andersson]

Der fremde Vogel (Urban Gad, 1911) w/ Asta Nielsen:
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/p ... emde-vogel

[Stefan Andersson]

Raizo Ichikawa movies, 4K:
Shin Genji Monogatari, 1961
Samurai Vendetta (Hakuôki), 1961
Wife of Seishu Hanaoka, 1967, Masumura
The School of Spies, 1966, Masumura
http://www.cinenouveau.com/sakuhin/ichi ... u2025.html
https://en.cinemore.jp/jp/news-feature/ ... le_p1.html
https://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/nakano-spy-school/

[Stefan Andersson]

La Visita, Pietrangeli, "in 4K. The film was restored by CSC (Cineteca Nazionale at CSC Digital Lab laboratory) from the original footage and sound provided by Minerva Pictures."
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/la-visita/1450584
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/La-Visit ... ay/220761/

Kisses, Masumura 1957, 4K:
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/kisses/1351098

Stamping Ground Directors Cut, Pohland/Sluizer:
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/rest ... cut/268072

[hearthesilence]

NYFF 2024 revivals:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/daily ... announced/

Includes:
Reporters, Depardon

Some upcoming French restorations (financial grants decided Nov. 14, 2024):
Several Raymond Depardon titles

Lincoln Center kicks off their Raymond Depardon retrospective today, which is entirely made up of these new restorations (encompassing both brand-new 2K and 4K restorations) as well as newly "remastered" DCP's for the remainder. Runs through March 1st with discounts on multi-ticket packages.

[Stefan Andersson]

Geheimnisse des Orients, Volkoff, 2016 restoration by Murnau Stiftung:
https://murnau-stiftung.de/filmtheater/ ... es-orients
https://www.dhm.de/assets/Zeughauskino/ ... rients.pdf
https://www.fondation-jeromeseydoux-pat ... event/2609
https://grokipedia.com/page/secrets_of_the_orient

[Stefan Andersson]

Happy Day, Pantelís Voúlgaris, 1976:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/135133.html

Cousin, cousine, 1975:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/51356.html

En rade, Cavalcanti:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/47374.html

Pirosmani, Chengelaya:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/41037.html

Three Bad Men, 1926, 4K MoMA resto:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/66215.html
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/5239

Tamango, Berry, 4K:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/51902.html

Pedro Costa films:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/59770.html
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/29129.html
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/66165.html

La Esmeralda, Alice Guy:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/53076.html

[Stefan Andersson]

Alexandr Ptushko´s Alye parusa, 1961, 4K; CinemaScope version and a shorter 1.37 version
https://artusfilms.com/products/les-voiles-ecarlates

Ptushko´s Ruslan and Ludmila, 4K:
https://artusfilms.com/products/rouslan-et-ludmila

Showing at the 2026 Cinema Revival festival at the Wexner Center for the Arts:

The Red Spectacles, Oshii, 4K:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/red-spectacles

Mortu Nega, Flora Gomes, 4K:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/mortu-nega

Money from Home, George Marshall:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/money-home
https://3dfilmarchive.com/money-from-home/

Five Easy Pieces, 4K
"Restored in 4K in 2025 by Sony Pictures Entertainment at Cineric and Motion Picture Imaging laboratories, from the original 35mm picture negative and from the 35mm YCM separation masters. Audio restored at Deluxe Audio laboratory, from the mono audio masters."
https://wexarts.org/film-video/five-easy-pieces-0

El Grito (The Scream, Leobardo López Arretche, 1968), 4K from 16mm OCN:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/el-grito

Some information from Cinema Revival, 2025 and earlier:

Lifeboat, Hitchock, Disney/Film Foundation:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/lifeboat

Ceddo, Sembene, 4K, Janus:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/ceddo

Xala, Sembene, 4K, Janus:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/xala

Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Redux), 4K, "Contains a scene previously thought lost!"
https://wexarts.org/film-video/tales-gi ... ital-redux

Dream Life (La vie rêvée, Mireille Dansereau, 1972), 4K, Arbelos:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/dream-life

The War at Home, Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown, 1979:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/war-home

[Stefan Andersson]

At the TCM Film Festival 2026:

Alice in Wonderland, Disney 1951
Auntie Mame, 1958
Pal Joey, 1957
Shane
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Ceddo, Sembene, 4K, Janus:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/ceddo

Xala, Sembene, 4K, Janus:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/xala

These restorations were used for Criterion's 2024 Sembène box, albeit in 1080p since it was standard Blu only.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Redux), 4K, "Contains a scene previously thought lost!"
https://wexarts.org/film-video/tales-gi ... ital-redux

Zeitgeist/Kino Lorber released this on Blu in 2023 after giving it a theatrical run. The reference to a "lost scene" is Maddin being cheeky (or lying, if you prefer the direct approach) about a scene shot in 1999 as a sort of favor to the film's co-star Michael Gottli, who had been paralyzed a few years earlier. Maddin also removed the blackface scene.

[Stefan Andersson]

Ceddo, Sembene, 4K, Janus:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/ceddo

Xala, Sembene, 4K, Janus:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/xala

These restorations were used for Criterion's 2024 Sembène box, albeit in 1080p since it was standard Blu only.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Redux), 4K, "Contains a scene previously thought lost!"
https://wexarts.org/film-video/tales-gi ... ital-redux

Zeitgeist/Kino Lorber released this on Blu in 2023 after giving it a theatrical run. The reference to a "lost scene" is Maddin being cheeky (or lying, if you prefer the direct approach) about a scene shot in 1999 as a sort of favor to the film's co-star Michael Gottli, who had been paralyzed a few years earlier. Maddin also removed the blackface scene.

Thanks for the update about Sembène and the information about Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Redux)!

[Stefan Andersson]

Restoring Preminger´s Saint Joan:
https://www.indiewire.com/features/comm ... 235181650/
The Academy Film Archive has the OCN and optical soundtrack, and the trailer.

For the record -- info from 2015:
The King and the Mockingbird (Grimault, 1952/80), restored by Studio Canal and released by Rialto Pictures:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/king-and-mockingbird-0

[Stefan Andersson]

A 2024 article on restoring Suzuki´s Tokyo Drifter in 4K; interesting comments on restoring the film´s mix of positive (type 5385) and negative (Eastman 5251) film:
https://www.imagica-ems.co.jp/en/projec ... o-drifter/

[beamish14]

Restoring Preminger´s Saint Joan:
https://www.indiewire.com/features/comm ... 235181650/
The Academy Film Archive has the OCN and optical soundtrack, and the trailer.

For the record -- info from 2015:
The King and the Mockingbird (Grimault, 1952/80), restored by Studio Canal and released by Rialto Pictures:
https://wexarts.org/film-video/king-and-mockingbird-0

Saint Joan and The Cardinal both have restorations now. I hope Porgy and Bess does as well, although I know the music is still a sticking point until it enters the public domain

[FlickeringWindow]

Saint Joan and The Cardinal both have restorations now. I hope Porgy and Bess does as well, although I know the music is still a sticking point until it enters the public domain

Porgy and Bess, at least the film itself, is part of the Samuel Goldwyn Trust library (along with Ball of Fire, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, etc)

Seems like the Preminger estate titles ended up at Ignite.

[beamish14]

Saint Joan and The Cardinal both have restorations now. I hope Porgy and Bess does as well, although I know the music is still a sticking point until it enters the public domain

Porgy and Bess, at least the film itself, is part of the Samuel Goldwyn Trust library (along with Ball of Fire, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, etc)

Seems like the Preminger estate titles ended up at Ignite.

Interesting. I thought it might still be Sony

[Stefan Andersson]

Safi Faye´s Letter from My Village (Kaddu Beykat, Senegal 1976) is being restored; showing at the 2026 Locarno Festival:
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/pro/proj ... ntest.html

[Stefan Andersson]

Na papirnatih avionih, Matjaž Klopčič, Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1967, "Restored by the Slovenian Cinematheque in collaboration with the
Slovenian Film Archive and the Slovenian Film Center". See p. 105:
http://www.tainiothiki.gr/docs/catalogue_14aagff.pdf

[Stefan Andersson]

Berlin premiere of the German version of Die Herrin von Atlantis (1921) is mentioned in the program for this year´s Berlin Silent Film Festival; might this be a restoration? An intermission is mentioned (second link below).
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=38567
https://www.stummfilmkonzerte.de/glossa ... l2026.html

Update: I find no online info about a specific German version of the 1921 film. Might this be a misplaced reference to Pabst´s 1932 versions in English, German and French?

[beamish14]

This is huge. Frank Perry’s Last Summer

[FlickeringWindow]

Park Circus seems to have recently added The Jungle Book, Gone to Earth, and The Parent Trap (1961) as having 4K DCPs available from Disney:
https://parkcircus.com/film/121212-Gone-to-Earth
https://parkcircus.com/film/105493-The-Parent-Trap
https://parkcircus.com/film/105620-The-Jungle-Book

Can't seem to find anything about new restorations of these three!

They also list Alice in Wonderland (1951), but it's already been announced as premiering at the upcoming TCM Film Festival.

[bad future]

Gone to Earth! That's so major, and not something I'd ever expect Disney to actively prioritize themselves. I wonder how this came about, assuming it really has been restored. I think I remember hearing that Kino's Blu-ray was initially just going to be Selznick recut/reshot version The Wild Heart until Thelma Schoonmaker and/or Scorsese convinced them to include Gone to Earth as a bonus feature. Maybe Schoonmaker has been quietly making more things happen for this wonderful film.

[senseabove]

There was an interview with Kevin Schaeffer, Director of the Restoration and Library Management Department at Walt Disney Studios, on a local radio show this week, and he talks about working closely with the Film Foundation and showing Scorsese and Spielberg the restoration work they're doing for their opinion, fwiw (not to mention using Scorsese's IB Tech print as a reference, in the particular case of Blood & Sand under discussion).

[bad future]

Between this and the recent 4k versions of Cinderella and Snow White suggesting they may have finally gotten the right idea on how to do justice to their classic animation, it's weird to have some tentative optimism about Disney's catalog in parallel with all the anxiety about what's coming for Warner.