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Update from Milestone Films:
"our restoration of SADIE THOMPSON will be premiering at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in October!"
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39282
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Tho ... home_media

Aug. 26, 2026 update from Milestone Films:

"The last reel is still missing despite a new FIAF search done. It will be a 4K digital transfer from an earlier negative with much cleanup and scratch removal. It won't be perfect because of the nitrate damage, but it will look significantly better. Much like Queen Kelly."

https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39282

Ten Thousand Suns, Tízezer nap, Hungary, 1965,  Ferenc Kósa
https://nfi.hu/en/budapest-classics-fil ... -suns.html
Includes trailer which looks restored.
"The original version was edited nine times, it was banned for two years because it includes the line that 1956 was “our revolution”, and the act of suicide by the hero was frowned on. /.../ Censored footage has never been found."

Thamar, The Child of the Mountains/ Thamar, das Kind der Berge, Germany, 1923/1924, dir: Robert Dienesen
https://nfi.hu/en/budapest-classics-fil ... tains.html

Four Estonian films by Leida Laius - Werewolf, Spring in the Forest, Smile at Last, A Stolen Meeting
https://www.spectacletheater.com/four-f ... ida-laius/
https://classics.filmi.ee/movie/werewolf/
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/werewolf

trailer for Werewolf:
https://www.efis.ee/en/film/209

Another Way, Egymásra nézve, Hungary, 1982, dir: Károly Makk (2025 screening)
https://nfi.hu/en/budapest-classics-fil ... way-2.html

For the record -- some older restorations:

I'm an Elefant, Madame / Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame, West Germany 1969, dir: Peter Zadek
https://nfi.hu/en/budapest-classics-fil ... adame.html

Meteo, Hungarian sci-fi, colour, 1986, by András Monory Mész, 2K digital remaster:
https://filmarchiv.hu/en/filmmarathon/2 ... /year:2019

Season of Monsters. Szörnyek évadja, Hungary 1986, by Miklós Jancsó, 2K digital remaster:
https://filmarchiv.hu/en/filmmarathon/2 ... /year:2019

Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe, Édes Emma, Drága Böbe, Hungary, István Szabó, 2K restored:
https://filmarchiv.hu/en/filmmarathon/2 ... /year:2019

Current / Sodrásban, Hungary 1963, by István Gaál, 4K restored:
https://filmarchiv.hu/en/filmmarathon/2 ... /year:2019

Time Stands Still / Megáll az idő, Hungary 1981, by Péter Gothár, 4K restored:
https://filmarchiv.hu/en/filmmarathon/2 ... /year:2019

The Upthrown Stone, 1968, Hungary, Sándor Sára, 4K restored:
https://nfi.hu/en/film-archive/film-mar ... stone.html

Panelstory, or How a Housing Development is Born, Věra Chytilová, 1979:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d ... tory-lff26

Restoration strand at the 2026 LFF:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d ... nk=archive

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2026 11:43 am Restoration strand at the 2026 LFF:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d ... nk=archive

If anyone has time to go to any of these… go see Pakeezah, it’s an underseen gem.

Cyankali, Tintner, Germany 1930, 2K DCP; web browser translation:
"World premiere of the digitally restored version, which is based on the original 35 mm image negative and the original 35 mm optical negative (both nitrate). The image negative has gaps, caused by admission-related cuts and edits of the film in the course of its archive history. In terms of sound, four of the original ten roles are missing, which could not be supplemented despite intensive research. The digitization was funded by the Film Heritage Funding Program (FFE). The missing musical passages will be set to music live by cellist Paul Rittel during the performance."
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/b ... taurierung
https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfueh ... kali-4795/

A 2016 DVD with, according to Google AI, an older Filmmuseum Potsdam restoration; the DVD is 4:3 with image stretched (to 16:9?) according to a customer review:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Cyankali-2-D ... 3848830108
https://www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de/DVD-C ... -1977.html

Il giardino dei Finzi Contini, 4K:
"The restoration in 4K resolution was carried out by the company Omnimago using the scan of the original negative material from Italy. This was supplemented by corresponding film material from the archives of German television stations to compensate for some minor sound errors in the original material. A new color correction was necessary to restore the optics. The digitization was funded by the Film Heritage Funding Program (FFE)."
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/b ... taurierung

Понеделник сутрин (Ponedelnik sutrin), Bulgaria 1966, Director: Irina Aktasheva, Hristo Piskov, 4K:
"banned shortly after completion and its release was prevented for over two decades, until 1988."
"restored in 2025 using the camera negative in 4K, with missing and damaged sections reconstructed using a duplicate negative."
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/b ... taurierung

Winter Kept Us Warm, Canada 1965, David Secter, 4K:
"In 2025, the film was scanned and restored by Canadian International Pictures using the original 16mm A/B camera negatives in 4K resolution, with audio taken from the zero copy. The restoration was funded by Telefilm Canada."
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/b ... taurierung

Details on restoring Pakeezah:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/4k ... ezah-1972/

The Man Who Came Back (1924), 4K:
https://silver.afi.com/movies/detail/0100005652/

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937):
"this fully restored 35mm print from the Packard Humanities Institute simulates the sepia-platinum toning process used for the original release by flashing the b&w dupe negative onto color print stock."
https://silver.afi.com/movies/detail/0100005651/

Hopefully this means a Warner Archive BD in December or January for Zenda.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2026 7:38 pm Details on restoring Pakeezah:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/4k ... ezah-1972/

Great film, great read. Bummer the original negatives haven’t survived.

From a few months back and noticed it hadn't been posted here: a 4K remaster of PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED is in the works by James Mockoski.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaG6AETv_8W/

4K remaster of MIAMI VICE, introducing a new Director's Final Cut, is premiering at Beyond Fest. Guess we now know why Shout pulled it after their initial listing.

https://www.americancinematheque.com/no ... 0-03-2026/

Bill Hunt has apparently confirmed Shout do still have it. Hopefully their release includes the Theatrical Cut as well, but if not, at least the 88 Films BD exists.

Die Gräfin von Monte Christo, 1932, FWMS restoration:
https://www.filmarchiv.at/de/kino/film/ ... X6WuBGea78

"this restoration was missing one sequence in the middle of the film, a sequence described in the censorship report /.../ in the collection of the Bundesarchiv, Berlin (more on this material in a future post!). /../ I finally got to see this very sequence in the Gosfilmofond copy. /.../ a few scenes in which the main characters arrive at snowbound Semmering and bluff their way into a hotel."

Sept. 10, 2026 post:
https://therealmofsilence.com/

Interesting info on a print of Alraune, Richard Oswald 1929, at Gosfilmofond:
"Though this was a shorter print, it boasted a fragment of material that was missing from the DFF restoration. In the latter, the credit sequence is entirely absent – so a digital substitute is provided. But in the Gosfilmofond copy, we see the original German title card announcing “Alraune”. After this striking visual introduction, the screen goes black and a voice announces: “In Richard Oswalds ‘Alraune’ – mit Albert Bassermann, Harald Paulsen, und Agnes Straud. Ein Richard Oswald film der Ufa.”

Sept. 10, 2026 post:
https://therealmofsilence.com/
https://www.dff.film/en/cinema/cinema-p ... gust-2023/

Details on the 2020 Golem restoration from Filmmuseum München:
https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/prod ... t-kam.html

Selections from the 2026 Pordenone programme:
https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en ... li-021026/

Festival sections:
https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en ... -sections/

Updated projects info from Artcraft Pictures:
https://artcraftpictures.com/current-projects


From the program of "Re:Vision—Festival of Restoration and Rediscovery,/.../ SFFP's inaugural film festival, celebrating the work of archives and archivists."
https://filmpreserve.org/revision/

"ATOM OF ETERNITY [ATOM VECNOSTI] (Cenek Zahradnícek and Vladimír Šmejkal, Czechoslovakia, 1934) 6m, DCP
A beautiful brevity/.../ the oldest story of them all: two people meet, they fall for each other and then, inevitably, they’re pulled apart. — Jonathan Marlow. Digitally restored in 2025 by the Národní filmový archiv as a selection from a collection of Czechian experimental shorts of the early-1930s."
https://roxie.com/film/revision-valley- ... 6.saHKa5AM

Araya, Benacerraf, 1959:
"Restored in 2009 from the French internegative by Scott MacQueen and Dennis Doros for Milestone Films in collaboration with Fotokem and Modern Videofilm. Audio restoration for 3-track mag tracks and the Spanish optical track by John Polito at Audio Mechanics."
https://roxie.com/film/revision-araya/

Aleksandar Petrović’s Tri, 1965:
"Restored in 2019 at Delta Video laboratory from a 35mm negative preserved by Jugoslovenska Kinoteka."
LES ENFANTS DE LA GUERRE [CHILDREN OF WAR] (Jocelyn Saab, Lebanon, 1976) 11m, DCP
"This restoration is based on a 2K scan of Jocelyne Saab’s original 16mm reversal work print and the 16mm magnetic sound element preserved at the Archives françaises du film. The restoration was led by l’Association Jocelyne Saab in partnership with Polygone étoile/Film Flamme (Marseille) and ThePostOffice (Beirut)."
https://roxie.com/film/revision-tri/

Jan-Christopher Horak on the 1975, 2018 and 2024 restorations of The Saga of Gösta Berling, Stiller, 1924, plus comparisons with the Kino edition:
https://archivalspaces.com/2026/09/04/4 ... -festival/

L'Eclisse allegedly received a new restoration recently, according to someone on the other forum, but I see no mention of it anywhere on the internet. Maybe it's a similar situation to A Woman Under the Influence: "He said they said she said there's a new restoration somewhere..."?

The most recent round of restorations funded by the Polish Film Institute includes Zanussi's Camouflage, Szamanka, Siberian Lady Macbeth, Oliver Twist, and The Ghost Writer.

Film restoration info for German films can sometimes be found at www.filmportal.de
Search for a film, on the film page, look screen right for a link "Filmanfang" (Start of film), leading to a Vimeo player showing the first minutes of the film, often with restoration info on text screens.

The film page sometimes has links, screen right, to PDF documents about censorship ("Zensur") and other subjects; example:
https://www.filmportal.de/film/alraune_ ... 6f045e03ca
See Zensurentscheidung vom 20.01.1928 for info about censor-mandated film cuts in Galeen´s Alraune.

Xi Xiang Ji, China 1927:
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/b ... taurierung

Calvin wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2026 7:02 pm The most recent round of restorations funded by the Polish Film Institute includes Zanussi's Camouflage, Szamanka, Siberian Lady Macbeth, Oliver Twist, and The Ghost Writer.

Also Konwicki´s All Souls Day, Salto, Last Day of Summer, and Austeria, Kawalerowicz

Older decisions:
Innocent Sorcerers, Wajda, 4K
Maids of Wilko, Wajda, 4K
Crows, Kędzierzawska, 2K
The Blood of Dr. Jekyll and The Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal, Borowczyk, 4K
Disgust and Darkness, Polański, 4K
"Selected Works", Borowczyk, Lenica, 4K
Constans, Zanussi, 4K
https://pisf.pl/dotacje/sesja-1-2025-po3pr4/

Blue Note, Zulawski, 4K
With Fire and Sword, Hoffman, 2K
https://pisf.pl/dotacje/sesja-2-2024-7/

Full lists:
https://pisf.pl/dotacje/

Choose a year, go to PO Popularization of film culture, then Priority IV: Digital reconstruction.

Restorations for the 2026 Festival Lumière:

Metropolis, new restoration
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/metropolis

It, 1927
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/clara-bow

Trésors et curiosités / Treasures and Curiosities

Épilogue d’Helmut Käutner (1950)

La Maison de l’ange de Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (1957)

Caddie de Donald Crombie (1976)

Rondo de Zvonimir Berkovic (1966)

Shanghaï Express de Josef von Sternberg (1931)
Anything Goes – Tops is the Limit de Lewis Milestone (1936)

Zouzou de Marc Allégret (1934)
Anne-Marie de Raymond Bernard (1935)
La Maison Bonnadieu de Carlo Rim (1951)
Sophie et le crime de Pierre Gaspard-Huit (1955)
Un flic de Jean-Pierre Melville (1972)

La Renarde de Michael Powell et Emeric Pressburger (1950)
1984 de Michael Radford (1984)

Pakeezah de Kamal Amrohi (1972)

Saludos hombre de Sergio Sollima (1968)
Les Fleurs du soleil de Vittorio De Sica (1970)

La Femme insecte de Shohei Imamura (1963)

Les Oiseaux, les orphelins et les fous de Juraj Jakubisko (1969)

Au fil de la programmation / In other sections

Les Mystères d’une âme de Georg Wilhelm Pabst (muet, 1926)
La Madone des sleepings de Marco de Gastyne et Maurice Gleize (muet, 1927)
Tempête de Sam Taylor (muet, 1928)
Erotikon de Gustav Machaty (muet, 1929)
Du samedi au dimanche de Gustav Machaty (muet, 1931)
Extase de Gustav Machaty (muet, 1933)
Espoir, Sierra de Teruel d’André Malraux (1945)
L’Ivrogne de Gilda Abreu (1946)
Pain amer de Grigoris Grigoriou (1951)
Les Arrivistes de Louis Daquin (1960)
Arrêtez les tambours de Georges Lautner (1961)
Un homme et une femme de Claude Lelouch (1966)
La Folie des grandeurs de Gérard Oury (1971)
Les Diables de Ken Russell (1971)
Pousse-pousse de Daniel Kamwa (1976)
Mikey et Nicky d’Elaine May (1976)
Affreux, sales et méchants d’Ettore Scola (1976)
Chemins croisés de Marta Mészaros (1979)
La Terrasse d’Ettore Scola (1980)
Peking Opera Blues de Tsui Hark (1986)
L’Allée des osmanthes de Kun-hou Chen (1987)

https://www.festival-lumiere.org/storag ... og-web.pdf

https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/pro ... -the-label
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/pro ... ma-history
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/pro ... filmmakers
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/pro ... ilent-film
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/pro ... uis-daquin
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/pro ... filmmakers
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/pro ... eek-cinema