Recent Film Restorations

[beamish14]

Elmer Gantry is a very nice surprise. I keep hoping that Sony will restore Lord Jim

[beamish14]

Sogo Ishii’s Shuffle and The Master of Shiatsu

[Stefan Andersson]

Manolescu (Tourjansky, 1929) w/Ivan Mosjoukine, Brigitte Helm; a Murnau Stiftung restoration begun in 2018:
https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/an ... index.html

[Stefan Andersson]

Anémic Cinéma:
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/__trashed-4/

Rien que les heures:
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/__trashed-5/

Time to Love, Erksan:
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/sevmek-zamani/

The Long Memory, Hamer:
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/the-long-memory/

Lemonade Joe:
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/li ... ska-opera/

A Spring for the Thirsty, Illjenko:
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/kr ... sprahlych/

Sans titre, Carax, is listed on the Recovered & Restored main page but not found in the catalogue or on site.

[Stefan Andersson]

City of Hope, Sayles, 4K restoration:
https://tiff.net/events/city-of-hope-with-john-sayles

[qw0aszx]

PEKING OPERA BLUES was restored again in 4K by Shanghai Film Festival, Ritrovata Asia handled the scanning and restoration from original camera negative. A Dolby Atmos remix was also produced. Ritrovato this year will also screen this restored version rather than the one done by Shout: https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/eventi/do-ma-daan/

Curious how this would turn out since all Shout restorations used a much inferior scanner to do the scanning.

[bad future]

5 years ago my blu-ray wishlist was topped by Peking Opera Blues and Typhoon Club, and both seemed like long shots for HD, let alone 4k. Now I'm looking at a not so distant potential future where I've bought both on UHD more than once... crazy how quickly these things can shift!

[Stefan Andersson]

Sans titre, Carax, 2025 restoration:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/63219.html

[Stefan Andersson]

Upcoming French restorations:
Marianne de ma jeunesse, Duvivier
Conte de la folie ordinaire, Ferreri
Prix de la beauté, Genina, silent version
El Dorado, L´Herbier
L´homme du large, L´Herbier
L´Epervier, L´Herbier
Les malheurs de Sophie, Jacqueline Audry
Immortel (Ad Vitam), Bilal
Les tribulations d´un Chinois en Chine, de Broca
Mina Tannenbaum, Dugowson
https://www.cnc.fr/professionnels/aides ... ine_190901

[Stefan Andersson]

Some restored Hungarian films (format and year of restoration not mentioned):

Jutalomutazás, coloured Hungarian feature film, 1975, director, screenwriter: István Dárday, Györgyi Szalai
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... itain.html

Ismeri a szandi mandit?, coloured Hungarian feature film, 1969, director: Lívia Gyarmathy
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... onday.html

Cold Days/Hideg napok, black and white Hungarian feature film, 1966, director: András Kovács
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... ays-2.html

...hogy szaladnak a fák!, black and white Hungarian feature film, 1966, director: Pál Zolnay
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... -sack.html

20 Hours/Húsz óra, black and white Hungarian feature film, 1965, director: Zoltán Fábri
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... hours.html

Ház a sziklák alatt, black and white Hungarian feature film, 1958, director: Károly Makk
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... cks-3.html

Professor Hannibal/Hannibál tanár úr, black and white Hungarian feature film, 1956, director: Zoltán Fábri
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... bal-2.html

fekete-fehér, black and white Hungarian feature film, 1956 (released 1986), director: Zoltán Várkonyi
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/films-3/ ... truth.html

Full list:
https://nfi.hu/en/core-films-1/core-fil ... otMenu=744

[Stefan Andersson]

Virgina (Virdžina, 1991), Srđan Karanović, 2K restoration from a 35mm internegative, audio from the original 35mm mono sound negative:
https://thefilmstage.com/exclusive-alte ... l-release/

In the Soup, 4K
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/140 ... n-the-soup

Trees Lounge, 4K
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/140 ... ees-lounge

The Party – Nature Morte, w/ Tilda Swinton, 2K:
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/140 ... ture-morte

Mirage (Assarab), Ahmed Bouanani, 4K
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/140 ... ge-assarab

The Widow (Mimangin), Park Nam-ok, 1955, South Korea
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/140 ... w-mimangin

La Paga, Ciro Durán, 1962, Colombia, Venezuela, 4K
https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/14046/la-paga

[jsteffe]

Regarding A Well for the Thirsty/A Spring for the Thirsty at Ritrovato: this is HUGE news, bigger than it appears on the surface. The restoration credits on the website indicate that it was restored from the camera negative, which makes it an outlier compared to many recently restored Ukrainian films--including Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. My guess is that because the film was banned in the 1960s and not distributed, the negative remained in Ukraine and was not sent to Gosfilmofond in Moscow. (Maybe there is another reason why it is in Ukraine now.) In any case, we should be able to see the film in outstanding quality.

Although the film was banned, studio and cultural figures in Ukraine did see it when it was under discussion at the studio's Artistic Council, including Sergei Parajanov. I feel certain that it inspired Parajanov to further push the boundaries in his own poetic cinema, especially the sound editing in The Color of Pomegranates. I personally don't think that Illienko ever made a better film--not even The Eve of Ivan Kupalo or White Bird with Black Markings.

To this day I remember the phenomenal visual impact that it had when I saw an unsubtitled print screened in Las Vegas. Yuri Illienko was there with his friend Virko Baley on his way to screen it at the San Francisco Film Festival. Baley was a music professor at UNLV and the director of the Nevada Symphony Orchestra. At the time working with Illienko on the film Swan Lake: The Zone, for which he composed the score and served as a producer. At any rate, people who manage to see it at the festival should be in for a major treat!