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Roscoe wrote: Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:25 pm I'm wondering if the whole "gift of the Magi" element has been restored -- it was only in the original print that I saw in the original release, and never in any of the home video releases since.

I wish I’d held onto the original VHS release of it-I mentioned this in another thread, but I think this is the 4th released cut of it

The press release says they reintegrated the opticals, which is what was done with the Final Cut of Blade Runner, too

Film Foundation´s 2022 report online:
https://www.film-foundation.org/annual-reports
Restorations include Memory Lane (John M Stahl) and Woman on the Beach (Renoir).

4K for My Name is Nobody:
https://www.lostfilmsdistribution.com/

Does anyone know if this is an actual restoration?

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Aelita-D ... ay/347340/

New restos of Law and Order (1932) and North by Northwest:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/

Also interesting to note that The Searchers is also getting a new restoration.

Facebook post from EYE Institute Netherlands: A new restoration of Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again is screening soon in Spain.

On 29 december, at Filmoteca Española/ Ciné Dore, the screening of our restored 35mm print of Nicholas Ray's WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN! Preceded by a short introductory film made by Victor Erice!
https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr:4a8b ... 023-fe.pdf

There are a *lot* more intriguing screenings listed in the 60+ page program (in Spanish) that I’m waiting for a larger screen to be able to visually sift through.

Napoleon Dynamite has a new 4K restoration premiering at Sundance 2024. For some reason I was under the impression it was digitally edited on someone's bedroom Macintosh and that it would be forever stuck in early-2000's low-quality 1080p/2K, like so many films from the past 2 decades.

eerik wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:55 am Napoleon Dynamite has a new 4K restoration premiering at Sundance 2024. For some reason I was under the impression it was digitally edited on someone's bedroom Macintosh and that it would be forever stuck in early-2000's low-quality 1080p/2K, like so many films from the past 2 decades.

I wish some Sundance gems that never really got theatrical releases (e.g. An Ambush of Ghosts, American Job, and Dadetown) would get restorations, not movies that were acquired by studios

Restorations:
O Sangue, Costa, 4K
Abraham´s Valley, director´s cut, restored in 2018, revised colour grading and sound restoration in 2023
Underground, Kusturica, 4K

Source: https://47.mostra.org/filmes?secao=Apre ... 20Especial

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-be ... s-of-2023/ - Film Comment on the best 2023 restorations, featuring films by Hollis Frampton and Niki Saint Phalle.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:00 pm https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-be ... s-of-2023/ - Film Comment on the best 2023 restorations, featuring films by Hollis Frampton and Niki Saint Phalle.

Maybe some boutique can do a compilation box set that can scoop up some of these shorter-than-feature-length restorations?

hearthesilence wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 8:00 pm

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:00 pm https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-be ... s-of-2023/ - Film Comment on the best 2023 restorations, featuring films by Hollis Frampton and Niki Saint Phalle.

Maybe some boutique can do a compilation box set that can scoop up some of these shorter-than-feature-length restorations?

IIRC, I think there was something that said Janus distributed some Man Ray shorts so maybe Criterion could release them in vain to something like their Jean Painleve set.

Upcoming restorations of:
Notre-Dame Cathédrale de Paris, Franju
Broadway by Light, William Klein
Mirages de Paris, Ozep
Du coté d´Orouet, Rozier
Jeux interdits, Clément
Rue de l´Estrapade, Becker
L´Effrontée, Miller
Garde à vue, Miller
La maladie de Sachs, Deville
Portraits, Cavalier
Parpaillon, Moullet
La Comédie du Travail, Moullet
Brigitte et Brigitte, Moulllet

Source:
https://www.cnc.fr/professionnels/aides ... ine_190901

Nomads (Patrick Tam, 1982), restored and uncensored:
https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/film/no ... IDLYT=7505

Johnnie To's The Mission, Zhang Yimou's To Live! and Raise the Red Lantern and Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Puppetmaster and A City of Sadness, restored from OCNs:
https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/news/fa ... DLYT=13308

Murdering the Devil, Ester Krumbachová, Czechoslovakia 1969:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/murdering-the-devil

Nobody´s Daughter, co-written by Judit Élek, Hungary 1976:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/nobodys-daughter

Parama, Aparna Sen, India, 1985:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/parama

The Great White Tower, Yamamoto Satsuo, Japan 1966:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/the ... hite-tower

The Hour of Liberation has Arrived (Heiny Srour, Oman 1974) restored:
https://bfmaf.org/news/first-look-essen ... ma-strand/

Berlinale Classics 2024 lineup. Ten so called "world premieres" but take that with a grain of salt. Some of the restorations might be the same ones already released on disc.

The Love Parade is a welcome sight - Criterion put it out on an Eclipse DVD box set years ago, but between this new restoration and the quality of the film itself (one of the great early sound films pre-dating the Hays Code IMHO), it would be worthy of a standalone upgrade.

As is more restored Tsai!

andyli wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:27 pm Berlinale Classics 2024 lineup. Ten so called "world premieres" but take that with a grain of salt. Some of the restorations might be the same ones already released on disc.

My jaw dropped once I noticed Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice on that list. I thought they’d surely show the most recent 4K restoration from the KL BD but it looks like it’s indeed something new. The 2018 restoration was played theatrically, so it might really be a new one as otherwise “world-premiere” wouldn’t apply. And honestly, the film needs it. The previous one is horribly “Riteovata’d” in its blanket yellow tint. The images / caps shown on the Berlinale website look astounding - hopefully these are indeed from the apparent new transfer / regrade.

I believe KL's The Sacrifice came from an Eclair restoration.

KL restoration title card wrote: This film was restored in 2016 from the original negative with funding from the CNC [National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image]. Image restoration by Eclair, sound by L.E. Diapason.

This new one is credited to the Swedish Film Institute. Hopefully we get a disc release soon!

Berlinale wrote: The 4K restoration by the Svenska Filminstitutet is faithful to the masterful lighting design and colour composition, including the sepia and black-and-white passages.

senseabove wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:55 pm As is more restored Tsai!

And it's The Wayward Cloud at that!

Stefan Andersson wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2023 9:17 pm Restoring The Black Pirate:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-fest ... estoration

FWIW, the restoration looks even better than those caps - could be my memory playing tricks (or maybe it's just those scenes) but they look a lot more orange than what I remember (i.e. less natural). I thought for a "two-strip" film that the flesh tones looked great (especially Douglas Fairbanks's tan skin), browns looked great (especially all the wooden ships that dominate the set pieces), and every scene at sunrise looked GORGEOUS. It's really startling to see Fairbanks in his physical prime in glorious-looking color when I'm so used to him existing only in black & white. I highly, HIGHLY recommend seeing this if you enjoy any of his movies. Truth be told, there's only a few of his films that I hold in that high regard - The Thief of Bagdad, maybe The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood though I haven't seen them since high school - and if it wasn't for the color, I'm not sure I'd like this one as much, but it looks so good now, it completely blows away the Kino Blu-ray which going by the screencaps has something like 10% of the color of the new restoration, resembling a faded, washed out print left in the sun way too long.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:03 pm City of Women:
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/en/progr ... l=en&eid=0

La Paloma, Daniel Schmid:
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/en/progr ... l=en&eid=0

That is one of the greatest news. I have been begging for the restoration of La Paloma, and its blu ray release

Stefan Andersson wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:43 am Restorations:
O Sangue, Costa, 4K
Abraham´s Valley, director´s cut, restored in 2018, revised colour grading and sound restoration in 2023
Underground, Kusturica, 4K

Source: https://47.mostra.org/filmes?secao=Apre ... 20Especial

Wow, Abraham's Valley, one of Oliveira's best movie, I really want this film to become available in blu ray.

4K resto of Leisen´s Midnight, screening in Sydney and Melbourne May 1 and May 9:
https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/- Feb. 19 post

Relevant quote:
"For this restoration, Universal Pictures primarily used a 35mm nitrate comp fine grain. The picture element was dry gate scanned in 4K on an ARRI film scanner for a 4K workflow. Universal applied digital processes to improve flicker and stability, address diagonal streaking issues, and clean up film damage, dirt, scratches, and stains. Audio was restored from the 35mm comp fine grain. Digital audio restoration tools were applied to reduce optical anomalies, noise floor, hum, rumble, and sibilance where possible. Restoration services conducted by NBCUniversal StudioPost."