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Stefan Andersson wrote: Fri Aug 15, 2025 9:17 pm Revivals section of 2025 NYFF:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/daily/63r ... announced/

In terms of home video speculation, Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is co-presented by Cinématographe. Howard Brookner's Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is co-presented by Janus/Criterion.

Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest [Aranyer Din Ratri] has Criterion/Janus and the World Cinema Project as co-presenters, and Flora Gomes' Mortu Nega is presented by the World Cinema Project. There hasn't been a new World Cinema Project/Criterion box since September 2022.

Erich von Stroheim's Queen Kelly is forthcoming from Milestone Films and Kino Lorber.

Matt wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 1:03 am In terms of home video speculation, Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is co-presented by Cinématographe.

If this is as good as A Safe Place then I can’t wait to ignore it.

CSM126 wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 1:52 am

Matt wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 1:03 am In terms of home video speculation, Henry Jaglom's Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is co-presented by Cinématographe.

If this is as good as A Safe Place then I can’t wait to ignore it.

Haha! Jaglom really is an odd one to get the 4K treatment, and he probably paid for the restoration himself.

He personally kept a play of his on stage in Los Angeles for at least a year. I remember seeing bus ads for it all the time, but you couldn’t pay people to go to it

Sweetie, 4K:
https://miff.com.au/program/film/sweetie#top

Nightshift, Robina Rose, 4K:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/robina- ... vant-garde
https://miff.com.au/program/film/nightshift#top

Will, Jessie Maple, 4K:
https://miff.com.au/program/film/will#top

In the White City, Tanner:
https://www.rockawayfilmfestival.org/20 ... white-city

Die tolle Lola, Lilian Harvey:
https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfueh ... ola-12441/

Grosstadschmetterling, Anna May Wong:
https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfueh ... ing-12435/
https://foerderverein-filmkultur.de/arc ... rling.html

Dinty, Anna May Wong:
https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.c ... useum.html

6 films by Werner Herzog were restored: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GgDaVTv_nUw

Aguirre
Fitzcarraldo
Nosferatu
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser
Stroszek
Woyzeck

Bullet in the Head, 4K, 131 minutes:
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/bullet-in-the-head/

Lineup of restored HK classics:
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/hong-k ... -classics/

With her latest film being submitted for the Oscars by Jordan (https://deadline.com/2025/08/oscars-202 ... 236497668/) I would love to see Criterion or anyone else pick up her 2009 classic Amreeka and restore it, right now only a DVD exists, I believe. Who has the rights to it?

Restorations underway:
"Iraq’s first-ever motion picture, Anwar Sha-ul’s Alia and Issam (1948)" and a Seijun Suzuki project:
https://thefilmverdict.com/asian-restor ... at-cannes/

Becky Sharp (1935), 4K:

"In 2017, the Paramount Archive , using around 50 reels of film inclusive of three-strip OCN, preserved the title in 4k. The work was performed by Technicolor Creative Services." The last reel is still a dupe.

See post 123 onwards:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... 368/page-7

Les perles de la couronne and six other Sacha Guitry films in 4K:
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/si-gu ... ait-conte/

El Sur, 4K:
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/le-sud/

El Sur is getting a French video release end of this year (Le chat qui fume), BD at least, possibly UHD too.
Si Versailles m'était conté is getting a French UHD/BD release in December (Rimini).

Black Girl (Ossie Davis, 1972)
Magnificent Matador (Boetticher, 1955)
Vanity Fair (1932, with Myrna Loy)
No. 5 Checked Out (Ida Lupino, 1956)
and other UCLA restorations, on TCM Sept. 25
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archi ... 2025-09-08

Black Girl also in the Revivals section of NYFF:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/daily/63r ... announced/

I’ve been interested in seeing Black Girl for years. It’s never been widely available

Screenshots comparing the Cohen Media/MoC edition of The Thief of Baghdad (1924) with an ARTE broadcast of a restoration which the writer, Paul Cuff, credits to Photoplay Productions:
https://therealmofsilence.com/ - Sept. 10 post

The ARTE version "contains the original credit sequence. The version presented both on the Kino DVD and the Cohen/MoC Blu-ray has a different (less elaborate) font for the main title, then dissolves straight to the image of the Holy Man and child in the desert /../ In the Photoplay version, the more elaborate title is followed by full credits of cast and crew, then the desert prologue scene /.../ the major difference is that the image in the Photoplay restoration is darker, the colours more saturated /../ the overall difference in colour and contrast makes a big difference".

The MoC edition, but not the Cohen one, is credited to Photoplay here:
https://www.silentera.com/video/thiefOfBagdadHV.html

Mr. Cuff also discusses the film´s soundtracks in depth.

A number of new restorations debuting at Beyond Fest, including The Day of the Dolphin and Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot

Programming for the 2025 Festival Lumière has started to go online.
Some restorations and archival treasures:
L´amour à mort (Resnais)
Ashima, Liu Qiong (1964)
Ombre et lumière, Henri Calef (1951), Simone Signoret, Maria Casarès
La Famille Homolka, Jaroslav Papousek (Ecce Homo Homolka, 1969)
Le Glas des va-nu-pieds, Stanislav Barabás (Zvony pre bosych, 1965)
Le Milieu du monde, Alain Tanner (1974)
Orochi, Futagawa Buntaro (1925)
Knock, Guy Lefranc (1951), Louis Jouvet
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... ssics.html
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... astes.html

Konrad Wolf films:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... emand.html

Also:
La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance de Georges Mourier (2025, 54min) - documentary on the 14-year restoration.
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... inema.html

I've seen (and liked) Orochi and Millieu du monde....

Some restorations showing in New York:
Vie privée, Malle
Noir et blanc, Devers
Remparts d´argile, Bertuccelli
Le grand soir, Reusser
Notre musique, Godard
Boulevard, Duvivier
https://lallianceny.org/event/version-r ... d-version/

The 2024 edition of the above event had L´Aigle a Deux Têtes, La vie conjugale (both films), Détruire, dit-elle, Jonah Who Will be 25 in the year 2000, Samba Traoré, La Rose de la Mer, and more:
https://letterboxd.com/lallianceny/list ... sion-2024/

The Brave Bulls, international version, Rossen, 4K:
https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/ - Sept. 10, 2025 post
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar ... ls-2025-11
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043359/al ... at_dyk_alt

Festival Lumière - links to individual film pages, with restoration information, now live. Example: Lumière et compagnie, 4K:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... inema.html

Some other pages:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... ssics.html
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... ouvet.html
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/progra ... astes.html

Interesting that Kino Lorber is credited for the restoration for Wild at Heart.

Looking forward to seeing how Kino screws up Wild at Heart

dwk wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 7:58 pm Looking forward to seeing how Kino screws up Wild at Heart

Fingers crossed that Criterion eventually gets it a la Lost Highway.

Wow, that is depressing news.

I could see Univeraal licensing it to Arrow in the UK (assuming that Universal still has the UK rights and hasn't already licensed it to that one crummy UK label that I can never remember the name of.)