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Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2025 5:49 pm
by Stefan Andersson
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:08 pm
by Calvin
The latest round of CNC funded restorations
includes another Michel Deville film (La Femme en bleu), Raul Ruiz's Days in the Country, and Tati's Parade. The most costly restoration appears to actually be of two films - Mon Coeur au ralenti and La Madone des Sleepings, both based on Maurice Dekobra novels and directed by Marco de Gastyne though the latter film was mostly directed by Maurice Gleize after Gastyne fell ill.
Gastyne thankfully recovered and went on to direct La Merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc, which I would sorely love to see on one of these restoration lists one day...
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:15 pm
by domino harvey
Calvin wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:08 pm
The latest round of CNC funded restorations
includes another Michel Deville film (La Femme en bleu)
I could see this one appealing to Radiance. A good film but not one that’s going to do a great job showing Deville’s mastery however
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:44 pm
by Stefan Andersson
domino harvey wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:15 pm
Calvin wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:08 pm
The latest round of CNC funded restorations
includes another Michel Deville film (La Femme en bleu)
Also:
La Planète sauvage, Laloux
Dans ma peau, de Van
Rois et Reine, Desplechin
Un conte de Noel, Desplechin
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:57 pm
by Stefan Andersson
Calvin wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 4:08 pm
Gastyne thankfully recovered and went on to direct La Merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc, which I would sorely love to see on one of these restoration lists one day...
Restored by Renée Lichtig in the 80´s and released on SECAM VHS by René Chateau:
viewtopic.php?t=9784
https://schreckbabble.wordpress.com/about/
https://annhardingstreasures.blogspot.c ... -1929.html
"The film was reconstructed and restored by Renée Lichtig at the Cinémathèque française in 1983-1986 from an incomplete 35mm nitrate negative and a condensed 17.5mm reduction print previously owned by Simone Genevois. A new restoration was scheduled to begin in 2012."
"Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format and Hypergonar 35mm anamorphic 2.66:1 format."
https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/V/V ... n1929.html
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:11 pm
by Calvin
I'm not sure an 80s restoration really counts for much in the present day but that comment about 2012 is intriguing. Any ideas if it happened? I've not seen anything regarding it being screened in recent years
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:19 pm
by Lowry_Sam
I would love to see a Borzage silent box. (UHD would make it even better). A search for other 4K restorations turned up
Man's Castle &
History Is Made At Night. The only other of his silents I see a restoration for is
The Valley Of Silent Men, so I guess this was just a resto for Academy Award wins and not part of a broader project of restoring his films or has anyone heard otherwise?...then of course there's Fox/Disney to contend with.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2025 8:24 pm
by Stefan Andersson
Lowry_Sam wrote: Sun Nov 23, 2025 7:19 pm
I would love to see a Borzage silent box. (UHD would make it even better). A search for other 4K restorations turned up
Man's Castle &
History Is Made At Night. The only other of his silents I see a restoration for is
The Valley Of Silent Men, so I guess this was just a resto for Academy Award wins and not part of a broader project of restoring his films or has anyone heard otherwise?...then of course there's Fox/Disney to contend with.
Back Pay, 1922, 2K on bluray:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=32239
Street Angel, "Preserved and restored by The Museum of Modern Art"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/10739
The Lady, 1925, "Digital restoration by Library of Congress, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and the Cohen Collection"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8917
The First Year, 1926, 35mm "Preservation funded by the Film Foundation and Hollywood Foreign Press Association"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4395
Secrets, 1924, "Digital restoration courtesy Cineteca di Bologna"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9761
The River, 1929, on DVD:
https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/prod ... river.html
Bad Girl, "35mm print preserved and restored by The Museum of Modern Art, funded by Twentieth Century Fox"
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9571
on bluray:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19606
Little Man What Now, 2K, Disputed Passage, Desire, A Farewell to Arms on bluray:
https://kinolorber.com/search?q=Frank+B ... 6PhLUaZ4bi
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:51 am
by hearthesilence
I posted before about
Street Angel but here it is again because it's important they get the best and latest restoration from MoMA, not Fox:
I mentioned this in a different thread, but Twentieth Century Fox funded a 4K restoration of Street Angel from nitrate elements held by MoMA, which also premiered it in 2019, and on Sunday, MoMA unveiled an "updated" restoration. Similar to 7th Heaven, they were able to continue their own work on the previous 4K restoration because Street Angel also entered the public domain as of this year.
With that in mind, perhaps there's real hope that MoMA's latest restorations for both films can see a physical release, especially if Disney/Fox no longer has a say.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 5:59 pm
by Stefan Andersson
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 7:48 pm
by tenia
I suppose La truite will be sourced from the same thing that the French BD :
https://testsbluray.com/2022/04/25/test ... la-truite/
I've seen La dentellière in DCP last year, and it looked like a 25yo HD master, despite tech details stating some work done in 2016 and then some more in 2020.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:27 am
by A Tempted Christ
Solaris,
Mirror and
Stalker now all have 4K masters available and have received screenings in Russia.
Slight differences in framing and grading compared to the previous 2K masters, noticeably in Stalker's controversial monochrome scenes. The compression is pretty bad but you can check out the new restorations on Mosfilm's Youtube channel.
Some fans on Russian forums are claiming AI was used which would be devastating if true but I didn't notice anything while randomly checking scenes, so at the very least it's not glaringly obvious.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 12:25 pm
by andyli
It feels increasingly necessary to preserve good old 2K restorations before the arrival of generative AI. Film restoration is heading to a terrifying place. I'll hold on to my Criterion editions dearly.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 5:08 pm
by Lowry_Sam
andyli wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 12:25 pm
It feels increasingly necessary to preserve good old 2K restorations before the arrival of generative AI. Film restoration is heading to a terrifying place. I'll hold on to my Criterion editions dearly.
Now I feel (slightly) vindicated in my laziness to resell OOP titles before they get released on a new format, missing out on making some $$$.
(My original Wong Kar Wai blus helped with that too).
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 5:21 pm
by beamish14
andyli wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 12:25 pm
It feels increasingly necessary to preserve good old 2K restorations before the arrival of generative AI. Film restoration is heading to a terrifying place. I'll hold on to my Criterion editions dearly.
I’ve held onto many DVDs (e.g. the Criterion releases of
Solaris and
Do the Right Thing) as a result of atrocious color changes in HD “upgrades”
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 9:57 pm
by beamish14
Putney Swope
Really hope that more Downey restorations are imminent
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:01 pm
by vanshady
Is it different from Indicator’s Putney Swope release?
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2025 11:24 pm
by criterionsnob
Sony has released a 4K remastered trailer for
Safe.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 2:39 am
by andyli
The Criterion transfer was already from a 4K master. This trailer looks very similar to that so it could be the same restoration.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 3:04 am
by beamish14
vanshady wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:01 pm
Is it different from Indicator’s Putney Swope release?
It appears to be
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 8:47 am
by A Tempted Christ
vanshady wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:01 pm
Is it different from Indicator’s Putney Swope release?
Both Vinegar Syndrome's 2019 release and Indicator's recent disc were sourced from the same 4K restoration done by Academy and Film Foundation with Hobson/Lucas funding. Vinegar Syndrome's blurb reads "NEW 4K RESTORATION FROM VARIOUS 35MM PRE-PRINT ELEMENTS" but Chris'
review goes into detail, mentioning the 35mm OCN as the primary source and a fine grain master positive to fill in the gaps.
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 8:14 am
by ellipsis7
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 6:31 pm
by Stefan Andersson
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 6:46 pm
by vanshady
I wonder how new Vive L’Amour 4k scan would compare to the Film Movement 2K scan BD
Re: Recent Film Restorations
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 6:55 pm
by Stefan Andersson
Parts of The Cat Creeps (Rupert Julian, 1930) rediscovered, along with soundtrack discs; reconstruction aims for completion in 2026:
https://www.ipm.org/news/2025-11-21/fil ... y-archives