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Italy´s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia has a new restoration and rerelease program in place:
http://www.ilcentro.it/cultura-e-spetta ... -1.1765795

Some titles:
Up for release is is Last Tango in Paris,Dillinger is Dead, Visconti´s Ossessione and Good Morning Babylon.
For 2019, "all of Dario Argento", and for 2020, "all of Fellini" (centenary).

I'm surprised by the wish to restore "all of Argento". Surely, that won't include the ones that just have been lavishly restored (most in 4K), right ? Because if we exclude the ones that are probably too recent to be considered and the ones that already got thoroughly restored recently, it actually only leaves Four Flies, Five Days of Milan, Inferno, Tenebrae, Two Evil Eyes, Trauma, The Phantom of the Opera and possibly Sleepless (which is a quite "young" movie to restore) (same logic for The Card Player which is even younger). So "all of" might actually just be "half of".

Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen, 1972) gets a restoration as part of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project. The restored version is expected to premiere in 2019 at the Midnight Sun Film Festival.

L.A. wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:44 pm Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen, 1972) gets a restoration as part of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project. The restored version is expected to premiere in 2019 at the Midnight Sun Film Festival.

Excellent news. In a 2012 poll of Finnish film critics this was voted the fifth best Finnish film of all time, so I'm looking forward to checking it out.

L.A. wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:44 pm Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen, 1972) gets a restoration as part of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project. The restored version is expected to premiere in 2019 at the Midnight Sun Film Festival.

this is strange....
i am looking regularly at the World Cinema Project website but for a long time i can't see any updates there and nothing about this finnish movie
32 movies and that's it.....

About the restoration here. In Finnish only unfortunately but maybe Google-trans or some helps translating it in English.

The original press conference about Eight Deadly Shots being included in WCP here. Has English subtitles.

thanks for the link
i hope they will update the WCP page in the near future hopefully with more films from around the world...

Yilmaz Güney´s "Yol" (1982) has been restored and shown at Cannes Classics, 2017 at 113 minutes.

This article has info about Güney´s ambition to give the film a Kurdish profile; censorship; and the producer reediting the film, using outtakes discarded by Güney.

https://anfenglish.com/culture/yilmaz-g ... ette-20141

Also:
http://dfkfilms.com/en/movies/yol-the-f ... -way-2017/

Il Cinema Ritrovato, 2018 - full programme notes here:
http://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/programma/

Includes Ford´s The Brat, Fox and Soviet Union 30s rarities, Luciano Emmer and Mastroianni retrospectives, restored films by Ingmar Bergman, Joe Kane, André de Toth and others.

Tested out MoviePass yesterday by catching Yellow Submarine at IFC - things seem to be working fine.

I think this restoration actually dates from 2012 (maybe this is merely a better DCP?) but it's been given another run at the theaters because of the film's 50th anniversary. It does look good - the color is excellent and they've cleaned up only the damage and blemishes. But despite the wonderful illustrations and inventive photo cut-outs, the animation is as stilted as ever. I can't say I'm a fan of the 5.1 remix either - I think it dates from the 1999 re-release, and I've never been a fan of that mix. Everything from the excessive compression to the NoNoise processing sounds unpleasant to me.

Truth be told, I was reluctant to see this film because I've never been much of a fan. The stand-ins aren't quite convincing as the Beatles ("John" doesn't have a fraction of Lennon's charisma and "George" has a Scottish brogue that comes and goes), and that point is driven home by the Beatles' cameo at the very end. Of the four new songs, only "It's All Too Much" feels like a keeper, but the other three are pleasant throwaways. "Eleanor Rigby," "Nowhere Man," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Sgt. Pepper..." are quite awesome to hear in a children's film - I'll take them over anything I've heard in a Disney movie.

Venice 2018 restorations (can´t remember where I found this list):

THEY LIVE
by JOHN CARPENTER (USA, 1988, 94’, COL.)
restoration: Studiocanal

IL PORTIERE DI NOTTE (THE NIGHT PORTER)
by LILIANA CAVANI (Italy, 1974, 120’, COL.)
restoration: CSC-Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce – Cinecittà

THE NAKED CITY
by JULES DASSIN (USA, 1948, 96’, B/W)
restoration: Brook Productions and Master Licensing

KHESHT O AYENEH (BRICK AND MIRROR)
by EBRAHIM GOLESTAN (Iran, 1964, 130’, B/W)
restoration: Ecran Noir production (Mitra Farahani) and Ebrahim Golestan in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna

AKASEN CHITAI (STREET OF SHAME)
by KENJI MIZOGUCHI (Japan, 1956, 86’, B/W)
restoration: Kadokawa Corporation

IL POSTO
by ERMANNO OLMI (Italy, 1961, 95’, B/W)
restoration: Cineteca di Bologna and Titanus

L'ANNÉE DERNIÈRE À MARIENBAD (LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD)
by ALAIN RESNAIS (France, Italy, 1961, 94’, B/W)
restoration: Studiocanal with the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée and Chanel

EL LUGAR SIN LÍMITES (THE PLACE WITHOUT LIMITS)
by ARTURO RIPSTEIN (Mexico, 1977, 110’, COL.)
restoration: Cineteca Nacional México and Imcine

ADIEU PHILIPPINE
by JACQUES ROZIER (France, Italy, 1962, 103’, B/W)
restoration: Cinémathèque française and A17 with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée.
In collaboration with Les Archives audiovisuelles de Monaco, La Cinémathèque suisse and Extérieur Nuit.

VOSKHOZHDENIYE (THE ASCENT)
by LARISA SHEPITKO (Russia, 1976, 110’, B/W)
restoration: Mosfilm (producer of the restoration Karen Shakhnazarov)

THE KILLERS
by DON SIEGEL (USA, 1964, 102’, COL.)
restoration: Universal Pictures

THE KILLERS
by ROBERT SIODMAK (USA, 1946, 95’, B/W)
restoration: Universal Pictures

LA NOTTE DI SAN LORENZO (THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS)
by PAOLO E VITTORIO TAVIANI (Italy, 1982, 107’, COL.)
restoration: CSC-Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce – Cinecittà

KOI YA KOI NASUNA KOI (LOVE, THY NAME BE SORROW aka THE MAD FOX)
by TOMU UCHIDA (Japan, 1962, 109’, COL.)
restoration: Toei Company, Ltd.

MORTE A VENEZIA (DEATH IN VENICE)
by LUCHINO VISCONTI (Italy, France, USA, 1971, 130’, COL.)
restoration: Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Luce - Cinecittà in collaboration with Warner Bros. and The Criterion Collection

NOTHING SACRED
by WILLIAM A. WELLMAN (USA, 1937, 74’, COL.)
restoration: The Museum of Modern Art

SOME LIKE IT HOT
by BILLY WILDER (USA, 1959, 121', B/W)
restoration: Park Circus in collaboration with Metro Goldwyn Mayer and The Criterion Collection

Site: http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/201 ... e-classics

Plus a new resto of Golem (1920):
http://www.labiennale.org/en/news/pre-o ... -28-august

Some of those will be obvious Criterion upgrades, but I certainly hope they don't overlook Il Posto, one of my favorite films in the collection.

Programme, 2018 Giornate del Cinema Muto:
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/programma/

Not all film notes seem to be online yet.

Includes Tokkan Kozo (Ozu, 1929), films from 1915 by Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, Epstein´s Auberge Rouge (1923), Orizuru osen (Mizoguchi, 1935).

Restorations, London Film Festival 2018:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d ... ontext_id=
includes The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:53 pm Programme, 2018 Giornate del Cinema Muto:
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/programma/

Not all film notes seem to be online yet.

Includes Tokkan Kozo (Ozu, 1929), films from 1915 by Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, Epstein´s Auberge Rouge (1923), Orizuru osen (Mizoguchi, 1935).

Couldn't find any information on whether the Ozu is the 14 minutes on the Criterion disc or if more footage has been rediscovered. Does anyone know?

Stefan Andersson wrote: Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:49 pm Restorations, London Film Festival 2018:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d ... ontext_id=
includes The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Also Tunes of Glory, which I am particularly glad about. It might only have appeared on the Criterion DVD but hopefully they have dealt with that line down the right side of the screen which appears for the last twenty minutes of the film and rather distracts from the emotional climax.

jwd5275 wrote: Sat Sep 22, 2018 7:10 pm

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:53 pm Programme, 2018 Giornate del Cinema Muto:
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/programma/

Not all film notes seem to be online yet.

Includes Tokkan Kozo (Ozu, 1929), films from 1915 by Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, Epstein´s Auberge Rouge (1923), Orizuru osen (Mizoguchi, 1935).

Couldn't find any information on whether the Ozu is the 14 minutes on the Criterion disc or if more footage has been rediscovered. Does anyone know?

Found this post:
http://www.enic-cine.net/new-print-of-o ... iscovered/

The new print is 19 minutes long, taken from a 9.5mm Pathé Baby source. "The additional 5 minutes discovered are reported to be at the beginning of the film."

Some more info here:
http://humanities.lib.rochester.edu/tokkan-kozo/ - making a new DCP print
https://screenanarchy.com/2016/10/kyoto ... d-boy.html - mention of newly found intertitles
http://eastasia.fr/2016/09/14/une-versi ... retrouvee/ . mention of a newly found scene of children playing some sort of game with stones
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=22805

Festival Lumière 2018, Lyon, France:
http://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/prog ... tions.html

Not restorations, but upcoming re-releases of older films such as Olivia (Audry, 1951) and Paris is always Paris (Emmer, 1951):
http://www.festival-lumiere.org/en/prog ... eases.html

The recent London Film Festival screened a restoration of Hector Babenco's Pixote (1981) from the World Film Foundation.

World premiere of a new restoration of Holiday at the 2019 TCM Film Festival: http://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/films/holiday/

Hoorah. Hopefully Criterion will continue to work through that Cary Grant box set and release this soon after.

The 2019 MoMa To Save and Project program:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5036?locale=en

Features restored films by Marta Meszaros, Ida Lupino, Barbet Schroeder, Yvonne Rainer, Chantal Akerman, Arturo Ripstein and more, including a new resto of Night Tide, and Murnau´s Faust, with "English intertitles, translated for the first time from novelist Gerhart Hauptmann’s original German titles."


A few Berlinale Classics have been announced, including Ordet:
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/berlinale-2019-lineup

Stefan Andersson wrote: Sun Dec 16, 2018 5:46 pm The 2019 MoMa To Save and Project program:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5036?locale=en

Looks like they are premiering the latest World Cinema Project film (and therefore likely Criterion title), El fantasma del convento (1934) by Fernando de Fuentes.

Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) has been restored by the Murnau Stiftung, using a print at MoMa, taken from the B-negative:
https://programm.ard.de/TV/Programm/Sta ... 4272671660
http://www.murnau-stiftung.de/news/weit ... jeanne-ney

About censor cuts in the film:
https://www.nmz.de/online/restaurierte- ... eugt-nicht

The Stiftung´s excellent site:
http://www.murnau-stiftung.de/news

Writing "Veit Harlan" in the Search box gets you info about restos of Opfergang, Immensee and Die Goldene Stadt. Site also has info about the 1943 Münchhausen film resto, plus many other titles.
Excellent research material. Several films, like Opfergang, are out on German Blurays. Haven´t seen any of them, so can´t vouch for subs.

Screenshots from Opfergang Blu, courtesy of David Hare:
http://filmalert101.blogspot.com/2017/0 ... ntion.html

Also:
https://diastor.ch/2015/05/29/restorati ... oundation/
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/e ... v-austria/

Frank Strobel has scored several German and Soviet silents. Excellent comments, in German, about his music scores to be found here:
https://www.frankstrobel.de/projekte.html

More on Munchhausen, including brief info about the original 134 min. running time:
http://www.senseofview.de/review/649

This listing of Venice Classics for 2016 includes a resto of Michalkov´s Dark Eyes, at a new length of 144 mins. including new scenes and characters, and a new ending:

http://www.veniceonair.com/biennale-mos ... -classici/
https://classico.cinecitta.com/IT/it-it ... -york.aspx

Apparently out on DVD in Italy, with English subs, 4:3 and 1:1.33 formats:
https://www.amazon.it/Oci-Ciornie-Versi ... B077TMRV9V

Sorrentino has done an extended version of The Great Beauty at 173 mins:
https://www.indigofilm.it/produzioni/fi ... integrale/
https://www.amazon.it/Grande-Bellezza-V ... B01MCUR44A - English subs, 16:9
https://www.mymovies.it/film/2013/lagrandebellezza1/