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I've seen by sheer chance a few frames of the restoration. It looked beautiful.

The new La Roue will also be shown on ARTE Channel in October, 2019, under the title "Das Rad":
https://www.arte.tv/sites/presse/files/ ... e-2019.pdf

Broadcast dates on ARTE: October 28 and November 4, 2019:
https://www.rsb-online.de/wp-content/up ... a_Roue.pdf


A list of lost/partially lost films:
https://de.qwerty.wiki/wiki/List_of_inc ... lost_films
Includes a note about Ichikawa´s lost 143-minute version of The Burmese Harp (1956)

A restoration of Abbas Kiarostami's banned 1979 film First Case, Second Case will premiere at this year's edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato:
https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.c ... ato%202019

"Arabesques on a Pirosmani theme" (Paradjanov) and "Cast Iron" (Iosseliani, 1964) are among the short subjects screening at the Ritrovato.

Info on the restored Youssef Chahine films:
http://www.zawyacinema.com/event/view/46
https://adrc-asso.org/sites/default/fil ... _etats.pdf
http://www.cinematheque.fr/media/youssef-chahine.pdf - mentions a French DVD/Blu edition of a restored Adieu Bonaparte, and a 10-film DVD box from Tamasa, for Fall 2019
http://www.cinematheque.fr/media/dossie ... arte-1.pdf
https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie ... -realisme/ - mentions a 1996 resto of People of the Nile (1972)
https://www.lecranstdenis.org/evenement ... f-chahine/ - lists a 186-min. running time for Saladin; also listed at 145 mins. and 90 mins.
http://www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/yousse ... e-474.html
http://dalida.com/images/cinematheque/D ... theque.pdf
https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/cata ... ef-chahine
https://www.tamasa-cinema.com/wp-conten ... -Net-1.pdf

The DVD box:
https://www.amazon.fr/Youssef-Chahine-1 ... B07FLGJWRY

Adieu Bonaparte,blu:
https://www.amazon.fr/bonaparte-Édition ... 8&qid=&sr=


Update July 28, 2019:
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/calend ... /2796.html
https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/ - more info on the two versions of the film about Asswan Dam

https://www.cnc.fr/professionnels/aides ... 19_1013851

Lots of Duvivier coming and great news that Menilmontant and 2 other Kirsanoff shorts get the treatment

Une femme rêvée (1931), by Jean Durand, starring Charles Vanel, has been restored. Announced for an October 2019 Bluray release from Gaumont, France:
http://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewtop ... start=5145
- scroll down to the July 10 message from "1kult" for an unsubtitled video with lots of cuts from the film
- the previous July 10 message from "1kult" announces an October 2019 Blu/DVD release from Gaumont of Epstein´s Finis Terrae (restored) and La femme du bout du monde,
on the same disc. The latter film has been restored by Epstein´s sister, who holds the rights, and now runs 65 mins. as opposed to 55 mins. earlier. The Blu & DVD extras are also detailed.
The extras are slightly abbreviated on the DVD for compression reasons.

The full list of restorations for the 2019 Venice Film Festival, including films by Buñuel, Cronenberg, Scorsese, Tourneur, Fellini, de Oliveira, and two by Bertolucci.

Happy to see The House Is Black in the Venice restos list. I was shocked to see how much better the DVD in the Cinema 07 journal was compared to the Facets dvd. Hope someone puts this out in an English-friendly Blu-ray quickly, either paired with some Golestan films like "A Fire" (or "The Hills of Marlik," also listed), or "Moon Sun Flower Game" about the boy in the film she adopted, though The House Is Black certainly warrants a standalone release.

Excited for Fellini, but if I am not mistaken this is the 4th Buñuel film, third of his Mexican period, to be restored this year. I am very much hoping for an eventual release of these films in the North American market.

Hopefully the new New York, New York comes to Blu-ray.

I should have made the joke earlier because it's actually true : Irreversible new cut is a chronologic one with a darker editing.

But why? What's next, Avatar without the VFX?

tenia wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:04 pm I should have made the joke earlier because it's actually true : Irreversible new cut is a chronologic one with a darker editing.

Dying to find out what exactly Noé is up to with this. Really can't imagine he'd be interested in making the film "easier," and the fact that a chronological edit would be a (small, considering the content) step in that direction makes me think he's got an even bigger troll up his sleeve. Unless Climax's crossover success has inspired him to cultivate a warmer image and he's angling to direct a Star War.

bainbridgezu wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 3:32 pm

tenia wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:04 pm I should have made the joke earlier because it's actually true : Irreversible new cut is a chronologic one with a darker editing.

Dying to find out what exactly Noé is up to with this. Really can't imagine he'd be interested in making the film "easier," and the fact that a chronological edit would be a (small, considering the content) step in that direction makes me think he's got an even bigger troll up his sleeve. Unless Climax's crossover success has inspired him to cultivate a warmer image and he's angling to direct a Star War.

That would be "a darker ending", right? Having trouble imagining a darker ending to the story. For me, the entire appeal of the film is that the material is presented in reverse chronology which, like Memento (although not nearly as good), reveals more about the characters and motivations as it progresses. From the title on down, the reverse chronology is the main reason for the film's existence (yes, like Avatar without the VFX). Another analogy: Kurosawa re-editing Rashomon to remove the multiple viewpoints, settling on just one.

They're saying a darker editing, so it all seems to be pure editing playwork. I'd argue however it is already extremely heartbreaking as it is currently, seeing progressively all that has been destroyed earlier.
I'm also unsure if such a chronological cut doesnt already exists somewhere.

The original Japanese DVD had an option to watch the film in chronological sequence, but I don't know if it was an actual recut or if it just programmed the chapters to play in reverse.

Pordenone 2019:
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/programma/

Infos from the first press release for Pordenone 2019:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28600

Restorations in the programme include Fragments of an Empire (Ermler, with original score), The Aryan (William S. Hart, restored in Argentina), M-G-M’s Sally, Irene and Mary (1925),
starring Joan Crawford, recently restored by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. Also in the programme: a second John M. Stahl programme, European slapstick and
a Reginald Denny retrospective.

Mention of a 4K Criterion resto of Walkabout:
http://www.the-reel-thing.co/saturday-n ... eel-thing/

Holiday (Cukor) restored:
http://www.postmagazine.com/Publication ... ay-I-.aspx

Has Criterion re-released a Blu-ray film with a new 4K master?

Monterey Pop and The Seventh Seal (this one is only available in the Bergman boxset)

Playtime as well.

What are other Criterion titles that could use new releases? Off the top my head: The Leopard, 8 1/2, The Last Temptation of Christ, Days of Heaven, Yi Yi, and The Late Antonionis.

It wouldn't shock me if whatever Fellini thing they are doing next year includes a new transfer of 8 1/2, but, for various reasons, I wouldn't expect any of those other titles you mentioned to get redone.

TwoTecs wrote:What are other Criterion titles that could use new releases? Off the top my head: The Leopard, 8 1/2, The Last Temptation of Christ, Days of Heaven, Yi Yi, and The Late Antonionis.

Lang’s M as well.

I hadn’t heard about a more recent restoration of Yi Yi, and Google is failing me. Any details?

dwk wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:54 pm It wouldn't shock me if whatever Fellini thing they are doing next year includes a new transfer of 8 1/2, but, for various reasons, I wouldn't expect any of those other titles you mentioned to get redone.

Yeah, 8 1/2 seems to have the best chance out of all these. If Antonioni gets a box down the line, there might be hope for his films too. The Leopard could have a chance if Criterion gets over their delusions about the quality of their release. For the rest, we will have to look for saviors elsewhere.

senseabove wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:59 pm

TwoTecs wrote:What are other Criterion titles that could use new releases? Off the top my head: The Leopard, 8 1/2, The Last Temptation of Christ, Days of Heaven, Yi Yi, and The Late Antonionis.

Lang’s M as well.

I hadn’t heard about a more recent restoration of Yi Yi, and Google is failing me. Any details?

The titles I mentioned are just the ones I fell need to redone, but not all of them have new restorations already. There seems to be an ongoing effort to restore Yang's work (as well as other Taiwanese directors) so maybe they will get to Yi Yi one day.