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Nice, downloadable text (in French and English) about the resto of Vacances de M. Hulot:
https://docplayer.fr/9046608-Version-re ... vague.html
Also here:
https://www.lecinematographe.com/attachment/1729316/

For the record, some older items:

Rivette´s first three short films:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/843.html

Belle Noiseuse / Divertimento:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/975.html

Dolci inganni, Lattuada:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1373.html
Article mentions a resto of Lattuada´s "Guadalina". Both films to be released on DVD by Acacias, a French distributor.

Gay-themed Reichenbach shorts:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/923.html

Bay of Angels, Demy:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/30.html

Jacques Rozier shorts:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1241.html
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1059.html

Voyage au Congo, Marc Allégret (1925):
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1130.html

Avoir vingt ans dans les Aurès (1972):
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1167.html

La Chanson du Coeur (1932), first Egyptian sound film:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/38.html

Documenteur, Agnes Varda:
https://www.cine-tamaris.fr/wp-content/ ... _dp_bd.pdf
https://www.cine-tamaris.fr/documenteur ... 64757-d4d6

Tell Me Lies, Peter Brook:
https://www.technicolor.com/news/tell-me-lies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Me_L ... _2010-2012

For the record --
a link to the line-up of restorations in this year´s NYFF:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/sections/revivals/
Includes new 4K restos of Jazz on a Summer´s Day and The Incredible Shrinking Man, plus Dodsworth (Wyler), shorts by Paradjanov and Vittorio de Seta, two films by Djibril Diop Mambéty, Zurlini´s Le Professeur (restored to 132 minutes) and others.

StudioCanal´s lineup of 4K restos for 2020 has been mentioned elsewhere; here is a link to the full news item:
https://deadline.com/2019/11/breathless ... 202789562/
Includes Serpico, Flash Gordon (1980), Breathless, The Elephant Man, Irréversible: Straight Cut, Dead of Night (1945), Three Days of the Condor and others.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 7:07 pm For the record --
a link to the line-up of restorations in this year´s NYFF:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/sections/revivals/
Includes new 4K restos of Jazz on a Summer´s Day and The Incredible Shrinking Man, plus Dodsworth (Wyler), shorts by Paradjanov and Vittorio de Seta, two films by Djibril Diop Mambéty, Zurlini´s Le Professeur (restored to 132 minutes) and others.

StudioCanal´s lineup of 4K restos for 2020 has been mentioned elsewhere; here is a link to the full news item:
https://deadline.com/2019/11/breathless ... 202789562/
Includes Serpico, Flash Gordon (1980), Breathless, The Elephant Man, Irréversible: Straight Cut, Dead of Night (1945), Three Days of the Condor and others.

Very happy about the Elephant Man and Irreversible restorations. I wonder how they'll be handled in region A, if at all.

Paramount currently have the rights to Elephant Man so who knows if they will even use SCs restoration. Unless Paramount loses rights I have a feeling nothing will happen for region A.

Any details on possible special features for the Cotton Club blu? So far no lists at Amazon, B&N, or Lionsgate.

The Legend of 1900 (Tornatore) has been restored in 4K and is a success in China:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-mag ... -has-taken

More on Cotton Club Encore:
https://mubi.com/sv/notebook/posts/a-re ... lub-encore
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/robert- ... -club.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnlURHhRo24
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 496793.php

That SCMP article is correct about the "novelty" appeal of seeing older films in mainland Chinese cinemas, given the absence of arthouses in all but a relative handful of cities, plus the unfavorable regulatory environment for screenings of older films that may not have passed through the censors. That said, it reaches by comparing The Legend of 1900 (a no-frills digital restoration) to the 3D version of Titanic, which represented a brief wave of 3D conversions that is long since over (the last one I can recall was Kung Fu Hustle in 2015, and a conversion of Terminator 2 done specifically for the Chinese market ended up being shelved). But more importantly, The Legend of 1900 has long been revered among film buffs in mainland China, and its score on Douban was a whopping 9.2 before the theatrical release. Extrapolating its lukewarm or negative reception elsewhere to the Chinese audience is the wrong move, and indeed there's no reason to think it would've been released in China at all if it didn't already have such a stellar reputation there.

I haven't thought of that film in years (indeed, all I remember is the scene with Roth playing the piano while it glides across the dancefloor due to the waves)-- according to xe.com, it's "opening" weekend gross was approx $8.75 million USD, impressive for a forgotten indie movie but not quite earth-shaking

Yeah, that SCMP article is quite a head-scratcher. I'm sure the marketing campaign for this release focused much more on the "Great Film" status of 1900 than on the 4K restoration.

To Save and Protect, 2020 program at MoMA:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5188
Includes Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), Isn´t Life Wonderful? (1924, from the OCN), the 79-minute version of "Nationtime-Gary" (1972) by William Greaves, Masque of the Red Death, La femme au couteau (Timité Bassori, Ivory Coast, 1969) and more.

2020 Cinema Revival at the Wexner Center for the Arts:
https://wexarts.org/explore/cinema-revi ... ation-2020
Includes I´m No Angel (1933), Muna Moto (Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, Cameroon,1975), Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Way of a Gaucho (1952), 50s Technicolor reference reels, and more.

The music video for Wham!'s Last Christmas has been restored in 4K and is available on YouTube

Calvin wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:50 pm The music video for Wham!'s Last Christmas has been restored in 4K and is available on YouTube

Why do I think this is going to be either a Rick Roll or a link to “The Little Drummer Boy”?

Not a Wham fan, but Michael's Faith is nice bit of Prince-lite.

Has Wham!’s farewell concert The Final ever been released on home video?

Hungarian National Film Archive presents 66 Hungarian films free to watch until January 5, 2020 includes Márta Mészáros' newly restored classic Adoption.

Die Zweite Heimat is being restored in 4K.
Soundtrack will receive a 5.1 remix. A 2021 release is planned.

Source:
https://heimat-fanpage.de/index.php/f/2 ... voran.html

Detailed info in German about the differences between the 1984 version of Heimat and the restoration:
https://heimat-fanpage.de/index.php/filmanalyse.html

Restoration of Waxworks (1924) showing at the 2020 Berlinale:
https://www.berlinale.de/en/press/press ... 16092.html

A bluray/DVD will be released in February, 2020 by Absolut Medien.

the__projectionist wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2019 2:05 pm Hungarian National Film Archive presents 66 Hungarian films free to watch until January 5, 2020 includes Márta Mészáros' newly restored classic Adoption.

Not too familiar with Hungarian cinema outside the really obvious stuff, any particular recommendations for this list?

Most of the films aren't subtitled, and some of them only have french for subs. There's a lot of titles by filmmakers I'm aware of, but the film itself is unknown to me. There's János vitéz that is a pretty very well made psychedelic folk cartoon a la Yellow Submarine. The director's following feature, Fehérlófia, goes even further and look like nothing else.

Calvin wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:50 pm The music video for Wham!'s Last Christmas has been restored in 4K and is available on YouTube

Actually there are several 4K restorations of classic music videos, along with some listed as HD. It's hard to tell on youtube, because they mix together HD & 4K. Also looks like it could be a bit of marketing ploy on Vevo's part to promote their own artists. Given the popularity of the music video list this year, perhaps offloading the discussion of music video restoration to its own thread is warranted?

Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Dead Or Alive You Spin Me Round
a-Ha Take On Me
Eurythmics Beethoven (I Love to Listen To)

It is nice to see music videos getting restored, but at this point it looks like it will be dictated by the popularity of the song (today) or whether its on Vevo. And you have to actually watch them on Vevo to actually get 4K, as Yotube limits them to 360p

Lowry_Sam wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2020 9:09 pmIt is nice to see music videos getting restored, but at this point it looks like it will be dictated by the popularity of the song (today) or whether its on Vevo. And you have to actually watch them on Vevo to actually get 4K, as Yotube limits them to 360p

On my system, at least, Youtube offers the full range of resolution options in both Firefox and Chrome. That said, the 4K versions don't look notably better than standard 1080p, but then Youtube is notorious for bit-starving videos at higher resolutions.

In feature film restoration news, WB has temporarily pulled Full Metal Jacket from theatrical distribution pending an upcoming event described as a "film festival." The festival isn't named, but they did provide the dates: May 12th through the 23rd. So it looks like this will be the next Kubrick to get a 4K restoration and it'll be making its bow at Cannes.

Le Chat Qui Fume has been making pretty regular Facebook posts about their new restoration of Zulawski's Possession, if anyone else is curious what that looks like. Sometimes it's just pictures of negative rolls, but they posted video of a scan in progress on a Lasergraphics Director 10k, which is kinda neat to see.

The Gun Fighter (1917), starring William S. Hart, has been restored. In-depth info here:
http://moviessilently.com/2019/11/17/th ... lm-review/

"The Bus" (Haskell Wexler, 1963) to be restored by UCLA:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archi ... er-the-bus

UCLA also wants to restore "Bury Me an Angel" (1971):
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archi ... boyfriends

"Savages" (Alan Gorg, 1967), a docu on the African-American Community in West Venice, L.A., restored by UCLA:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archi ... he-savages

Scott MacQueen talks about restoring "False Faces" (Lowell Sherman, 1932) and other Poverty Row titles:
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archi ... t-macqueen
https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018 ... alse-faces