There are a *lot* more intriguing screenings listed in the 60+ page program (in Spanish) that I’m waiting for a larger screen to be able to visually sift through.On 29 december, at Filmoteca Española/ Ciné Dore, the screening of our restored 35mm print of Nicholas Ray's WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN! Preceded by a short introductory film made by Victor Erice!
https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr:4a8b ... 023-fe.pdf
eerik wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:55 pmNapoleon Dynamite has a new 4K restoration premiering at Sundance 2024. For some reason I was under the impression it was digitally edited on someone's bedroom Macintosh and that it would be forever stuck in early-2000's low-quality 1080p/2K, like so many films from the past 2 decades.
Maybe some boutique can do a compilation box set that can scoop up some of these shorter-than-feature-length restorations?Stefan Andersson wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:00 pmhttps://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-be ... s-of-2023/ - Film Comment on the best 2023 restorations, featuring films by Hollis Frampton and Niki Saint Phalle.
IIRC, I think there was something that said Janus distributed some Man Ray shorts so maybe Criterion could release them in vain to something like their Jean Painleve set.hearthesilence wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:00 pmMaybe some boutique can do a compilation box set that can scoop up some of these shorter-than-feature-length restorations?Stefan Andersson wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:00 pmhttps://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-be ... s-of-2023/ - Film Comment on the best 2023 restorations, featuring films by Hollis Frampton and Niki Saint Phalle.
My jaw dropped once I noticed Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice on that list. I thought they’d surely show the most recent 4K restoration from the KL BD but it looks like it’s indeed something new. The 2018 restoration was played theatrically, so it might really be a new one as otherwise “world-premiere” wouldn’t apply. And honestly, the film needs it. The previous one is horribly “Riteovata’d” in its blanket yellow tint. The images / caps shown on the Berlinale website look astounding - hopefully these are indeed from the apparent new transfer / regrade.
This new one is credited to the Swedish Film Institute. Hopefully we get a disc release soon!KL restoration title card wrote: This film was restored in 2016 from the original negative with funding from the CNC [National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image]. Image restoration by Eclair, sound by L.E. Diapason.
Berlinale wrote: The 4K restoration by the Svenska Filminstitutet is faithful to the masterful lighting design and colour composition, including the sepia and black-and-white passages.
And it's The Wayward Cloud at that!
FWIW, the restoration looks even better than those caps - could be my memory playing tricks (or maybe it's just those scenes) but they look a lot more orange than what I remember (i.e. less natural). I thought for a "two-strip" film that the flesh tones looked great (especially Douglas Fairbanks's tan skin), browns looked great (especially all the wooden ships that dominate the set pieces), and every scene at sunrise looked GORGEOUS. It's really startling to see Fairbanks in his physical prime in glorious-looking color when I'm so used to him existing only in black & white. I highly, HIGHLY recommend seeing this if you enjoy any of his movies. Truth be told, there's only a few of his films that I hold in that high regard - The Thief of Bagdad, maybe The Three Musketeers and Robin Hood though I haven't seen them since high school - and if it wasn't for the color, I'm not sure I'd like this one as much, but it looks so good now, it completely blows away the Kino Blu-ray which going by the screencaps has something like 10% of the color of the new restoration, resembling a faded, washed out print left in the sun way too long.Stefan Andersson wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:17 pmRestoring The Black Pirate:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-fest ... estoration
Stefan Andersson wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 3:03 pmCity of Women:
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/en/progr ... l=en&eid=0
La Paloma, Daniel Schmid:
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/en/progr ... l=en&eid=0
Wow, Abraham's Valley, one of Oliveira's best movie, I really want this film to become available in blu ray.Stefan Andersson wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:43 amRestorations:
O Sangue, Costa, 4K
Abraham´s Valley, director´s cut, restored in 2018, revised colour grading and sound restoration in 2023
Underground, Kusturica, 4K
Source: https://47.mostra.org/filmes?secao=Apre ... 20Especial