Recent Film Restorations

[Stefan Andersson]

New DCPs for The Men, Member of the Wedding and other Zinnemann films showing at Lumière 2024 festival:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/actual ... emann.html

[beamish14]

New DCPs for The Men, Member of the Wedding and other Zinnemann films showing at Lumière 2024 festival:
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/actual ... emann.html

That’s wonderful. Amazing how neglected The Search is

[Stefan Andersson]

NYFF 2024 revivals:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/daily ... announced/

Includes:
Model, Wiseman
Reporters, Depardon
La Musica, Duras/Seban
Northern Lights, Nilsson/Hanson
Four Nights of a Dreamer, Bresson
J´ai faim, j´ai froid, Akerman
Hellraiser, Barker
The Fall of Otrar, Amirkulov (part of World Cinema Project)
Camp de Thiaroye, Sembène (part of World Cinema Project)

[beamish14]

NYFF 2024 revivals:
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/daily ... announced/

Includes:
Model, Wiseman
Reporters, Depardon
La Musica, Duras/Seban
Northern Lights, Nilsson/Hanson
Four Nights of a Dreamer, Bresson
J´ai faim, j´ai froid, Akerman
Hellraiser, Barker
The Fall of Otrar, Amirkulov (part of World Cinema Project)
Camp de Thiaroye, Sembène (part of World Cinema Project)

Surprised that Kino is not behind the restoration of Northern Lights, as they now distribute all of Nilsson’s films

[Stefan Andersson]

Interesting comment on the BFI restoration of Hitchcock´s Blackmail:
"runs much too quickly, making the actors’ movements throughout seem almost comical. Both silent and sound versions appear to be around 7,660 feet in length, so I have no idea why the restoration is so fast; it actually equates to running at 28fps, rather than the BFI’s stated 24fps."

Source:
https://www.brentonfilm.com/alfred-hitc ... 929-part-2 - excellent article.

[dwk]

Huh, maybe the restoration team was listening to Yakety Sax while they worked.

[Stefan Andersson]

Wiene´s Raskolnikov and Gerlach´s Vanina, restored and showing at the 2024 Giornate del Cinema Muto:
https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuel ... -pordenone

Wiene´s Der Rosenkavalier, 2006 restoration; on DVD from Filmarchiv Austria:
https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.c ... ic-by.html
https://therealmofsilence.com/tag/richard-strauss/
https://www.frankstrobel.de/en/projects ... enkavalier

[Tommaso]

Wiene´s Raskolnikov and Gerlach´s Vanina, restored and showing at the 2024 Giornate del Cinema Muto:
https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuel ... -pordenone

Best news I heard in a while! Two of the most significant early Weimar silents which had been curiously neglected all these years, and which are only floating around in truly abysmal copies at the moment. Ideal stuff for MoC to lay their hands on, if they still care for such things.

[eerik]

Interesting comment on the BFI restoration of Hitchcock´s Blackmail:
"runs much too quickly, making the actors’ movements throughout seem almost comical. Both silent and sound versions appear to be around 7,660 feet in length, so I have no idea why the restoration is so fast; it actually equates to running at 28fps, rather than the BFI’s stated 24fps."

Source:
https://www.brentonfilm.com/alfred-hitc ... 929-part-2 - excellent article.

What a bizarre comment. It just assumes that both the silent and the sound versions must be of equal length, rather than being distinct cuts of the film with different runtimes. Where did he see it projected at 28fps, and how would it even be possible on modern technology without noticable frame interpolation artifacts?

[Stefan Andersson]

Wiene´s Raskolnikov and Gerlach´s Vanina, restored and showing at the 2024 Giornate del Cinema Muto:
https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuel ... -pordenone

Best news I heard in a while! Two of the most significant early Weimar silents which had been curiously neglected all these years, and which are only floating around in truly abysmal copies at the moment. Ideal stuff for MoC to lay their hands on, if they still care for such things.

More info about the Raskolnikov and Vanina restorations:
https://ru.muenchen.de/2024/158/Restaur ... als-114301
https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/archiv ... m-muenchen

[Stefan Andersson]

Interesting comment on the BFI restoration of Hitchcock´s Blackmail:
"runs much too quickly, making the actors’ movements throughout seem almost comical. Both silent and sound versions appear to be around 7,660 feet in length, so I have no idea why the restoration is so fast; it actually equates to running at 28fps, rather than the BFI’s stated 24fps."

Source:
https://www.brentonfilm.com/alfred-hitc ... 929-part-2 - excellent article.

What a bizarre comment. It just assumes that both the silent and the sound versions must be of equal length, rather than being distinct cuts of the film with different runtimes. Where did he see it projected at 28fps, and how would it even be possible on modern technology without noticable frame interpolation artifacts?

From the wording, I get the impression that the writer didn´t see it projected at 28 fps; he just did some maths and found that the running time is = 28 fps. Calculation probably wrong. I´m no techie so cannot comment on the frame interpolation factor.

Update:

I posted the above framerate question in a new thread on HTF and got this response:

"I think someone made a typo since several sources seem indicate the silent version runs 6740 ft (almost exactly 75 min). Just checked the Kino Blu-ray and silent runs 76 minutes including the restoration intro/outro. It's definitely encoded at 24fps and I'm not sure how they'd fit 28fps within a 24fps container without obvious frame dropping issues.

Sound version runs just under 86 minutes, which matches the 7600 ft. figure."

Source:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... st-5352875

[Stefan Andersson]

Bullet in the Head, uncensored theatrical cut + 136min. reconstructed "Director´s Cut" on German Blu:
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=916375

[beamish14]

Bullet in the Head, uncensored theatrical cut + 136min. reconstructef "Director´s Cut" on German Blu:
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=916375

Always seems to be German home video companies who are willing to go rogue and offer workprints/new edits

[dwk]

Well it is a bootleg, so why not.

[Stefan Andersson]

Restoration of Eille Norwood´s Sherlock Holmes films underway:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-fest ... m-festival

[Stefan Andersson]

Il Terrorista (Gianfranco de Bosio) starring Gian Maria Volonté, 4K restoration, re-release in France:
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/le-terroriste/

[Stefan Andersson]

Digital restorations:
The Whole Town´s Talking
All the King´s Men
Gunman´s Walk
Talk of the Town
My Sister Eileen, 1955

Mr Deeds Goes to Town DCP
Gun Fury DCP
It Should Happen to You DCP

https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.c ... .html#more

[Stefan Andersson]

Zigeunerbaron, Karl Hartl, 1935, w/ Anton Walbrook
https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/index.ph ... baron-df-0

The Broken Jug/Die Zerbrochene Krug, 1937, Gustav Ucicky, w/Emil Jannings
https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/index.ph ... ne-krug-df

Die Drei von der Tankstelle, 1932, Wilhelm Thiele, w/ Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Heinz Rühmann
https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/index.ph ... kstelle-df

Mensch ohne Namen, 1932, Ucicky, w/ Werner Krauss, Helen Thimig
Die Pest in Florenz, 1919, Otto Rippert
Ich und die Kaiserin, 1931, Friedrich Hollaender, w/ Lilian Harvey, Conrad Veidt, Heinz Rühmann
https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/sites/de ... 24_fin.pdf

Kohlhieser´s Tochter, 1920, Lubitsch, w/ Henny Porten, Emil Jannings
https://murnau-stiftung.de/node/7579
https://www.berlinale.de/de/2024/news-p ... 45699.html

[Matt]

Does any home video label reliably release these Murnau Stiftung restorations, even without English subtitles? It would be fantastic if they had their own little streaming service.

[nicolas]

Does any home video label reliably release these Murnau Stiftung restorations, even without English subtitles? It would be fantastic if they had their own little streaming service.

They used to come from Leonine, formerly Universum Film, in Germany on a regular basis but that sadly is no longer the case as they probably don’t sell as much. They’ve effectively stopped at the beginning of COVID and the last releases were box-set repacks of the most popular titles, such as a Nibelungen set or a few actor-themed ones.

[Stefan Andersson]

María Candelaria, The Churning (Benegal) and other restorations at 2024 LFF:
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d ... =treasures

The Irianian film The Sealed Soil is noted for animal cruelty.

[Stefan Andersson]

For the record -- some links re: La Femme et le Pantin (Baroncelli, 1927), restored in 2020 by Ritrovata and in 1994 by Cinémathèque Française:
https://journals.openedition.org/1895/8774
https://testsbluray.com/2021/05/31/test ... ntin-1929/
https://therealmofsilence.com/ - Aug. 31, 2024, post
https://www.fondation-jeromeseydoux-pat ... taurations
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/e ... -pantin-2/

The 2020 restoration (French release on Blu by Pathé) of the domestic French version, has the original score by Edmond Lavagne, Georges van Parys, and Philippe Parès, arranged and orchestrated by Günter A. Buchwald.

The 1994 restoration by Cinémathèque Francaise, of the foreign version, has the original score, by Lavagne, van Parys, and Parès, orchestrated by Mario Dalpane, and intertitles co-written by Jean-Claude Carrière. It was broadcast on Arte in 1997, and can be found as an extra on an old French DVD of Cet obscur objet du désir, according to Paul Cuff at The Realm of Silence.

The two restorations are not identical (discussed in Open Edition and Realm of Silence texts).

[Stefan Andersson]

Restoring Burden of Dreams in 4K; scanned in 6K; original Nagra sound tapes also restored:
https://filmint.nu/4k-remaster-of-burde ... iam-blick/

7 Les Blank films have been remastered by Harrod Blank.

[A Tempted Christ]

On the 8K restoration of Peter Brook's Mahabharata:
https://variety.com/2024/artisans/festi ... 236129755/
Restoration of the six-hour TV cut is also in the works.

An article about NFI which is more about contemporary movies being shot on film but is nevertheless worth reading:
https://variety.com/2024/film/global/ve ... 236127970/

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Restoring Burden of Dreams in 4K; scanned in 6K; original Nagra sound tapes also restored:
https://filmint.nu/4k-remaster-of-burde ... iam-blick/

7 Les Blank films have been remastered by Harrod Blank.

I hope at some point he does Tang Shu-shuen's The Arch, which Blank edited and eventually became part of his rights portfolio. I'm grateful it's at least available (Frederick Wiseman could take a cue there), but it's in very rough shape.