Recent Film Restorations

[Stefan Andersson]

Le notte bianche (1957), plus other unnamed Cinecittà restorations of Mastroianni films:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5776

Update - in 4K:
White Nights
Peccato che Sia una Canaglia (Too Bad She’s Bad)
La Fortuna di essere donna (Lucky to be a Woman)
Matrimonio all’italiana (Marriage, Italian Style)
Una giornata particolare (A Special Day)
Il bell’Antonio (Handsome Antonio)
Todo Modo
Ieri, oggi e domani (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/10138

[Stefan Andersson]

Als twee druppels water, Rademakers
Cha Cha, w/ Nina Hagen
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/75- ... ons/331289


Le coquille et le clergyman, 2021, Éclair:
https://lightcone.org/en/film-451-la-co ... -clergyman

[beamish14]

Als twee druppels water, Rademakers
Cha Cha, w/ Nina Hagen
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/75- ... ons/331289


Le coquille et le clergyman, 2021, Éclair:
https://lightcone.org/en/film-451-la-co ... -clergyman

I’d love to see Rademakers’ works get HD releases, even if they’re not English-friendly

[Stefan Andersson]

Brigadoon, Enchanted Cottage, Edge of the City, Gunman´s Walk at TCM 2025:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/

In 4K:
Lifeboat:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 1f09d8c6ec
Sugarland Express:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 6f3eb4ccd1
The Last Supper, Alea:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... cf1b07ffd4
Planet of the Apes:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 8d5980f334
Matinee:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 9e95541654
The Wild Party, Arzner:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... c15626d5ae
Undercurrent, Yoshimura:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... e0a2b10492
Saint Joan, Preminger:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 689bd45730

Also:
Lucky Ghost, Beaudine:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... 1511a25c5a

Full series:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... vation2024

4K:
La Visita, Pietrangeli:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/42672.html
Dogtooth:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/108373.html
Convoy:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/35690.html
His Girl Friday:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/33172.html
Ecce bombo:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/43730.html
Talk of the Town, w/ restored scenes:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/36646.html
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 2024 resto from music and dialogue three-track stereo elements:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/48044.html
The Lady, Borzage:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/30657.html

Lady for a Night, 1942, 2K:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/67602.html
The Home and the World:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/44713.html
French theatrical re-release in 2025:
https://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/la-ma ... -le-monde/

Full series:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/resta ... -1315.html§

Elephant God, The Stranger and other Ray restorations:
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/sat ... ay/1361664

Grimm re-edit, Warmerdam (not restored but re-worked by Warmerdam)
https://player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/grimm-re-edit

Love and the Devil, Korda (not restored but with new music):
https://player.eyefilm.nl/en/films/love-and-the-devil

[Stefan Andersson]

Ehsan Khoshbakht on restoring Bayram Beyzaie films (restorations of films from 1969-1979 planned) and a Golestan short:
https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.c ... .html#more

[hearthesilence]

As part of a centennial celebration for Robert Frank, this will get a theatrical release beginning October 25th at BAM.

Personally, I'm mainly looking forward to that Frank exhibit at MoMA in September...

Should've mentioned this earlier, but they've been screening all of Frank's films, which either have been restored or remastered. He used various formats, so obviously not everything's going to look stunning - for example, they just premiered a "new digital remaster [of It’s Real (C’est vrai)] by The Museum of Modern Art" and while it probably looks as good as it ever has and ever will, it's still standard-definition video circa 1990. Really great though, it's kind of trippy if you've spent god knows how many hours around that particular area on the LES (Broadway-Lafayette by the Angelika, Anthology, etc.)

[beamish14]

As part of a centennial celebration for Robert Frank, this will get a theatrical release beginning October 25th at BAM.

Personally, I'm mainly looking forward to that Frank exhibit at MoMA in September...

Should've mentioned this earlier, but they've been screening all of Frank's films, which either have been restored or remastered. He used various formats, so obviously not everything's going to look stunning - for example, they just premiered a "new digital remaster [of It’s Real (C’est vrai)] by The Museum of Modern Art" and while it probably looks as good as it ever has and ever will, it's still standard-definition video circa 1990. Really great though, it's kind of trippy if you've spent god knows how many hours around that particular area on the LES (Broadway-Lafayette by the Angelika, Anthology, etc.)

I think Cocksucker Blues was the lone title to not have a restoration, but even having it screen in public is always a treat

[hearthesilence]

As part of a centennial celebration for Robert Frank, this will get a theatrical release beginning October 25th at BAM.

Personally, I'm mainly looking forward to that Frank exhibit at MoMA in September...

Should've mentioned this earlier, but they've been screening all of Frank's films, which either have been restored or remastered. He used various formats, so obviously not everything's going to look stunning - for example, they just premiered a "new digital remaster [of It’s Real (C’est vrai)] by The Museum of Modern Art" and while it probably looks as good as it ever has and ever will, it's still standard-definition video circa 1990. Really great though, it's kind of trippy if you've spent god knows how many hours around that particular area on the LES (Broadway-Lafayette by the Angelika, Anthology, etc.)

I think Cocksucker Blues was the lone title to not have a restoration, but even having it screen in public is always a treat

Correct, there's no indication that's a restoration - they're actually just projecting it from a Digibeta tape which says a lot.

[TechnicolorAcid]

Legally how are they able to screen Cocksucker Blues if supposedly, it was ruled by the Court that the film could only be shown if the director was present which would be impossible nowadays since he's dead?

[hearthesilence]

That requirement was already loosened when Frank was alive, when his health eventually ruled out traveling for screenings.

[TechnicolorAcid]

That requirement was already loosened when Frank was alive, when his health eventually ruled out traveling for screenings.

Does that mean there's a slim chance the restrictions can be loosened enough that we can get a legit home disc release of it or is there something blocking that from happening?

[beamish14]

That requirement was already loosened when Frank was alive, when his health eventually ruled out traveling for screenings.

Does that mean there's a slim chance the restrictions can be loosened enough that we can get a legit home disc release of it or is there something blocking that from happening?

I imagine it might only happen after Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pass away

[Stefan Andersson]

Restored Clara Bow films: It, My Lady of Whims, Call Her Savage, Kid Boots, Dancing Mothers, Hoopla:
https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking ... 235051100/
https://filmforum.org/series/clara-bow
https://filmforum.org/do-not-enter-or-m ... yer_v4.pdf

[Stefan Andersson]

Upcoming Film Foundation restorations:
Saint Joan, 1957
What Price Glory?, 1926
The Rat, 1925, Graham Cutts
Wavelength, 1969, Snow
Maria Candelaria, 1943, Fernandez
Fantasmi a Roma, 1961, Pietrangeli

https://www.film-foundation.org/donation


Restorations found in the Kino Lorber Studio Classics thread, in a post re: March 2025 releases:
Cry, the Beloved Country (1952) 2023 4K Restoration by STUDIOCANAL
Two Way Stretch (1960) 4K Restoration by STUDIOCANAL
Half a Chance (1998), Leconte, 2K Master by TF1
The Black Tulip (1964) 4K Restoration by TF1
Ho! (1968), Enrico, 4K Restoration by TF1
Hi-Jack Highway [Gas-Oil] (1955) 2K Master by TF1
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) 2K Master

[beamish14]

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

[Stefan Andersson]

Hula, 1927 and other titles:

https://filmpreserve.org/restorations/

[dadaistnun]

Restorations showing at 2024 Locarno include films by Soutter, Tanner, Salce, Cavalcanti, Ouédraogo, Tarsem, Godard, Welles, Campion, Stevens (Talk of the Town DCP 4K), The Whole Town´s Talking (DCP 4K), Twentieth Century (DCP 4K),
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival ... inema.html
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival ... rande.html
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/festival ... iva77.html

Locarno has Cavalcanti's Mulher de Verdade (A Real Woman) streaming for free on their site through January 10.

[Michael Kerpan]

Which Tanner film? (I couldn't find one mentioned in any of the links).

[Stefan Andersson]

Which Tanner film? (I couldn't find one mentioned in any of the links).

Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000, according to this article about the Histoire(s) du Cinéma section of the festival:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/th ... a/87263052 - edit: includes mention of a restoration of Soutter´s Réperages, starring Trintignant and Seyrig.

Also:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/ta ... a/87414788
https://live.cinematheque.ch/?search=tanner

[Michael Kerpan]

Thanks.

I keep hoping for an English-subbed Salamandre.

[Stefan Andersson]

33 Frederick Wiseman titles in 4K (Titicut Follies thru State Legislature):
https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/frederic ... torations/


4K:
Son of Dracula
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/son-of-dracula/

Phantom Lady:
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/phantom-lady/

The Suspect:
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-suspect/

The Killers:
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/the-killers/

Criss Cross:
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/criss-cross/

L´Aigle a Deux Têtes, 4K:
https://www.hiventy.com/portfolio/laigle-a-deux-tetes/

[Stefan Andersson]

To Save and Project 2025 at MoMA; some films:
Raskolnikow, 1923
"Yevgeni Chervyakov’s My Son (1928), found in Argentina and restored by GEM"
the pre-Code comedy The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) from the Library of Congress"
"MoMA’s newly upgraded restoration of Borzage’s 7th Heaven (1927)"
"world premiere of MoMA’s new reconstruction of the long unseen, original 1918 version of Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms"'
"Films from Argentina, Thailand, India, Syria, the Czech Republic"
Le Rendez-vous des quais, Carpita
Broadway, Fejos
Bend of the River, 4K
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5781

[hearthesilence]

It's really frustrating how none of the recent 4K restorations of Borzage's silent work have been released on Blu-ray in the U.S. They've all looked AMAZING when I've caught them at MoMA. A few may have been released in France - it's possible older masters were used but regardless those discs are no longer in-print.

[Stefan Andersson]

Benjamin Christensen’s ‘Seine Frau, die Unbekannte' (1923), 4K, Danish Film Institute
Richard Oswald’s ‘Die Reigen’ (1920)

https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/termin ... tival-2025
https://www.dfi.dk/en/cinematheque-and- ... tival-2025
https://www.dff.film/kino/kinoprogramm/ ... sic-films/

[Aunt Peg]

The Japan Foundation has been showing the complete directorial works of Kinuyo Tanaka at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. All have recently been restored and look great. Hopefully they will be receiving wide exposure.