Recent Film Restorations

[Stefan Andersson]

Tamango, John Berry
Rabmádár (Hungary, 1929)
Casa de lava, Ossos, Le Sang, Costa
Cousin, cousine
En rade, Cavalcanti, 1927
Le fleuve de la mort, Bunuel
Natsu no niwa, Somai
Lili Marleen
La Notte, Antonioni
Pirosmani, Chengelaya
Three Bad Men, 1926, 4K
The Onion Field, 4K
Los Golfos, Saura
Six South Korean films, 2K/4K
Fail Safe, 4K
Werner Schroeter films
3 Marleen Gorris films
5 restored Georgian silents
Flemish films
Franju´s Notre Dame short
Shorts about Paris by Pierre Prévert and Jacques Baratier

https://www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/festi ... -1357.html

Carlo Lizzani:
La vita agra
Al margine della metropolita
https://www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/carlo ... -1367.html

[Stefan Andersson]

Forty Guns, 4K:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/32268.html

Forbidden Paradise, Lubitsch:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/33794.html

Smiling Lieutenant, "version restaurée":
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/34602.html

[beamish14]

Lili Marleen and the Marleen Gorris films are fantastic news

[Stefan Andersson]

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, Delvaux:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/45795.html

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

What are the details on The Smiling Lieutenant restoration? They have it listed as over ten minutes longer. I know it's one of Lubitsch's racier films, so is it discovered footage from an alternate edit? Also, that Forbidden Paradise restoration is two years old already. MoMA restored it and I had the priviledge of seeing it at the Academy Museum a few years ago.

[Hogfather]

What are the details on The Smiling Lieutenant restoration? They have it listed as over ten minutes longer. I know it's one of Lubitsch's racier films, so is it discovered footage from an alternate edit? Also, that Forbidden Paradise restoration is two years old already. MoMA restored it and I had the priviledge of seeing it at the Academy Museum a few years ago.

Some interesting search results on The Smiling Lieutenant: UCLA Film & Television Archive seems to have spearheaded this restoration, or at least a restoration of similar length to the Cinematheque version.. But it also looks like there are prints of various lengths floating around, including official prints from Universal. This print owned by Universal is longer than the Criterion version, but shorter than the UCLA version.

[Stefan Andersson]

What are the details on The Smiling Lieutenant restoration? They have it listed as over ten minutes longer. I know it's one of Lubitsch's racier films, so is it discovered footage from an alternate edit? Also, that Forbidden Paradise restoration is two years old already. MoMA restored it and I had the priviledge of seeing it at the Academy Museum a few years ago.

Some interesting search results on The Smiling Lieutenant: UCLA Film & Television Archive seems to have spearheaded this restoration, or at least a restoration of similar length to the Cinematheque version.. But it also looks like there are prints of various lengths floating around, including official prints from Universal. This print owned by Universal is longer than the Criterion version, but shorter than the UCLA version.

This article lists an uncut 94-min. version and a cut 89-min. version:
https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.c ... enant.html

A listing of the UCLA restoration at 88 mins.:
https://bampfa.org/event/smiling-lieutenant-2

"the original camera negative survived (a rare thing for Paramount nitrate) and served as the basis for a gorgeous restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.":
https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/2011 ... roduction/

[domino harvey]

The Man Who Has His Hair Cut Short, Delvaux:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/45795.html

Will be interesting to see which boutique label picks this up. This was one of those big deal international films at the time that never materialized into being part of the canon. But ASMR videos on YouTube owe a huge debt to it!

[Hogfather]

What are the details on The Smiling Lieutenant restoration? They have it listed as over ten minutes longer. I know it's one of Lubitsch's racier films, so is it discovered footage from an alternate edit? Also, that Forbidden Paradise restoration is two years old already. MoMA restored it and I had the priviledge of seeing it at the Academy Museum a few years ago.

Some interesting search results on The Smiling Lieutenant: UCLA Film & Television Archive seems to have spearheaded this restoration, or at least a restoration of similar length to the Cinematheque version.. But it also looks like there are prints of various lengths floating around, including official prints from Universal. This print owned by Universal is longer than the Criterion version, but shorter than the UCLA version.

This article lists an uncut 94-min. version and a cut 89-min. version:
https://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.c ... enant.html

A listing of the UCLA restoration at 88 mins.:
https://bampfa.org/event/smiling-lieutenant-2

"the original camera negative survived (a rare thing for Paramount nitrate) and served as the basis for a gorgeous restoration by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.":
https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/2011 ... roduction/

I wonder: the BAMPFA listing calls it a "restored print." Could this mean that they were showing an abridged theatrical print that had undergone restoration work?

[Stefan Andersson]

The Green Music Box (1955, Umetsugu Inoue) restored by he National Film Archive of Japan:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-e ... lour-films

[Stefan Andersson]

The Big Combo, 4K:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... big-combo/

Ben-Hur, 1959:
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/films/ben-hur/

Rhapsody in Blue (1946), "World premiere restoration featuring additional footage never before released to general audiences.":
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... y-in-blue/

Beau Geste (1926):
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/films/beau-geste/

The Enchanted Cottage (1945):
https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/f ... d-cottage/

Re-Animator UHD:
https://www.ignite-films.com/

[Stefan Andersson]

Fundraising project to restore the films of Paul Cox:

"The first film to be restored is “Vincent – the Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh” (1987) starring John Hurt. Restoration will be done in association with Hanway Films UK, a leading international sales company who hold the Paul Cox collection. Why "Vincent"? because there is still market demand for “Vincent” and once restored the proceeds from sales, after distribution costs, will go into restoring the next Paul Cox film and so on and so on – hopefully becoming self-sufficient. Hence restoring Paul Cox’s legacy film-by-film. We are aiming to release "Vincent" in the Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival 2025."

Source:
https://artists.australianculturalfund. ... on-project

[beamish14]

Fundraising project to restore the films of Paul Cox:

"The first film to be restored is “Vincent – the Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh” (1987) starring John Hurt. Restoration will be done in association with Hanway Films UK, a leading international sales company who hold the Paul Cox collection. Why "Vincent"? because there is still market demand for “Vincent” and once restored the proceeds from sales, after distribution costs, will go into restoring the next Paul Cox film and so on and so on – hopefully becoming self-sufficient. Hence restoring Paul Cox’s legacy film-by-film. We are aiming to release "Vincent" in the Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival 2025."

Source:
https://artists.australianculturalfund. ... on-project

That’s wonderful. I saw that Hanway/Jeremy Thomas held Cox’s catalog now in a press release for something else a few weeks ago, and that surprised me

[Stefan Andersson]

Kid Boots (1927) restored w/ rediscovered footage; upcoming Blu-Ray release from Film Preservation Society:
https://filmforum.org/film/kid-boots-clara-bow
https://www.instagram.com/realdavidsten ... e=pl&hl=ar
https://www.instagram.com/realdavidsten ... fGUF7vmz4/

[beamish14]

Allan Moyle’s The Rubber Gun, which is getting a Canadian International Pictures release

[jmj713]

Not sure if this is the right place, but has there been any news of any sort of release for Seed (1931)?

https://www.melbournecinematheque.org/c ... elodramas/

[Stefan Andersson]

O bobo, José Álvaro Morais:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/the-jester

Someone Else´s Children, Abuladze, 1958:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/som ... s-children

DCPs and thus possible restorations:

Negligence, Ali Kasmaie, Iran 1953:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/negligence

Cossacks in Exile, Ulmer, 1939; Ulmer´s second and last collaboration with Ukrainian dancer-choreographer Vasyl Avramenko:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/cossacks-in-exile

Katha, Sai Paranjpye, India 1983:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/katha

The Open Door, Henry Barakat, Egypt 1963:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/the-open-door

Turang, Bachtiar Siagian, Indonesia 1958:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/turang

The Red Detachment of Women, Xie Jin, China 1961:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/the ... t-of-women

Five Golden Flowers, Wang Jiayi, China 1959:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/five-golden-flowers

Veerapandiya Kattabomman, B.R. Panthulu, India 1959:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/vee ... attabomman

Where to?, Georges Nasser, Lebanon 1957:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/where-to

Also relevant to the above:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/focus-thr ... shall-rise
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/cinema-regained
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/iffr-2 ... her-world/

[Stefan Andersson]

Une femme est une femme restored:

"The restoration was produced from the original 35mm negative and sound negative. Scanned in 4K by Hiventy, then color-graded and digitally cleaned to remove imperfections in the original elements. Supervised by Studiocanal’s Sophie Boyer and Jean-Pierre Boiget. Restored with the support of the CNC."

Source:
https://www.rialtopictures.com/catalogu ... is-a-woman

Santa (Mexico, 1932) w/ Lupita Tovar, first Mexican sound film, restored:
https://archivalspaces.com/blog-feed/ - Feb. 21, 2025 post

[jmj713]

High Art (1998) finally!

https://www.indiewire.com/news/festival ... 235101030/

[qw0aszx]

Four new 4K restored titles from the collaboration with Hong Kong International Film Festival and M+:
The System (1979) by Peter Yung⁣
The Woman of Wrath (1984) by Tseng Chuang-Hsiang⁣
My Heart is That Eternal Rose (1989) by Patrick Tam⁣
PTU (2003) by Johnnie To⁣

https://www.facebook.com/hkiffs/posts/p ... 92XPM2Kful

[tenia]

The Woman of Wrath (1984) by Tseng Chuang-Hsiang⁣

Interesting, as the restoration I've seen 6 months ago was a 2K restoration (and was kinda fine but obviously DNRed in places). The movie's awful, though.

[Stefan Andersson]

Valley of the Giants (1919, starring Wallace Reid) restored:

"This restoration was kickstarted by Ed Lorusso and he restored video files supplied by the Russian film archive. The film had been re-titled and re-edited for Russian audiences, and the anti-capitalist plot was emphasized when the Russians re-edited it. /.../ Theater organ score by Ben Model."

Sources:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37027
2025 Notes, Kansas Silent Film Festival

[okcmaxk]

Play It as it Lays restored in 4K by Universal

[domino harvey]

I’ll believe it when I see it!

[beamish14]

I just truly want to know what has prevented a commercial home video release for so long. I know Frank Perry biographer Justin Borzung is on the forum…