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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#476 Post by tenia » Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:54 pm

There's also the issue of a few labs leaving heavy color-signatures on almost all of their color gradings, no matter the movies or the restorations' supervisions, most likely because of the use and abuse of a couple of LUTs on way too many movies.

IIRC, Black Moon was restored and graded by Eclair, and dozens of their color movies' restorations have a distinctive recognizable signature. They've recently restored some Pialat movies : of course you can spot their blues and oranges almost in 1 glance. And sure enough, those movies now share the color palette of Black Moon but also movies shot in the 50s or in the 90s.

The Eclair Cinematic Universe. And their opponent, the Ritrovata Cinematic Universe. And the smaller contenders : the Paramount Cinematic Universe and the Fox Deluxe Cinematic Universe.

It's not an issue of monitor, calibration, lack of references or supervisions.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#477 Post by mhofmann » Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:10 pm

The Gaumont restorations inside the Louis Malle box set are quite controversial. I don't know for sure which restoration house did them - potentially Eclair - but many French (and Italian) restorations look leaning more toward either the teal or the yellow side. Their argument being that this looks closer to what would have been projected in a theater at the time, and hence a film print emulation LUT is applied.

I'm just not sure that this is really the case, though. Clearly many of the video and DVD-era telecine transfers were leaning too far toward magenta/pure white. And while it is true that a film print has certain color characteristics that are unlike these older telecine transfers, what some of the European restoration houses (Eclair, L'Immagine Ritrovata, etc.) deliver is clearly too strong in the other direction. I guess the truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#478 Post by djvaso » Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:44 pm

In the second phase of "Vip Kinoteka" project the following movies are digitized and restored:
11. Love and Fasion (Ljubav i moda) (1960) Ljubomir Radičević
12. Balkan Spy (Balkanski špijun) (1984) Božidar Nikolić & Dušan Kovačević
13. Something in Between (Nešto uzmeđu) (1982) Srđan Karanović
14. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T.) (1967) Dušan Makavejev
15. Strangler vs. Strangler (Davitelj protiv davitelja) (1984) Slobodan Šijan
16. Special Therapy (Poseban tretman) (1980) Goran Paskaljević
17. All That Jack's (Majstori, majstori!) (1980) Goran Marković
18. Pavle Pavlović (1975) Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević
19. Hey Babu Riba (Bal na vodi) (1985) Jovan Aćin
20. Leto je krivo za sve (1961) Mladomir 'Puriša' Đorđević

Do Not Come Back Along the Same Road (Po isti poti se ne vračaj) (1965) Jože Babič is restored by Iridium Film (picture), L'immagine Ritrovata and Studio Ritem (audio). The project is produced by Slovenska Kinoteka with the collaboration of Slovenian Film Center and Slovenian Film Archive and with the financial support of European Commision.
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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#479 Post by Stefan Andersson » Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:59 pm

For the record -- some restored films:
“At Home among Strangers, a Stranger among His Own” (1974) by Nikita Mikhalkov
“Office Romance” (1977) by Eldar Ryazanov
“Uncle Vanya” (1970) by Andrei Konchalovsky
“Walking the Streets of Moscow” (1964) by Georgiy Daneliya
“The Rider Named Death” (2004) by Karen Shakhnazarov
“The Runner” (1984) by Amir Naderi
“Talisman” (1986) by Dariush Farhang
“Cold Roads” (1986) by Masud Jafari-Jozani
“The Scout” (1988) by Ebrahim Hatamikia
“The Last Act” (1989) by Varuj Karim-Masihi

Source: info about a 2019 film festival in Tehran: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/433993 ... -Preserved

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#480 Post by yoloswegmaster » Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:15 pm

Is the Lumiere festival going to be streaming the films online or is it in-person?

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#481 Post by tenia » Thu Oct 08, 2020 3:07 am

No online version of the festival, I'm afraid.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#482 Post by movielocke » Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:08 am

yoshimori wrote:Tokyo Film Festival's World Premiere restos:

Yasmin Ahmad, Mukhsin [4K Digital Restoration]
Sadao Yamanaka, Priest of Darkness [4K Digital Restoration]
Sadao Yamanaka, Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo [4K Digital Restoration and longest version]
Sadao Yamanaka, Humanity and Paper Balloons [4K Digital Restoration]
Hiroshi Inagaki, The Rickshaw Man [4K Digital Restoration]
The yamanaka is incredible news, is this festival going to be virtual? Hopefully a region A boxset in the future!

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#483 Post by Michael Kerpan » Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:53 am

At first I thought Priest of Darkness might be a newly-rediscovered Yamanaka film -- but it turns out to just be a different title for Kochiyama Soshun. ;-)

Alas, I don't think of the TFF's films will be made available online (though supposedly some panels may be).

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#484 Post by yoloswegmaster » Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:57 pm

tenia wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 3:07 am
No online version of the festival, I'm afraid.
Damn, hopefully they have proper saftey guidelines.

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#485 Post by artfilmfan » Thu Oct 08, 2020 4:31 pm

movielocke wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:08 am
yoshimori wrote:Tokyo Film Festival's World Premiere restos:

Yasmin Ahmad, Mukhsin [4K Digital Restoration]
Sadao Yamanaka, Priest of Darkness [4K Digital Restoration]
Sadao Yamanaka, Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo [4K Digital Restoration and longest version]
Sadao Yamanaka, Humanity and Paper Balloons [4K Digital Restoration]
Hiroshi Inagaki, The Rickshaw Man [4K Digital Restoration]
The yamanaka is incredible news, is this festival going to be virtual? Hopefully a region A boxset in the future!
A Region A box set with English subs, I hope. ;)
I have been curious about The Rickshaw Man. Would like to see a release with English subs, too.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#486 Post by A Tempted Christ » Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:26 pm

Stefan Andersson wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:59 pm
“The Runner” (1984) by Amir Naderi
“Talisman” (1986) by Dariush Farhang
“Cold Roads” (1986) by Masud Jafari-Jozani
“The Scout” (1988) by Ebrahim Hatamikia
“The Last Act” (1989) by Varuj Karim-Masihi
Here are some horribly compressed low-quality clips that are supposed to demonstrate the restorations. These were provided to ISNA, an Iranian news agency, by National Film Archive of Iran.
The Runner, Talisman (also known as The Spell), Cold Roads, The Scout and The Last Act.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#487 Post by tenia » Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:27 am

yoloswegmaster wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:57 pm
tenia wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 3:07 am
No online version of the festival, I'm afraid.
Damn, hopefully they have proper saftey guidelines.
I sure hope so : Lyon (like my current town Grenoble) just got upgraded to the Maximal Surveillance list for France's Coronavirus handling. This means all bars are closing down (not just past 10pm, but completely), restaurants will need to follow extremely heavy safety regulations, events can't have crowds larger than 1000 persons (which means that some of the events I'll attend will be about 70% empty since some places are designed to accept 3000 persons), no private assembly larger than 10 persons are allowed anymore (places like movie theaters are exempt because they have "extreme safety protocols in place"), and places like movie theaters or theaters will require attendees to wear a mask at all times (including once seated) AND to respect distanciation (ie 1 empty seat between groups - no idea how they'll handle that since pretty much all showings are already sold out through online advance booking which is unlikely to reflect how many empty seats are needed; hoprefully, they'll set up the showings capacity at 50% by default and that was it).

I do wonder what will be happening to the festival's bar, since it should theoretically be closed down, which is a shame because it was the perfect place to grab a coffee or a beer in-between movies. As for the rest, to be honest, it's just a ton of theatrical shows that will follow the health guidelines in place since some weeks already. I'm more afraid of the flow of people within the festival's "town hall", because it was designed more with a central hub than something more linear, so clearly, they'll have to do something to have the proper "entry this way / exit that way" flow of people.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#488 Post by tenia » Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:09 pm

tenia wrote:
Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:58 pm
I'll (normally) also see All The King's Men at Lyon next month, and will report about it.
Just saw it, it's a 2K restoration by the TFI from the OCN and looked on par with recent 2K restorations from the TFI for King Hu movies like The Fate of Lee Khan (MoC release). The worst issue is a couple of skipped frames at, IIRC, about an hour in. The introduction is also extremely wobbly and dupey, it's a long optical fade so I guess it's down to the elements but god the frame is warping quite intensely for these 4-5 minutes.
No color issue to mention IMO.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#489 Post by L.A. » Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:35 am

The Guardian delves into the rediscovery of Iranian film Chess of the Wind.

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#490 Post by Jvlivs » Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:25 pm

Mosfilm uploaded the restored Letter Never Sent on their YouTube channel in 4K and with English subtitles yesterday
https://youtu.be/CVU_Xu_AXNQ

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#491 Post by cowboydan » Wed Oct 14, 2020 1:07 am

Jvlivs wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:25 pm
Mosfilm uploaded the restored Letter Never Sent on their YouTube channel in 4K and with English subtitles yesterday
https://youtu.be/CVU_Xu_AXNQ
Does anyone know if this is sourced from the same master as the Criterion release?

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#492 Post by Calvin » Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:06 am

cowboydan wrote:
Jvlivs wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:25 pm
Mosfilm uploaded the restored Letter Never Sent on their YouTube channel in 4K and with English subtitles yesterday
https://youtu.be/CVU_Xu_AXNQ
Does anyone know if this is sourced from the same master as the Criterion release?
It's a new restoration

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#493 Post by Roger Ryan » Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:34 pm

Calvin wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:06 am
cowboydan wrote:
Jvlivs wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:25 pm
Mosfilm uploaded the restored Letter Never Sent on their YouTube channel in 4K and with English subtitles yesterday
https://youtu.be/CVU_Xu_AXNQ
Does anyone know if this is sourced from the same master as the Criterion release?
It's a new restoration
This looks remarkably better than the source Criterion used (at least as represented on the Channel). Criterion's source looks softer with poorer contrast and the majority of the film shows visible wear-and-tear (lines, dirt specks, etc.). This new restoration looks pristine.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#494 Post by tenia » Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:35 pm

Lyon will be getting evening curfews starting this saturday, meaning my Dersou Ouzala showing will be cancelled. I wont be able to report on it.

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#495 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:50 pm

That's too bad. I'm really curious about how it looks

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#496 Post by tenia » Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:40 pm

FrauBlucher wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:50 pm
That's too bad. I'm really curious about how it looks
Yeah, me too. It's amongst those I have no idea how it can look and it seems impossible to find out on the internet, so I'd have loved to be able to discover the movie through this new resto. But the pandemic gotta pandemic...

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#497 Post by ftsoh » Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:07 pm

"Archiving TIme" - a 62 minutes documentary by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute available on their Youtube channel:
https://youtu.be/1jcpJWF-I2w

One of the most prominent titles is King Hu's "Raining in the Mountain" which still has no physical release in North America.

By the way, if you dig into their Youtube channel, you will find the original theatrical trainer for "Dragon Inn" and "A Touch of Zen", which is not included in the Criterion discs.
"Dragon Inn" - https://youtu.be/1vFKfjIk97w
"A Touch of Zen" - https://youtu.be/E1cfffe9A58

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#498 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:39 pm

Mutiny (Dmtryk, 1952) upcoming from VCI, "a new restoration re-mastered from the original 35mm negatives in 4K":
https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/87504/mutiny.html

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#499 Post by Stefan Andersson » Thu Oct 22, 2020 2:20 pm

Re: the TF1 Video catalogue -- a trailer for some available restorations here (posted in conjunction with the 2020 Lyon film festival):
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGXYhSGKKq ... pcnckg3r88

That films have been restored does not automatically mean a home video release is planned, as pointed out by Tenia and others here:
https://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewto ... start=1110

Titles in the video / existing or upcoming home video release (info gleaned from the thread linked to above):
Nuit d'ivresse 1986 (Bernard Nauer) DVD TF1
Sous les toits de Paris 1930 (René Clair) DVD LCJ, Blu (?) Coin de mire
Juliette et Juliette 1974 (Rémo Forlani)
La loi c'est la loi 1958 (Christian Jaque) DVD Lancaster, Blu (?) Coin de mire
Les hommes préfèrent les grosses 1981 (Jean-Marie Poiré) DVD Warner
Préparez vos mouchoirs 1978 (Bertrand Blier) DVD Studio Canal
Les grandes manoeuvres 1955 (René Clair) DVD René Chateau, Blu (?) Coin de mire
Le million 1931 (René Clair) Blu (?) Coin de mire
Le mouton à cinq pattes 1954 (Henri Verneuil) DVD René Chateau, Blu (?) Coin de mire
Olivier Olivier 1992 Agnieszka Holland
Porte des Lilas 1957 (René Clair) DVD René Chateau / Blu Coin de Mire
Retour de manivelle 1957 (Denys de la Patellière) DVD René Chateau, Blu (?) Coin de mire
Maxime 1958 (Henri Verneuil) DVD René Chateau / Blu Coin de Mire
Une Parisienne 1957 (Michel Boisrond) DVD René Chateau / DVD TF1
Fanfan la Tulipe 1952 (Christian Jaque) DVD René Chateau, Blu Coin de Mire
Ils vont tous bien 1990 (Guiseppe Tornatorre) DVD LCJ
La vie de Famille 1986 (Jacques Doillon)
Le Zèbre 1992 (Jean Poiret) DVD Lancaster
Callas Forever 2002 (Franco Zefirelli) DVD Studio Canal
Un air de famlille 1996 (Cédric Klapisch) DVD Studio Canal
Les maris, les femmes et les amants 1989 (Pascal Thomas) DVD Studio Canal / DVD TF1
Possession 1981 (Andrej Zulawski) DVD TF1 / BRD Le Chat qui Fume prochainement
Passion d'amour 1981 (Ettore Scola) DVD LCJ
Parfum de femme 1974 (Dino Risi) DVD TF1

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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#500 Post by Stefan Andersson » Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:43 pm

Restoring Scott of the Antarctic from 3-strip Technicolor:
https://medium.com/pfclean-blog/in-glor ... eb9f7cab81

Restoring Wizard of Oz in 4K HDR, digital remastering of The Sound of Music, restoring Black Angel (Roger Christian):
https://postperspective.com/tag/restoration/

Restored "Il tigre" (Dino Risi) starring Vittorio Gassman and Ann-Margret; re-release in France in December 2020 by Les Acacias:
http://www.acaciasfilms.com/film/lhomme-a-la-ferrari/

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