Paramount's Charlotte Barker is seeking suggestions for future film restorations

[Stefan Andersson]

Paramount's Charlotte Barker is seeking suggestions for future film restorations through her Instagram:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... or.389617/

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

I don’t have Instagram, but can someone please suggest Deep End? I know there’s a BFI release, but the US needs one. Also, what’s going on with that restoration of Deadhead Miles?

[TechnicolorAcid]

I don’t have Instagram, but can someone please suggest Deep End? I know there’s a BFI release, but the US needs one. Also, what’s going on with that restoration of Deadhead Miles?

I think Criterion is working on a release so expect it out sometime in the next 15 years

[beamish14]

American Hot Wax is a no-brainer

[tenia]

She should do To Catch a Thief again again, maybe the 3rd time will be the right one !

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

American Hot Wax is a no-brainer

Those first three Floyd Mutrux films are really some of my favorite American films of the 70s. American Hot Wax should be considered one of the great hang out films, but sadly, the music keeps it out of circulation. Why did Mutrux's career never take off the way it should've?

[beamish14]

American Hot Wax is a no-brainer

Those first three Floyd Mutrux films are really some of my favorite American films of the 70s. American Hot Wax should be considered one of the great hang out films, but sadly, the music keeps it out of circulation. Why did Mutrux's career never take off the way it should've?

I adore him as well. Dusty and Sweets McGee is just astonishing.

He made his fortune as a script doctor and writer of films that never got produced. He even did work on Scarecrow (1973). Just never had a hit film as a director, but I’m glad Blood In, Blood Out and American Me are regarded as classics in some circles.

[okcmaxk]

Citizen’s Band, The Escape Artist, Darker than Amber, The Out-of-Towners, Gunn, Rattle & Hum—the two that’ve never been available properly are the big ones.

Hot Wax is a must, if they can wrangle Goodbar and Little Darlings, it can be cleared. They’ve knocked out a lot of unavailable titles in the past few years.

[beamish14]

Citizen’s Band, The Escape Artist, Darker than Amber, The Out-of-Towners, Gunn, Rattle & Hum—the two that’ve never been available properly are the big ones. Hot Wax is a must, if they can wrangle Goodbar and Little Darlings, it can be cleared.

It is very odd that Rattle and Hum hasn’t had a 4K. So entertaining, and I’m not a U2 fan

[okcmaxk]

Maybe their catalog changed hands? That’s why The Wall is stuck in limbo, WB has the elements from MGM, but now Sony owns it outright post-sale. Rattle & Hum was a launch title for Paramount 20 years ago, someone needs to get it out there!

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Phil Joanou posted this on Threads just a few weeks back:

4k coming soon… both FULL concerts in color and black and white. The original film AND a huge documentary… all mixed and finished. Just waiting on the band to say go!

A 4K copy of the complete December 19th concert in Tempe surfaced online last year, to Joanou's chagrin—apparently he'd uploaded it to Vimeo and neglected to make it private.

A digital restoration of Gunn recently premiered at a film noir festival in Florida. The Escape Artist is with Lionsgate via Zoetrope.

[Aunt Peg]

Fraternity Row (1977) really needs to be discovered. It came and went with barely a whimper back in 1977 and I don't think even received a VHS release.

[beamish14]

Phil Joanou posted this on Threads just a few weeks back:

4k coming soon… both FULL concerts in color and black and white. The original film AND a huge documentary… all mixed and finished. Just waiting on the band to say go!

A 4K copy of the complete December 19th concert in Tempe surfaced online last year, to Joanou's chagrin—apparently he'd uploaded it to Vimeo and neglected to make it private.

A digital restoration of Gunn recently premiered at a film noir festival in Florida.

I think over 7 hours of cut material from Rattle has been circulating for many years and was popping up at places like comic book conventions. I hope the new documentary he mentioned will include at least some of that.

He’s a great guy. I love seeing his USC shorts (in beautiful shape) on his website

[TechnicolorAcid]

Unfortunately it looks like Li’l Abner is not getting a restoration from Paramount because, per Charlotte Baker:

Sadly, Paramount lost rights to this one. Not sure who owns it now.

[domino harvey]

Oh damngoddit

[ryannichols7]

Phil Joanou posted this on Threads just a few weeks back:

4k coming soon… both FULL concerts in color and black and white. The original film AND a huge documentary… all mixed and finished. Just waiting on the band to say go!

A 4K copy of the complete December 19th concert in Tempe surfaced online last year, to Joanou's chagrin—apparently he'd uploaded it to Vimeo and neglected to make it private.

A digital restoration of Gunn recently premiered at a film noir festival in Florida.

I think over 7 hours of cut material from Rattle has been circulating for many years and was popping up at places like comic book conventions. I hope the new documentary he mentioned will include at least some of that.

He’s a great guy. I love seeing his USC shorts (in beautiful shape) on his website

I am a pretty huge U2 fan (though of course, have many, many mixed feelings about their career from 1998 onward), and a full Rattle and Hum 4K with the full Denver and Tempe concerts, plus all the other unused footage, would be top level stuff. obviously a very confused era for U2 (largely inspired by Paris, Texas!) but one that produced some of the greatest performances and original songwriting of their career. hope to see movement on this, the band have been pretty...less than spectacular about releasing archival stuff over the last few years