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Lowry_Sam
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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#2126 Post by Lowry_Sam »

Partners Of The Tide 4k restoration by SFFP.

Also,
Our restoration of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans makes its Latin American debut on October 23 at São Paolo International Film Festival! Gustavo Petri will conduct Orquestra Brazil Jazz Sinfônica performing Timothy Brock’s score for the film, commissioned specifically for this new restoration.
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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#2127 Post by Stefan Andersson »

Stefan Andersson wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 7:13 pm Once Upon a Time in Harlem, co-photographed by William Greaves in 1972
https://www.onceuponatimeinharlemfilm.com/
More on the restoration:
https://thefilmstage.com/i-couldnt-see- ... m-to-life/
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#2129 Post by Stefan Andersson »

Film Heritage Foundation plans to restore "John Abraham’s “Agraharathil Kazhuthai” (“Donkey in a Brahmin Village”) and Aribam Syam Sharma’s “Imagi Ningthem” (“My Son, My Precious”). The Abraham film will be the foundation’s first Tamil-language restoration."
https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals ... 236909987/

News from 2025 - restoring "Badnam Basti" (1970):
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ent ... 910575.cms
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/archiv ... nam-basti/
https://www.academymuseum.org/programs/ ... 0d11770214
https://worm.org/production/badnam-basti/
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#2130 Post by Stefan Andersson »

Osmanthus Alley (Chen Kun-hou, Taiwan, 1987), 4K with original Taiwanese soundtrack:
https://variety.com/2026/film/markets-f ... 236909913/

Wording in the article is unclear, but it seems that Hou Hsiao-hsien dubbed actor Tuo Tsung-hua. Hou and Chen Kun-hou often collaborated.

https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202610130008
https://www.festival-lumiere.org/film/l ... -osmanthes
https://www.tfai.org.tw/en/event/detail ... 4899860092
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#2131 Post by Stefan Andersson »

Film Heritage Foundation plans to restore “Piravi” /../ Shaji N. Karun’s Cannes winner /.../ for which only subtitled prints survive."
https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals ... 236909987/
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Re: Recent Film Restorations

#2132 Post by Lowry_Sam »

BAMPFA has been screening some HK restorations, some of which I don't think have been mentioned:

The Arch, Shushuen, (1968)
Out Sister Hedy, Ching (1957)
Colorful Youth, Wan (1966)
The Secret, Hui (1979)
Just Like Weather, Fong (1986)
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#2133 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian »

The Hong Kong Film Archive released The Secret restoration on Blu in 2019, and it was also in Carlotta's Hui box from earlier this year. The HKFA disc (which has English subs) is available from a few international sources (including eBay), though at a hefty markup. The HKFA also released the Colorful Youth restoration, including an extended version with additional footage sourced from a VHS tape, but on DVD only.

The restorations of The Arch and Just Like Weather are part of the M+ Restoration initiative, which has also restored Peter Yung's The System and Patrick Tam's Love Massacre. The series will eventually include The Butterfly Murders (Tsui), The Story of Woo Viet (Hui), Homecoming (Yim), Cageman (Cheung), and Durian Durian (Chan). AFAIK none of these restorations have been commercially released yet, but Kani will be putting out Cageman and Just Like Weather in the U.S. Les Blank (who was the film's editor) acquired the U.S. rights to The Arch at some point and his company still sells it on their site, but in a dreadful old transfer.
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#2134 Post by Mr Sausage »

This is great news. The Secret, Butterfly Murders, The Story of Woo Viet, and Homecoming are terrific HK films. The last one in particular needs rescuing: I saw it on a fullscreen LD rip that looked just miserable. But more Ann Hui is also wonderful. She's sadly overlooked, I think because HK fans tend to love the zany stuff, less so her quiet, sensitive dramas. But The Secret ought to appeal for its genre trappings and experimentalist New Wave editing techniques.

I hope these all get excellent releases.
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#2135 Post by andyli »

Yes the M+ restorations are fantastic. They'd been mentioned multiple times on this forum as the project went along, but very few people took notice. I remember there were posts about seeking out Love, Massacre in a watchable copy. The 4K restoration should generate some renewed interest.
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