criterionforum.org

Detailed technical discussion about The Third Man 4k UHD Combo; including posts by tenia re: problematic audio remastering on Ozu and Mizoguchi titles:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/commun ... 908/page-2

Japanese classics by Masumura and others at Tokyo International Film Festival:
https://2024.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/list ... rtments=10

Includes Japanese Yakuza (Makino Masahiro, 1964) and a 4K of Nomugi Pass (Yamamoto Satsuo, 1979)

Pordenone 2024 programme:
https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en ... obre-2024/

includes;
Raskolnikow (Wiene) at 142 mins
Vanini, Gerlach
Three Women, Lubitsch
Dagfin, Joe May
Forgotten Faces, Schertzinger
Red Dance, Walsh
La Boheme, Vidor
Song, Eichberg
Leaves from Satans Book, Dreyer, 133 mins., 2023 restoration; Danish DVD runs 157 mins: https://www.carlthdreyer.dk/en/carlthdr ... atans-book

Dagfin restoration, world premiere Oct. 3:
https://www.filmportal.de/nachrichten/w ... no-des-dff
https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfueh ... fin-12439/
https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuel ... -livemusik

Also restored: Adieu Mascotte (Wilhelm Thiele) w/ Lilian Harvey:
https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/termin ... -livemusik
https://franzoesische.filmtage-tuebinge ... neconcert/
https://www.filmportal.de/node/19971/video/1843193

Northern Lights (1979), the film and the restoration:
https://filmmakermagazine.com/127545-in ... ghts-2024/

Pordenone 2024 catalogue now available online, under heading Giornate:
https://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en ... V-TB6_lGJk

Article about 139 Walter Lantz cartoons in DolbyVision HDR workflow for a broadcast distribution deal, in Journal of Digital Media Management, Vol. 12, issue 4 (subscription required):
https://www.henrystewartpublications.com/jdmm/v12

https://walterlantz.fandom.com/wiki/MeTV

Ghatashraddha, plus mention of upcoming restoration of Iruvar:
https://www.film-foundation.org/variety-ghatashraddha

Discussion of new Redwood/Kickstarter resto of Phantom of the Opera (1925):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/re ... nd-blu-ray

The Jester (O Bobo), 1987, José Álvaro Morais, 4k:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9959

The Other One (Conversa Acabada),1981, João Botelho, 4k:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9967

Change of Life (Mudar de Vida), 1966, Paulo Rocha, 4k:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9943

Hammer Films buys Silver Salt Restoration; Hammer films to be restored, no titles mentioned:
https://bleedingcool.com/movies/hammer- ... or-movies/

This was posted by Brianna Toth on Twitter today:
"Yesterday 7 of the 30+ employees were laid off at the Academy Film Archive without notice. This included the Director & Head of Preservation who was one of the best managers I ever had. This feels like a death knell for the 3rd largest film archive in North America.
Many of the people who were axed were pivotal in making the collections what they are today. None of them deserved this. The decision was “effective immediately” and they had no time to pass on work or institutional knowledge. They were simply told to leave.
Bill Kramer has been pivotal in this “restructuring”. He does not care about or understand cultural heritage or the people who work with it. DO NOT APPLY here if jobs are posted! Reach out to your friends and colleagues if they work here. They need you."

Yakushima wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:42 am This was posted by Brianna Toth on Twitter today:
"Yesterday 7 of the 30+ employees were laid off at the Academy Film Archive without notice. This included the Director & Head of Preservation who was one of the best managers I ever had. This feels like a death knell for the 3rd largest film archive in North America.
Many of the people who were axed were pivotal in making the collections what they are today. None of them deserved this. The decision was “effective immediately” and they had no time to pass on work or institutional knowledge. They were simply told to leave.
Bill Kramer has been pivotal in this “restructuring”. He does not care about or understand cultural heritage or the people who work with it. DO NOT APPLY here if jobs are posted! Reach out to your friends and colleagues if they work here. They need you."

Oh my god. The Museum seems to be hemorrhaging money. I wonder if this includes KJ Relth-Miller, head of public programs, who is a joy to hear speak at screenings

The Film Foundation´s 2023 report now online. 2023 restorations include:
Spellbound
Yam Daabo
A Midsummer Night´s Dream, 1925
Macario
Adventures of Casanova, Gavaldón
Down and out in America
Il Grido, w/ censored scenes restored
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938
A House Divided, Wyler
Incendiary Blonde
Love Parade, Lubitsch
Texas Rangers, Vidor
Helen of Troy, 1955
One Way Passage, 1932
Rachel, Rachel
Safe in Hell, 1931
https://www.film-foundation.org/annual-reports

Please somebody just release Macario, I’m begging here.

Yakushima wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:42 am This was posted by Brianna Toth on Twitter today:
"Yesterday 7 of the 30+ employees were laid off at the Academy Film Archive without notice. This included the Director & Head of Preservation who was one of the best managers I ever had. This feels like a death knell for the 3rd largest film archive in North America.
Many of the people who were axed were pivotal in making the collections what they are today. None of them deserved this. The decision was “effective immediately” and they had no time to pass on work or institutional knowledge. They were simply told to leave.
Bill Kramer has been pivotal in this “restructuring”. He does not care about or understand cultural heritage or the people who work with it. DO NOT APPLY here if jobs are posted! Reach out to your friends and colleagues if they work here. They need you."

Missing Movies shared a survey to support the Academy 16

Breakfast for Champions, 4K, theatrical re-release from Shout:
https://thefilmstage.com/nobody-ever-ga ... champions/

beamish14 wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:34 am

Yakushima wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:42 am This was posted by Brianna Toth on Twitter today:
"Yesterday 7 of the 30+ employees were laid off at the Academy Film Archive without notice. This included the Director & Head of Preservation who was one of the best managers I ever had. This feels like a death knell for the 3rd largest film archive in North America.
Many of the people who were axed were pivotal in making the collections what they are today. None of them deserved this. The decision was “effective immediately” and they had no time to pass on work or institutional knowledge. They were simply told to leave.
Bill Kramer has been pivotal in this “restructuring”. He does not care about or understand cultural heritage or the people who work with it. DO NOT APPLY here if jobs are posted! Reach out to your friends and colleagues if they work here. They need you."

Oh my god. The Museum seems to be hemorrhaging money. I wonder if this includes KJ Relth-Miller, head of public programs, who is a joy to hear speak at screenings

From my understanding, it's not museum employees, it's only employees who work for the archive itself. She is still around and I don't think will go anywhere.

#-o

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 8:32 pm Please somebody just release Macario, I’m begging here.

Macario is with the Film Foundation and WCP and considering that many more Mexican films are in development from Criterion, this is most likely high priority.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:44 pm Breakfast for Champions, 4K, theatrical re-release from Shout:
https://thefilmstage.com/nobody-ever-ga ... champions/

Oh my god. Yes, this movie is definitely in need of a reappraisal

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

tenia comments on restorations at the 2024 Lumière festival, and on the international classic film market there:

https://testsbluray.com/2024/11/10/reto ... iere-2024/

https://testsbluray.com/2024/11/10/reto ... mifc-2024/

French theatrical rerelease of Four Nights of a Dreamer upcoming.
Lumet´s The Wiz being restored, w/ new Atmos mix from original tracks.
Sugarland Express has a new sound mix approved by Spielberg.

For the record -- info about the two-color Technicolor scene in Seven Chances:
http://www.silentera.com/video/sevenCha ... l#Kino2024
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=61
https://www.drfilm.net/blog/?p=157
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/a-few- ... n-blu-ray/
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/seven- ... ay-review/
http://www.silentera.com/video/sevenCha ... l#Kino2024

Palindromes 4K: https://www.monumentreleasing.com/palindromes

New German restoration financing in place:
https://www.stummfilm-magazin.de/aktuel ... geschichte
https://www.ffa.de/pressemitteilungen-d ... ichte.html

"sponsored titles include silent works such as Richard Oswald's "May we be silent?" (Germany 1926), G. W. Pabst's "Secrets of a Soul" (Germany 1926), Carl Boese's "The Last Cab of Berlin" (Germany 1926), Carl Froelich's "Luise Millerin" (Germany 1922) and the documentary "The Long Holidays of Lotte H. Eisner" (Germany 1979) by Sohrab Shahid Saless."

Also
The Bartered Bride, 1932, Ophüls
Urban Gad's "Der fremde Vogel" with Asta Nielsen, 1911
Konrad Wolf's "Solo Sunny", 1978
"The Party – Nature Morte" with Tilda Swinton, 1991
The Willow Tree, 1984, Saless
Wechselbalg, 1985–1987, Saless
Recipient Unknown, 1983, Saless
Mazurka, 1935, Willi Forst
The Dreaming Mouth, 1932, Czinner
Epilogue, 1950, Käutner
Harlis, 1972, Robert van Ackeren
If you once give away your heart, 1929, Johannes Guter
Whenever the Day Begins, 1957, Liebeneiner

#-o

Aunt Peg wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 7:02 am Palindromes 4K: https://www.monumentreleasing.com/palindromes

Solondz says this is hopefully coming to Criterion, the same time he said Happiness was. https://youtu.be/U7Sugup9do4?si=st5J2-Dmmf255yEX

Stefan Andersson wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 6:12 pm Le notte bianche (1957), plus other unnamed Cinecittà restorations of Mastroianni films:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5776

Update - in 4K:
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)