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The Fanciful Norwegian wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:52 pm Storaro seems to have dropped his insistence on 2.00:1 awhile ago, or else everyone just started ignoring him. The previous 4K remaster (done for the 3D conversion) was also 2.39:1. Hopefully Criterion or someone (I know Cohen owns HanWay now, but who knows how long Criterion will have their licenses) finally reissues it in the U.S., especially now that UHD is a thing.

hearthesilence wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2022 4:05 am Sony's new 4K restoration of Orlando had its NY premiere at Metrograph and it looks great - would be perfect for a UHD.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 8:24 pm Some new restorations, showing at the Academy´s first festival of restorations:

Harlem on the Prairie, 1937, Sam Newfield
Call it Murder, 1934, Chester Erskine
Peggy, 1916, Thomas Ince
Come On, Cowboy, 1949, uncredited
Regrouping, 1976, Lizzie Borden
Forbidden Paradise, 1924, Lubitsch, new MoMA resto
The World´s Greatest Sinner, 1962
Death of a Bureaucrat, 1966
It, 1927, new Paramount resto
Aventurera, 1950, new resto
Nostalghia, 1983, 2022 4k resto
The Stronger, 1976 + Tell Me a Riddle, 1980, Lee Grant, 2022 restos

Source:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... eservation

yoloswegmaster wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 11:02 pm Rio Bravo and East of Eden have new 4K restorations that will be playing at the TCM Classic Film Festival next year. Hopefully we see some 4K UHDs as well.

beamish14 wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 9:31 pmJoe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy bring restored has been a longtime dream. I’m so happy that document can be preserved forever

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:41 am Didn’t the estate of Timothy Carey say Criterion was releasing The World’s Greatest Sinner a decade ago? Maybe it will happen finally with the new restoration. I remember seeing a bootleg DVD of it when I was seventeen and am excited to see it looking fresh and crisp.

The Fanciful Norwegian wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 4:24 am

beamish14 wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 9:31 pmJoe Dante and Jon Davison’s The Movie Orgy bring restored has been a longtime dream. I’m so happy that document can be preserved forever

This is actually the third digital restoration! Dante did one in 1999 for a retrospective of his work at Locarno (subsequently deposited at the Academy Film Archive, which lost it), and another for a New Beverly screening in 2008 that went on to play Venice and a number of other venues. But both of those were done in SD, which is presumably not the case for the latest iteration. Dante's also continued to make alterations as he did during the original 16mm run, and this new restoration seems to follow the trend of progressive shortening—the 16mm version went from around seven hours to five, and the 2008 restoration was more than half an hour longer than the 222-minute runtime of the new version. (Interestingly an analog video transfer, likely of the five-hour "final" 16mm cut, was made and circulated to campuses in the '70s, but no known copy exists.)

beamish14 wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:15 pm I remember that New Beverly screening! Like this, it was gratis, as they cannot make a profit from it. I actually sat right behind Jon Davison and his wife Sally Cruikshank at the Academy screening that The Elegant Dandy Fop attended as well

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:59 pm

beamish14 wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 3:15 pm I remember that New Beverly screening! Like this, it was gratis, as they cannot make a profit from it. I actually sat right behind Jon Davison and his wife Sally Cruikshank at the Academy screening that The Elegant Dandy Fop attended as well

Coincidentally, I saw Davidson/Cruikshank again a week later at a screening of Truck Turner. It seems like you and I have been to a lot of the same screenings!