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New restoration of Powell & Pressburger´s The Small Back Room: https://filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/films/the-small-back-room/

Showing at the TCM Film Festival: "Six Vitaphone vaudeville shorts of the 1920s will be projected in 35mm, with sound played back from their original 16-inch discs on a turntable designed and engineered by Warner Bros. Post Production Engineering Department." Source...

Frank Borzage´s "Man´s Castle" (1933) has been restored to "a state quite close to its premiere version" by Sony´s Rita Belda. The film is showing at MoMA in April 2024 "accompanied by a selection of other recent Borzage restorations, including Bad Girl, History Is Made at Might, Moonrise, and...

Restorations of The Mortal Storm and The Suspect; upcoming at the Cinématheque Francais in Paris as part of the yearly Festival du Cinématheque (formerly known as Toute la mémoire du monde): https://www.cinematheque.fr/seance/41038.html https://www.cinematheque.fr/seance/41043.html

Victor Seastrom´s The Wind newly restored by MoMA: https://www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/whats-on/ssf24-the-wind-12a/ Programme notes by Bryony Dixon, BFI, upcoming here: https://www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/silent-film-festival/programme-notes/

L & H´s Pack Up Your Troubles, and Topper Takes a Trip, restored and showing at the 2024 UCLA Festival of Preservation: https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/2024/ucla-festival-of-preservation Also showing, among others: Button, Button (Way Out TV episode) Time of the Heathen The Richard Pryor Special?

Restored in 4K by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation: https://www.berlinale.de/en/2024/news-press-releases/245699.html https://www.berlinale.de/en/2024/programme/202405603.html

Lubitsch´s film restored by Universal and The Film Foundation in 4K: https://www.berlinale.de/en/2024/news-press-releases/249197.html https://www.berlinale.de/en/2024/programme/202409295.html

Olive Films now officially defunct: https://olivefilms.com/ From their website: "Thank You! Olive Films extends our sincere gratitude to all of our customers and fans over the years. We are no longer adding titles or selling any of our products, but we are proud of the many films and TV shows...

The original cut of Kubrick´s Fear and Desire, running 70 minutes, has been rediscovered and restored by Kino Lorber and Library of Congress. Full info here: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/fear-and-desire/- program note for a 2023 festival showing in Bologna, Italy A UHD Blu...

Interesting discussion about the appearance of Technicolor in MoMA´s restoration of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938): https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=14013&start=950 Discussion starts with post 968. Relevant quote from David Neary, who saw this restoration in 2015...

A 66 min. print of The Unknown has been found and restored by The George Eastman Museum. Here are notes from a recent showing, part of an Italian silent movie festival: http://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/theunknown/ More info in this podcast (ep. 91)...

Is Paris Burning? (Réné Clement, 1966) restored (173 minutes) in 4K by James Mockoski: https://www.lepoint.fr/pop-culture/excl ... or=CS2-239 - The OCN has disappeared - Restoration is based on a shortened copy of the OCN + a third generation negative -original French and English soundtracks...

In August, 2021, MoMA is showing a new restoration of "Nothing Sacred". Relevant quote: "This new MoMA restoration is based on the original Technicolor separations in the Museum’s collection, and is the first to reflect the experimental color design of the film’s first 1937 release. Backing...

Plain and Fancy Girls (Leo McCarey, 1925), starring Charley Chase, has beehn re-found: See also: https://twitter.com/dave_kehr/status/13 ... 1274094592

Andrea Kalas of Paramount speaks about film restoration in this podcast: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewforum. ... b2727da8f8 Interesting comment from the thread: "Much of the Paramount silent library is archived at LOC and locked up via an original donor restriction from the 1970s (or...

Several reels of WB´s "The Gold Diggers" (1923) found in the UK. Info and link to YouTube upload: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=31755 Relevant quote from the Nitrateville thread: "the video I have uploaded was done by projecting the nitrate using my 1906 cinematograph onto a...

Hi! Does the Don Lockwood & Cosmo Brown career montage in Singin´ in the Rain contain any references to historical 1920s vaudeville or musical theater? I realize the movie is basically an affectionate pastiche of silent movies and vaudeville, but in the costumes, choreography or background...

Hi! Would it be possible to reproduce the original look of Eyes Wide Shut on Blu? I saw the film on opening night. For the first two reels, the image was very diffused and/or overexposed (layman´s use of the terminology). On-screen light sources gave off a heavily diffused glow. Then, the...

Hi! Would much appreciate any info about the music playing in the "Lancer - meeting of two brothers" deleted scene on the Bluray. Is it taken from an Italian Western? Also, where is "Lady Business (Theme from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)" performed by Ingmar Prinz heard in the film?

Universal is doing a new restoration of the Lon Chaney Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923): https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30580 Jon Mirsalis is involved (see post Sep. 06, 2020) Rodney Sauer,The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, has posted a relevant video, Sep. 06, 2020. The...

I just read this over at www.nitrateville.com: "My one concern is that Universal just laid off their entire preservation unit, so if this (refers to a new restoration of Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1923) wasn't finished at the time, I'm not sure what will become of this or any other projects they...

I´m looking for an online article about The Fog. I first read it about a year ago but lost the link. The article contained detailed information about the postproduction of the film, added scenes, redubbed dialogue (for example to change the number of the ghosts´ victims). There was a...

Hi! I´d like to see the 1941 director´s cut on Blu...

Robert Parrish´s The Wonderful Country (1959), starring Robert Mitchum, has been released on Blu in France. Screen shots: http://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=34409 This seems to be the new France-based restoration shown at 2012 film festival in Lyon, France. Pre-order the...

Apparently the German television channel ARD has once (Feb. 15, 2011) shown a cut of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde cut running approx. 115 mins. - longer than the cut released on R1 DVD, for instance as a double feature with the 1932 version. Apparently this version can be identified by a shot near the...

Circus World has been released in France on Blu by a company called Filmedia. For screencaps, looking good, go here: http://www.dvdclassik.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=33580&p=2169621 Link to relevant Amazon page on top of thread.

Amazon has a placeholder up for Ryan´s Daughter on Blu: http://www.amazon.com/Ryans-Daughter-Blu-ray-Robert-Mitchum/dp/B002WYJHA6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Certainly encouraging for us Lean fans.

There is interesting info in a Video Watchdog article about the music at the end of OUATITW (closing scene and walk-out music over blank screen). The writer argues that the music is partly wrong and partly placed wrong. So the ending on the present DVD differs from what was originally intended...

I saw Eyes Wide Shut when it opened at my local theater. The first 20 minutes or so looked, not out of focus exactly, more like heavily diffused, including heavy backlighting. Then the projectionist did an adjustment and the whole image became pin-sharp. I spoke to the projectionist who said he...