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New info about the CF restoration: Part 1 runs 220 mins., part two 205 mins. (DCP) Projection speed is 18 fps for the whole film (previously only for the Brienne sequence) The Marsellaise has been synchronized with the actors´lips The extra 90 minutes of the new restoration is only marginally...

Interesting info about the ending music: For Italian version soundtrack, see post 567 here: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=371356&page=29 Quote from post 569: "the track Finale is here in that video how it should be. I only checked it quickly for the music, without realizing that...

Will the Steelbook BoC Edition contain a bluray mastered from the new restoration? Or will the included bluray be an older master?

The upcoming 4K UHD Bluray of North by Northwest, shown at the 2024 TCM Film Festival, is a "brand-new scan from the original camera negative, using a new scanner adapted for VistaVision.” according to George Feltenstein of WB: https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/ - April 24, 3:36 post

Thank you very much OliverK! Very interesting info about the ownership. There remains the question of footage still missing from the film: "The film was cut a number of times, from 187 minutes to 185 to 165 to 158. The very first scene to go was one between Commodus and Livius in the middle of...

Detailed info, I assume taken from Rita Belda´s MoMA presentation, about the restoration -- see post 126 here: https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&p=812668&sid=9bed3ee7b0ffe602b8093aaa9c981949#p812668

Updated info: The film: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9570 Notes on cut scenes and info on a restoration presentation, April 20th, by Rita Belda, VP of asset management, film restoration, and digital mastering at Sony Pictures Entertainment: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9575

Comparisons between theatrical, restored and Reprise cuts of One from the Heart: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=163831 https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=679411

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...

Hi Allansfirebird! Thank you very much for this update! Good to know!

Once again, thank you very much for your answer, Mr. Harris!

Further information from the ImdB Alternate versions page: "In the scene in the second half where General Allenby entices Lawrence back to Arabia part of that scene is cut by a few seconds. Where Allenby says to Lawrence: "You're the most extraordinary man I've ever met" Lawrence replies: I'm...

Thank you very much for your answer, Mr. Harris!

From the film´s ImdB Alternate Versions page: "The abridged 202 minutes version has at least one scene that was not in the original 222 minutes version, where Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn) calls out, "Come dine with me at Wadi Rhumm." In the original 222 mins version this scene cut directly to...

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...

Midnight has now received a 4K restoration. World premiere in May 2024, part of Australia´s Cinema Reborn festival: https://www.lidocinemas.com.au/movies/midnight-1939 https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2024-02-23T20:44:00-08:00&max-results=7 https://cinemareborn.com.au/Info

Extras for the UK release mentioned in the previous post (as per Amazon UK specifications): Bonus Blu-ray: "He Walks in Beauty" Documentary "Filmmaker" Documentary Director's Commentary Alternative Scene: "Judas Dies" Original Theatrical Trailer There is also a 24-page booklet. An additional...

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

Thank you very much for your answer! Good to hear that the Hawks films have been restored. And when will Hawks´ A Girl in Every Port be restored, I wonder... This film is AFAIK almost never discussed online.

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/

From the film´s Wikipedia page: "The preview cut ran for over 220 minutes and was criticised for its length and poor pacing. Lean felt obliged to remove up to 17 minutes of footage before the film's wide release. The missing footage has not been restored or located." Is there any update on the...

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?

Re: the restoration -- posts 46 and 57 (see below for link) seems to be still relevant, due for example to the question of the ending music (Cheyenne´s theme or Jill´s theme, which is correct?) https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west-4k-uhd.378948/page-3

Was Summertime shot in three-strip Technicolor? Or on monopack Eastmancolor, with processing and dye transfer prints by Technicolor? Discussion here; starts with post 34: https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1443&start=25

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

Discussion about OAR for Elmer Gantry (starts at post 319): https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=12550&start=300

Thank you for this information! Good to know!

Posted in error, see post 6942.