Associate Editor (Restorations and Revivals) Simon Taaffe has
come across the following screenings and other information. Click on the links
for times, more detail etc where indicated.
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| Frank Capra |
Capra at the
NFSA
Out of the blue we learn that the National Film &
Sound Archive has restored an American film Three
Days to Live (Tom Gibson, USA, 1924) which is described on the NFSA website
as having a connection to the career of Frank Capra thus: Following a year long restoration project, we bring you
the Australian premiere of a film once thought lost to Hollywood
mythology. In Three Days to Live Capra is credited as Editor and Titles,
two very creative roles. It is also thought, according to biographer Jim
McBride, that Capra was assistant director.
“Lost
to Hollywood mythology….” Hmmm.
A
screening of the film with live musical accompaniment will take place in Canberra
as part of a season of Frank Capra films. Details click here
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| Joseph von Sternberg |
Sternberg’s
The Saga of Anatahan restored
At the newly established Metrograph in New
York, screenings to accompany the DVD release of Joseph von Sternberg’s The Saga of Anatahan a film many regard
as one of the director’s finest achievements. The Metrograph web page says: Visionary
Josef von Sternberg had once been a feared and revered presence on the
Paramount Studios lot, but after one too many clashes over his obsessive
perfectionism he went independent, directing, writing, shooting, and narrating
this sublime film about a dozen Japanese seamen stranded on a Pacific Island
with one woman—unaware that World War II has ended, and with a little war of
their own in the making.
2K restoration performed by Kino Lorber, in
association with the Library of Congress and Lobster Films, working from the
original camera negative and other 35mm elements provided by the Estate of
Josef von Sternberg and the Cinémathèque Française.
Classics at
the Berlinale 2017
Restorations announced already include
Avanti Popolo
By Rafi Bukai, Israel 1986
International premiere of the digitally restored version
In 2K DCP
Canoa
By Felipe Cazals, Mexico 1976
World premiere of the digitally restored version
In 2K DCP
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| Helmut Käutner |
Schwarzer Kies (Black Gravel)
By Helmut Käutner, West Germany 1961
World premiere of the digital version
In 4K DCP
Details click here
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| John Waters |
John Waters early film
Multiple Maniacs at the BFI.
No details about the restoration but screening details are here.
The website says A queer cavalcade of
delirious bad taste and delicious moral depravity, John Waters’ little-seen
sophomore feature tells the despicable tale of Lady Divine and her travelling
sideshow of murderous reprobates. The film has been digitally restored (but
without losing any of its filthy charm), so the time has finally come to
witness the pope of trash at his anarchic and inflammatory best.
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