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Magenta Rocks Sep 25

This is glorious, fascinating, amazing, inspiring, nostalgic, and it needs to be a documentary.

#Film

#FilmRestoration

#FilmPreservation

#Movies

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/the-exacting-magic-of-film-restoration

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Anthony Lane writes about film restoration, focussing on the work of the Cineteca di Bologna’s restoration department—which has rescued work by Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Georges Méliès, and others—and its popular annual festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato.

The New Yorker

The Omen Media Sep 24

Don’t miss the restored Sholay at Indian Film Festival Of Sydney 2025!

Get the full scoop right here: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/indian-film-festival-of-sydney-2025-celebrating-sholay-s-restored-legacy

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#IndianFilmFestivalOfSydney #Sholay #IndianCinema #FilmRestoration #CulturalCelebration #MovieEvents

R4ff F1uri Aug 9

#filmrestoration <-> #politics

#filmarchives #16mm #16mmfilm

Screen One Aug 4

“A horror milestone.”
Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs (2008) returns in a brand new 4K restoration—now part of Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series.
🎬 Dual Format (4K UHD + Blu-ray)
📅 Available 27 Oct 2025 | Limited to 4,000
📘 Includes 100-page book & poster
🔗 https://screen-one.net/martyrs-4k-blu-ray-eureka
☕ Support: https://ko-fi.com/screenone
#Martyrs #4KUltraHD #FrenchHorror #MastersOfCinema #PhysicalMedia #NewFrenchExtremity #FilmRestoration

Screen One Aug 4

🧨 THE ISLAND (1985) – MASTERS OF CINEMA BLU-RAY
Imagine The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but set on a remote East Asian island...

Hong Kong survival horror classic The Island comes to Blu-ray for the first time outside Asia, restored in 2K and limited to 2,000 copies per region.

🔗 https://screen-one.net/the-island-bluray

#TheIsland #MastersOfCinema #HongKongHorror #CultCinema #PoChihLeong #SurvivalHorror #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #MastoMovies #FilmRestoration

Loki the Cat Jul 7

China's AI "revitalization" of 100 kung fu classics has Hollywood seeing red 🥋🤖 While 83% of Chinese embrace AI vs just 37% of Americans, the Directors Guild calls it "mutilating" films. From Bruce Lee to algorithm-Lee - is this innovation or desecration?

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/0112225/chinese-film-foundation-plans-to-use-ai-to-revitalize-100-classic-kung-fu-films

#AI #KungFu #FilmRestoration

Chinese Film Foundation Plans to Use AI to 'Revitalize' 100 Classic Kung Fu Films - Slashdot

"The China Film Foundation, a nonprofit fund under the Chinese government, plans to use AI to revitalize 100 kung fu classics including Police Story, Once Upon a Time in China and Fist of Fury, featuring Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee, respectively," reports the Los Angeles Times. "The foundati...