«Preserving Pollyanna» (11 minutes) is a fascinating interview
with film preservationist Steve MacQueen.
Recent print & web discussions
with film preservationist Robert Harris indicate a costly restoration is needed so that the vestiges of the now - fading Toronto print and surviving separation masters can be used to create a new film master of the long version.
Not exact matches
We went on to discuss the hazards of shipping; how the festival will be honoring the late, great
film preservationist, David Shepherd
with a series of enchanting short
films, including hand - painted examples from Georges Meliès (see left) that are suitable for children as well as adults; why Ernst Lubitsch's THE DOLL also appeals to both.
Given the talent involved
with this restoration, I trust that the hues do represent the 1972 intentions; director Francis Coppola, cinematographer Gordon Willis and noted
film preservationist Robert Harris supervised this sucker, so I have to believe they tried to keep things faithful.
It should thrill cinephiles and tech wonks in equal measure... Pretty much every frame of the
film is packed
with vivid, contrasting colors, and one of the strengths of the high - def version is how fixed and solid the colors are...
Film grain, a bedbug of certain high - def advocates, is spectacularly intact... Indeed, Chungking Express is one of those
films that thoroughly vindicates something
film preservationist Robert Harris once said to me: «The grain is the picture.»