#film-restoration

#film-restoration

Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons" - but the late directors' estate is calling bull. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for David Reeder, whose Reeder Brand Management handles Welles' estate on behalf of the auteur's daughter Beatrice, said that the family hadn't been informed of the project, which is slated to generate with AI the final 43 minutes of the film.

At the center are two men: Eric Weiss, the photographer who captured the pulse of New York's cultural heyday, and Tomek Maćkowiak, a Bay Area craftsman dedicated to reviving the tools of film photography. Their collaboration is not just about nostalgia. It is a meditation on memory, patience and the tactile joy of film in a digital world, reminding us that slowing down can be the boldest act of all.

now available on Blu-ray exclusively through A24's online shop. I think it wallows in way too many of the tropes of "Grief Horror," and is just cruel when it comes to most of them. Still, Sally Hawkins is incapable of delivering a bad performance, and A24 has transferred the movie well to home media, including a commentary, featurette with Hawkins and the brothers, and even postcards.

Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on a form that dictates the government forcibly detain a suspected terrorist (Tuttle) but instead leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man (Buttle). If the inciting events of our great science fiction films have been hostile aliens, seductive robots, and reckless technologies, Terry Gilliam begins his with a humble typo.

Somewhere in this city, possibly among these people, is a man... so close to the edge that when he breaks, it could change your life forever.