Hey all, as mentioned above, the encoding was done sometime ago. However, for some reason, the original project user gweedo16 never shared a copy with the donors.
I got in touch with the encoder directly. Let me know via PM if you previously donated and are interested in a copy!
Definitely interested!
Good luck on this! Sure The Hobbit looks better on 35mm.
^The above is a very carefully-produced release. Kudos to LucasGodzilla. The print scanned was faded but has been corrected to match an unfaded 35mm print. Not to mention a plethora of audio tracks from VHS to LD to DVD!
Ignore the color of the previous DVDs and BDs. This is HOW INFERNO LOOKS
If anyone is interested in a scan of SUSPIRIA too, PM me for an unfaded opportunity 😉
Hey guys! I only started the thread here but I do not have the links for this anymore. Sorry about that!
Great that Halloween 5 is getting scanned! Would anyone here be interested in getting an original 35mm print of the first movie scanned as well?
I think I could arrange a high quality version of that, PM me for more info.
I know this is an old thread but is anyone interested in seeing the original Halloween preserved in 35mm? Might have a lead but need donors.
I’ve been in touch with the encoder of the EYES WIDE SHUT project, and encoding has been complete for sometime, with an encode provided to gweedo16 in December 2021.
Any donors to this project should PM me with a screenshot of their donation! I’ve already reached out to some of you in this thread, but let me know if there’s anyone I’ve missed.
@Garidaki I’m a fellow donor as well. I’ve had confirmation that the print was scanned by the team in Europe, but gweedo16 still needs to pass along files to donors.
As mentioned, I can help with the DNGs (raw scan files) if need be.
I was hoping that even if this ‘early 2000s’ print was related to that Blu-Ray release, then it would be the original print which they would have scanned and digitized before adding the tweaks before outputting the final digital tweaked version. I wasn’t even aware that the tweaked version existed as a physical print. You can see in this screenshot, Rob Tapert has been digitally removed from the background. So they must have scanned an original print, tweaked it, and transferred that back to 35mm film for some reason. This is that revised version.
In the early 00’s they definitely would not have digitised the whole film for film-out. The difference between digital and photochemical should be fairly obvious as well making those scenes easy to identify which may assist you in the future if you ever scan another print.
I’d guess it’s 2010 or 2011 actually because it’s the same as the BD master. Would that make it more likely for it to be a film out?
Update on Eyes Wide Shut 35mm Print-
The Film has been scanned and is being sent to me and an early collaborator soon. Unfortunately, the scan turned out to be 1.85:1, not 1.33:1. Although, I looked at a preview of the scan and the colors, grain and all look truly beautiful. This project was a bit more expensive than I expected, though.
The total costs of obtaining the reels, scanning, shipping, drives etc. was around $962.
Where is your physical print at the moment? Could you send me a private message please, if you can let me know how/where it was scanned (in private) and if we can see a preview of the scan it’d be possible to decide if it’s worth doing a re-scan.
@gweedo16 as one of the original donors, definitely think a preview of the original scan should be released to donors (as is customary), even as-is.
Understand it was completed, no worries if it’s grindhouse-y. As said, I’m happy to help you with managing the raw files if you need support.
And if something went wrong with the original scan, then definitely think considering a rescan as offered above makes sense
This is an awesome preservation opportunity, and seems to be well organized with a concrete plan for scanning. Glad to have pledged to it. As the original post mentions, the current HD/4K master has some baked-in tweaks. So it would be very important to scan this.
Plus, The Evil Dead totally seems like a cool movie to preserve in 35mm!
Well, as can be seen in this thread, an open matte scan of a German print of Evil Dead 2 (complete with original International Tanz Der Teufel 2 title card) has been completed and is available.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Evil-Dead-II-Sam-Raimi-1987-35mm-Scan-opportunity/id/88798
@Tantive3+1 the German print is censored, so if you got this off the ground, would be open to collaborate so we could get a full length 35mm copy of Evil Dead 2.
Looks great!
What’s the progress on this preservation? Was the print ever purchased and has an appropriate scanner been found?
Project sounds like a great idea. This cut definitely is a memorable one and how I grew up with the film.
Wow, some of these changes sound borderline impossible! Congrats, DonKamillo, will PM you.
Very glad to see a Rise of Skywalker edit already out there so fast.
Hey Servanov, can confirm that the version from Amazon is indeed the theatrical cut. Played it side by side with your reconstruction from archive.org and was nearly identical, minus a few frame slips here or there.
Still, your preservation is definitely interesting since it uses the laserdisc audio, which is likelier higher quality.
The Amazon version is definitely a unique transfer. It’s genuinely HD and has different color timing with night scenes having more of an overall blue cast. I wondered if it was the same transfer as the DVD, but it’s got unique film damage.
Since the reconstruction largely uses the BD, it reflects that color timing.
Think I can do $65, please check your PMs!
Finally watched Breaking Bad, only about a decade too late. Gonna drop a few spoilers, just so you know… Have a really weird opinion, which was that it more or less lost its way after Season 2. When Walt’s cancer went into remission, I more or less thought the show’s premise “man with cancer makes drugs to help his family” had run its course.
Crazy, right?
In a nutshell, I think my issue was that I thought Walter White’s transformation from “Mr. Chips” to “Scarface” was pretty much done by the end of Season 2. Him letting Jane die was pretty climactic. By the end of that season, his family had left him, and his cancer was no longer an issue… The fact that he stayed in the meth business pretty definitively concluded that he was now solely doing it for selfish, egotistical reasons. In other words, the central questions about Walter White’s motivations and morality were answered, essentially fulfilling the premise of the show to its inevitable end.
Season 3-Season 5 did have a lot of colorful supporting characters like the Terminator twins. But, to me, the show became less about engaging character arcs and more about shock imagery, from a parking lot shoot out to a man with his face completely blown off to a machine gun in a car to a pool of poisoned cartel leaders in Mexico to a supporting character getting shot in the face.
Now, don’t get me wrong: a lot of that imagery was genuinely memorable/cool/iconic/awesome, but the show lost that black comedic edge married with intricate character work, descending head first instead into its more violent aspects. That said, totally understand that pretty much everyone will disagree here: every best of Breaking Bad list that I can find seems to think that the finest episodes came in the last season, during which I was frankly pretty bored.
Still, Bryan Cranston, as Walter White, is one of the great performances, and he sells every second, even after Walter White has already concluded his transformation into Heisenberg. But, Skyler, I thought, was pretty insufferable, and I’m not the biggest Hank or Marie fan either. Now, don’t get me wrong: I really loved Gus, Mike, and Saul Goodman, but they don’t really change all that much. They’re put to much better use elsewhere, which leads me to…
Better Call Saul is a perfect show. Cinematography, directing, writing, acting, everything. No complaints.
Look forward to the remaining seasons.
Never seen the film before but am aware of a different 70mm cut. Good look reconstructing it!
Your color-correction of the faded scenes seem pretty dead-on.
^Same Handman. He’s a really stellar performer, and I’m afraid that the writing has never matched the calibre of his talents.
Personally, I didn’t like this year’s Christmas special at all.
spoilers ahead
It was full of the types of bizarre, convoluted choices that Moffat seems to indulge in… (1) What was the purpose of having “fake” versions of the companions come back through Testimony? It just seemed dramatically unsatisfying, especially considering Bill didn’t actually die! (2) Furthermore, the First Doctor was more or less just used for jokes about how the show has progressed but not much more… (3) Returning to Rusty, that Dalek from that all right episode at the beginning of Capaldi’s run seems like a weird detour. (4) What was the purpose of connecting The Captain to the Brigadier? I understand fan service, but really, this comes out of nowhere… and the character hasn’t been regularly on-air since the 70s. (5) Lastly, the ending for the WW1 soldier seemed to come out of absolutely nowhere; I don’t recall them even acknowledging that it was Christmastime beforehand.
That being said, I really liked the first two seasons of Moffat’s run (Series 5 and 6). They felt fresh with a whimsy, fairy tale aspect that the previous seasons lacked. They were also grounded with a set of characters: Rory, Amy, and River that we actually gave a damn about.
But it seems like after that, he dabbled far too much into fan service and convoluted time travel shenanigans. Doctor Who seems to have gotten so muddled in its own continuity that I don’t dare think what it might be like for a first time viewer to try the series out now. What, for example, would a new viewer think about the Brigadier reference in this episode? It’s just a weird, unnecessary callback. More crucially, ll the fake-out regenerations in the past few seasons just undermine dramatic tension; we don’t want to be hyper-aware of the fact that the Doctor can always regenerate himself out of trouble. This, of course, doesn’t mean there aren’t occasional gems… Heaven Sent is extraordinary, but, for every one of those, you have a Robin Hood episode.
Overall, these problems would have been more acceptable if you had better characters to latch onto. Bill was great, but Clara certainly was not. Say what you want (I think Jenna Coleman is a fine performer), but her character has a different personality each season! It’s hard to get emotionally involved, and, indeed I didn’t when she showed up (ala Amy Pond) in Capaldi’s swansong.
I think The End of Time, The Time of the Doctor, and, certainly, The Parting of the Ways were all superior to this.
Absolutely good to hear! I hope I’ll get to see it this weekend.
Hope you like it!
Wonder Woman (2017)- Who would have suspected that DC would finally get it right with their fourth movie? Great stuff here - a charismatic leading lady, a colorful supporting cast, a touching love story, and a well-developed screenplay with gasp clear structure and actual set-ups and pay-offs despite the occasional cringey dialogue.
It was also not to see a superhero film, which isn’t Disney-fied (read: everyone joking all the time, faceless bad guys, endless actions, no real developed dialogue scenes, and characters with love interests but no sexuality). Here’s a movie instead in the tradition of Raimi’s first two Spider-Man films, Iron Man, Batman Begins, Logan, and, perhaps most pertinently, Superman '78.
I think it’s the best superhero film in recent memory and keep in mind, I walked in expecting that I’d probably hate it. Go check it out (for the record, my critique of this being an excellent movie has nothing to do with it ALSO being the first female superhero film, directed by a female).
Without going into spoilers, Covenant does have a big focus on David, one of the film’s strengths in my opinion.