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Author Topic: Restored "Good, the Bad and the Ugly" to open Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-07-2003 09:30 AM                     UA along with AMC (American Movie Classics) have restored "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". The new restored print is set to play at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 7th. And set to play on AMC on cable starting May 10th. It is set to play at The Film Forum starting May 30th in New York and at the Nuart in Los Angeles June 30th, for a week as of now. The new release features that 16 mins, plus a few more minutes resently discovered in Italy. UA has stuck new 35mm prints with a new digital stereo soundtrack. Look for the DVD sometime in 2004 from MGM/UA home video.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-07-2003 01:33 PM                    Screening a collector's IB Tech print of that film remains one of my all time favorite film viewing experiences. The Techniscope graininess didn't get in the way of making you feel like you were there with them.  |  IP: Logged Tao Yue Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: Princeton, NJ Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-07-2003 02:43 PM                        One wonders what they did about the soundtrack for those 16 minutes (and the extra few minutes found). The DVD that I have claims that no English soundtrack was recorded, and plays those 16 minutes in Italian.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-07-2003 02:57 PM                     Here is a link to a page that explains the restoration in more detail. DVD Savant  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 03-07-2003 11:39 PM                     American Movie Classics is dead. Will the restored print be pan-and-scanned to 1.33, have an AMC logo in the corner, and be interruted by commercials?  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-08-2003 12:52 AM                     Jesse I think they're making an exception for this one. To be aired letterboxed, uncut and sans commercials.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-08-2003 10:49 AM                     "Screening a collector's IB Tech print of that film remains one of my all time favorite film viewing experiences." ______________________________________________________________ Aw, common Steve, it was the Pizza we had from Giordonos along with the film that really made the evening!! I wonder if the new digital track will be as distorted as all the orignal optical tracks were......if the new tracks are clean something will be sorely missing from that classic. I also doubt the prints are dye transfer anyway. Mark  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-08-2003 06:14 PM                    I may be a lot of things, Mark, but I am not "common." You've forgotten that I don't eat pizza! And you should have held onto that print. That and several others!  |  IP: Logged

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