Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Restored "Good, the Bad and the Ugly" to open

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Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 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.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 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.

Posted by Tao Yue (Member # 836) on 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.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 03-07-2003, 02:57 PM:

Here is a link to a page that explains the restoration in more detail.

DVD Savant

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 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? [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Paul Linfesty (Member # 214) on 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.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 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."
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Aw, common Steve, it was the Pizza [Eek!]

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

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 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!