Kinejun Best Ten

[Mark Nornes]

On Jan 7, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Bill Thompson wrote:

> Mizoguchi's Shin Heike Monogatari (New Tales of the
> Taira Clan) undertaken by the National Film Center of the
> National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, this Sunday at 2:30 PM.

> Does anybody know anything about this restoration?

Not much, but for what it's worth the head of the archive told me about 
it the other day. He was proud that it was their first straight-ahead 
use of digital for restoration. He was complaining at how much it cost. 
It sounds like the Film Center is devoting more hands-on time to 
restoration starting with this, as opposed to farming all the work out. 
That's all I know.

Markus