Being given the job of restoring arguably one of the greatest films of all time, “The Godfather,” is daunting enough. Doing it under the watchful eye of its director, Francis Ford Coppola, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the filmmaker’s Academy Award-winning opus is another level entirely.
It was a team led by restoration expert Andrea Kalas, Senior Vice President of Archives at Paramount Pictures, and James Mockoski, Archivist and Restoration Supervisor at Coppola’s American Zoetrope, who took up the mantle.
“The burden of restoring this masterwork was something everyone felt,” Kalas recalls, noting that it required some of the finest artisans in the industry to do so.
Laura Thornburg, Executive Director of Preservation, had left Paramount, but Kalas brought her back to oversee the restoration. Says Kalas, “That is, in my opinion, why the result is as good as it is. We knew how serious, daunting, and exciting it was.
It was a team led by restoration expert Andrea Kalas, Senior Vice President of Archives at Paramount Pictures, and James Mockoski, Archivist and Restoration Supervisor at Coppola’s American Zoetrope, who took up the mantle.
“The burden of restoring this masterwork was something everyone felt,” Kalas recalls, noting that it required some of the finest artisans in the industry to do so.
Laura Thornburg, Executive Director of Preservation, had left Paramount, but Kalas brought her back to oversee the restoration. Says Kalas, “That is, in my opinion, why the result is as good as it is. We knew how serious, daunting, and exciting it was.
- 3/24/2022
- by Simon Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
Sidney Lumet’s harrowing film is a true-life account of a NY narcotics detective- turned government informant; its length and intensity can be emotionally overpowering. Treat Williams is the idealistic cop who blows up his whole life and ends up betraying all the people he hoped to protect. He doesn’t seem to understand the ruthless, opportunistic nature of ‘systemic reform’ as he goes from good guy to the object of hate for both crooks and cops, and a target for the very same system that welcomed his help. The Wac made an excellent choice with this one — it’s one of the most deserving, underappreciated films of the early 1980s.
Prince of the City
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 167 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date August 24, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino, Carmine Caridi, Tony Page, Norman Parker, Paul Roebling, Bob Balaban,...
Prince of the City
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 167 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date August 24, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino, Carmine Caridi, Tony Page, Norman Parker, Paul Roebling, Bob Balaban,...
- 9/14/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Tossing its hat into the ongoing onslaught of nominations, the Costume Designers Guild on Wednesday announced the nominees for its eighth annual Costume Designers Guild Awards. In the period film category, the designers' taste ranged from Japanese kimonos from the 1930s to thrift store ware from New York's Lower East Side circa the 1980s as they nominated Kasia Walicka-Maimone for Capote, Louise Frogley for Good Night, and Good Luck, Colleen Atwood for Memoirs of a Geisha, Arianne Phillips for Walk the Line and Aggie Guerard Rodgers for Rent. Atwood, an Oscar winner for Chicago, also has been chosen to receive the group's Lacoste Spotlight in Film Award. Other special honorees, who will be recognized at an awards gala Feb. 25 at the Beverly Hilton, include Thomas C. Short, president of IATSE, who is to receive the Swarovski President's Award, and Star Trek designer Robert Blackman, who will get the Spotlight in Television Award. Anna Hill Johnstone will be inducted into the Edith Head Hall of Fame, and the guild will present Michael Woulfe, Grady Hunt and Moss Mabry with a Gold Card for their years of service to the guild, IATSE Local 892.
- 1/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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