Recently (Nov. 2009, I think) a "restored" version of Hulot's Holiday was released. Does anyone know how different this one is from the Criterion release of 5 years ago? I've searched online but despite finding numerous articles about it they all boil down to saying it's restored without actually giving specifics. I'm curious as to whether or not the restored version includes additional footage, missing sounds/dialogue, and the like. Anyone know?
shareIt is a beautiful print, and there are about 30 seconds more of pans over the beach during meals, with all the toys lying around, or being blown by the wind. They are very moving.
black and white movies were better
I worked on the restoration of this film with an entire team of professionals at Technicolor. I am a visual effects artist/digital compositor. I spent most of my time fixing bad splices, de-warping warped frames, stabilizing shaky shots and bad gate weave, and cleaning dirt and scratches, etc. My part of it was done for about a month in May/June of 2009. Along with the many other processes like fixing grain problems, replacing missing frames, finding missing elements, adding shots that Tati filmed years later (he continually updated the film into the 70's and even has a reference to Jaws in the boat collapse scene) and a lot of dirt fixing, de-flickering, and re-color correcting, the film looked spectacular. We had a private screening for the French Embassy, and the nephew of Jaques Tati ... the French were impressed. This is all off the top of my head ... there is a booklet that was published for the Cannes Film Festival that is beautifully designed and quite comprehensive in detail of the work that went into this restoration. The restoration is not 100% as in most cases because of budget and time constraints, but I believe it is the best restored version yet. And a hilarious film! A pure joy to work on.
shareI worked on the restoration of this film with an entire team of professionals at Technicolor. I am a visual effects artist/digital compositor. I spent most of my time fixing bad splices, de-warping warped frames, stabilizing shaky shots and bad gate weave, and cleaning dirt and scratches, etc. My part of it was done for about a month in May/June of 2009. Along with the many other processes like fixing grain problems, replacing missing frames, finding missing elements, adding shots that Tati filmed years later (he continually updated the film into the 70's and even has a reference to Jaws in the boat collapse scene) and a lot of dirt fixing, de-flickering, and re-color correcting, the film looked spectacular. We had a private screening for the French Embassy, and the nephew of Jaques Tati ... the French were impressed. This is all off the top of my head ... there is a booklet that was published for the Cannes Film Festival that is beautifully designed and quite comprehensive in detail of the work that went into this restoration. The restoration is not 100% as in most cases because of budget and time constraints, but I believe it is the best restored version yet. And a hilarious film! A pure joy to work on.
shareThanks 8739 for your comments.
This gave me reason enough to want to watch this new edition :-)
're-color correcting'- ?????????
But it's in black-and-white! (Or am I missing something?)
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Black and white are colors
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Hi 8739,
Your post was a fair while ago now, but I've just watched the new restored transfer of Les vacances de M. Hulot tonight on the BFI Blu-ray release (I bought it for myself for Christmas!), and I wanted to say you folk did a wonderful job with it. I love Tati's work, so thank you for making it available again in such great condition!
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
http://www.technicolorfilmfoundation.org/en/home/programs/restoration- of-mr-hulots-holiday.html
The booklet about the restoration:
http://www.technicolorfilmfoundation.org/fileadmin/user_upload/en/pdf/ highlights/LIVRET_VMH_final_mai2009.pdf
AFI DigiFest 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sowreI5LnWQ
Blu-ray:
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Les-vacances-de-M-Hulot-Blu-ray/15662/
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HD download versions now available, unfortunately without extras:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/monsieur-hulots-holiday/id916988253
http://www.amazon.com/Monsieur-Hulots-Holiday-Jacques-Tati/dp/B002QWDG BA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424177392&sr=8-1&keywords=hulot %27s+holiday
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