Erich von Stroheim

[Stefan Andersson]

Re: the restoration of Foolish Wives shown at the 2022 San Francisco Silent Film Festival:

"in the program book Dave Kehr stated "There's no new footage in this. It's just that we've edited for a better understanding of what order the film should be in. It's been tinted and there are some wonderful pseudo-hand-coloring sequences for the big fire at the end." Apparently the new restoration is based on recently uncovered censorship records and a French novelization from 1923 that contains descriptions of scenes cut by Universal days after the film opened."

Source: https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33112 (May 20 post)

[Stefan Andersson]

Foolish Wives upcoming at MoMA; brief info about the restoration here:
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5503

[Stefan Andersson]

More details on the Foolish Wives resto:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-fest ... lish-wives

[knives]

The Wedding March just entered the public domain, so I imagine releases of various sorts will come out in the next year.

[TechnicolorAcid]

Now let’s not get our hopes up. Remember Greed? But seriously I do hope this does lead to The Wedding March getting released by Criterion after what, 10 years. The year is bright now, anything is possible, allegedly.

[knives]

It definitely won’t help with Criterion because of their policies with original rights holders, but this is different from Greed as there is only one cut of the Wedding March whereas Greed only the shortest cut of it is on the public domain.