FABS!!!!!!

[Ian]

Rediscovered or discovered?

[fish]

Rediscovered...

That's what they said.
They seemed quite pleased about it too.

[Ian]

Nice.
Though I wasn't aware it had been lost.

[fish]

Fish rushes off to check that all of his copies are accounted for.


A tweet much more interesting than anything tweeted by the Donald.

A digitally modified high quality re-release of Fucking Åmål is to premiere next week in Stockholm.
Bex and Lex will be there.
Does Fish dare hope for a new DVD release to follow?
Is he excited?



http://www.filminstitutet.se/sv/om-oss/press/pressmeddelanden/2017/moodyssons-succedebut-aterfar-ratt-look-efter-nastan-20-ar/

"Moodysson's successful debut regains the right look after nearly 20 years

Fucking Amal has barely gone to see as it looked at the movies when they came in 1998, as it was verging on impossible to digitize of sufficiently high quality. Until now. Soon the film will be able to be shown in cinemas across Sweden, seen through VOD, TV and other windows. At the revival of the Cinematheque is also protagonists Rebecka Liljeberg and Alexandra Dahlström, the film's producer Lars Jönsson and film journalist Andrea Reuter in place for a conversation about the movie.

Lukas Moodysson's drama school in the small town of Amal was seen by the whole 868,015 people in cinemas in Sweden and became an international success with over 1.29 million moviegoers abroad. It was awarded the Guldbagge for best film, best screenplay, best director and best actress. It won the prestigious queer film prize Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival and qualified last year in the British Film Institute's list of top LGBT films ever. The film has been so difficult to restore digitally depends on the process that gave the film its peculiar grainy appearance. It was shot on 16mm reversalfilm as negative was developed and then turned to the 35mm master before cutting and then to 35mm duplikatnegativ as light added to the final display copy. A very intricate analogue process that had previously been impossible to recreate digitally.

- Fucking Åmål film prints had a nice and unique look when the movie came out in 1998. When it was made video and television masters not so hung with contemporary technology. It was in some scenes too dark and noisy. Funny that the digital versions can finally live up to the original, says Lars Jonsson.

Fredrik Rundqvist, materials manager, said Swedish Film Institute's digital restoration of the film:
- There was an extensive process. We scanned everything, 16mm-reversalfilmen and the various 35-mm materials to test which gave best results. We have had test impressions with Lukas Moodysson and Lars Jönsson in place in our cinema and compared with the analog display copies in the archive. In the end, we assumed anyway from 16mm-reversalfilmen, and has processed it for getting the digital restoration as similar to the version of the film that first met the audience as possible.

Revival, time and place: Wednesday, March 15 at. 18:00 to 19:30, with subsequent calls, Cinematheque at the Film House, Castle Road 1 in Stockholm. Read more at the Cinematheque web"

[Ian]

Oh goody. Dare we even hope for... a Blu ray release? I hope so!

[fish]

With lots of extras, interviews, deleted scenes, etc. Stuff like that.

[Ian]

Yes indeedy. It would be long overdue!

[fish]

One of the "enhanced" pics.
Always was a good one.

[Ian]

An oldie but a goodie.

[fish]

Speaking of which.......
Here's another Kolya Klassic from 2006.

[Ian]

A classic indeed.

[Santi]

Fish rushes off to check that all of his copies are accounted for.


A tweet much more interesting than anything tweeted by the Donald.

A digitally modified high quality re-release of Fucking Åmål is to premiere next week in Stockholm.
Bex and Lex will be there.
Does Fish dare hope for a new DVD release to follow?
Is he excited?

a user did this a long time ago. An improved high quality copy of FA, with subtitles and languages at the same time.
The file name is: "1998-Fucking.Amal.DVDrip.dual.juram. "You have it all, do you remember?
Now Swedes want to do the same job. It is not necessary, that someone sends it to them, lol

[fish]

I'm not sure it's the same thing Santi.
This appears to be a professional upgrading and re-mastering for commercial release in the cinema.

A "big deal" premiere is planned for Wednesday the 15th with guests including Alexandra and Rebecka.

I'm hoping there's lots of pics and vids.

[Santi]

I do not understand why make this.

The movie has already seen it all world.

[fish]

I do not understand why make this.

I guess it's just like the re-release of an old favourite, which happens from time to time.
Only in this case they appear to have remastered the film.