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| the qote at the bottom of the DVD cover is mine |
Yea, Tribeca coverage at Unseen Films is never ending... or will end in about a week.
Between Ariela and myself we will have around 150 film reviews. As this posts I'm just starting to put together some photo pieces based on the pictures Wendy sent me.
I know you're probably sick of it - but the truth is some of the films coming are some of the best films of the year.
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I'm going to get dis-invited to a certain festival but I need to warn you that there is going to be screenings of the restorations of several classic films from the Shanghi Animation Studio. THE SEALED BOOK and THE MONKEY KING UPROAR IN HEAVEN are due to play NYC in a month. THE MONKEY KING is being pushed as being a restoration of the complete film which is enouh in some people's eyes to make it worth seeing.(The film was restored in 2012 and slightly shortened with input by the original filmmakers).
The problem is that the restorations were done by AI and the result are films that look nothing like the original films, but like something that was cranked out by computers recently. All of the details in the original images is gone.
I discovered this because I was watching a version of THE SEALED BOOK on You Tube and was kind of shocked by how the image looked like it was done recently. This lead me to reading on the the film and discovering the studio's use of AI to do the restoration and how it was removing details in the images.
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I am having computer issues. not sure how this will play out...
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