Audio Mechanics was selected by the International Olympic Committee to restore the film of the 1972 Munich olympic games, “Visions of Eight,” featured at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival [article here]
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The Elia Kazan Collection wins Film Heritage Award
The Elia Kazan Collection, by 20th Century Fox, has won the National Society of Film Critics’ Heritage award. Audio Mechanics provided sound restoration for Baby Doll (1956), Viva Zapata! (1952), and A Face in the Crowd (1957).
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Word Is Out (1977) wins Film Heritage Award
Audio Mechanics’ restoration of WORD IS OUT: STORIES OF SOME OF OUR LIVES, by the Mariposa Collective, won the National Society of Film Critics’ Heritage award. Restoration supervisor, Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive. [http://www.nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/]
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MoMA’s “To Save and Project” film festival
Audio Mechanics work will be featured in four feature restorations and several animated shorts showing at the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” film festival. MoMa’s restoration of “Just Around the Corner” aka “Sunnyside Up” featuring Shirley Temple; UCLA Film & Television Archive’s restorations of Barbara Loden’s “Wanda”; “Point of Order”; “Cry Danger”; and Ub Iwerks cartoons. [MoMA link] [New York Times link]
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Poto and Cabengo at The Reel Thing XXV
review by Doug Cummings – “One of the most impressive presentations was John Polito’s demonstration of the sound work he performed on Poto and Cabengo, Gorin’s first solo feature and an utterly fascinating exploration of the linguistic mystery posed by two young San Diego twins who appeared to have invented their own language. (The restoration has been touring, and plans are in place to release it as a Criterion DVD.) When standard de-essing software failed to correct sound distortions on the original master, Polito separated the sibilance and the vowels into separate tracks, processed them individually, and recombined them. Gorin … [more]
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The Red Shoes Wins two prestigious restoration awards
Audio Mechanics’ restoration of the classic film from 1948, “The Red Shoes” won the Focal Archive Restoration Award and the Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics. ITV Studios, 30/04/10 Film legend Martin Scorsese has expressed his delight at ITV Global Entertainment winning a Focal International award for its restoration of Powell & Pressburger classic The Red Shoes. ITV Global Entertainment’s Operations Director Fiona Maxwell accepted the award on Tuesday night at the Lancaster London Hotel. (See her on stage with Martin here.) The restoration of the film, to which ITV owns the rights, happened in collaboration with the … [more]
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Rashomon wins Film Heritage Award
Audio Mechanics was selected to undertake the challenge of restoring one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved international films of all time. The restoration of “Rashomon” won the prestigious Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics. http://www.nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/04/entertainment/la-et-national-critics4-2010jan04
