The Deluxe team is delighted to have been involved with the restoration of this classic film from beginning to end and have been working tirelessly behind the scenes in partnership with ITV Studios Global Entertainment to ensure its completion ahead of the centenary this year.

Our team was fortunate to be able to work from the original 35mm camera negatives, which were beautifully exposed by award winning cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, and which provided the optimum starting point for the restoration process. 

The film was scanned on a pin registered Arriscan at 2K to DPX files before being ingested into Da Vinci Resolve for colour grading. Digital clean up tools MTI, Phoenix and Diamant were used to remove light dust, provide stabilization and repair physical tears that were visible in the frame.

The restoration was not without its challenges though; dancing highlights on water made automated restoration of these sections of film impossible owing to the risk of them being identified as dust and subsequently removed whilst the use of automated stabilization tools would prove problematic on any sections of film featuring lifeboats as they are designed to try and correct the natural rolling motion of the vessels. Furthermore the film needed to be put back to its original length; censors had removed a scene involving a dead baby from the original release which needed to be reinserted.

The results of the painstaking restoration process are a joy to see; the restored film premiered in Cannes at last year’s Festival and it promises to be appreciated by an equally receptive audience in coming weeks.

‘A Night to Remember’ is available to purchase on DVD and Blu-Ray from Monday March 19^th with the theatrical re-release scheduled in the UK on Friday 13^th April as part of the centenary celebrations.

For further reading please see: http://digital2disc.com/index.php/news/article/a-night-to-remember-cleaning-up-a-timeless-classic

and to see the work in action go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCHA9UqGvSY

Deluxe have been working closely with the BFI to restore and preserve each and every one of Hitchcock’s surviving silent films over a 2 year period. Extensive digital restoration, conforming and grading work is currently taking place at Deluxe, in order to bring these great films back to their former glory.

Two of the films (The Pleasure Garden and The Lodger) will be presented to the nation with newly commissioned orchestral music scores this summer as part of the London 2012 Festival with plans for all nine titles to be screened with live music as part of the complete retrospective ‘The Genius of Hitchcock’ at the BFI Southbank this Sumer and Autumn.

As a charity, the BFI relies on the support of film-lovers to enable them to undertake work of this scale. With the fundraising campaign now reaching its final stages, the BFI has only two months left to raise £100,000 and realise the full ambition of this landmark film heritage project. If you are able to, help them reach their target and play your part in saving these important and historic films for the nation, please DONATE NOW

Any donation, small or large, really does make a difference.

Image courtesy of the BFI. It has taken over 500 hours of restoration work on pictures and intertitles to bring The Farmer’s Wife as closely as possible back to the condition of its original release.

London, United Kingdom -  26th January 2012 – Deluxe Entertainment  Services Group Inc. today announced the expansion of its UK Digital Cinema operation into a new purpose built facility. The £4M planned investment will increase capacity by nearly 80% to meet the demand of its theatrical distribution client base.

Over the past five years, Deluxe businesses worldwide have invested over £15M into their Digital Cinema offering and are considered leaders in Europe, working with the majority of major studios and film distribution companies. The expansion into Meard Street, Soho, will create a custom built Digital Cinema solution which will sit along side the film restoration centre also housed on site.  The aggressive timeline will see the new facility completed within 6 months and will include the creation of six new preview theatres which can accommodate both film and digital formats. In addition, an advanced CXFS SAN Infrastructure will be at the heart of the facility together with dedicated storage for ‘Babel’, Deluxe’s proprietary toolset for advanced 3D subtitling.     

“We have been at the forefront of digital cinema for several years,” says Peter Wright, Managing Director of Deluxe’s digital operations in Europe. “Our Digital Cinema volume has increased ten-fold since we began offering the services in Europe, and this additional investment will see a substantial increase in capacity once again. This enhanced capacity also allows us to continue to deliver within the ever decreasing timeframe between delivery and release.”

‘The growth in our digital cinema business has been extraordinary over the past three years and this investment ensures Deluxe remains the natural  partner for filmmakers and distributors not only in the UK but across the globe as they transition from traditional film acquisition and distribution workflows into the digital domain,” says Ken Biggins, Managing Director of Deluxe Europe. “It is an exciting time for our business as we continue to partner with the filmmaking community and provide industry leadership and innovation to this exciting sector,” adds Biggins.

The transition of film screens to digital has now reached over 20,000 across 6300 sites in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Newcomer Award – live action work under 15mins, from new filmmakers

FOREIGN FOCUS CATEGORY:

International  Award – live action work under 15mins, from new and long standing filmmakers

GLOBAL CATEGORIES:

Animation Award – animated work under 15mins from new and long standing filmmakers

Documentary Award – factual work under 15mins from new and long standing filmmakers

Music Video Award – promo work under 15mins from new and long standing filmmakers

Long Form Award – live action work under 30mins from new and long standing filmmakers

Pushing Boundaries Award – brilliantly creative, experimental work or branded content under 5mins from new and long standing filmmakers

Work can be submitted at http://entries.sohoshorts.com

The competition entry fee is £15. Students £10.

Films can be submitted up until 5^th April, with the shortlisted films being announced early in June.

The festival will open on Wednesday 11^th July and will culminate, as is tradition, with the Rushes Awards on Thursday 19^th July 2012.

Rushes Soho Shorts has an open submissions policy for all programmes.

Work should have been completed between 1^st January 2011 and April 2012.

Full terms and conditions are available on the entry site http://entries.sohoshorts.com and further information can be found at www.sohoshorts.com

Released by Pathe in the UK on Friday 6th January, Deluxe Soho are delighted to have provided 3 perf 35mm film rushes services for this project with sister companies Deluxe 142, Deluxe Digital, Deluxe London and Synxpeed providing the full DI, SD and HD Deliverables, Digital Cinema Mastering and Release, Film Deliverables and the Bulk Release.
Stay tuned to www.soho-social.co.uk for details of an exclusive IRON LADY screening in the new year.

Distributed in the UK by Artifcial Eye they describe WRECKERS as “a beguiling debut film from D R Hood that features stand out performances from some of the best British acting talent working today including Benedict Cumberbatch (War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Atonement and BBC’s Sherlock Holmes), Claire Foy (Vivaldi, The Season of the Witch and the BBC’s Little Dorrit) and Shaun Evans (Being Julia, Boy A).
A married couple (Cumberbatch, Foy) move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband’s brother (Evans) ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple’s relationship.
WRECKERS is an evocative, beautifully shot drama that examines the fragile relationship between truth, intimacy and betrayal” and Deluxe Soho are delighted to have provided a complete s16mm film rushes service for the film.

The offer now includes Best Light HD Transfer and encoding to a hard drive.

In addition to this new HD service, Complete16 now offers filmmakers a 60% discount on 16mm camera rental from Panavision, ARRI Media, Movietech, Take2 and Ice Film. The camera rental vouchers are issued with each Complete16 order and include discount on a 16mm Camera Body, Head, Legs and Matte Box

Complete16 is run in conjunction with Deluxe Soho and is designed to offer the quality, flexibility and logistical benefits of film origination at a preferential price.

So what are you waiting for?

Give Fuji a buzz on 020 3040 0400 or visit www.complete16.com for further info and call us 020 7468 8600 or email bookings@deluxesoho.co.uk to schedule the processing and transfers.

Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weiss star in what has been described as “a modern and stylish kaleidoscope of interconnected love and relationships” loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s play “La Ronde” and which spans the cities of Vienna, Bratislava, Paris, London, Rio, Phoenix and Denver.

Deluxe Soho are proud not only to have provided a complete 35mm rushes service for the opening and closing films for this years festival, “360″ and “Deep Blue Sea”, but to have additionally had the privilege to work on films screening on every single day of the festival.

For daily updates please join us on facebook.

Morgana’s blinkered determination threatens not only Arthur’s future, but also the very balance of the world. With her magic stronger than ever, the sorceress summons the mighty Callieach to tear open the veil between the worlds.

Hellish creatures pour forth, killing all who succumb to their touch. With Uther a shadow of his former self, it falls to Arthur and his loyal knights, including Lancelot, to protect the kingdom.

But it will take more than just swords to vanquish their enemy and Merlin is shocked to the core when he discovers the only way to restore the equilibrium requires a sacrifice of unimaginable proportions…

   Deluxe Soho are proud to have provided a complete 35mm film rushes service for this, the 4^th series of Merlin