Best Restoration Company

[Gold Ranger]

What companies do you feel are the best at restoring/upgrading movies?




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I could only find a few, If anyone can, please list the ones you know and I will add them to the Poll...

[MifuneFan]

Sony

[Egbert Souse]

Tie between Sony Colorworks and Warner Motion Picture Imaging.

[Gold Ranger]

damn, It won't let me edit the poll....

[42041]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

Tie between Sony Colorworks and Warner Motion Picture Imaging.

MPI also does work for other studios, like The Red Shoes, Ten Commandments, and African Queen.
Suffice to say, they do fine work.

[dvdmike]

Sony

[HD Goofnut]

Throw me in the Sony camp as well. Hard to beat all of the work they have done.

[JackTwist]

I'm in for the Film Foundation and Cineteca di bologna.

[L'armée des ombres]

Originally Posted by JackTwist

I'm in for the Film Foundation and Cineteca di bologna.

I'm agree on those...also in the mix Sony and Warner

[Clark Kent]

There are also European companies doing film restorations. I don't think many people are cognizant of the companies involved in this market, or for what transfers they are responsible for on Blu-ray.

[StingingVelvet]

The work CBS has done on Star Trek: TNG is incomparably amazing, in my opinion.

[eChopper]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

Tie between Sony Colorworks and Warner Motion Picture Imaging.

this

[manunited1]

Sony Color works from my experience

[nagysaudio]

Lowry without question. And people actually think Criterion is a restoration company? LOL!!!!

[Gold Ranger]

Originally Posted by nagysaudio

Lowry without question. And people actually think Criterion is a restoration company? LOL!!!!

1 - Lowry sucks completely!
2 - Criterion Remastered/Restored Godzilla, so yes, they are a Restoration Company!

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by Egbert Souse

Tie between Sony Colorworks and Warner Motion Picture Imaging.

[DarknessBDJM]

Don't forget Fotokem, they seem to do the glut of the 8K and 65mm scans, restorations, and work, and a lot of classics with great representations on blu-ray.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, South Pacific, North by Northwest, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Khartoum, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Taxi Driver, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, American Grafitti, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge on the River Kwai, West Side Story, Raging Bull, Rebel Without a Cause, From Here to Eternity, etc.

Whether they did the totality of all of those restorations or just the scanning or whatnot they deserve some recognition.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by DarknessBDJM

Don't forget Fotokem, they seem to do the glut of the 8K and 65mm scans, restorations, and work, and a lot of classics with great representations on blu-ray.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, South Pacific, North by Northwest, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Khartoum, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Taxi Driver, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, American Grafitti, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge on the River Kwai, West Side Story, Raging Bull, Rebel Without a Cause, From Here to Eternity, etc.

Whether they did the totality of all of those restorations or just the scanning or whatnot they deserve some recognition.

I think they're mainly used for scanning in many of those cases. Obviously a crucial part of beginning tthe restoration process, but not the most important.

[mdonovan]

Originally Posted by KaineKinetic

1 - Lowry sucks completely!
2 - Criterion Remastered/Restored Godzilla, so yes, they are a Restoration Company!

Didn't Lowry do Lawrence of Arabia ?

[42041]

Originally Posted by DarknessBDJM

Don't forget Fotokem, they seem to do the glut of the 8K and 65mm scans, restorations, and work, and a lot of classics with great representations on blu-ray.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, South Pacific, North by Northwest, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Khartoum, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Taxi Driver, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, American Grafitti, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge on the River Kwai, West Side Story, Raging Bull, Rebel Without a Cause, From Here to Eternity, etc.

Whether they did the totality of all of those restorations or just the scanning or whatnot they deserve some recognition.

Pretty sure they had little to do with the bulk of the work on most of those.
They have a unique scanner that's pretty much the only one people use for 65mm.
Personally I think their large format work is hit and miss.