Culture
ReFilm Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque: Restored, Revisited, Rediscovered
By Jacqueline van den Driest
The Israel Film Archive at the Jerusalem Cinematheque has a vast collection of classic films from around the world, as well as every film ever made in Israel, and has been working hard for years to preserve these movies digitally. In the last week of June the cinematheque presented a program of these restored gems, Re-Film: Restored, Rediscovered, Revisited, which featured 15 restored films from
Present were also several guests who are world leaders in digital restoration, a time-consuming process that requires a great deal of expertise and painstaking work.
Amongst the movies shown were one of Stanley Kubrick’s earliest films, The Killing (1956), a slow-burn film noir crime drama starring Sterling Hayden and featuring one of the most strikingly photographed chase sequences of all time. Another classic film noir fans rushed to see on the big screen was Carol Reed’s The Third Man, one of the all-time great movies. For Pop music lovers there was ABBA: The Movie, a 1977 movie directed by Lasse Hallström, about an incompetent DJ trying to get an interview with the beloved hit-making group during their tour of
In 2017, the Israel Film Archive–Jerusalem Cinematheque commenced a pioneering project for the digitization, digital restoration, and the rendering accessible of over 5000 hours of audio-visual documentary and creative works from pre-state
In the framework of the project, a professional laboratory of the highest international standards and the first of its kind in
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