Submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.ee
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/24173127/seven-samurai-4k-restoration-theatrical-release
Ooooo
The 4K restoration debuted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. In New York, the movie opens at Film Forum on July 5th; in Los Angeles, the premiere will be on July 7th at the Egyptian Theatre, with an opening at Laemmle Royal to follow on July 12th.
Oh. 😕
Only in a few theaters though.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
To celebrate its 70th anniversary, Akira Kurosawa’s black-and-white epic Seven Samurai is coming back to theaters with a new 4K restoration.
Arguably the crowning achievement of one of the world’s most lauded filmmakers, the film depicts a small village in the 16th century that is threatened by bandits.
To protect themselves from the invaders, the farmers go in search of ronin — master-less samurai for hire — who can ward off the marauders and keep the village safe.
One of the film’s co-writers, Shinobu Hashimoto, found the process of putting together Seven Samurai so exhausting that he checked himself into a hospital.
During filming, Kurosawa had to stop production after he realized he had run through his funding only a third of the way through the shoot.
Still, Seven Samurai proved well worth it, becoming a box office success in Japan and, in the 70 years since its release, now considered one of the greatest films of all time.
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Showing my age, I guess, but I’ve yet to see a 4K restoration of a classic film that didn’t look jarring and fake. Completely ruins the look of an older movie.
What on earth are you talking about?
4k looks awful. Just across the board bad. Actors look too smooth, the motion is off. Makes a film look like a video game and not a movie.
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 5 months ago
Wow, will be great to see on the big screen. I remember the runtime of this one to be looooong, though.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Which I why I prefer the magnificent seven. Seven samurai is a great movie, but it just drags in a lot of places.
maegul@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Yea I haven’t seen it in ages, so it’ll be a good way to revisit it.