EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Weber’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Let’s Get Misplaced has acquired a 4k restoration, which can debut at this yr’s Lumiere Movie Pageant.
Thirty-five years after it gained the Critics Prize on the Venice Movie Pageant, Weber might be current at Lumiere in Lyon, France, to debate the movie’s legacy in addition to the restoration course of.
HanWay Movies will symbolize the movie for worldwide gross sales as a part of a deal negotiated by Marta Ravani, Gross sales Director of HanWay The Collections. The deal features a collection of Bruce Weber’s again catalogue of movies together with, Damaged Noses (1987), Good Women Don’t Keep For Breakfast (2018), A Letter to True (2004), and The Treasure Of His Youth: The Images Of Paolo Di Paolo (2022). Present confirmed companions for The Bruce Weber Assortment are Kino Lorber in North America, The Jokers in France, Longride in Japan, IWonder Photos in Italy, and FilmIn in Spain.
In Let’s Get Misplaced, Weber profiles the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker. The movie makes use of excerpts from Italian B motion pictures, uncommon efficiency footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, buddies, battling ex-wives and his youngsters in what turned out to be the final yr of his life.
The movie was restored by the New York-based Cineric, who went again to the 16mm reversal authentic of the movie and made a brand new 4k HDR scan. The picture was cleaned by the crew at Cineric’s Portugal workplace. The HDR scan revealed element that hadn’t been seen earlier than within the shadows of the 16mm reversal, so a grade was made in New York by colorist Daniel DeVincent, supervised by Jeff Preiss, the movie’s cinematographer, who balanced the extra info with the look of the unique launch prints. The audio was dealt with by Audio Mechanics in Los Angeles who produced a brand new 5.1 mixture of the audio. Bruce Weber supervised the entire course of.
“We’re honored to type an enduring partnership with HanWay Movies,” Weber mentioned. “Jeremy Thomas set a excessive normal and a robust precedent a very long time in the past for championing the imaginative and prescient of auteurs and powerful storytellers, and now as HanWay strikes ahead beneath new possession, we’re thrilled to be part of this assortment and within the firm of some very wonderful artists and buddies.”
Ravani added: “At HanWay, we’re thrilled to have this new Assortment, and we sit up for working with Little Bear and Bruce Weber to deliver these lovely documentaries to the world.”
Lumiere Movie Pageant runs October 14-23.
