I’d definitely go see this in the theatre if it was near me, it won’t be. Perfect Blue is hands down one of the best psychological thrillers of all time and does a fantastic job showing how anime can do things live action cannot. Damn I wish I could watch this film for the first time again.
Restoration? What happened? Was the original damaged?
Everything with a 35mm master is getting a 4k scan with a little scratch and color cleanup and getting re-released as a “4k restoration”. Making these titles available to theaters is cheap. Theaters with over a dozen auditoriums and nobody showing up to every-hour-on-the-hour screenings of this week’s new release are happy to drop something like this in for a week here and there.
I dont see how a minor touch-up is considered a restoration. Must just be a marketing term.
I mean, I like Perfect Blue so this is all good to me, just not a fan of the wording.
Not sure I’d call it a minor touch up. Restoration doesn’t necessarily require the original to be actually damaged. Film/cells fade over time. Digitally restoring that can be pretty intensive, depending on how faded it is.
Restoration for projects like these is a pretty common term AFAIK.
I mean, cheaper than a new film sure, but not as cheap as 4K upscales
