Fifth Tuesday: The Good, Unhealthy, and Ugly of Movie Preservation, with particular visitor star Devan Scott

Our fifth episode of July 2025 is a really particular one: cinematographer and colorist Devan Scott (and host of the podcast How Would Lubitsch Do It?the place Tim was a daily visitor) joins Tim to debate the brand new Arrow Video UHD releases of A Fistful of {Dollars}, For a Few {Dollars} Extraand The Good, the Unhealthy and the Uglyon which Devan served as technical advisor as a part of a staff working to guarantee that these movies bought their first properly-curated and visually restored dwelling releases because the daybreak of dwelling media. And from there, they dive into a bigger dialog concerning the nature of movie restoration and preservation, the confounding issues that occur to films after they get transferred to dwelling video, and whether or not Wong Kar-wai can ever be trusted together with his personal movies once more. For those who’re the type of one that groans inside whenever you study {that a} new Criterion Assortment launch was primarily based on a L’Immagine Ritrovata restoration, this one is a must-listen.