Inside the Restoration of Indian Cult Classic ‘English, August,’ Heading to Venice as Relevant as Ever (EXCLUSIVE)

Dev Benegal’s “English, August” almost didn’t survive to be restored. Its original camera negative had melted. The dupe was gone too. All that was left were two surviving 35mm prints – and, it turned out, a box of DAT tapes nobody expected to matter three decades later. “It’s really sad that when I saw the […]

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