‘Manos: The Hands Of Fate’: Carefully Restoring The Opposite Of A Masterpiece
Chris Heller with a piece for NPR’s Monkey See blog about Ben Solovey’s Manos: The Restoration project:
“There’s a very distinct feeling in the episode of, ‘What is this movie that we’ve discovered?’” said Ben Solovey, a 26-year-old Florida State film school grad who’s behind Manos: The Restoration, a project to repair an original 16mm workprint of Manos. “Even though there’s these long stretches where they’re not making jokes, it doesn’t matter. It feels like you’re watching a film from another planet.”
So great.