Pontecorvo is best known for The Battle of Algiers, but his film Burn! with Marlon Brando is a powerful look at slavery and colonialism. The DVD is poor quality and the remastering was for some reason entirely dubbed into Italian. How much work and money does remastering a film take? Assuming the film and audio are easily available, and presuming there is a wide range of answers depending on…what? To whom would one direct a letter of inquiry and persuasion?
I know the English language version is long out of print. Is it available on Amazon Prime?
Here is where it is available for streaming: Burn! streaming: where to watch movie online?
My library has the dvd, and Apple has it, but in each case the quality is poor. I haven’t seen the Italian remastering, but since neither I nor my students speak Italian, it wouldn’t help if it was beautifully done. That got me wondering what it would take to have a remastered version with the original audio. How much of a job is it? What’s involved? What would it cost? Roughly and with caveats, of course.