SITTING DUCKS 4K Restoration to Screen at Downtown Festival
The restored 1980 film will screen at Roxy Cinema in New York as part of the Downtown Festival.
A new 4K restoration of Henry Jaglom's 1980 film Sitting Ducks will screen as part of the Downtown Festival at Roxy Cinema in New York. The screening is set for Sunday, October 11 at 6:00pm at Roxy Cinema, 2 Avenue of the Americas, Cellar Level, New York, NY 10013. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Justin LaLiberty, Simon Jaglom, and Adam Goldberg. Tickets and festival information are available on the festival page.
According to the synopsis, two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. This Cannes favorite finds the duo in a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob as they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. The third film from American maverick Henry Jaglom returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration.
The film is an Official Selection of the New/Next Film Fest and the Downtown Festival, and the new version is a 4K restoration from the original camera negative. The cast includes Henry Jaglom, Michael Emil, and Zack Norman. Henry Jaglom served as editor, writer, and director. Cinematography is by Paul Glickman, with Meira Attia Dor as producer and Jan Foster as production designer.
The restoration was completed from a 4K, 16-bit scan of the 35mm original camera negative by Vinegar Syndrome in Bridgeport, Connecticut, via an ARRISCAN XT. The scanning technician was Brandon Upson. Frame-by-frame manual digital restoration and color grading was completed by Marcus Johnson of Emulsional Recovery.
The restoration was a collaboration between Hope Runs High and Cinématographe, supervised by Taylor Purdee of Hope Runs High, Justin LaLiberty of Cinématographe, and Ryan Emerson of Vinegar Syndrome. The Academy Film Archive provided the film negatives.
About Henry Jaglom
Henry Jaglom (1938–2025) began his filmmaking career in the cutting room when he and Jack Nicholson helped edit Hopper's 1969 hit, Easy Rider. His first film as a writer/director, 1971's A Safe Place, was acclaimed by Anais Nin who said: 'Henry Jaglom is The Magician of American Cinema!' Jaglom went on to write and direct twenty more films and carve a path through the New American Cinema entirely his own. In 2013, Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company) released the book My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles.
Sitting Ducks is the second of many of Jaglom's films currently being restored to return to the big screen in 4K.
About Hope Runs High
Hope Runs High is a New York-based film production and distribution company bringing reappraised classics and new releases to screens of every size. The company works with legendary filmmakers and new talent, with a focus on new films and overlooked classics from female directors, people of color, and LGBTQ+ filmmakers, as well as artists from the traditional canon. Notable titles include the restorations and re-releases of screen legend Lee Grant's documentary and early narrative work, including Academy Award winner Down and Out in America, the final onscreen appearance of Orson Welles in Someone to Love, Tilda Swinton's American screen debut in Female Perversions, and legendary indie darling Tarnation. HRH's contemporary releases include 2023 BAFTA nominee Rebellion and 3x Independent Spirit nominee Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, as well as Killian & the Comeback Kids and We Might as Well Be Dead, both of which recently saw their original screenplays preserved by the Academy.
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