{
  "id": 6242444,
  "title": "Inside the Restoration of Indian Cult Classic ‘English, August,’ Heading to Venice as Relevant as Ever (EXCLUSIVE)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/inside-the-restoration-of-indian-cult-classic-english-august-heading",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-08T05:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/english-august-restoration-venice-indian-cult-classic-1236852825/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}