In our age of myriad streaming platforms, most people live under a false belief that just about every movie ever made is available in some form or fashion. This is simply not the case. There are thousands of lost movies and numerous films that exist in degraded formats sans a decent 35mm print. In the case of the latter movies, short of a pricey restoration , they're always going to look dodgy. And as time goes on, the streaming versions of these films, occasionally ripped from an old VHS release (which was formatted to fit a 4x3 screen), might just disappear (at which point you'll be forced to chase down a pirated copy).

Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's Viking yarn "When the Raven Flies" is currently hanging on in such a perilous state. Released in 1984 and selected to be Iceland's entry for Best

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