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Courtesy Venice Film Festival Freshly restored works by Andrej Wajda, Roberto Rossellini, Luis Buñuel, Roger Corman, John Cassavetes and Ann Hui are set to screen as part of the Venice Film Festival‘s 19-title Venice Classics lineup.
Wajda’s drama about postwar political and social chaos “Ashes and Diamonds,” which Martin Scorsese has called one of his ten favorite films; Rossellini’s marriage crisis movie “Journey to Italy,” starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders (pictured above); Buñuel’s absurdist comedy “Illusion Travels By Streetcar”; Corman’s biggest commercial success, “The Wild Angels” – which launched in competition at Venice in 1966 – and Cassavetes’ quirky romantic comedy “Minnie and Moskowitz” starring Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, are among highlights of the rich program.
Asian offerings include Dev Benegal’s landmark first film, the scathing satire “English, August,” and Hong Kong New Wave pioneer Ann Hui’s “The Story of Woo Viet,” which is one of the first political movies from Hong Kong.
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“Nostalgia is not the underlying reason behind a section like Venice Classics,” said Venice chief Alberto Barbera in a statement. “If the goal consists in remembering the vitality back when “cinema was everything” (to borrow the words of [Italian novelist] Leonardo Sciascia), another consideration also comes to the fore: the awareness that the cinema of tomorrow can only be nourished by the lifeblood of the films of the past,” he added. “A vivid imagery made of great and unforgettable masterpieces that are only waiting to be revisited, and movies that are to some extent forgotten and that, instead, need to be carefully reconsidered,” Barbera concluded.
Italian director Daniele Vicari (“Diaz Don’t Clean Up This Blood”) will chair the jury of film students that will award Venice Classics section prizes, both for best restored film and best documentary about cinema. Venice’s best docs on cinema lineup will be announced on July 23 along with the rest of the official selection.
The upcoming 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival will run Sept. 2-12 with the festival’s lineup being announced July 23.
See the full Venice Classics lineup below.
“Col Cuore In Gola” (Deadly Sweet) – Pre-Opening film, by Tinto Brass (Italy, 1967, 105’, Colour)
restored by: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
“English, August,” by Dev Benegal (India, 1993, 118’, Colour)
restored by: Film Heritage Foundation
“La Ilusiòn Viaja En Tranvía (Illusion Travels By Streetcar) by Luis Buñuel (Mexico, 1954, 83’, B/W)
restored by: Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino / Fundación Televisa / Cineteca Nacional México
“Minnie and Moskowitz” by John Cassavetes (USA, 1971, 116’, Colour)
restored by: Universal Pictures
“Lo Zio Di Brooklyn” (The Uncle From Brooklyn) by Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco (Italy, 1995, 98’, B/W)
restored by: Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Filmauro
“The Wild Angels” by Roger Corman (USA, 1966, 86’, Colour)
restored by: Amazon MGM Studios
“Los De La Mesa 10″ (Those At Table 10) by Simón Feldman (Argentina, 1960, 83’, B/W)
restored by: Asociación Amigos Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires
“Udju Di Yonta” (The Blue Eyes of Yonta) by Flora Gomes (Guinea-Bissau/Portugal/France/UK, 1992, 98’, Colour)
restored by: Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema
“Woo Yuet Dok Goo Si” (The Story of Woo Viet) by Ann Hui (Hong Kong, 1981, 92’, Colour)
restored by: M Plus Museum Limited
“Velerie A Týden Divů” (Valerie And Her Week of Wonders) by Jaromil Jireś (Czech Republic, 1970, 77’, Colour)
restored by: Národní filmový archiv
“Abschied Von Gestern” (Yesterday Girl) by Alexander Kluge (Germany, 1966, 88’, B/W)
restored by: Kairos-Film
“To Be Or Not To Be” by Ernst Lubitsh (USA, 1942, 99’, B/W)
restored by: Studiocanal
“Minjing Gushi” (On The Beat) by Ning Ying (China, 1995, 101’, Colour)
restored by: China Film Archive
“Cul-De-Sac” by Roman Polanski (UK, 1966, 112’, B/W)
restored by: Fixafilm
“Viaggio In Italia” (Journey To Italy) by Roberto Rossellini (Italy/France, 1953, 97’, B/W)
restored by: Cinecittà S.p.A.
“Brutti, Sporchi, E Cattivi” (Ugly, Dirty, and Bad) by Ettore Scola (Italy, 1976, 115’, Colour)
restored by: Surf Film SRL / Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia / Cineteca di Bologna
“Gyoei No Mure” (The Catch) by Shiunji Sōmai (Japan, 1983, 140’, Colour)
restored by: Shochiku MediaWorX Inc.
“La Lunga Notte Del ’43” (Long Night in ’43) by Florestano Vancini (Italy, 1960, 105’, B/W)
restored by: Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Compass Film
“Popiòł I Diament” (Ashes And Diamonds) by Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1958, 104’, B/W)
restored by: Di Factory
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