The Venice Film Festival unveiled the 18 recently restored films which will be presented in its Classics sidebar in Venice during the 82nd edition to come.
The programming includes the Western of Delmer Daves in 1957 3:10 in YumaBased on a news from 1953 by Elmore Leonard, who was revisited by James Mangold in 2007 in a version featuring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.
The other American strengths include The delicate offenderWith Jerry Lewis and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, ForeignersWith Edward G. Robinson in the role of an Italian-American banker, rags accused of criminal activity.
The side bar will also highlight the Vladimir Nabokov adaptation of Stanley Kubrick in 1962 LolitaWith James Mason and Sue Lyon.
The European selection classics include the first MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA film Aniki-BoboKrzysztof Kieslowski Blind luckannounced Decalogue; Almodovar Matadorand the pioneer film by Marcel Carné The Quai des BrumesWith Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan, who was winner of the Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1938.
Programming also includes four Italian films: neoral work Rome 11:00 a.m. by Giuseppe de Santis; Horror of 1963 The ghostMade by Riccardo Freda under the pseudonym of Robert Hampton and Italian style comediesThe magnificent cuckold By Antonio Pietrangeli, with Ugo Tognazzi, and I married you for pleasureDirected by Luciano Salce, who adapted the eponymous novel of Natalia Ginzburg for the screen with Monica Vitti in the main role.
This last film will featured two reinstated sequences, cut by censors and considered to be lost, but rediscovered during the Cinecittà restoration process.
Asian protruding facts include Japanese director Kon Ichikawa Strange obsession; Kaidan by Masaki Kobayashi, who will be broadcast in an unselated version never published before, and Long live love By Tsai Ming-Liang of Taiwan, which returned to Venice after winning the Golden Lion in 1994.
“Year after year, the range of Venice classics seeks to continue an even greater opening, to celebrate on the one hand the great masterpieces and the undeniable masters in the history of cinema, and striving on the other to discover – or rediscover – films and filmmakers who were not generously relegated to Shadows,” said the artistic director of the film Festival, Alberto Barbera.
Director of Tommaso Santambrogio (Taxibol,, The oceans are the real continents) will chair the cinema student jury which – for the twelfth year – will assign the prizes of the Venice classics for the respective competitions of the best restored film and for the best documentary on cinema.
It will be made up of 24 students, each recommended by cinematographic study teachers from various Italian universities, dams and CA of Foscari in Venice.
The Venice Classics 2025 range
MATADOR
By Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, 1986, 102 ‘, color)
Restored by: Video Mercury Films
Bashú, Gharibibeh Kouchak (Bashu, Le Petit Frove)
by Bahram Beyzai (Iran, 1986, 120 ‘, color)
Restored by: Roashana Studios with the support of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) – Presented by MK2 Films
The Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows)
by Marcel Carné (France, 1938, 92 ‘, n / w)
Restored by: Studiocanal and La Cinémèque française with the support of the national cinema and animated image center and chanel
3:10 in Yuma
by Delmer Daves (United States, 1957, 92 ‘, N / W)
Restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Aniki-Bobo
by Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal, 1942.72 ‘, n / w)
Restored by: Portuguese Cinemateca – Cinema Museum
Rome 11 a.m. (Rome 11:00)
by Giuseppe de Santis (Italy, 1952, 105 ‘, n / w)
Restored by: Experimental cinematography center – National Cineteca
The spectrum (the ghost)
by Riccardo Freda (Italy, 1963, 95 ‘, color)
Restored by: Severin Films
Renegat brand
by Hugo Fregonese (USA, 1951, 81 ‘, color)
Restored by: Universal Pictures
Kagi (strange obsession)
by Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 1959, 107 ‘, color)
Restored by: Kadokawa Corporation
Case (blind luck)
By Krzysztof kie.mowski (Poland, 1981, 123 ‘, color)
Restored by: Di Factory
Kaidan (Kwaidan)
by Masaki Kobayashi (Japan, 1965, 183 ‘, color)
Restored by: Toho
Lolita
by Stanley Kubrick (United States, 1962, 153 ‘, born)
Restored by: The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros.
Foreigners
By Joseph L. Mankiewicz (USA, 1949, 101 ‘, n / w)
Restored by: Walt DisneyStudios, the Film Foundation
The delicate offender
by Don McGuire (United States, 1957, 101 ‘, n / w)
Restored by: Paramount
The magnificent cuckold (the magnificent cuckold)
by Antonio Pietrangeli (Italy, France, 1964, 124 ‘, n / w)
Restored by: Cineteca Di Bologne Foundation in collaboration with Compass Film
Make Bigha Zamin (two acres of land)
by Bimal Roy (India, 1953, 120 ‘, n / w)
Restored by: Film Heritage Foundation – India, The Criterion Collection
I married you for joy (I married you for pleasure)
by Luciano Salce (Italy, 1967, 102 ‘, color)
Restored by: Cincities Spa
Aiqing Wansui (Long live love)
by Tsai Ming-Liang (Taipei, 1994, 119 ‘, color)
Restored by: Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
