The Venezia Classics‘ selection has been a part of Venice Film Festival since 2012, presenting a selection of the best film restorations made by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies from all over the world. This year Venezia Classics will be hosted as part of the Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, from August 25-31. The selection will be then screened in Venice in the later months. ACE is proud to announce that some of the restorations in this year’s program have been made by ACE members: Cineteca di Bologna, Cinémathèque française and Hungarian Film Archive. Below you can find the full list of the titles selected by Alberto Barbera in collaboration with Federico Gironi:
CRONACA DI UN AMORE (CHRONICLE OF A LOVE)
Dir: Michelangelo ANTONIONI (Italy, 1950)
Restored by: Cineteca di Bologna
CLAUDINE
Dir: John BERRY (U.S., 1974)
Restored by: Fox/Criterion/Disney
DEN MUSO (THE YOUNG GIRL)
Dir: Souleymane CISSÉ (Mali, 1975)
Restored by: Cinémathèque Française
UTÓSZEZON (LATE SEASON)
Dir: Zoltán FÁBRI (Hungary, 1966)
Restored by: Hungarian National Film Archive
SEDOTTA E ABBANDONATA (SEDUCED AND ABANDONED)
Dir: Pietro GERMI (Italy, 1964)
Restored by: Cineteca di Bologna
LA ÚLTIMA CENA (THE LAST SUPPER)
Dir: Tomás GUTIÉRREZ ALEA (Cuba, 1976)
Restored by: Cineteca di Cuba
FUKUSHÛ SURU WA WARE NI ARI (VENGEANCE IS MINE)
Dir: Shôhei IMAMURA (Japan, 1979)
Restored by: Shochiku
MUHOMATSU NO ISSHO (THE RICKSHAW MAN)
Dir: Hiroshi INAGAKI (Japan, 1943)
Restored by: Film Foundation/Kadokawa
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
Dir: Fritz LANG (USA, 1937)
Restored by: StudioCanal
SERPICO
Dir: Sidney LUMET (USA, 1973)
Restored by: Studiocanal
LE CERCLE ROUGE
Dir: Jean-Pierre MELVILLE (France, 1970)
Restored by: Studicanal
NEOKONCHENNAYA PYESA DLYA MEKHANICHESKOGO PIANINO (UNFINISHED PIECE FOR THE PLAYER PIANO)
Dir: Nikita MIKHALKOV (Soviet Union, 1977)
Restored by: Mosfilm
GOODFELLAS
Dir: Martin SCORSESE (USA, 1990)
Restored by: Warner Bros