Venezia Classici Section Revealed

The organizers of the 70th Venice Film Festival have revealed the complete list of the restored films that will be screened in the Classici Section of the prestigious event. Amongst them are Roberto Rossellini's Paisà (Paisan), Elio Petri's La proprietà non è più un furto (Property Is No Longer a Theft), and William Friedkin's Sorcerer.

Legendary Italian actress Claudia Cardinale is expected to attend the event for the screening of Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa by Luchino Visconti, a film awarded the Golden Lion Award at the 30th Venice International Film Festival, which has been recently restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa is one of the four Classics restored this year thanks to the valuable copies of the period conserved at the Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts (ASAC) of the Biennale di Venezia.

The ASAC has also provided the copies of:

Le 15 d'Août by Chantal Akerman (Belgium, France, 1973, 41'), a restoration made possible by the Biennale in collaboration with Cinematek in Brussels.

Sjecaš li se Dolly Bell (Do You Remember Dolly Bell?) by Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia, 1981, 110'), restored by the Sarajevo Film Centre in collaboration with the Biennale.

Little Fugitive by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin (USA, 1953, 80'), restored by RIPLEY'S FILMand Orkin and Engel Film and Photo Archive in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, La Biennale and Carlotta Films.

VENEZIA CLASSICI – RESTORED FILMS

Le mani sulla città (Hands Over the City)
by Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1963, 105', B/W)
restoration: Csc – Cineteca Nazionale
(pre-opening film in Campo San Polo)

Paisà (Paisan)
by Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1946, 134', B/W)
restoration: Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Csc – Cineteca Nazionale,
Coproduction Office and Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Pane e cioccolata (Bread and Chocolate)
by Franco Brusati (Italy, 1973, 100', Colour)
restoration: Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Csc – Cineteca Nazionale and Lucky Red

Quién sabe? (A Bullet for the General)
by Damiano Damiani (Italy, 1966, 119', Colour)
restoration: Csc – Cineteca Nazionale

Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa… (Vague Stars of Ursa…)
by Luchino Visconti (Italy, 1965, 105', B/W)
restoration: Sony Pictures Entertainment and Fondazione Cineteca di
Bologna in collaboration with Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee (ASAC)

La proprietà non è più un furto (Property Is No Longer a Theft)
by Elio Petri (Italy, 1973, 126', Colour)
restoration: Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Museo Nazionale del Cinema
of Turin and Titanus

La bête humaine
by Jean Renoir (France, 1938, 100', B/W)
restoration: Studiocanal

Providence
by Alain Resnais (France, 1977, 110', Colour)
restoration: Jupiter Communications in collaboration with the director of
photography Ricardo Aronovich

Chantal Akerman programme (total length 106'):

Hotel Monterey
by Chantal Akerman (Belgium, USA, 1972, 65', Colour)
restoration: Cinematek in Brussels
Le 15 d'Août (The 15th of August)
by Chantal Akerman (Belgium, France, 1973, 41', B/W)
restoration: Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts (ASAC) in
collaboration with Cinematek in Brussels

Il bacio di Tosca (Tosca's Kiss)
by Daniel Schmid (Switzerland, 1984, 87', Colour)
restoration: La Cinémathèque Suisse in collaboration with the director of
photography Renato Berta

White Rock
by Tony Maylam (Great Britain, 1977, 76', Colour)
restoration: International Olympic Committee, Lausanne

Furyo (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence)
by Nagisa Oshima (United Kingdom, Japan, 1983, 123', Colour)
restoration: HanWay Films

Sjecaš li se Dolly Bell (Do You Remember Dolly Bell?)
by Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia, 1981, 107', Colour)
restoration: Sarajevo Film Centre in collaboration with the Historic
Archives of the Contemporary Arts (ASAC)

Moy Drug Ivan Lapshin (My Friend Ivan Lapshin)
by Aleksey Guerman Sr. (Urss, 1984, 100', B/W)
restoration: Gosfilmofond, Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation, Open
World Fund

Satyajit Ray programme (total length 134'):

Mahapurush (The Holy Man)
by Satyajit Ray (India, 1965, 65', B/W)
restoration: RDB Organization
Kapurush (The Coward)
di Satyajit Ray (India, 1965, 69', B/W)
restoration: RDB Organization

Nidhanaya (The Treasure)
by Lester James Peries (Sri Lanka, 1973, 110', B/W)
restoration: World Cinema Foundation

Yangguang Canlan de Rizi (In the Heat of the Sun)
by Jiang Wen (China, Hong Kong, 1993, 140', Colour)
restoration: Orange Sky, Golden Harvest Entertainment in collaboration
with Jiang Wen

Tian mi mi (Comrades: Almost a Love Story)
by Peter Ho-sun Chan (Hong Kong, 1996, 118', Colour)
restoration: We Pictures in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures and
Peter Ho-sun Chan

Dogfar nai mae marn (Mysterious Object at Noon)
by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2000, 89', B/W)
restoration: World Cinema Foundation, Austrian Film Museum
Higanbana (Equinox Flower)
by Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1958, 118', Colour)
restoration: Shôchiku, Co. LTD

Yoru no henrin (The Shape of Night)
by Noboru Nakamura (Japan, 1964, 109', Colour)
restoration: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo and Tokyo
Culture Creation Project (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for
History and Culture), and TOKYO FILMeX Organizing Committee in
collaboration with Shôchiku, Co. LTD

Let's Get Lost
by Bruce Weber (USA, 1988, 120', B/W)
restoration: Little Bear Inc.

Little Fugitive
by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin (USA, 1953, 80', B/W)
restoration: RIPLEY'S FILM and Orkin and Engel Film and Photo Archive in
collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, the
Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts (ASAC) and Carlotta Films

My Darling Clementine
by John Ford (USA, 1946, 97', B/W)
restoration: 20th Century Fox Film in collaboration with Cineric

Sorcerer
by William Friedkin (USA, 1977, 121', Colour)
restoration: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Adventures of Hajji Baba
by Don Weis (USA, 1954, 94', Colour)
restoration: 20th Century Fox Film in collaboration with Cineric

The Most Dangerous Game
by Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack (USA, 1932, 63', B/W)
restoration: Mk2, Lobster Films and L.E. Diapason