Venice Classics Line-Up Revealed

The organizers of the Venice Film Festival, the oldest international film festival in the world, have revealed the complete line-up of restored film that will be screened in the Classics section of the prestigious event. Amongst them are acclaimed Italian director Marco Bellocchio's La Cina e vicina (China Is Near), Jack Clayton's The Innocents, Elio Petri's Todo modo, Krzysztof Kieślowski's No End, and Robert Bresson's Mouchette.

The festival runs from August 27 - September 6.

COMPLETE CLASSICS LINE-UP:

• Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés) by François Truffaut (France, 1968, 90 minutes, color); restored by: MK2

• No End (Bezkońca) by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Poland, 1984, 108 minutes, color); restored by: Studio Filmowe Tor with the support of the National Audiovisual Institute (the Multiannual Government Programme Culture+) and the Polish Film Institute

• Bride (Gelin) by Ömer Lütfi Akad (Turkey, 1973, 92 minutes, color); restored by: Erman Film

• Guys and Dolls by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (USA, 1955, 150 minutes, color); restored by: Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Imaging and Samuel Goldwyn

• Only She Knows (Kanojo dake ga shitteiru) by Takahashi Osamu (Japan, 1960, 63 minutes, B&W); restored by: Shochiku Co. Ltd and TOKYO FILMeX

• Papal Audience (also known as The Audience) (L'udienza) by Marco Ferreri (Italy/France, 1971, 112 minutes, color); restored by: Cineteca di Bologna and Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, in collaboration with Cristaldi Film

• China is Near (La Cina è vicina) by Marco Bellocchio (Italy, 1967, 108 minutes, B&W); restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment (period copy used as reference from ASAC), in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna

• Mouchette by Robert Bresson (France, 1967, 82 minutes, B&W); restored by: Argos Films, with the support of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (CNC)

• Without Pity (Senza pietà) by Alberto Lattuada (Italy, 1948, 89 minutes, B&W); restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, in collaboration with Cristaldi Film

• The Innocents by Jack Clayton (United Kingdom/USA, 1961, 100 minutes, B&W) restored by: Twentieth Century Fox

• The Iron Mask by Allan Dwan (USA, 1929, 97 minutes, B&W); restored by: The Museum of Modern Art, New York

• The Man From Laramie by Anthony Mann (USA, 1955, 102 minutes, color); restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment

• The Tales of Hoffmann by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (United Kingdom, 1951, 138 minutes, color); restored by: The Film Foundation and the BFI National Archive in association with Studiocanal. The funding for the restoration was provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Franco-American Cultural Fund, The Film Foundation,, and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation

• The Tragedy of Macbeth by Roman Polanski (United Kingdom/USA, 1971, 140 minutes, color); restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment

• Todo modo by Elio Petri (Italy/France, 1976, 125 minutes, color); restored by: Cineteca di Bologna and Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, in collaboration with Surf Film

• Umberto D. by Vittorio De Sica (Italy, 1952, 91 minutes, B&W); restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, the Associazione Vittorio De Sica and RTI

• A Special Day (Una giornata particolare) by Ettore Scola (Italy/France, 1977, 110 minutes, color); restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, in collaboration with Surf Film

• Walking the Streets of Moscow (Ya Shagayu po Moskve) by Georgiy Daneljia (USSR, 1963, 78 minutes, B&W); restored by: Gosfilmofond