Film director Giuliano Montaldo (Sacco & Vanzetti, And Agnes Chose to Die, The Gold Rimmed Glasses) will chair the Jury of film students which, at the 71st Venice Film Festival (27 August – 6 September 2014), will award the VENICE CLASSICS AWARD for BEST RESTORED FILM and the VENICE CLASSICS AWARD for BEST DOCUMENTARY ON CINEMA. The students of the jury, selected from various Italian universities, are 28 graduating students in the History of Cinema, recommended by the professors of 13 Arts, Music and Performing Arts Departments (DAMS) and from the University of Ca’ Foscari in Venice. This is the second year in which these prizes are being awarded.
Once again this year the Biennale di Venezia will participate in Venice Classics with the Collections from its Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts (ASAC), which continues in its effort to cultivate its heritage. In particular, the 71st Venice Film Festival will feature a screening of Marco Bellocchio’s masterpiece La Cina è vicina (China is Near), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1967 Venice International Film Festival, restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, on the basis of a valuable period copy preserved at the ASAC.
The 71st Venice Film Festival will present 22 restored films in the Venice Classics section, including 19 feature-length films and 3 short films:
Feature Films
Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses)
by François Truffaut (France, 1968, 90’, Color)
restored by: Mk2
Bez końca (No End)
by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Poland, 1984, 108’, Color)
restored by: Studio Filmowe Tor with the support of the National Audiovisual Institute (the Multiannual Government Programme Culture +) and the Polish Film Institute
Gelin (Bride)
by Ömer Lütfi Akad (Turkey, 1973, 87’, Color)
restored by: Erman Film
Guys and Dolls
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (USA, 1955, 150’, Color)
restored by: Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Imaging and Samuel Goldwyn
Kanojo dake ga shitteiru(Only She Knows)
by Takahashi Osamu (Japan, 1960, 63’, B&W)
restored by: Shochiku Co. Ltd and TOKYO FILMeX
(Papal Audience/The Audience)
by Marco Ferreri (Italy/France, 1971, 111’, Color)
restored by: Cineteca di Bologna and Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, in collaboration with Cristaldi Film
La Cina è vicina (China is Near)
by Marco Bellocchio (Italy, 1967, 108’, B&W)
restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment (period copy used as reference from the Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts of the Biennale di Venezia – ASAC), in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna
Maciste Alpino (The Warrior)
by Luigi Maggi e Luigi Romano Borgnetto, under the supervision in the direction department of Giovanni Pastrone (Italy, 1916, 97’, Color) restored by: the Biennale di Venezia in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, at the Laboratorio L’Immagine Ritrovata di Bologna.
(pre-opening Sala Darsena)
Mouchette
by Robert Bresson (France, 1967, 82’, B&W)
restored by: Argos Films, with the support of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC)
Senza pietà (Without Pity)
by Alberto Lattuada (Italy, 1948, 89’, B&W)
restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, in collaboration with Cristaldi Film
The Innocents
by Jack Clayton (United Kingdom/USA, 1961, 100’, B&W)
restored by: Twentieth Century Fox
The Iron Mask
by Allan Dwan (USA, 1929, 97’, B&W)
restored by: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Man From Laramie
by Anthony Mann (USA, 1955, 102’, Color)
restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
The Tales of Hoffmann
by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (United Kingdom, 1951, 138’, Color)
restored by: The Film Foundation and the BFI National Archive in association with Studiocanal.The funding for the restoration was kindly granted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, by 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’, Color)
restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Todo modo
by Elio Petri (Italy/France, 1976, 130’, 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, 89’, B&W)
restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, the Associazione Vittorio De Sica and RTI
Una giornata particolare (A Special Day)
by Ettore Scola (Italy/France, 1977, 102’, Color)
restored by: CSC – Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, in collaboration with Surf Film
Ya Shagayu po Moskve (Walking the Streets of Moscow)
by Georgij Danelija(USSR, 1964, 78’, B&W)
restored by: Gosfilmofond
Short Films
L’amour existe (Love Exists)
by Maurice Pialat (France, 1961, 19’, B&W)
restored by: Les Films de la Pléiade/Les Films du Jeudi and L’Agence du court métrage, with the support of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC)
Arlecchino (Harlequin)
by Giuliano Montaldo (Italy, 1983, 8’, Color)
restored by: Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana and CSC–Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, in collaboration with the Associazione Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema
L’avventura di un soldato(The Adventure of a Soldier) – episode from L’amore difficile (Of Wayward Love)
by Nino Manfredi (Italy/Germany, 1962, 27’, Color)
restored by: CSC–Cineteca Nazionale di Roma, with the collaboration of Erminia Manfredi, Dalia Events, Onni and Faso Film
Completing the Venice Classics section will be a selection of documentaries about cinema and its authors.
Documentaries about cinema
Altman by Ron MANN (Canada, 2014, 95’)
Giulio Andreotti – Il cinema visto da vicino by Tatti SANGUINETI (Italy, 2014, 95’)
Animata resistenza (Animated Resistance)by Francesco MONTAGNER, Alberto GIROTTO (Italy, 2014, 61’)
Donne nel mito – Sophia racconta la Loren (Great Women – Sophia on Loren)by Marco SPAGNOLI (Italy, 2014, 40’)
Gian Luigi Rondi: Vita, cinema, passione by Giorgio TREVES (Italy, 2014, 74’)
Guangyin de gushi – Taiwan xin dianying (Flowers of Taipei – Taiwan New Cinema) by HSIEH Chinlin (Chinese Taipei, 2014, 110’)
Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (A Conversation) by Amir NADERI(USA, 2014, 210’)
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & The Lost American Film by Bill TECK (USA, 2014, 120’)
Poltrone rosse – Parma e il cinema (Red Chairs – Parma and the Cinema)by Francesco BARILLI (Italy, 2014, 90’)
Von Caligari zu Hitler (From Caligari to Hitler) by Rüdiger SUCHSLAND (Germany, 2014, 113’)
