The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the 18 recently restored movies that will be showcased in its Venice Classics sidebar at upcoming 82nd edition.
The line-up features Delmer Daves’ 1957 western 3:10 to Yuma, based on a 1953 short story by Elmore Leonard, which was revisited by James Mangold in 2007 in a version starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.
Other U.S. highlights include The Delicate Delinquent, starring Jerry Lewis, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, House of Strangers, starring Edward G. Robinson in the role of a rags-to-riches Italian American banker accused of criminal activity.
The sidebar will also showcase Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 Vladimir Nabokov adaptation Lolita, starring James Mason and Sue Lyon.
European classics in the selection include Manoel de Oliveira’s first film Aniki-Bóbó, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance, which heralded Decalogue; Pedro Almodóvar’s Matador, and Marcel Carné’s pioneering film noir Le Quai des brumes, starring Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan, which was a prize-winner at the 1938 Venice Film Festival.
The line-up also includes four Italian films: neorealist work Rome 11:00 by Giuseppe De Santis; 1963 horror The Ghost, made by Riccardo Freda under the pseudonym of Robert Hampton, and Italian-style comediesThe Magnificent Cuckold by Antonio Pietrangeli, starring Ugo Tognazzi, and I Married You for Fun, directed by Luciano Salce, who adapted the eponymous novel by Natalia Ginzburg for the screen with Monica Vitti in the lead role.
The latter film will feature two reintegrated sequences, cut by the censors and thought to be lost, but rediscovered during the restoration process at Cinecittà.
Asian highlights include Japanese director Kon Ichikawa’s Odd Obsession; Kaidan by Masaki Kobayashi, which will be shown in an uncut version never been released before, and Vive l’amour by Taiwan’s Tsai Ming-Liang, which returns to Venice after winning the Golden Lion in 1994.
“Year after year, the lineup of Venice Classics seeks to pursue even greater openness, celebrating on the one hand the great masterpieces and indisputable masters in the history of cinema, and striving on the other to discover – or rediscover – films and filmmakers who have been ungenerously relegated to the shadows,” said Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera.
Director Tommaso Santambrogio (Taxibol, Oceans are the Real Continents) will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the twelfth year – will award the Venice Classics prizes for the respective competitions for Best Restored Film and for the Best Documentary About Cinema.
It will be composed of 24 students, each of them recommended by professors of film studies from various Italian universities, DAMS and from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
The Venice Classics 2025 Line-up
MATADOR
by PEDRO ALMODÓVAR (Spain, 1986, 102’, Colour)
restored by: Video Mercury Films
BASHÚ, GHARIBEH KOUCHAK (BASHU, THE LITTLE STRANGER)
by BAHRAM BEYZAI (Iran, 1986, 120’, Colour)
restored by: Roashana Studios with the support of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (KANOON) – presented by mk2 Films
LE QUAI DES BRUMES (PORT OF SHADOWS)
by MARCEL CARNÉ (France, 1938, 92’, B/W)
restored by: Studiocanal and la Cinémathèque française with the support of the Centre national du Cinéma et de l’image animée and CHANEL
3:10 TO YUMA
by DELMER DAVES (USA, 1957, 92’, B/W)
restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
ANIKI-BÓBÓ
by MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA (Portugal, 1942,72’, B/W)
restored by: Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema
ROMA ORE 11 (ROME 11:00)
by GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS (Italy, 1952, 105’,B/W)
restored by: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale
LO SPETTRO (THE GHOST)
by RICCARDO FREDA (Italy, 1963, 95’,Colour)
restored by: Severin Films
MARK OF THE RENEGADE
by HUGO FREGONESE (USA, 1951, 81’, Colour)
restored by: Universal Pictures
KAGI (ODD OBSESSION)
by KON ICHIKAWA (Japan, 1959, 107’, Colour)
restored by: Kadokawa Corporation
PRZYPADEK (BLIND CHANCE)
by KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI (Poland, 1981, 123’, Colour)
restored by: DI Factory
KAIDAN (KWAIDAN)
by MASAKI KOBAYASHI (Japan, 1965, 183’, Colour)
restored by: Toho
LOLITA
by STANLEY KUBRICK (USA, 1962, 153’,B/N)
restored by: The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros.
HOUSE OF STRANGERS
by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ (USA, 1949, 101’, B/W)
restored by: Walt DisneyStudios, The Film Foundation
THE DELICATE DELINQUENT
by DON MCGUIRE (USA, 1957, 101’, B/W)
restored by: Paramount
IL MAGNIFICO CORNUTO (THE MAGNIFICENT CUCKOLD)
by ANTONIO PIETRANGELI (Italy, France,1964, 124’, B/W)
restored by: Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Compass Film
DO BIGHA ZAMIN (TWO ACRES OF LAND)
by BIMAL ROY (India, 1953, 120’, B/W)
restored by: Film Heritage Foundation – India, The Criterion Collection
TI HO SPOSATO PER ALLEGRIA (I MARRIED YOU FOR FUN)
by LUCIANO SALCE (Italy, 1967, 102’, Colour)
restored by: Cinecittà S.p.A.
AIQING WANSUI (VIVE L’AMOUR)
by TSAI MING-LIANG (Taipei, 1994, 119’, Colour)
restored by: Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
