Venice, the Biennale Gardens become a cinema of classics. First restored film festival kicks off

Launching July 24, and running through Aug. 30, is a new feature that the Venice Biennale is launching for this summer: the first edition of the permanent Festival of Restored Cinema, a festival that was supposed to be held at Venice’s Cinema Rossini between March and May, but could not take place because of the health emergency. Now it can finally start, with the difference being that the program is being repurposed in theArena Giardini that the Biennale has set up for this summer, in preparation for the 77. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, which will be held Sept. 2-12.

The Festival will offer twelve masterpieces of the past in original version, with Italian subtitles, restored by leading film libraries and production companies from around the world. The intent is to bring audiences closer to films that have marked the history of cinema and continue to inspire the work of many present-day filmmakers. It begins on Friday, July 24, with Don’t Look Now(In Venice ... a shocking red December, 1973), a masterpiece of horror cinema by British director Nicolas Roeg, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland (restoration curated by StudioCanal): the film will be presented on Friday, July 24, at 9 p.m. by director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria, I Am Love). On July 25 there will be a tribute to Fulvio Roiter, after which there will be a screening of John Huston’s 1971 film Fat City (Bitter City), starring Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto, restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Other films: July 31 A ciascuno il suo (1967) by Elio Petri, starring Gian Maria Volonté, Irene Papas and Gabriele Ferzetti, restored by National Cinema Museum of Turin; August 1 Alien (1979) by Ridley Scott, starring Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, restored by 20th Century Fox; Aug. 7 Miracle in Milan (1951) by Vittorio De Sica, with Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, restoration by Cineteca di Bologna and Compass Film; Aug. 8 Raining in the mountain (1979) by King Hu, with Hsu Feng, Sun Yueh, Shih Chun, restoration by Taiwan Film Institute; Aug. 14 The Go-Between (1971) by Joseph Losey, with Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard, Michael Gough, Edward Fox, Richard Gibson, restoration by StudioCanal; Aug. 15 Kanal (1957) by Andrej Wajda, with Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Stanislaw Mikulski, restoration by Malavida Films; Aug. 21, Dans la ville blanche (1982) by Alain Tanner, starring Bruno Ganz, Teresa Madruga, Julia Vonderlinn, José Carvhalo, restoration by Association Alain Tanner and Cinémathèque Suisse; Aug. 22, Detour (1945) by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, restoration curated by Academy Film Archive and Film Foundation, in collaboration with Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, Museum of Modern Art and Cinémathèque Française; Aug. 29, TheQueen Bee - A Modern History (1963) by Marco Ferreri with Ugo Tognazzi, Marina Vlady, Walter Giller, Linda Sini, Riccardo Fellini, restoration by Cineteca di Bologna; Aug. 30, Toni (1935) by Jean Renoir, with Charles Blavette, Jenny Hélia, Célia Montalvan, Edouard Delmont, restoration curated by Gaumont.

“The growing success of the Venezia Classici section,” said the Director of the Cinema Sector of the Fondazione La Biennale, Alberto Barbera, "which registered the highest attendance of spectators during the last edition of the Biennale Cinema, confirms the existence of an audience that is strongly interested in the re-proposal of classic films from the world’s historical heritage. The possibility of seeing or reviewing on the big screen works that have marked the development of the language and aesthetics of the Seventh Art constitutes a valuable opportunity for the public in general, while it is enriched with educational content for students in particular. These considerations gave rise to the idea of a review entitled Classics Out of Exhibition, which is intended to extend over time the pleasure of viewing, which a festival merely offers over a few days."

Full price ticket is 8 euros. Facilitations for students, with concessions at 2.50 and season tickets for all films at 20 euros. For all info you can visit the Venice Biennale website.

Venice, the Biennale Gardens become a cinema of classics. First restored film festival kicks off

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