Restored movies by Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Manoel de Oliveira, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Tsai Ming-Liang are set to screen as part of the Venice Film Festival‘s 18-title Venice Classics lineup.
Almodóvar’s 1986 erotic thriller featuring Antonio Banderas as a young bullfighter and exploring themes of sex and violence in the bullfighting world – a film that Quentin Tarantino has cited an inspiration – is part of a clutch of European titles in the selection that also include Manoel de Oliveira’s first film “Aniki-Bóbó”; Marcel Carné’s classic noir “Quai des brumes,” starring Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan that was a prize-winner at Venice in 1938; and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Blind Chance, which heralded his famed “Decalogue.”
U.S. highlights comprise Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 Vladimir Nabokov adaptation “Lolita,” starring James Mason and Sue Lyon; Delmer Daves’ 1957 western “3:10 to Yuma,” redone by James Mangold in 2007 in a version starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale; the lesser-known film “The Delicate Delinquent” starring Jerry Lewis; and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “House of Strangers” starring Edward G. Robinson in the role of an Italian-American banker that won him the best actor prize at Cannes in 1949.
Te Asian offerings standout is Taiwanese master Tsai Ming-Liang’s urban alienation drama “Vive l’amour” that won the Venice 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 in a statement.
Director Tommaso Santambrogio (“Taxibol,” “Oceans are the Real Continents”) will chair the jury of film students that will award Venice Classics prizes both for best restored film and best documentary about cinema. The best docs on cinema lineup will be announced on July 22 along with the rest of the official selection.
The upcoming 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival will run Aug. 27-Sept. 6
Venice Classics 2025 Line-up
“Matador,” by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, 1986, 102’, Colour) – restored by: Video Mercury Films
“Bashú, The Little Stranger,” by Bahran 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 (U.S. 1957, 92’, B/W) – restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
“Aniki-Bóbo” by Manoel De Oliveira (Portugal, 1942,72’, B/W) – restored by: Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema
“Roma Ore 11” 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 (U.S. 1951, 81’, Colour) – restored by: Universal Pictures
“Kagi” (“Odd Obsession”) by Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 1959, 107’, Colour) – restored by: Kadokawa Corporation
“Blind Chance” by Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland, 1981, 123’, Colour) restored by: DI Factory
“Kaidan” (“Kwaidan”) by Masaki Kobayashi (Japan, 1965, 183’, Colour) – restored by: Toho
“Lolita” by Stanley Kubrick (U.S., 1962, 153’,B/W) – restored by: The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros.
“House of Strangers,” by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (U.S. 1949, 101’, B/W) – restored by: Walt DisneyStudios, The Film Foundation
“The Delicate Delinquent,” by Don Mcguire (U.S. 1957, 101’, B/W) – restored by: Paramount
“Il Magnifico Cornuto,” 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.
“Aiquing Wansui” (“Vive L’amour”) by by Tsai Ming-Liang (Taipei, 1994, 119’, Colour) – restored by: Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
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