‘Lolita’, ‘Matador’, ‘Rome 11:00’ among Venice Classics 2025 line-up

Venice Classics screen Stanley Kubrick restorations Lolita and Pedro Almodo Doval Matador As part of the 18 film lineup at the 82nd Venice Film Festival (August 27th – September 6th).

Lolita It is a US-UK co-production adapted by Kubrick of Nabokov’s novel, with James Mason and Sue Lyon playing a major role. It was his first performance in Venice in 1962.

Matador It is one of Almodóvar’s early works. The erotic 1986 thriller watches Antonio Banderas plays student Matador, who accidentally confesses his murder.

Among the four Italian films is Giuseppe de Santis, who once underrated the 1952 film Rome 11:00 and Luciano Salce’s 1967 film I married you for fun. Adopting a novel named after Natalia Ginzburg, Salce is starring Monica Vitti. During the repair process, Cinecittà was able to reintegrate two sequences that were thought to have been disconnected by censorship and were thought to have been lost.

From Iran, there is the 1989 Burlam Bayzai. Bash, little stranger, About a boy whose family was killed during the Iran-Iraq War. It is also inspired by the neorealist of Indian filmmaker Bimal Roy. 2 acres of landabout the battle for survival of the agricultural family, which played at Cannes in 1954.

Director Tomaso Santamprogio chairs the ju judges of film students, and in his 12th year he will award the Venice Classic Award for each competition for his respective competition for the finest documentaries on each restored film and film.