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Manoel de Oliveira and Maria Isabel de Oliveira in “Cristovão Colombo – O Enigma”

FESTIVAL OFFERS OLIVEIRA, CHABROL, BRESSANE, GITAI, KITANO AND ALLEN IN SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

The 64th Venice Festival (29 August – 8 September) will have special presentations of the new films by Woody Allen (CASSANDRA’S DREAM), Júlio Bressane (CLEÓPATRA), Claude Chabrol (LA FILLE COUPÉE EM DEUX), Amos Gitai (DISENGAGEMENT), Takeshi Kitano (GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER!) and Manoel de Oliveira (CRISTÓVÃO COLOMBO – O ENIGMA). In the latter, the almost centenary filmmaker acts besides his wife Maria Isabel.


The great retrospective has been programmed to rescue the western all’italiana, a very popular gender in the 1960’s and 70’s, which levered Italian‘s film industry and spread itself all over the world.


This year, homage will be paid to Italian Bernardo Bertolucci and German Alexander Kluge. Among the restored classics in special presentation, the highlight is INTOLERANCE, shot by D.W. Griffith in 1917, with Lílian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Elmer Clifton and Constance Talmadge. A IDADE DA TERRA shot by Glauber Rocha in 1980, with Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Tarcísio Meira, Antonio Pitanga and Ana Maria Magalhães will also be seen again in the category of great classic of Brazilian and Latin-American cinema.


With an eye in the future, the direction of the Venice Festival opens a world contest for the project of its new cinema palace. The present one is a heritage of Mussolini’s fascist regime, with its characteristic straight lines and wide perspectives. More information on the contest at http://www.labiennale-concorso.org/concorso.html