Classici fuori Mostra: screenings at the Cinema Rossini until 15 May

From February 14 to May 15 – on a weekly basis, at 7 pm at the Cinema Rossini (Salizzada de la Chiesa o del Teatro, 3997) – the fifth edition of the film series Classici fuori Mostra. Permanent Festival of Restored Films will be held in Venice; the series is organized by La Biennale di Venezia in collaboration with the City of Venice's Circuito Cinema and the professors of film studies at Ca’ Foscari University and Università IUAV in Venice.

On a weekly basis, Classici fuori Mostra will present eleven film Classics that have  recently been restored by major film archives worldwide, in the original language and with Italian subtitles. Each film will be introduced by an expert and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Special discounts will be available for students (reduced student ticket price, 3 euros; reduced student pass, 30 euros; full price ticket, 6 euros).

“Classici Fuori Mostra, which Venice's public has shown it appreciates through its assiduous attendance during the past editions, is back for the fifth time,” declared the Film Festival's artistic director, Alberto Barbera. “The possibility to see, or see once again, on the silver screen some of the masterpieces that have marked the evolution of the seventh art over the course of the past century, in versions that have been carefully restored by some of the major film archives and specialized laboratories throughout the world, is obviously a precious opportunity that students, in particular, intend to exploit”.

• February 14 Il terrorista (1963) by Gianfranco de Bosio (introduced by Stefano de Bosio, Maria Ida Biggi, Giuseppe Ghigi, and Marco Borghi)
• February 21  Blow Out (1981) by Brian De Palma (introduced by Sara d’Ascenzo)
• February 28 Il grido (1957) by Michelangelo Antonioni (introduced by Adriano De Grandis)
• March 6 Le mépris (Contempt, 1963) by Jean-Luc Godard (introduced by Carmelo Marabello)
• March 13 Badlands (1973) by Terrence Malick (introduced by Marco Dalla Gassa)
• April 3 Peeping Tom (1969) by Michael Powell (introduced by Marco Contino)
• April 10 Magasiskola (The Falcons, 1970) by István Gaál (introduced by Giuseppe Ghigi)
• April 17 Rio Bravo (1959) by Howard Hawks (introduced by Michele Gottardi)
• April 24 Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo, 1961) by Vittorio De Seta (introduced by Marco Bertozzi)
• May 8 Classe tous risques (The Big Risk, 1960) by Claude Sautet (introduced by Elena Pollacchi)
• May 15 Il ferroviere (The Railroad Man, 1956) by Pietro Germi (introduced by Roberta Novielli)

Venice Classics is the increasingly popular section that, since 2012, has presented world premiere screenings of a selection of the best restorations of film classics that have been conducted over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions, and production companies throughout the world. Venice Classics is curated by Alberto Barbera with the collaboration of Federico Gironi.