Venice Film Festival's Venice Classics Lineup Features Restored Films by Rossellini, Wajda, Buñuel, and Corman
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Nick Vivarelli
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The Venice Film Festival's Venice Classics section will feature 19 restored films, including Roberto Rossellini's 'Journey to Italy' starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders, Andrej Wajda's 'Ashes and Diamonds' (a Martin Scorsese favorite), Luis Buñuel's 'Illusion Travels By Streetcar,' Roger Corman's 'The Wild Angels,' and works by John Cassavetes and Ann Hui. The lineup showcases freshly restored cinematic masterpieces from around the world.
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· 3 pulledWajda's drama about postwar political and social chaos 'Ashes and Diamonds,' which Martin Scorsese has called one of his ten favorite films
Rossellini's marriage crisis movie 'Journey to Italy,' starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders
Corman's biggest commercial success, 'The Wild Angels'
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