Joaquim Pedro de Andrade is presented in Venice as “the ‘father’ of Cinema Novo, a movement that renewed Brazilian moviemaking to the bone, an ‘invisible master’ of historical avant-garde. Under supervision by Alice de Andrade, Joaquim Pedro’s daughter, the films were restored in digital 2k format, high definition.”
It must also be reminded that “Macunaíma/Jungle Freaks”, an adaptation of the classic novel by Mário de Andrade, was selected by the Venice Festival in 1969 and that the master piece conquered world eminence from then on, fixing the Brazilian moviemaker’s name as one of the most modern in the 90’s.
The list of Joaquim Pedro’s restored films to be viewed and re-viewed in Venice follows:
Feature-length films
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (1963) (documentary)
The Priest and the Girl (1965)
Jungle Freaks (1969)
The Conspirators (1972)
Conjugal Warfare (1975)
O Homen do Pau Brasil (1981)
Short films
O Mestre de Apipucos (1959) (documentary)
O Poeta do Castelo (1959) (documentary)
Couro de Gato (1960)
Cinema Novo (1967) (documentary)
Brasilia, Contradições de Uma Cidade Nova (1967)
(documentary)
Linguagem da Persuasão (1970) (documentary)
Vereda Tropical (1977)
O Aleijadinho (1978) (documentary)
Venice 63 - In Competition
Fallen, by Barbara ALBERT - Austria
La stella che non c’è, by Gianni AMELIO - Italy,
France, Swiss and Singapore
The Fountain, by Darren ARONOFSKY - USA
Hollywoodland, by Allen COULTER - USA
Nuovomondo (Golden Door) , by Emanuele CRIALESE – Italy
and France
Children of Men , by Alfonso CUARÓN - Gran Britain e
USA
The Black Dahlia, by Brian DE PALMA - USA
Bobby, by Emilio ESTEVEZ - USA
The Queen, by Stephen FREARS - Gran Bretanha, Italy and France
Daratt , by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN - France, Belgium and Austria
L’intouchable, by Benoît JACQUOT - France
Paprika, by KON Satoshi - Japan
Nue propriété, by Joachim LAFOSSE - Belgium,
Luxemburg and France
Mushi-shi, by ÔTOMO Katsuhiro - Japan
Private Fears in Public Places, by Alain RESNAIS - France and
Italy
Quei loro incontri, by Jean-Marie STRAUB, Danièle HUILLET
– France and Italy
Exiled, by Johnnie TO - Hong Kong and China
Hei yanquan (I don’t want to sleep alone) , by TSAI Ming-Liang
- Taiwan, France and Austria
Zwartboek , by Paul VERHOEVEN - Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
and Gran Britain
Ejforija, by Ivan VYRYPAEV - Russia
Sang sattawat (Syndromes And A Century) , by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
- Thailand, France and Austria
Venezia 63 – Out of Competition
Quelques jours en Septembre, by Santiago AMIGORENA - France
and Italy
The Magic Flute, by Kenneth BRANAGH - Gran Britain
Yeyan, by FENG Xiaogang – China and Hong Kong
Devil Wears Prada, by David FRENKEL - USA
Ostrov, by Pavel LOUNGUINE - Russia
INLAND EMPIRE , by David LYNCH - USA
Gedo senki, by MIYAZAKI Goro - Japan
Belle toujours , by Manoel de OLIVEIRA - Portugal
World Trade Center, by Oliver STONE - USA
Para entrar a vivir , by Jaume BALAGUERÒ - Spain
Rob-B-Hood, by CHAN Benny - Hong Kong and China
Baaz ham sib daari? , by FAZLI Bayram - Iran
Retribution (Sakebi) , by KUROSAWA Kiyoshi - Japan
The Wicker Man, de Neil LABUTE - USA
Jakpae (The City of Violence) , by RYOO Seung-wan – South
Korea
Summer Love, by Piotr UKLANSKI - Poland
Out of Competition events
Lettere dal Sahara , by Vittorio DE SETA - Itália
Orizzonti
Suely , by Karim AÏNOUZ - Brazil, France and Germany
Koorogi, by AOYAMA Shinji - Japan
The Hottest State , by Ethan HAWKE - USA
Taiyang yu (Rain Dogs) , by HO Yuhang – Malasia and Hong
Kong
Svobodnoe plavanie, by Boris KHLEBNIKOV - Russia
El cobrador, in God we trust , by Paul LEDUC - Mexico, Argentina
and Brazil
Mabei shang de fating , by LIU Jie - China
Infamous , by Douglas McGRATH – USA
Opera Jawa , by Garin NUGROHO – Indonesia and Austria
Quijote, by Mimmo PALADINO - Italy
Non prendere impegni stasera , by Gianluca TAVARELLI - Italy
Roma wa la n’touma, by Tariq TEGUIA - Algeria, France
and Germany
Orizzonti Doc
Ana alati tahmol azouhour ila qabriha, by Hala ALABDALLA YAKOUB,
Ammar AL BEIK - Siria and France
Bellissime 2 , by Giovanna GAGLIARDO - Italy
Dong, by JIA Zhangke - China
The U.S. vs. John Lennon, by David LEAF, John SCHEINFELD -
USA
When the Leeves Broke. A Requiem in Four Acts, by Spike LEE
- USA
Tachiguishi retsuden , by OSHII Mamoru - Japan
Heimat - Fragmente, by Edgar REITZ, Christian REITZ - Germany
Special Events
Pasolini prossimo nostro, by Giuseppe BERTOLUCCI –Italy
and France
Akamas , by Panicos CHRYSANTHOU - Cipro, Greece, Ungaria and
Turkey
C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle , by Alain ROBBE-GRILLET
– France and Belgium
Kill Gil (vol. 2) , by Gil ROSSELLINI – Italy and Swiss
Il mio paese, by Daniele VICARI - Italy
Storia segreta del cinema italiano / 3
Rossellini, Soldati e Visconti
Quartieri alti (1942), by Mario Soldati – versione restaurata
dalla Cineteca Nazionale
Ossessione (1943), by Luchino Visconti – versione restaurata
dalla Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley’s Film, in collaborazione con Sky Italia
Roma città aperta (1945), by Roberto Rossellini - versione
restaurata dalla Cineteca Nazionale, in collaborazione con l’Assessorato
alle Politiche Culturali del Comune di Roma e con il supporto tecnico di Cinecittà
Digital
Fuga in Francia (1948), by Mario Soldati - versione restaurata
dalla Cineteca Nazionale
Anna Magnani – episodio da Siamo donne (1953), by Luchino
Visconti – versione restaurata dalla Cineteca Nazionale e Ripley’s
Film
Ingrid Bergman – episodio da Siamo donne (1953), by Roberto
Rossellini – versione restaurata dalla Cineteca Nazionale e Ripley’s
Film
Il generale della Rovere (1959), by Roberto Rossellini –
restauro digitale a cura della Cineteca Nazionale, Gruppo Editoriale Minerva
– Raro Video, in collaborazione con Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino,
Archivio Storico della Biennale di Venezia e LVR
Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano / 3
Il feroce Saladino (1937), by Mario Bonnard – versione
restaurata dalla Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Museo Nazionale del Cinema di
Torino e Cineteca del Comune di Bologna – laboratorio L’Immagine
Ritrovata, in collaborazione con Jaeger Le Coultre, la Biennale di Venezia,
Provincia di Milano – Settore Cultura e Ministero per i Beni e le Attività
Culturali
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965), by Sergio Leone – restauro promosso da Sky Italia, realizzato da Cineteca di Bologna – laboratorio L’Immagine Ritrovata, aventi diritto Famiglia Leone
Dalla nube alla resistenza (1979), by Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet – copia unica d’archivio conservata dalla Cineteca del Comune di Bologna
