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Venice Classics to Feature Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Matador,’ Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Lolita,’ Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘House of Strangers’
The Venice Classics section will feature Pedro Almodóvar's 'Matador,' Stanley Kubrick's 'Lolita,' and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 'House of Strangers.'
Almodóvar’s 1986 erotic thriller featuring Antonio Banderas as a young bullfighter and exploring themes of sex and violence in the bullfighting world – a film that Quentin Tarantino has cited an inspiration – is part of a clutch of European titles in the selection that also include Manoel de Oliveira’s first film “Aniki-Bóbó”; Marcel Carné’s classic noir “Quai des brumes,” starring Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan that was a prize-winner at Venice in 1938; and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Blind Chance, which heralded his famed “Decalogue.” “Bashú, The Little Stranger,” by Bahran Beyzai (Iran, 1986, 120’, Colour) – restored by: Roashana Studios with the support of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) presented by mk2 Films “Le Quai des Brumes” (“Port of Shadows”) by Marcel Carné (France, 1938, 92’, B/W) –restored by: Studiocanal and la Cinémathèque française with the support of the Centre national du Cinéma et de l’image animée and Chanel
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