‘The Exorcist,’ ‘Days of Heaven,’ ‘One From the Heart’ Join Venice Film Festival’s Classics Lineup
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Recently restored versions of William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist,” Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “One From the Heart” feature in the Venice Classics section of the 80th Venice Film Festival.
The lineup of recently restored films in Venice Classics, which is curated by the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera in collaboration with Federico Gironi, was unveiled on Friday. “The Exorcist” is screened, 50 years after it was produced by Warner Bros., alongside Disney’s “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” starring Shirley Temple and directed by “the prolific and sometimes brilliant” Allan Dwan, to mark the Hollywood studios’ 100th anniversaries. “One From the Heart” and Arturo Ripstein’s “Deep Crimson” are “not just restored, but also revised by the filmmakers themselves in what are genuine Director’s Cuts,” Barbera and Gironi said, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece “Andrei Rublev” will be presented in the reconstruction of the original version, which was “censored before its release and has never been seen until now.” The section also includes “a series of great films that rightfully belong to the history of cinema and its pantheon,” Barbera and Gironi said, such as Agnès Varda’s “The Creatures,” “Days of Heaven,” and “King and Country,” directed by Joseph Losey.
Also in this pantheon, according to the curators, is Sergei Parajanov’s “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,” which “revealed to the world the remarkable qualities of the great Armenian-Ukrainian director, despised by Soviet authorities for his work, which takes a visionary surrealistic approach to the popular traditions of the Caucasian peoples.” The section also includes “Jungle
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