Venice Classics to Feature Roberto Rossellini’s ‘Journey to Italy,’ Roger Corman’s ‘The Wild Angels’ and Dev Benegal’s ‘English, August’

The Venice Film Festival has announced its Classics program, featuring nineteen freshly restored masterworks from cinema's greatest directors. The lineup includes Andrej Wajda's postwar drama 'Ashes and Diamonds'—a film Martin Scorsese named one of his ten favorites—alongside restored prints of Roberto Rossellini's 'Journey to Italy,' Luis Buñuel's work, Roger Corman's 'The Wild Angels,' and films by John Cassavetes and Ann Hui. According to Variety, these restorations celebrate the enduring power of cinema's golden era.

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