{"id":571349,"date":"2026-07-06T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/571349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:17:08","slug":"locarno-studio-ghibli-film-kevin-costners-4k-dances-with-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/571349\/","title":{"rendered":"Locarno: Studio Ghibli Film, Kevin Costner’s 4K ‘Dances With Wolves’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Costner<\/a>\u2018s 1990 western Dances With\u00a0Wolves has an extended\u00a0director\u2019s cut that now has received a\u00a04K restoration, which will premiere at the 79th edition<\/a> of the Locarno Film Festival<\/a> in Switzerland this summer.<\/p>\n

Its Histoire(s) du Cin\u00e9ma (History\/-ies of Cinema) program was unveiled by organizers on Monday, offering restorations and classic screenings. <\/p>\n

On Friday, Aug. 7, the audience in Locarno\u2019s Piazza Grande square will get to experience the new version of Dances with Wolves<\/a>, restored by Zurich-based laboratory Cinegrell in collaboration with the Locarno festival through its Locarno Heritage project and its international<\/a> sales agent, K5 International. \u201cCostner\u2019s western epic, which won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, helped redefine the western at the turn of the 1990s and drew global attention to the historical plight of Indigenous peoples on the American continent,\u201d Locarno said. \u201cAs presented on the giant screen of the Piazza Grande in the nearly four-hour extended edition \u2013 incorporating over half an hour of previously unseen additional material \u2013 this restoration offers audiences the chance to rediscover Costner\u2019s expansive popular masterpiece as it was originally intended to be seen by the director himself.\u201d <\/p>\n

Safi Faye\u2019s Letter From My Village (1975), the winner of the 2025 Heritage Restoration Contest that blends documentary and fiction, has also been newly restored by Cinegrell, the Locarno Heritage project and its rights holder, Arsenal FilmInstitut. \u201cRecognized as the first feature film by a woman from sub-Saharan Africa to receive commercial distribution, Letter from My Village is set in the Serer region of rural Senegal and follows a young couple whose plans to marry are thwarted by drought and the precarious conditions of village life,\u201d Locarno noted.<\/p>\n

Said Giona A. Nazzaro<\/a>, Locarno\u2019s artistic director: \u201cThe Locarno Film Festival\u2019s connection with the history of cinema runs deep and spans all its eras and forms. From the tradition of major, innovative retrospectives \u2013 which are enriched each year with new and exciting additions \u2013 to the world-renowned restorations of Locarno Heritage, the festival has fostered a meaningful and multifaceted dialogue both with universally acclaimed masterpieces and with those chapters of cinema yet to be discovered or preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded: \u201cFrom Kevin Costner to Safi Faye, the Locarno Film Festival engages with cinema of the past with an eye to the new generations and the audiences of tomorrow, who are already preparing today for the challenges posed by new technologies.\u201d <\/p>\n

In a special centenary tribute, Histoire(s) du Cin\u00e9ma will also screen Roger Corman<\/a>\u2019s last film as a director, Frankenstein Unbound (1990), starring John Hurt, Ra\u00fal Juli\u00e1 and Bridget Fonda, which organizers called \u201ca bold hybrid of science fiction and Gothic horror that creatively reconfigures the Frankenstein myth for the late 20th century.\u201d The screening will honor \u201cthe legacy of a fearless and extraordinarily prolific producer-director,\u201d Locarno said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn keeping with the spirit of previous editions, this year\u2019s Heritage selection brings together a rich array of filmmakers and perspectives \u2013 from Isao Takahata to Roger Corman \u2013 to ensure that the cinema of the past continues to live on in the present,\u201d Locarno said. <\/p>\n

As part of the festival\u2019s longstanding partnership with the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Suisse, two films by Swiss experimental filmmaker Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, namely Sirenen-Eiland (1981) and Geister und G\u00e4ste (1989), will screen in the section Cin\u00e9ma Suisse Red\u00e9couvert, which showcases rediscovered Swiss cinema of the past. The illustrator and graphic artist turned filmmaker at the age of 50. <\/p>\n

Also, Locarno and mudac \u2013 Cantonal Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts at the Plateforme 10 arts district are joining forces to celebrate the work and legacy of the late Isao Takahata, one of the co-founders of Japan\u2019s Studio Ghibli<\/a> and \u201cone of animation\u2019s great masters,\u201d as the fest highlighted. Locarno79 will screen his Grave of the Fireflies (1988) in a tribute to the filmmaker on Friday, Aug. 7, introduced by his son, Kosuke Takahata. The legendary Takahata visited Locarno in 2009 to receive an Honorary Leopard. <\/p>\n

The 79th Locarno festival will take place Aug. 5-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner\u2018s 1990 western Dances With\u00a0Wolves has an extended\u00a0director\u2019s cut that now has received a\u00a04K restoration, which will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[29274,18,117,19,1452,17,231688,7729,231689,231690,327,64740,93550],"class_list":["post-571349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dances-with-wolves","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-karlovy-vary-international-film-festival","tag-kevin-costner","tag-kviff","tag-kviff-2026","tag-movies","tag-roger-corman","tag-studio-ghibli"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116872521138922842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}