Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves Rides Again with Restored 4K Festival Debut
The nearly four-hour restoration adds over half an hour of unseen footage and will screen in Locarno's Piazza Grande as part of the festival's heritage program.
- On August 7, the 79th Locarno Film Festival will premiere a 4K restoration of Kevin Costner's 1990 western 'Dances With Wolves', featuring an extended director's cut.
- This nearly four-hour extended edition incorporates over 30 minutes of previously unseen material, allowing audiences to rediscover the film as Costner originally intended.
- Earning 12 Oscar nominations, the 1990 feature marked Costner's directorial debut and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- Organizers unveiled the 'Histoire du Cinéma' program on Monday, which also features Roger Corman's 'Frankenstein Unbound' and Isao Takahata's landmark 1988 anime 'Grave of the Fireflies'.
- Running from August 5 to August 15 in Switzerland, the festival continues its legacy of preserving cinema with an eye toward new generations and audiences of tomorrow.
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The 1990 western "Dances with Wolves," directed by and starring Kevin Costner, which follows an American Civil War soldier as he forms a relationship with a group of Lakota people, has received a new 4K restoration that will be presented at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival.
The extended version of Balla coni wolves, which lasts four hours, has been restored in 4K and will be shown at the next Locarno Festival. The appointment is for 7 August 2026 on the largest outdoor screen in Europe, in Piazza Grande, in the Swiss town. In 1990 the masterpiece of Costner director, here also producer but above all [...] L'articolo Balla con wolves restored: at the Locarno Festival the four-hour version that Costner has never cons…
Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves rides again with restored 4K festival debut
The Oscar-winning western will be screened in an extended 4K director’s cut at the Locarno Film Festival, with more than 30 minutes of additional footage included in the restored version.
Kevin Costner’s ‘Dances With Wolves’ Restored Extended Director’s Cut to Premiere at Locarno
Films from Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata and Roger Corman will also screen as the Swiss fest keeps putting a spotlight on "cinema of the past with an eye to the new generations and the audiences of tomorrow."
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