Kevin Costner‘s 1990 western Dances With Wolves has an extended director’s cut that now has received a 4K restoration, which will premiere at the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland this summer.
Its Histoire(s) du Cinéma (History/-ies of Cinema) program was unveiled by organizers on Monday, offering restorations and classic screenings.
On Friday, Aug. 7, the audience in Locarno’s Piazza Grande square will get to experience the new version of Dances with Wolves, restored by Zurich-based laboratory Cinegrell in collaboration with the Locarno festival through its Locarno Heritage project and its international sales agent, K5 International. “Costner’s 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,” Locarno said. “As presented on the giant screen of the Piazza Grande in the nearly four-hour extended edition – incorporating over half an hour of previously unseen additional material – this restoration offers audiences the chance to rediscover Costner’s expansive popular masterpiece as it was originally intended to be seen by the director himself.”
