Sergio Leone's film restored, debuts at Cannes

The world restoration premier of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America debuted at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

The film originally premiered in Cannes in 1984.

With Gucci's support, the film was restored by Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory in association with Andrea Leone Films, The Film Foundation, and Regency Enterprises.

For the new restoration, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) scanned the original camera negatives of the 3 hour and 49 minute version and the picture was digitally restored at 4K resolution at Cineteca di Bologna's lab L'Immagine Ritrovata.

Cineteca di Bologna worked with the Leone Family, film historians, and the film's original crew (Franco Ferrini, one of the film's screenwriters, executive producer Claudio Mancini, editors Patrizia Ceresani and Alessandro Baragli, and sound mixer Fausto Ancillai) to find and re-insert 26 minutes of additional footage that had not made the European and US release cuts.

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