Discover the highlights in tomorrow’s programme!

The rediscovered Ford and other restorations 
One of John Ford’s first films, recently rediscovered, The Scarlet Drop, is one of the highlights in the long list of Recovered and Restored films throughout the course of the day. This surprising Western gives us a glimpse of the visual elements that became characteristic of Ford’s work. The screening will feature live music accompaniment from Antonio Coppola on piano, who will also accompany two irresistible Laurel and Hardy comedies. Then it’s the turn of two female icons from the history of cinema: Les Mauvais coups is illuminated by Simone Signoret as never before seen, while Preminger’s Saint Joan, with a Graham Greene screenplay adapted from a George Bernard Shaw play, marks the debut of the Godardian Jean Seberg. From medieval France, we turn our attention to Mexico of the 1960s with En el balcón vacío, a fundamental turning point for independent Mexican cinema, and then delve into the labyrinthine corridors of memory and the unfathomable reasonings of love in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. At Pratello Pop, genre cinema reigns supreme, with the crime film Lo sgarro, a forgotten masterpiece about the violence of the Neapolitan Camorra, and the Hammer classic The Quatermass Xperiment, preceded by cooking tips from a surprising gourmet: the master of horror Vincent Price.

Piazza Maggiore – 9.45pm | Sala Scorsese – 6pm

Coline Serreau in Piazza Maggiore with Trois hommes et un couffin
Coline Serreau, actress, filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and street acrobat, is one of the protagonists of this year’s festival: the French director, to whom we have dedicated a section, will be in Sala Scorsese at 6pm to introduce Grands-mères de l’Islam and Mais qu’est-ce qu’elles veulent?, two works where she gives the floor to other women – the grandmothers of two Muslim families and workers interviewed in their places of work. A utopian choice, which at the time represented a brave political gesture, motivated by the desire to denounce a prevailing and tangible social inequality. In the evening, Serreau will introduce Trois hommes et un couffin in Piazza Maggiore, an irresistible comedy about the relationship between men and motherhood, which, as in all the director’s films, deconstructs and questions gender stereotypes.

Sala Scorsese – 4.20pm

Great Small Gauge: Of Songs and Society
This year’s edition focuses on a genre closely associated with the 16mm format: music documentaries, including the popular subgenre of rockumentary. In Les grandes répétitions: Cecil Taylor à Paris, Taylor discusses the philosophy of music and performance, rendering his points with an opaque, two-handed intensity on the piano that pushes bebop into abstract expressionism, and the film crew into a visceral pool of sound. Archie Shepp chez les Tuaregs captures the energy of the first Pan-African Cultural Festival, a groundbreaking event for post-independent Algeria as well as for the continent of Africa, and the saxophonist’s transformative journey as he seeks to reconnect with his African roots.

Cinema Jolly – 2pm and 4.20pm

Cinemalibero
As always, the Cinemalibero section takes us to the peripheries of dominant systems of production with two unmissable appointments: Gehenu Lamai, a lyrical telling of the story of two sisters in rural Sri Lanka, and Riḥ Es-Sed, whose screening in Tunisia in 1986 became a bona fide event, due to its ability to break taboos and tackle issues such as homosexuality and sexual violence head on. Gehenu Lamai, along with the Indian masterpiece Sholay, will be at the centre of a restoration meeting on Monday 23 June, featuring director, archivist and Founder Director of the Film Heritage Foundation Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and Céline Stéphanie Pozzi and Elena Tammaccaro of L’Immagine Ritrovata.

Sala Scorsese – 2.15pm

Norden noir: Mordets melodi
From the frozen archives of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, films emerge that initiated a season of northern noir, precursors to today’s popular Scandinavian TV series. Surprising works, influenced by Hollywood classicism and French poetic realism, capable of reinterpreting stereotypes with Nordic sensibility. Such is the case of the hypnotic Mordets melodi: directed by Bodil Ipsen and very famous at the time of its release in Denmark, the film is populated by mysterious women, bizarre fates and horrific crimes all taking place in a seedy, constantly rainy and suspiciously shadowy Copenhagen.

Cinema Jolly – 10.45am and 9.30pm | Cinema Modernissimo – 2.45pm

Lewis Milestone: Of Wars and Men
The winner of the Oscar for Best Film and Best Director, All Quiet on the Western Front – based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque – still today, 95 years later, remains the definitive masterpiece of pacifist cinema. It was the work that consecrated the talent of Lewis Milestone, and we will also be seeing the two films that temporally bookend the section dedicated to him: the lively and carefree 1925 silent comedy The Garden of Eden (with live musical accompaniment from Stephen Horne on piano and Frank Bockius on drums) and The Red Pony, a Technicolor gem from 1949, based on the novella by John Steinbeck, the last truly great work made by Milestone before he ended up in the crosshairs of McCarthyism.

Cinema Jolly – 9am and 6.45pm | Sala Scorsese – 11am | Cinema Arlecchino – 2pm| Sala Mastroianni – 2.30pm

Postcards from Japan
Alongside Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa, he is one of the masters of classic Japanese cinema, and yet little is known about his pre-war production: the section entitled Sorrow and Passion investigates five crucial years (1935-39) in the career of Mikio Naruse. A double appointment with two films that reveal his prowess in depicting women and their role in Japanese society: A Woman’s Sorrows and Wife, Be Like a Rose!, which was critically acclaimed in his homeland. Also from Japan, restorations of two profoundly antimilitaristic films: Hideo Sekigawa’s Listen to the Voices of the Sea, the first post-war Japanese film to depict combat scenes, and one of Yasuzo Masumura’s masterpieces, The Wife of Seisaku, a tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War (which is also recounted in the Century of Cinema section programme dedicated to the Russian Revolution of 1905).