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Da sabato 21 giugno a domenica 29 giugno 2025 si svolgerà a Bologna la XXXIX edizione del Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, nell’ambito di Sotto le Stelle del Cinema. Il Cinema Ritrovato rinnova l'appuntamento per i cinefili di tutto il mondo: nove giorni di programmazione dalla mattina alla sera, nelle tante sale cinematografiche disseminate per tutto il centro storico di Bologna. La sera si aggiunge lo splendido schermo di Piazza Maggiore.

The 22nd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato – Blu-ray & DVD Awards is promoted by Cineteca di Bologna in the framework of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival. It’s a competition that — in line with the festival spirit — celebrates old movies, restorations and rediscovers, in their home video formats. The competition is open to all films released in Blu-Ray/DVD and will take place during the 39th edition of the festival.

The competition is open to DVDs and Blu-rays released between February 2024 and March 2025 of critically acclaimed films made before 1995 (30 years ago). You can enter the competition by submitting up to 5 titles of your latest releases. Your DVDs and Blu-rays must reach Bologna no later than March 21st, 2025.

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FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission Workshop: "Film-Related Materials in Archives - From Acquisition to Access" 20-21 June 2025 Bologna (MAMbo at the Cineteca di Bologna) Registrations will open on 1 April 2025

Presentation of the course

Photos, posters, press clippings, 3D objects, sheet music and many other materials are collected, catalogued, digitised and made accessible in and by filmarchives. These diverse documents are commonly grouped under the term “film-related materials”. However, each of these types of materials requires a completely different approach in terms of collection, digitization, and also cataloguing, and most of all, requires specialised and trained archivists. In addition, these departments within the film institutions are usually staffed with fewer people than the film departments.

"La 38e édition du plus grand festival de films restaurés a eu lieu dans une Bologne particulièrement fraîche et humide, loin des torpeurs estivales qui la caractérisent : un climat parfait pour redécouvrir des oeuvres suédoises et japonaises, mais aussi pour se perdre dans les méandres des Alpes post‑nazies.

"The first time I saw Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) was on a boxy old television via a VHS tape. Even then, the extravagance of Gance’s ambition to put on-screen the surging tides of history and the flicker of thought in a human eye, all through what the director called “the music of light,” set a high-water mark for my idea of what cinema can be. I had yearned ever since to see it again, while following the never-ending saga of restorations and disputed screenings of the mangled epic (now clocking in at 562 minutes).

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Una consacrazione anche per il Modernissimo, che ha fatto innamorare il pubblico internazionale, con il nuovo ingresso inaugurato in occasione del Cinema Ritrovato. Una festa della cinefilia senza confini.

Let's celebrate the end of the festival on Monday, July 1st, with five additional screenings of films starring Marlene Dietrich: free entry for festival pass holders and tickets at the price of 3.50 € for the general public.

On Friday, June 28th in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini the winners of Il Cinema Ritrovato Blu-ray and DVD Awards 2024 were announced. The competition was open to DVDs and Blu-rays released between February 2023 and March 2024 of critically acclaimed films made before 1994.

The jury, composed by Lorenzo Codelli, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Philippe Garnier, Pamela Hutchinson, Miguel Marías and Paolo Mereghetti (president) assigned the following awards.

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Ieri al Cinema Modernissimo conversazione con Marco Bellocchio e Sergio Castellitto.

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Sabato 29 giugno, il regista incontrerà il pubblico al Cinema Modernissimo e presenterà in Piazza Maggiore il musical francese Les parapluies de Chebourg di Jacques Demy (citato in La La Land). 

Domenica 30 giugno, sempre in Piazza Maggiore, presenterà il suo Babylon.

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Damien Chazelle arriva al festival Il Cinema Ritrovato: il regista è atteso domani, sabato 29 giugno, a Bologna per incontrare il pubblico alle ore 19 al Cinema Modernissimo e presentare in Piazza Maggiore, alle ore 21.45, il musical Les Parapluies de Chebourg (interpretato da Catherine Deneuve, immagine di questa 38ª edizione del Cinema Ritrovato), realizzato nel 1964 da Jacques Demy e citato in più occasioni nel film con il quale Damien Chazelle sbancò agli Oscar 2017, La La Land.

Il giorno seguente, domenica 30 giugno, Damien Chazelle tornerà sul palco di Piazza Maggiore per presentare il suo più recente Babylon.