There is a little bit of Cinema Ritrovato at the Budapest Film Classic Marathon 2022 (Budapest, 13-18 september). In the festival programme the new restoration of The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov will be screened. The film has been restored by Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project, in association with the National Cinema Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Restoration funded by the Material World Charitable Foundation.

Even if Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022 has officially closed on July, 3rd on the musics of The Blues Brothers, the festival actually continues: from 4th to 10th of July, we will be able to watch some of the festival films in the most beautiful cinema theatre in the world... Piazza Maggiore!

Saturday, July 2nd at the Auditorium DAMSLab the award ceremony of Premio Vittorio Boarini, honoring Cineteca founder, took place. The awards, starting from this year, will be assigned every year to international personalities who distinguished themselves in the preservation and enhancement of cinema heritage.

«Tonight only, the fabulous Blues Brothers. Rhythm and Blues review. The Palace Hotel Ballroom. Route 16. Lake Wazzapamani. The fabulous Blues Brothers show band and review”»

Actually, tonight we won't find the Blues Brothers at Lake Wapazzami, but in Piazza Maggiore at 9.45 PM. For the occasion, John Landis himself, the director of this miracle of visual and sonic energy, will introduce his film to the audience in Piazza Maggiore. It is a unique and irrepressible spectacle, which the giant screen of Piazza Maggiore will allow to explode in all of its catastrophic power. To be prepared we have just two things left to do. The first: remember to bring with us a pair of sunglasses. The second: review the coreographies! 

“"It was during that terrible time and I had seen enough to feel profoundly upset and distraught; [...] I thought: 'now children really are watching us!' It was children, the shoeshine boys, that helped me make sense of it all, to understand how profound the moral destruction of the country was." These are the words of Vittorio De Sica on the harsh reality of the post-war years he would portray in Sciuscià, a masterpiece that gave birth to neorealism. We will watch it today at the Arlecchino Cinema at 4 PM, while at 12 PM there will be a Cinema Lesson dedicated to its production history. At both appointments we will be able to meet Rinaldo Smordoni, who played one of the two shoeshine boys in the film. Of course, Sciuscià isn't the only film about children gaze, purity and unique point of view among the ones screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato this year.

Today is a pretty hot day at Il Cinema Ritrovato, and it does not depend on the weather! Tonight at 10.15 PM at the Europa Cinema we'll watch the restoration of Deep Throat (USA/1972), a film that, despite its infamous production history, had a huge cultural impact when it was first released. Erotism and pornography have always been part of the cinema scene. This year at the festival, we can find many different (and more sophisticated) examples of it. 

On Wednesday, July 29th in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini the winners of Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards 2022 have been announced. The competition was open to DVDs and Blu-rays released between February 2021 and March 2022 of critically acclaimed films made before 1992.

Tonight in Piazza Maggiore (with a cover set at Cinema Arlecchino in case of rain) we will watch Dans la nuit (France/1929), one of the last masterpieces of silent french cinema, accompanied by the music of the finnish band Cleaning Women. It was the first and only directing credits of Charles Vanel, who was mainly an actor - a quiet prolific one, actually. The passage from acting to directing is not such a strange phenomenon nowadays, but it's still pretty unusual. At Il Cinema Ritrovato this year, we can find also other cases.

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Dopo il successo del primo weekend, che ci ha permesso finalmente di riunirci tutti insieme in sala di fronte al grande schermo, Il Cinema Ritrovato apre le proprie porte ai non accreditati, mettendo a disposizione biglietti a pagamento per la maggior parte degli appuntamenti, e apre finalmente le prenotazioni per tutte le proiezioni serali.

Tonight in Piazza Maggiore, you can't miss the first cineconcert of this edition of the festival: the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna directed by Timothy Brock will accompany the screening of Foolish Wives (1920), by Erich Von Stroheim. As Dave Kehr remember in the festival catalogue, «Foolish Wives was promoted during production as the “first million dollar movie,” with its budget updated weekly on a billboard in Times Square, and the fan magazines stuffed with tales of Stroheim’s mad extravagance». But what kind of mad ectravagance?

Tonight in Piazza Maggiore we will watch to astonishing female directed films: Alice Rohrwacher will present the italian première of her new short film Le pupille, followed by the restoration of Korotkie vstreči (Brief Encounters), first film by the moldavian director Kira Muratova. Rohrwacher and Muratova aren't the only female directors whose unique gaze enlighten this edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato.

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once,” said Nietsche. We took him at his word and at Cinema Ritrovato this year you will come across films which will make you laugh, make you cry, move you and entertain you... but above all, films that will make you want to dance!

We know that very well: at Il Cinema Ritrovato festival watching the programmed films is the occasion to discover a great variety of rare screening formats and technologies, that make the experience of the theatre even more magical and astonishing. It is not by chance that every year the festival dedicates a section to the films that are presented in less classical formats, a section that this year will allow us to rediscover, among other things, the 9.5 mm Pathé Baby format.

Il Cinema Ritrovato is back, and all in person. Cinema may be the child of the era of technical reproduction, but a festival is an irreproducible experience and Il Cinema Ritrovato is back live between the end of June and the beginning of July, in the company of and thanks to the many people who will be present at the screenings. There are only a few days left before the official opening on Saturday 25 June, but from yesterday, Sunday 19 June, we already started to rediscover the pleasure and enjoyment of watching film in the company of others, with the first of a series of screenings that will take place in Piazza Maggiore and at Lumière and Arlecchino cinemas.

This year, the usual appointment with Il Cinema Ritrovato book presentations will be back from 26th to 29th June, every day in Piazzetta Pasolini at 7 PM. We will present recently published books from authors, curators and festival guests. An unmissable daily event realized in collaboration with librerie.coop.

Not only pass holders: starting from today, all the screenings of the section Documents and Documentaries programmed at the Auditorium DAMSLab are open to the public. Even who didn't purchase a festival pass will be able to attend the screenings buying a 5 euros ticket.

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397 film in 9 giorni: sono i giorni in cui si apriranno le porte del Paradiso dei cinefili. La 36ª edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, promosso dalla Cineteca di Bologna, si svolgerà a Bologna dal 25 giugno al 3 luglio. 9 giorni di proiezioni da mattina sera, in 7 sale coinvolte in città (Sala Scorsese e Sala Mastroianni al Cinema Lumière, Auditorium – DAMSLAB, Cinema Jolly, Cinema Arlecchino, Cinema Europa, Sala Cervi), e il gran finale, tutte le sere, in Piazza Maggiore e due serate speciali, sempre all’aperto, in Piazzetta Pasolini. E alla Biblioteca Renzo Renzi si rinnova l’appuntamento con la Book Fair, la fiera dell’editoria dedicata alle pubblicazioni cinematografiche, che quest’anno raccoglie 70 editori. E poi gli incontri al Teatro Arena del Sole e al MAST.

Nowadays Marvel Studios surprising box-office results ratified the success of the concept of Cinematic Universe. But the MCU did not invent anything new: the idea of a narrative that proceeds film after film, with characters meeting and fighting each other is not a Disney innovation. On the contrary, it goes way back to the first years of Cinema, thanks to the genius of a man named Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset.

The monster of Dusseldorf for Fritz Lang, the man who knew too much for Hitchcock, and Raskolnikov for Josef von Sternberg. This year Il Cinema Ritrovato has decided to dedicate a section to the talent of Peter Lorre: Peter Lorre, a foreigner in a foreign land. As a means of celebrating this magnificent actor, whilst waiting to see him on the big screens of the festival, let's explore the lesser known side of him ... the cartoons!

The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is now in full swing, with a rich program of highly anticipated previews, renowned international guests and important recovered images from the past. We are pleased to confirm that this year, several of the Cannes titles will be shown on the big screen in Bologna during Il Cinema Ritrovato.

For a few precious years, a decidedly light-hearted, sensual and frivolous spirit swept through German movie theatres. The musical comedies of the late Weimar Republic are some of the hidden gems of that era, presented at this year’s festival. Even more than other genres of German cinema of the Weimar Republic, the Tonfilmlustspiel is inextricably linked to the work of Jewish directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and actors, who had found the blossoming cultural metropolis Berlin to be a welcoming place during the 1920s. Their fate mirrors the fate of German Jewry in general. Some managed to escape, others, tragically, did not make it out of Europe in time and were killed in the concentration camps. Here are the stories of some of the artists whose work we will be able to admire during the festival.

Waiting for the 36th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 25th june - 3rd july 2022), we're happy to announce a first list of films that will be scheduled during the festival!

As swiftly as some directors changed studios, the Argentinian Hugo Fregonese (1908-87),  to whom this year's festival dedicates the section The Drifter's Escape: Hugo Fregonese, changed countries. His rootlessness and restlessness is frequently reflected in his protagonists – isolated individuals who are either voluntarily on the move or who have been forced into exile and eternal wandering.

The deadline to sign up to the Masterclass with John Landis has been postponed to May, 31st.  Don't miss your chance to spend 7 days in Bologna shooting your short film under the guidance of the director of films such as The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, National Lampoon's Animal House and Trading Places.

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Martedì 10 maggio al cinema Lumière torna il quiz cinefilo! È l'occasione per mettere alla prova la propria cultura cinematografica scoprendo contemporaneamente alcune succose anticipazioni sulla prossima edizione del Cinema Ritrovato, in programma a Bologna dal 25 giugno al 3 luglio 2022. In palio, come da tradizione, 10 accrediti per il festival.

Il quiz cinefilo è a ingresso libero. Appuntamento alle ore 20 in Sala Scorsese per una serata dedicata all'amore per il cinema, all'esperienza della sala... e al fair play! 

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France, 1902. Thanks to the decisive contribution of Ferdinand Zecca, Pathé Frères established a name for itself as one of the most important film production houses, with an ever increasing annual revenue and fictional films, each one longer than the next, being added to the catalogue. It was in this year that, as a means to promote a film directed by Zecca, an unprecedented marketing tool was brought forth: the film poster.

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In attesa della serata dedicata ai Blue Brothers e John Landis, scaldiamo le nostre corde musicali con due appuntamenti organizzati dal Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Sabato 14 e venerdì 20 maggio al Teatro Auditorium Manzoni si terrano gli ultimi due concerti della rassegna Afro American Connection.

Among the most anticipated events of Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022 is certainly the cinema concert of Nosferatu, an expressionist masterpiece directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau that will be screened in Piazza Maggiore in the year of its centenary (first shown in Berlin on March 4, 1922). The film owes its fame not only to Murnau's dreamlike direction but also to the extraordinary interpretation of Max Schreck, who was so credible in his role as Count Orlok that many rumours soon began to spread about him. The most captivating? Max Schreck could not have been a simple actor, instead, he must have been a real vampire hired by Murnau himself during his trip to the Carpathian mountains.

This year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato will celebrate the genius and talent of Kenji Misumi (1921-1975), a prolific filmmaker specialised in historical films to whom the Kenji Misumi: an instinctive author section is dedicated. What is meant by the term historical film, what is the difference between jidai-geki and chanbara, and when exactly is the Edo period? Here is a quick glossary that will guide even the less experienced to understand Misumi’s works.

A little more than a month after the end of the 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, we share an article written by one of the festival directors, Ehsan Khoshbakht, who gatherd in his blog impressions and preferences from festival friends and insiders.

We gladly share an amazing article about the 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, written by author and film critic Imogen Sarah Smith for Criterion Collection's official web site. This year Smith was a welcome guest of the festival and she also gave a lecture about George Stevens' Cinema.

Cinema Lessons and Restoration Meetings from the 2021 edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato are now available online for free on the Youtube Channel of Cineteca di Bologna.

“Il Cinema Ritrovato is our memory, the celebration of our past and the certainty in the future of cinema."

With these words, yesterday evening Isabelle Huppert greeted the audience in Piazza Maggiore during the closing event of the 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato.

The award aims to encourage and give visibility to quality home entertainment Dvds and Blu-rays from around the world. The competition is open to Dvds and Blu-rays released between February 2020 and February 2021 of important films made before 1991 (at least thirty years ago) and thus generally in line with the festival’s theme.

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I consigli di Paolo Mereghetti sugli appuntamenti imprescindibili di domenica 25 luglio al festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

Among the guests of this edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato there is Marco Tullio Giordana. The director of I cento passi and La meglio gioventù will give a Film Lesson and will present his new book.

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Proponiamo un estratto dell'intervento di Anna Noli, nipote del costumista Gino Carlo Sensani, letto in occasione della proiezione di La cena delle beffe di Alessandro Blasetti.

Ai bozzetti e agli studi di Sensani Il Cinema Ritrovato dedica la mostra Gino Carlo Sensani e i costumi per il cinema visitabile in Biblioteca Renzo Renzi dal 19 al 27 luglio e dall'1 al 30 settembre.

The seconda day of Il Cinema Ritrovato marks the start of our retrospective dedicated to Iwanami, the production house that was able to transform Japanese documentary cinema with an approach that was innovative even by international standards, as demonstrated by the films of Susumu Hani,which came a few years before England’s Free Cinema movement and cinéma vérité. 

Il Cinema Ritrovato day 1: the 'cinephiles' heaven' festival is scheduled live in Bologna from 20 to 27 July and in streaming till the 3 August. Since its first day of screenings, the festival gets into the heart of its programme, offering to its audicente films from almost all its main sections.

In this 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato the festival section dedicated to documentaries is, as usual, rich and diversified. It will include portraits of great filmmakers, compilation films and restorations and, after more than a year spent inside our houses, a selection of travel films.

Not only streaming: Il Cinema Ritrovato is ready to begin in Bologna from 20 to 27 July. The first screenings at Cinema Lumière, in Piazza Maggiore and LunettArena already started and from tuesday all the other venues of the festival will be open (and this year – to meet Covid social distancing and safety requirements – there are ten of them!). 

There have always been many strong links between cinema and literature. The seventh art fully embraced the works of great novelists, adapting them into some of the most celebrated films in the history of cinema. The practice of transforming literary works for the cinema has deep roots and was already widespread in the silent era. At Il Cinema Ritrovato this year you will be able to see several of these period adaptations on the big screen.

The complete programme of Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021 Film Lessons is finally online. This year conversations are a mirror of the festival’s great variety and richness.

With the the 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 20th-27th july) approaching, the faces of the festival protagonists appeared in the streets of Bologna thanks to the collaboration with CHEAP Festival! A tasty sneak peek waiting to discover the full festival programme, that will be available tomorrow, wednesday june 30th, here on the official site.

Photos by Margherita Caprilli

While Netflix launches the second part of the tv series Lupin, with Omar Sy, and Toei animation announces the new animated series of Lupin the third, the character created by Monkey Punch as an Arsène Lupin direct descendant, the gentleman thief comes to visit Il Cinema Ritrovato, too.

In the section dedicated to the Tomijiro Komiya Collection, we will be able to enjoy seven minutes of daring actions with one of the first film appearances of the gentleman cambrioleur, portraited by the Pathé star Max Linder.

He was the teacher and mentor of Buster Keaton. At the beginning of the Twenties, he was the higliest paid actor in Hollywood (5.000 dollar a week!), as famous as Charlie Chaplin himself. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, with his massive phisicality and his unsuspected agility, played a fundamental role in the history of comedy films, until in 1921 he was stroke by a huge scandal, accused to be implicated in the death of a young actress. The subsequent trials demonstrated his innocence, but his career was doomed.

In the section dedicated to the year 1921, Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021 presents the last film of this great performer, Crazy to Marry by James Cruze.