Cinema Modernissimo – 12 pm Festival Inauguration. Boarini Award 2025 to Sophie Seydoux The 39th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato opens, as per tradition, with a meeting with the four directors of the festival – Cecilia Cenciarelli, Gian Luca Farinelli, Ehsan Khoshbakht and Mariann Lewinsky – who will present a Vittorio Boarini Award 2025 to Sophie Seydoux (Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé). Followed by, two comedies recently restored by Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé: Max boxeur par amour, directed and starring Max Linder, and Petrolini disperato per eccesso di buon cuore, one of only two incursions into silent cinema – long considered lost – by the great actor, cabaret artist, singer and writer, and brilliant interpreter of the Roman soul.

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Con l'estate ritorna il festival "paradiso dei cinefili" e i segnali in città sono ovunque: dal grande schermo del "cinema più bello del mondo" in Piazza Maggiore, alle shopper degli accreditati che sfilano per Bologna, alla mostra urbana allestita in collaborazione con CHEAP che decora le vie del centro con i poster di cinema.

In the festival venues, 20 minutes before the screening starts we will create a Last Minute queue for Festival Pass holders who have not booked.

In Piazza Maggiore, Last Minute access begins at 9.15 pm from the entrance located between the screen and the corner of Palazzo del Podestà.

Reservations remain valid until 10 minutes before the start time of the screening, after which we will open and allow entry to the Last Minute queue. For security reasons, if there are still seats available, entry into the cinema is allowed up to 10 minutes after the start of the screening. Enjoy the film!

We are pleased to inform you that once again this year there will be a free shuttle service for all Festival Pass holders. The shuttle will connect the Lumière cinemas to the Cinema Modernissimo, and vice versa, with intermediate stops at the Arlecchino and Jolly cinemas.

Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 21–29 June) will open its first evening in Piazza Maggiore with a 70mm screening of Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. On the 100th anniversary of its release, Chaplin’s The Gold Rush will also grace the square, alongside a tribute to Katharine Hepburn: Feminist, Acrobat, Lover.

Biblioteca Salaborsa – Piazza Coperta (Piazza del Nettuno, 3) 17 June – 15 December 2025 Monday, 2pm-8pm Tuesday-Friday, 9am-8pm Saturday, 9am-7pm

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Today, Thursday 19th June, at 4pm, the third and final release of tickets is scheduled to open. Seats will be available for all the Festival events at Il Cinema Ritrovato!*

"Il Cinema Ritrovato reminds us that cinema can be lost. The act of seeking is a long, often laborious, process: an impulse that can last a lifetime. On the other hand, acts which lead to forgetting and loss are abrupt, quick, haphazard. In a moment we realize that something has been lost and only then do we feelits painful absence. This is how it is with many things in Italy. This is what always seems to be about to happen to the cinema.

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Il Cinema Ritrovato Young riunisce giovani cinefile e cinefili, di età compresa tra i 16 e i 20 anni, chiamati a proporre la loro personale prospettiva sul mondo del cinema. Come ambasciatori del cinema presso le nuove generazioni, gli Young presentano film che ragazze e ragazzi della loro età spesso non conoscono.

The wait is finally over! Following yesterday’s launch of the full programme for the 39th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, we invite all Festival Pass holders to get ready to reserve their seats. Starting this afternoon - Wednesday, 11th June, at 4pm (GMT+1) - you’ll be able to book events scheduled between the 21st and 24th of June.

This year Il Cinema Ritrovato wants to get you more involved!

With the Il Cinema Ritrovato Web App (available to download for free) you will be able to browse the full programme and select the events of your choosing and create a personal calendar. The App will also notify of any changes to the programme and useful alerts!

Join us in Bologna from 21-29 June!

The screen is up, the chairs are set, the projector’s ready, now all we need is you! Here are a few key dates to mark in your calendar:

With summer approaching, it's time for the Big Screen of Piazza Maggiore to come back! It will dominate the centre of Bologna until the middle of August, with all the evening screenings of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival and Sotto le stelle del cinema.

On Thursday 5 June, Ehsan Khoshbakht will be a guest of the San Francisco Film Preserve. During the meeting Online with SFPP, the co-director of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival will talk about Lewis Milestone's exceptional body of work, including the film The Garden of Eden, recently restored by SFFP. Khoshbakht is the curator of the section Lewis Milestone: Of Men and Wars.

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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.

For more information

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.

Moving from cinema to cinema during Il Cinema Ritrovato has never been easier. From Saturday 22 June to Saturday 29 June a shuttle service by City Red Bus (an electric vehicle with 13 spaces) is available to all festival pass holders. The service will go between Piazzetta Pasolini and Cinema Modernissimo (and back) with four stops along the way in the vicinity to other festival locations. Consult the stops and the times of the shuttle on the website. 

We inform you that an additional screening of Blonde Venus by Josef von Sternberg (USA/1932) has been added to the programme, at Cinema Lumière on Friday, June 28th, 9.30pm.

Booking now open for Festival pass-holders.

Footage from the set of 1900 and a home movie from the early 1960s. Announcement at the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna: The Death of a Pig, shot in 1956 by 15-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci, found by the Bertolucci Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna.

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Il festival bolognese celebra il centenario di Sergej Paradžanov mostrando i suoi primi film, salvati dalla Cineteca ucraina. In prima assoluta anche il restauro, voluto da Martin Scorsese, del primo capolavoro riconosciuto di Sergej Paradžanov, Le ombre degli avi dimenticati.

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Durante una conversazione con Juho Kuosmanen, seguita alla sonorizzazione dal vivo della trilogia finlandese Mykkätrilogia, Alice Rohrwacher - intervenendo in video a proposito del futuro del cinema e di quello muto in particolare - ha rilasciato un'anteprima sul suo prossimo progetto cinematografico: si tratterà infatti di un film muto!

The 1904: A Fabulous Year programme - previously scheduled on Sunday June 23rd, cancelled due to bad weather - will be shown at Piazzetta Pasolini on Thursday, June 27th, 10pm, with the piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne and on the drums, Frank Bockius. As audiences in Piazzatta Pasolini will discover, they will become spellbound by the carbon-arc projector and the (magical) re-enactment of a cinematographic screening as it would have been 120 years ago.

In honour of Cineteca founder, Vittorio Boarini awards are given to international figures who have distinguished themselves in the safeguarding and diffusion of cinema heritage. This year the award went to Grover Crisp (Sony), Bryony Dixon (BFI) e Daniela Michel (Morelia International Film Festival).

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Il festival della Cineteca di Bologna viaggia con un ruolino di marcia da 10mila spettatori al giorno.

Il pubblico e Wim Wenders vincono la sfida contro la pioggia: 6mila persone ieri sera in Piazza Maggiore per il cult Paris, Texas.

Due to tonight's forecast of rain, the screening scheduled in Piazza Maggiore has been cancelled.

Il Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair is a unique meeting place for readers, writers, scholars, critics and lovers of cinema. The fair offers a selection of the most important and prestigious international books, Blu-Rays, DVDs and records: new releases, limited edition box sets, rare films available on home video for the first time and the best new film books, soundtracks and compilations of film music, not to mention a rich selection of vintage poster. For the third year, the ranks of exhibitors will be enriched by CAM Sugar, an important film music label with a catalogue of over 2000 original soundtracks and a roster of 400 composers of Italian and French film music. Their artisan restorations of sound and graphic design are featured in new CD and vinyl releases distributed throughout the world by Decca Records. During the Book Fair there will be a discount of 20% on the Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna’s entire catalogue (except last semester’s new releases).

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Secondo giorno di Cinema Ritrovato e prima rassegna stampa sul festival "paradiso dei cinefili':

Due to tonight's forecast of rain, some changes have been made to today's schedule for Sunday 23rd June:

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Anche quest’anno durante il festival Il Cinema Ritrovato presenteremo alcuni libri selezionati tra le uscite editoriali recenti e introdotti da autori, curatori e ospiti. Quattro appuntamenti ad ingresso libero per tutti, accreditati e non, nella suggestiva cornice di Piazzetta Pasolini, critici, studiosi e professionisti del settore dialogheranno attorno ai temi e ai personaggi a cui sono dedicati i volumi.

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Venerdì 21 giugno, il direttore della Cineteca di Bologna e co-direttore del Cinema Ritrovato Gian Luca Farinelli ha selezionato nove imperdibili appuntamenti, uno per ogni giorno del festival. Ha descritto la sua scelta a Benedetta Cucci del Resto del Carlino:

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Il Cinema Ritrovato Young riunisce giovani cinefile e cinefili, di età compresa tra i 16 e i 20 anni, chiamati a proporre la loro personale prospettiva sul mondo del cinema. Come ambasciatori del cinema presso le nuove generazioni, gli Young presentano film che ragazze e ragazzi della loro età spesso non conoscono.

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Per la seconda volta, dopo la collaborazione iniziata in occasione dell'inaugurazione del Cinema Modernissimo, la tipografia artigianale Anonima Impressori ha realizzato un manifesto – stilisticamente coerente con le locandine di primi Novecento italiano – per la trentottesima edizione del Cinema Ritrovato, che per la prima volta annovera tra le sale del festival anche il Cinema Modernissimo.

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"Negli archivi del cinema, in apparenza luoghi polverosi per specialisti, in realtà si incrocia spesso, a volte drammaticamente, la Storia. Anche in quelli di cinema: coservare i film, recuperarli, mostrarli, restaurarli sono attività che si sono spesso svolte tra guerre, rivoluzioni, frontiere ostili. Lo ricorda la vicenda delle pellicole di Sergej Paradžanov (1924-1990), che saranno presentate tra qualche giorno al festival Il #CinemaRitrovato di Bologna in occasione del centenario della sua nascita. [...]

For the second year running, we are pleased to have Wim Wenders with us as a guest during Il Cinema Ritrovato festival. The director has a busy festival schedule, from presenting his own films and restorations, to talking about films by other authors. Here are all the events where Wenders will be present at during Il Cinema Ritrovato:

Saturday, June 22nd - Cinema Modernissimo

#Reservation | In case of rain, when indicated in the programme, Cinema Modernissimo and Cinema Jolly will host the Piazza Maggiore screenings. For this reason, some of the evening screenings scheduled at the Modernissimo and Jolly cinemas are currently unavailable to book because they may be cancelled in favour of the screenings in Piazza Maggiore. Closer to the dates, with the confirmation of good weather, it will be possible to continue booking the original screenings. Day by day, after having confirmed the weather forecast, we will open the possibility to book these screenings. As is the case today with Peeping Tom. Check for new availability on the Boxer Ticket platform.

It all begins in Piazza Maggiore, known all over the world as a cinephiles’ temple. Thursday 20 June, My Cousin (1918), the only surviving film featuring Enrico Caruso, who plays two roles, will be screened with a new score composed by Daniele Furlati and performed by a musical ensemble from Teatro Comunale di Modena, including a sequence where we will hear the voice of the great tenor. On Monday 24, Kote Mikaberidze’s Chemi bebia (My Grandmother, 1929) will be accompanied by the Finnish trio Cleaning Women and an explosive and overwhelming score!

Hans Deppe’s 1950 Schwarzwaldmädel (The Black Forest Girl) and 1951 Grün ist die Heide (The Heath Is Green) are commonly discussed as the beginning of early Federal Republic of Germany cinema’s Heimatfilm craze. In some ways this is understandable: Schwarzwaldmädel was one of the first locally crafted massive box-office successes, as well as the first colour fiction feature produced in FRG. The Heimatfilm dominated FRG and Austrian cinema for five or six years before the wave ebbed out and started to mutate into other genres – the foreground, we could say, became a background. In its heyday and long after, the genre was vilified by critics as the epitome of brainless entertainment with a deeply reactionary core.

For a filmmaker associated primarily with the South Caucasus, Sergei Parajanov made most of his films in Ukraine. After graduating from VGIK in Moscow, he became an employee of Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv.

Dear festival guests, As you are aware we have recently opened the next block of seats open to booking. The staff at Boxer Ticket, who since Monday have been working on resolving the problems of the past few days - for which we apologise for again -, are slowly managing to deal with all of your requests through the Booking Assistance.

Female subjugation within patriarchal society, either literally intended or as an allegory of a totalitarian regime, is one of the themes that runs most consistently through the new restorations presented this year. We start with two cornerstones of feminist cinema at the wane of the 1970s: La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua and Khak-e Sar bé Mohr. Assia Djebar in Algeria and Marva Nabili in Iran – through her film will be completed in the US – both succeed in creating a feminine cinematic space through their own distinctive formal research.

Gustaf Molander made almost 70 films in a career that lasted more than half a century (1917-1968), and his trajectory as a director is parallel to that of the development of the Swedish film industry. He wrote the script to Terje Vigen (Victor Sjöström, 1917), which was the starting point of the golden Age of Swedish silent cinema, and he directed the era’s epilogue with the Selma Lagerlöf adaptations Ingmarsarvet (1925) and its sequel Till Österland (1926). He was one of very few Swedish directors, who handled the transition to sound successfully, as proven by En natt (1931) and En kvinnas ansikte (1938), the latter arguably the best Swedish film of the 1930s.

Dear festival guests,

Unfortunately, today’s booking system did not work as we had expected and for that we sincerely apologise, again. Our technicians continue to work on the site and now, slowly, the booking system is beginning to stabilise. There are still some problems, but many users are managing to go through with their reservations.

Mariann Lewinsky once aptly described the A Hundred Years Ago strand as a “travel agency, organising excursions into the past”. So, what are the main “sights” festival attendees can look forward to on their guided tour through the year 1924? The year 1924 marks the end of Swedish silent cinema’s golden age with the release of Gösta Berlings saga, which we are fittingly presenting in a new digital restoration. After this film, his last made in Sweden, Mauritz Stiller joined fellow countryman Victor Sjöström at the newly formed MGM studios in Hollywood. Sjöström’s second American feature, He Who Gets Slapped, continues our spotlight on “filmigration”, as does J’ai tué!, a French production featuring Japanese star Sessue Hayakawa, then on self-imposed exile from Hollywood allegedly due to rising anti-Japanese sentiment.

https://cinetecadibologna.it/programmazione//Waiting for the festival to begin (Bologna, 22nd-30th June), from 18th to 21st June, we offer an unmissable programme of free events (advanced booking on Eventbrite required): introductions to Il Cinema Ritrovato's sections, guided tours, great classics at Piazza Maggiore and Cinema Modernissimo, contemporary Italian cinema and documentaries. https://cinetecadibologna.it/programmazione/

Cinema is the art of us, of the individual who is multiplied. Would Marlene Dietrich have existed without Josef von Sternberg? The “Lubitsch touch” without the actors? If you don’t believe us, try to see one of the great character actor in the history of cinema, Felix Bressart, made famous by Ernst Lubitsch, in Nie wieder Liebe! (No More Love), the first film in the Litvak retrospective. Tilda Swinton, starring in The Protagonists, said that with Luca Guadagnino, here in his directorial debut, she felt like family: “We are brother and sister, playmates. Ours is an ongoing conversation.”

This year we present a rough guide through the developments and usages of colours in small-gauge filmmaking. The journey starts with tinted 16mm vintage prints from the 1920s and continues in the 1930s with amateur films. Thanks to lenticular colour motion picture processes like Kodacolor and monopack multilayer films like Kodachrome, colour became surprisingly more common in small-gauge cinema compared to commercial films made in 35mm.

Monday 10th June at 12pm (GMT+1) the programme for the 38th edition for Il Cinema Ritrovato festival will finally be online on our website festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it

BOOKING OPENING DATE POSTPONED | From 4pm onwards, on Wednesday 12th June, it will be possible for festival pass holders to book their places for the various screenings and events during the festival.

In order to avoid sold out events, we have established three dates linked to the possibility to book online:

Within the context of a festival, classic cinema transforms, taking on another form, another body, leaving behind the comforting dimension of neutral replicability, a shift into performance art. Cinema comes alive through the film reels—worn or restored to their original splendor—shining in various formats from 16 to 35 to 70mm, emerging from the projectors that bring them to life… A festival is a living celebration of cinema, requiring technical and logistical expertise, harmonious action, and management of the unexpected. And—in all this delicate vitality—let's not forget a fundamental aspect of The Seventh Art: the music.

After all these years, have we Rediscovered Cinema? The answer is obvious: we’re still searching! The 2024 edition makes this abundantly clear, with sections such as Dark Heimat, which explores a genre usually considered minor but which actually contains the ghosts and the unspoken of post-Nazi Germany and Austria, Cinemalibero, and The Colours of Small Gauge Cinema, in which each film is a celebration, a surprise, the return of vanished works which, thanks to our festival, now begin a new life.

Let's put aside for a moment names such as Catherine Deneuve, Robert De Niro, Marlene Dietrich, Harvey Keitel, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Charles Aznavour, Gian Maria Volonté, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and so forth; famous faces who adorn the festival's ‘Restored and Restored’ section, films that are dusted off and brought back into the limelight. Instead Il Cinema Ritrovato invites you to get to know the sections devoted to two authors, Anatole Litvak and Gustaf Molander; lesser known to the general public but whose expansive film portfolios hold several surprises, especially for their choice of protagonists. Discover the programmes of these two sections which are overflowing with actors and actresses of high calibre, whether during their first time in front of the camera, in secondary roles accompanying other stars, or at a time in their career when they are yet to reach their peak.

"Film festivals are often assumed to be solely designed to showcase brand new films – but this isn’t always the case. Every year, festivals such as Sundance, Cannes and Venice debut forthcoming titles, the majority of which are in need of distribution, with the eye firmly fixed on the future. But there’s one festival that the most die-hard film fan should have on their radar: Il Cinema Ritrovato".

Kozaburo Yoshimura (1911-2000) is one of the neglected masters of classical Japanese film. He was responsible for some of the postwar Japanese cinema’s most compelling dramas, which bear eloquent witness to social change in a rapidly modernising and Westernising country.

For eight days even our budding cinephiles will have the chance to be involved in the festival, attending screenings, shows and workshops. This year Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids will pay tribute to claymation artist Fusako Yusaki and to Portuguese animation, with a programme curated by the Cinemateca Portuguesa; also, among others, a 1980s RSI-produced special on The world’s most beautiful fairy tales and a selection of animated shorts from two important festivals such as Annecy and Clermont-Ferrand. A series of workshops dedicated to animation and pre-cinema will enrich the programme.

An internationally successful director who played a crucial role in key periods of Italian cinema history (neorealism, commedia all’italiana) and is beloved of filmmakers around the world (including those you would least expect, like Wes Anderson), Pietro Germi nonetheless came across as a surly, aloof filmmaker, whose vision of gender relations was considered to be politically incorrect and who was viewed with deep suspicion by the left-wing cultural establishment.

Films about cinema, recent documentaries and classics brought back to live on the big screen in their restored versions. Among the latter, the three short films shot by a young Stanley Kubrick in the early 1950s and four films by Lionel Rogosin, on the centenary of his birth, an exponent of the most explicitly socially-analytical and politically-critical offshoot of New American Cinema.

This year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato programme once again recognises important female figures in the history and making of cinema: important for their luminosity, talent, freedom, charisma, influence, creativity, political consciousness; masters of their artwork and themselves.

The festival has plenty of these names in the programme. Here, we present five indispensable protagonists of the 38th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato.

Marlene Dietrich has been celebrated, debated, photographed and, of course, shown on film to such an extent over the last century that, for many European and North American audiences, her first name suffices to introduce her.

A Fabulous Year! While an impressive number of long and well structured documentaries were being produced by Pathé or Urban, technically open-minded clergymen were filming extensively in Egypt, Turkey and Palestine.

Storytelling has always been linked to the ability to rework and rewrite, leading to moments of rebirth. Cinema is no exception.

A story unfolds and is transformed into a cinematic narrative whether from world events (and how those events are told) or from personal reflections that later emerge. Existing stories in different mediums, whether as a book, a work of art, or a video game, take on another life on the cinematic screen. Even a musical composition can be transformed.

However, let’s concentrate on literature and its relation to cinema. Again this year, several of the programme’s films derive from books: at times the book itself is more well-known than the film, at other times the opposite; the question remains the same, which is better, the book or the film?

This year, even more so than in previous editions, we received hundreds of proposals for new and fascinating restorations. At the end of a lengthy selection process, we drew up a festival programme in which each and every spectator will be able to attain a state of cinematic bliss.

Dear friends,

after having presented some of the sections that will animate this year’s festival in our previous newsletter, here’s everything you could possibly want to know about the 38th edition, but never dared to ask. The festival pre-programme, listing all the films from all the sections, can be downloaded here.

See you soon!

One of Il Cinema Ritrovato's guardian angels has left us. David Bordwell, film historian, teacher, and writer, passed away on February 29, leaving us with a legacy suffused with illumination, intellectual sobriety, precision, and a scientific approach to film that never lacked passion and conviction.

His books are the standard texts on film history, film style, and film criticism all over the world. They have been translated into numerous languages, from Persian to Chinese, from Greek to Hungarian and Italian, leaving their mark in every classroom that cinema was ever taught, in the quiet moment of any cinephile who delved deeper into the brilliance of this art form.

2024 FIAF FILM RESTORATION SUMMER SCHOOL

Film restoration online course:  Distance learning - May 2nd to June 13th, 2024 (on Wednesdays)

Welcome meeting: Bologna, Cineteca facilities - June 22nd, 2024

With another edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato done and dusted, we look at the musicians who made numerous screenings and events more than special. Each artist brought their talent and creativity to the stage, enriching the screenings with their extraordinary musical performances.

They accompanied the silent films of the 1903 and 1923 sections, and not only in the cinemas, musicians took to the stage in Piazza Maggiore and Auditorium Manzoni in front of thousands of spectators with the screenings of Stella Dallas by Henry King and Lady Windermere's Fan by Ernst Lubitsch.

The 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato festival has come to an end and we can rightly say that the art of cinema is not dead. With a 12% increase in spectators across the festival venues – almost always sold out – and approximately 5,000 festival pass holders prevailing from 51 countries worldwide, Il Cinema Ritrovato and the Cineteca di Bologna bring to a close another special edition of the festival. On the ninth day, the final screening to see out the festival was David Lynch’s A Straight Story, shown on Piazza Maggiore’s big screen. A post-festival programme of restored classics will be shown in the coming days in Piazza Maggiore, including the poster film of the festival Quién sabe? on Tuesday 4th July at 9.45 pm.

The Straight Story closes Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023 in Piazza Maggiore. The film will be introduced by Mary Sweeney, the film’s producer and screenwriter and long-time David Lynch collaborator. The screening in Piazza Maggiore will close the 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato; however, the last day of the festival (Sunday, July 2nd) will also feature repeats of some of this year’s most important titles, at Cinema Arlecchino: Macario, Rysopis, One Way Passage, Love Me Tonight, Quién sabe? and Fear and Desire.

The second edition of the award named after the founder and long-time director of Cineteca di Bologna, Vittorio Boarini, a pioneer in the field of restoration, a scholar of contemporary cinema and art, an educator, critic and infectiously energetic disseminator of culture who passed away in 2021. The award is given to international figures who, like Vittorio, have distinguished themselves in the safeguarding and diffusion of cinema heritage.

On Thursday, July 29th in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini the winners of Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards 2023 were announced. The competition was open to DVDs and Blu-rays released between February 2022 and March 2023 of critically acclaimed films made before 1992.

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

Due to the bad weather on the evening of Friday 30 June, the screening of Lady Windermere's Fan, which will be accompanied by the Teatro Comunale orchestra, will be moved to the Teatro Auditorium Manzoni, start time at 9.45 pm.

A second screening of Lady Windermere's Fan, accompanied on piano by Daniel Sosin, will be shown at Cinema Arlecchino with the start time of 10.15 pm. 

The 37th edition of the festival promoted by the Cineteca di Bologna dedicates a retrospective to the director Jonathan Nossiter: after the world premiere at the Cinema Ritrovato in 2020, Last Words returns to Il Cinema Ritrovato on Saturday 1 July, at 9 pm. 30 at Cinema Lumière, the final event of the tribute to Jonathan Nossiter that will open today, Thursday 29 June, again at 9.30 p.m. at Cinema Lumière, with the screening of the film Sunday, directed by Nossiter in 1997, presented by the director himself and by a special guest: the actor Matt Dillon.

Twice Palme d’Or winner at Cannes in only five years, currently President of the jury on the Croisette: Swedish director Ruben Östlund is one of the guests at the 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival.

Östlund will be both a guest and a teacher during his stay in Bologna, with the International Filmmaking Academy, in a long stage on the set involving 20 young directors from all over the world, who will shoot short films under the guidance of Östlund himself. During Il Cinema Ritrovato, Östlund will hold a Cinema Lesson (Thursday 29, 7 pm - Auditorium - DAMSLab, in collaboration with the International Filmmaking Academy of Bologna and MAST) and will present his film The Square (Monday 3 July, 9.45 pm) in Piazza Maggiore; on 2 July at 8.45 pm the director will be onstage at the Arena Puccini to present Triangle of Sadness.

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Da lunedì 26 a venerdì 30 giugno, ogni giorno alle 19.00, Hollywood Party - la storica trasmissione di Rai Radio3 dedicata al cinema - racconterà la trentasettesima edizione del Cinema Ritrovato. Anche quest'anno i grandi film del passato torneranno alla luce nella maestosa sala all'aperto allestita in Piazza Maggiore e in diverse sedi della città con oltre 400 proiezioni, conferenze, dibattiti e mostre. La trasmissione, con la conduzione di Steve Della Casa da Bologna e di Efisio Mulas dagli studi Rai di Roma, sarà aperta al pubblico e andrà in onda dal Cortile della Biblioteca Renzo Renzi presso la piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini, uno dei cuori pulsanti del festival.

Wim Wenders, revolutionary director of New German Cinema, maker of atypical documentaries and great cinephile, will be a guest and a protagonist at this year’s festival Il Cinema Ritrovato for what are sure to be four captivating events.

African Archives: What Next? is the title of the conversation that will bring together representatives from a variety of institutes and film archives, as well as Alain Sembène, son of Ousmane. At the centre of the discussion, moderated by Cecilia Cenciarelli, will be the urgency for a profound recognition of African film heritage and the responsibilities for its conservation.

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6mila persone in Piazza Maggiore a Bologna per Io ti salverò di Hitchcock

4.500 le presenze nelle sale durante la giornata di sabato 24 giugno

La 37ª edizione del Cinema Ritrovato in corso a Bologna fino al 2 luglio

You can attend the festival by purchasing one of the existing types of Festival Passes. Although some passes come with certain privileges over others, any type of festival pass would give you access to festival venues and screenings for the entire duration of Il Cinema Ritrovato.

After purchasing the Pass, you’ll receive a unique code that will be needed for booking your seats in advance, subject to availability. The ticket booking system will be activated in early June. You should be able to book your favourite screenings in advance.

If you don’t have a festival pass but still want to attend some of the screenings, depending on availability, some tickets will go on sale (check the website for the list of the available events) which can be purchased online or at the Bologna Welcome, the tourist office located in Piazza Maggiore. Bologna Welcome’s opening hours are Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 18:30 and Sundays and banks holidays from 10:00 to 16:30.

Access to the Piazza Maggiore screenings is free. However, subject to availability, the accredited festival attendees will have priority access to a reserved area in which they can claim a seat no later than 30 minutes before the start of the screening.

Il Cinema Ritrovato is a cinephile's paradise - matter of fact - and the festival offers, through its programme, screenings and events - starting from restored classics (but also from archives, rediscovered films, lectures, meetings with filmmakers and experts) - that celebrate and allow the public to refine their passion for the seventh art. An arduous task in itself, we have come up with a short list of must-see films and events for any serious cinephile:

Once again music takes centre stage (and centre screen) of Il Cinema Ritrovato festival. A programme full of musical events, spotted around the festival venues. 

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Ha saputo raccontare il nostro Sud come pochi altri: i suoi documentari sul Mondo perduto, quel mondo in cui la pesca del tonno era una lotta corpo a corpo tra uomini e abitanti del mare, quel mondo in cui quegli stessi uomini scendevano agli inferi della Terra per estrarre lo zolfo, quei documentari, dicevamo, sono una delle testimonianze visive più preziose di un’Italia arcaica. Vittorio De Seta avrebbe compiuto 100 anni il prossimo 15 ottobre, e la Cineteca di Bologna lo ricorda presentando alla 37ª edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (24 giugno – 2 luglio) il restauro di uno dei suoi film più significativi, l’esordio al lungometraggio nel 1961: Banditi a Orgosolo.

In 2024, the production company Praesens-Films will be 100 years old. A unique case in the history of Swiss cinema, the company is still active as a distributor. It produced most of the national cinema’s biggest successes, including such popular films as Luigi Comencini’s Heidi, and conquered Hollywood. It also won no less than three Oscars, including one for the screenplay of Marie-Louise (1944), written by Richard Schweizer and directed by Leopold Lindtberg, which deals with the French children hosted in Switzerland during the war.

Between 1930 and 1939, when Alexander Korda teamed him with Emeric Pressburger for The Spy in Black, Michael Powell had returned to a wintry England from his apprenticeship with Rex Ingram in the south of France and became part of the British production renaissance.

The cinema, the cinema theatre, is a world of its own, a suspended universe where alternative realities come to life, one journeys uncumbered by space and time, often towards worlds similar to our own, many other times towards distant and unimaginable galaxies (or only imaginable due to their cinematic presence), towards heavenly or dystopian destinations.

On the occasion of the 37th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, from 23 June to 23 July 2023 there will be a 20% discount on all Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna titles (excluding titles published in the last six months).

Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids – a section curated by Schermi e Lavagne, the Cineteca di Bologna’s Educational Department – offers our younger viewers a journey through time and space: an eight-day programme filled with approximately thirty films, creative workshops, shows and concerts.

Now in its 20th anniversary year, the One Hundred Years Ago section continues its annual exploration of a single year in cinema’s rich and varied history with a selection of enduring classics and archival rarities as well as thought-provoking documentaries from 1923.

Waiting for Il Cinema Ritrovato, our short feature with selections of not to be missed films and events continues with In the Mood for Love. Four classics, four passionate stories of love, from 1920s Hollywood to the troubled relationships of Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity. Fall in love with cinema, fall in love with love.

Monday 26th June, 9.45 pm, Piazza Maggiore

Wednesday 28th June, 6.15 pm, Sala Scorsese

Wednesday 28th June, 9.30 pm, Cinema Arlecchino Thursday 6th July, 9.45 pm, Piazza Maggiore

Monday 26th June, 11.00 am, Cinema Jolly Sunday 2nd July, 3.45 pm, Cinema Arlecchino

Last year we presented a series on German musical comedies, 1930-32. Now we follow up on the fate and the continuing creativity of the talents involved during their exile years, by screening five German-language musical comedies produced in Austria and Hungary.

After celebrating 100 years of the 9.5mm format in the last year’s programme, we continue this year with another anniversary. 100 years ago, Eastman Kodak introduced the 16mm format as a less expensive alternative to 35mm film. The areas in which the 16mm format was and is used are very diverse.

“You have no reason to fear the dead. They sleep very soundly”. (Black Sunday)

Il Cinema Ritrovato paints its (cinema) doors black again, with a selection of the horror genre, from the depths of darkness to its greyer nuances. The choice on offer is rich and varied: from the nightmare tales of Black Sunday and The Tram (a look back at the birth of the Italian horror, with Mario Bava and Dario Argento) to the cults, such as The Wicker Man - The Final Cut and The House with Laughing Windows, even arriving at the aquatic visions of Revenge of the Creature and the dark comedy of Gremlins (act 1 and 2, the works of Joe Dante), to the noir-crime of I, The Jury. 

Get comfortable with Dante’s five hour work, The Movie Orgy, reminiscent of Ghezzi’s collage style, intertwining comic images with adverts and scenes of terror. Dream or nightmare, your choice. 

The horror thread travels through various sections of the festival programme and different locations, from Piazza Maggiore to Cinema Europa (the birthplace of Il Cinema Ritrovato 37 years ago), mainly found in the sections “Pratello Pop” and “Recovered and Restored”. 

Over the course of a career that began at the time of the birth of neorealism and lasted more than 60 years, Suso Cecchi d’Amico worked on the screenplays of more than 120 films (mainly, but not exclusively, Italian) directed by both newcomers and established directors.

This year too, Il Cinema Ritrovato will provide an extraordinary forum for exchange and discussion while also offering the opportunity to attend great film masterclasses; Wim Wenders, Ruben Östlund, Joe Dante, Luca Guadagnino, Barbet Schroeder, the iconic Nan Goldin, the director of the Cannes Film Festival and the Institut Lumière Thierry Frémaux, the director of the Cinémathèque suisse Frédéric Maire, Masolino, Caterina and Silvia d’Amico – here to celebrate the legacy of their mother Suso and with Angela Allen, to remember Franco Zeffirelli on his 100 birthday.

In 1903 Méliès was at the peak of his art, creating wonderful gems such as Le Royaume des fées, a film destined to be the centrepiece of a programme made up of several genres, always with its fair share of short comedies and visual tricks. While British pioneers were contributing to cinema with their innovative spirit, in the US – see Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery – violence and plot-driven films were already happening.

From today onwards we are proposing a short feature with selections of not to be missed films and events dedicated to various topics. We start with Fluid Cinema, a quartet of films that cross gender stereotypes, from a documentary on film history and LGBT+ influences, to the comedy Peter, to a figure in German queer cinema, Elfi Mikesch, to Greta Garbo's historical portrayal of Queen Christina.

Saturday 24th June, 4.45 pm, Auditorium DAMSLab

Tuesday 27th June, 9.30 pm, Sala Scorsese 

Thursday 29th June, 2.30 pm, Sala Scorsese 

Wednesday 28th June, 4.30 pm, Cinema Jolly  Friday 30th June, 9.30 pm, Cinema Jolly  

Born in 1940 in Austria and working in Berlin since the 1960s, Elfi Mikesch is one of the most distinguished cinematographers in German cinema. Originally coming from the world of photography, she has worked in the cinema since the early 1970s. Besides shooting her own films, she worked as director of photography on more than 50 films by other directors, among them Werner Schroeter, Rosa von Praunheim, Monika Treut, Friederike Pezold, Heinz Emigholz, Cynthia Beatt and Teresa Villaverde.

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), an icon of feminist art, worked with a variety of mediums, from sculpture to painting to installation and also film. Born a French native, the artist moved and lived in various parts of the world, from a childhood and schooling in New York City, to the Balearic islands, where she was introduced to the architectural style of Gaudí, to Paris, where she met fellow artist Jean Tinguely, who would later become her husband.

One of the festival’s continuing strands, once again Cinemalibero will travel down the unpaved roads of cinema history to light up the powerful and unique work of maverick filmmakers unjustly denied admission to the canon of the greats; rediscovering films which, even when successful in their national cinemas, were barely recognised as masterworks outside the borders of their country of production.

This year, the usual appointment with Il Cinema Ritrovato book presentations will be back from 24th to 30th June, every day (apart from on Thursday, 29th June, when Il Cinema Ritrovato - DVD Awards Ceremony will take place) in Piazzetta Pasolini at 7 PM. We will present recently published books from authors, curators and festival guests.

After multiple viewings of  Albert Samama Chikli’s work in recent editions, we are ready to share some (spectacular) findings that have surfaced from the archives of this remarkable personality, now entrusted to the Cineteca di Bologna by his family.

This year’s selection demonstrates the vastness of the documentary genre, the value of its past and the possibilities of its present, and it brings together works that are seemingly distant in nature. The profession of documentary filmmaker is a dangerous one, a participatory narrative full of pitfalls: we discover this with Schroeder, an intrepid witness of the dictatorship in Uganda; with Roemer and his portrait of mafia violence; with Labudović, sent by Tito to fuel – through cinema – the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria.

The distinguished director Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896-1982) stands in a paradoxical relationship to international cinephilia. While Crossroads (1928) and Gate of Hell (1953) were shown in Europe at an early stage, and while Page of Madness (1926) is recognised as an avant-garde classic, Kinugasa’s wider oeuvre is still barely known abroad.

Sometimes fate acts in unfathomable ways. Random findings in different places may end up shedding light on a specific subject, as though from on high. Between 2022 and 2023, Cineteca di Bologna, La Cinémathèque française and Gosfil’mofond of Russia, each of them individually, made several astonishing rediscoveries and carried out restorations of films featuring Diana Karenne, Ileana Leonidoff, Helena Makowska, who were among the main Russian actresses active in Italian silent cinema.

What does it mean to revisit the works of the great masters in their original splendour? It means renewing the love of cinema, reading the passion of the author between the lines, amplifying the pleasure of being a spectator in the darkness of the theatre. Without any interference. Let’s start with some good news: there haven’t been this many restored films since before the pandemic!

Known for his ability to encode his vision in light, movement, and later in colour, the Tbilisi-born Armenian Rouben Mamoulian had one of the most consistent bodies of work in American cinema. Rightly celebrated for his invaluable contribution to Hollywood’s transition to sound, he both unchained the camera and used dialogue like a work of musical accompaniment. His mobile camera was envied and imitated, and his style is instantly recognisable for its sophistication, humour and erotic undertone.

Perhaps the greatest, certainly the most admired and imitated – not only was Anna Magnani unique, she was also a model of acting style and an Italian icon. After first presenting herself as a brilliant actress – thanks to the triumph of Rome, Open City – she subsequently diversified from the many incarnations of her popular Roman character to play very different roles, such as those in Jean Renoir’s The Golden Coach or the monodrama The Human Voice (an episode in Roberto Rossellini’s L’Amore), to finally arriving in Hollywood and winning an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo.

Here is the image that will guide us into this year's Cinephile's Heaven: Lou Castel, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick and Gian Maria Volonté, with their eyes fixed on the horizon. A shot taken by Divo Cavicchioli on the 1966 set of Quién sabe? by Damiano Damiani (with thanks to Centro Cinema Città di Cesena and the film rights holder Surf Film).

Twice Palme d'Or winner at Cannes in only five years, currently President of the jury on the Croisette: the Swedish director Ruben Östlund will be a guest at the 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, organised by the Cineteca di Bologna from June 24th to July 2nd 2023.

Ruben Östlund will be both a guest and a teacher during his stay in Bologna, with the International Filmmaking Academy, in a long stage on the set involving 20 young directors from all over the world, who will shoot short films under the guidance of Östlund himself.

At Cinema Ritrovato, Östlund will hold a Lesson on Cinema open to the public and will present his film The Square in Piazza Maggiore.

What are the names of the three provocative actors in Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003)? Who was the voice over actress (future diva of Italian cinema) of the actress Dorian Gray in Antonioni's Il grido (1957)? What was the name of the Senegalese director who shot La Noire de... (1966)?

These and many other questions fuelled the Cinephile Quiz evening last Monday at the Lumière, which saw many cinema lovers being rewarded with a festival pass for Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023.

Il Cinema Ritrovato On Tour–Minneapolis will feature recently restored archival films at The Main Cinema from May 11–13, 2023. Presented in partnership by Archives on Screen, Twin Cities, the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Cineteca di Bologna, the festival will screen eleven highlights from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s 2022 lineup. 

Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour at University of New Hampshire has come to its fifth edition, a five-day festival that will take place from March 27th to 31st at the Memorial Union Building Theater II in Durham.

A truly unique programme that still aims to pay the right tribute to the history of cinema with exclusive restorations and introductions, thanks to the constant collaboration between Cineteca of Bologna and UNH. The complete list of the screenings is available on the official website.

Il Cinema Ritrovato – DVD Awards is promoted by Cineteca di Bologna in the framework of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival. The competition is open to all films released in DVD/Blu-Ray and will take place during the 37th edition of the festival.

Il Cinema Ritrovato goes on tour in the United States!

From March 9th to 13th, some of the best films from last year's edition return to the School of Languages, Literatures & Cutlures at the University of Maryland. The full programme can be read here.

From March 3rd to 25th, The Best of Il Cinema Ritrovato returns to the University of Wisconsin with a huge selection of restorations. The full programme can be found here.

Once again, Brown University's Department of Italian Studies is hosting three days of screenings, from March 17th to 19th, at the Brown Arts Institute's Martinos Auditorium. Explore the full program here.

The Classics Restored Festival is renewed for a fourth edition from March 3rd to March 13th, 2023.

Many films from the last edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato are scheduled, including Sciuscià by Vittorio De Sica, restored by L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and already featured in the 2022 Cannes Classics program.

January 16th–30th, 2023, MoMA’s annual festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved and restored films from archives, studios, distributors, foundations, and independent filmmakers from around the world returns in its 19th edition.

In March 2023, FIAF will join forces with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé once again to offer a short training course (in English and French) aimed at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond. The general theme of this specialized course is still "Programming Film Heritage", and will once again be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. This 8th edition of the Winter School will take place on-site only, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé and at the Cinémathèque, on 6 & 7 March 2023, just before the "Toute la mémoire du monde" festival at the Cinémathèque française (8-12 March 2023).

The Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) is a non profit civil association, dedicated to support Mexican filmmakers, cultivate new audiences and to spread the cinematographic culture of Mexico, through an inclusive and hospitable platform for national filmmakers, the public and the international film community. 

"There appears to be a consensus that this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna was exceptionally rich —so much so that I concluded that my next column in these pages could be devoted to some of its riches, most of which are already available on DVD or Blu-ray in one form or another.

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Dal 19 ottobre al 20 dicembre, Il Cinema Ritrovato sbarca a Istanbul con un piccolo programma realizzato a partire dai contributi della Cineteca di Bologna e del Centro Italiano di Cultura di Istanbul, 6 di 37 film selezionati dalla sezione "Ritrovati e Restaurati":

"Hugo Fregonese: Man on the Run", MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Floor T2/T1 The Debra and Leon Black Family Film Cente) Through Sep 14

Perhaps history’s most restless filmmaker, Hugo Fregonese directed his first films in his native Argentina in the 1940s and then embarked on a globe-trotting career that took him to Hollywood, London, Paris, Rome, Munich, and eventually back to South America, all the while exploring themes of claustrophobia, entrapment, and imprisonment.

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.

Cinema Rediscovered returns for its sixth edition in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film from Wednesday 20th – Sunday 24th July 2022, celebrating the return of the big screen experience with a line-up of movie magic, from brand new restorations and rediscoveries to film curiosities before going on a UK wide tour from Aug – Oct 2022 with the support of MUBI and BFI awarding funds from National Lottery.

The programme features Chess of the Wind, restored in 4K by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project.

Check out the complete 2022 programme.

"Hollywood’s studio era remains a continual goldmine for film historians and cinephiles looking for hidden gems, and Il Cinema Ritrovato has made a habit of yearly rediscoveries of long-forgotten directors whose turn it is be elevated to auteur status. Blunt and direct as the tactic may be — bound to raise even Andrew Sarris’ eyebrows when it comes to framing films exclusively through auteurism — there’s no denying that it’s been successful in the past. This year, the title of the great rediscovered auteur goes to Hugo Fregonese, an Argentina-born director who only made films in Hollywood for a few years amidst a 30-year career.

"When they unscrewed the heavy and majestic La Nonna (our carbon arc projector) from the pedestal in Piazzetta Pasolini and the ice cream vendor packed his stuff and went home it was clear that Il Cinema Ritrovato XXXVI was over. We had a ball. More than 400 films were shown during 8 and a half days. Cinema could be found in every corner of the city.

After the last year's round-up – seen and read by many – I asked colleagues, curators, film historians, silent film accompanists, scholars and the attendees to pick the title of the two films from the festival, one as their favourite film and the other of their major discovery at this year's edition. You can read them below.

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Con la proiezione di ieri sera in Piazza Maggiore di The Last Waltz di Martin Scorsese, la 36ª edizione del festival della Cineteca di Bologna si è chiusa con un balzo in avanti rispetto all’edizione pre-Covid del 2019 4.230 accreditati provenienti da 55 Paesi da tutti i continenti del mondo 7 sale sempre piene da mattina a sera: dal Cinema Ritrovato un dato importante per riflettere sull’esperienza della visione collettiva in sala

Découverte du 36e festival du film restauré de Bologne, l’œuvre de l’argentin Hugo Fregonese (1908-1987) est celle d’un saddle tramp (pour reprendre le titre de son western de 1950, littéralement, vagabond à cheval) qui n’a cessé de changer de pays pour continuer à faire des films. Méconnus en France (ils ont quand même fait l’objet d’une rétrospective à la Cinémathèque de Chaillot en 2003, sous l’égide de Jacques Lourcelles), ses films témoignent de la pugnacité d’un réalisateur de série B doué qui a réussi à se hisser, au tournant des années 50, jusqu’aux studios hollywoodiens.

Ritrovato returns, in situ, live….and it was great to be back. Bologna itself, the food, the weather…all were heaven. But the reason we go to Bologna at this time of of the year is the films, the quality of the prints, the restorations, the way they are programmed and projected, and the conversations that take place around the screenings. In this episode, offered as vodcast and podcast, we discuss  the new booking system and the different strands of the programme: 100 Years Ago, Peter Lorre, Sophia Loren, Hugo Fregonese, Weimar Musicals , some of the restorations (El, Ludwig, La Maman et la Putain, Shoeshine,  Nosferatu etc) and — in less detail — Yugoslavian Cinema and Cinema Libero.

After two COVID-struck years in which Il Cinema Ritrovato scrabbled on in restrictive and restricted capacities, the festival came back in full fashion this year. Set in Bologna, home to one of the oldest universities in the world, it’s appropriate that this festival should be so focused on film history itself – on reframing, re-shaping and rediscovering the canon of cinema. As a result, the crowd is appropriately cinephiliac, bringing together critics, curators, archivists, scholars and just plain old enthusiasts.

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!

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Sabato 2 luglio in Piazza Maggiore "under the stars" cineconcerto con il capolavoro horror di Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.

Il Cinema Ritrovato celebrates cinema and the magic of (re) discovering masterpieces of the past and present all together, sitting on the armchairs of a theater, on outdoor chairs and even on the steps of the city.

But the festival also celebrates all of you, our audience, who fill the halls and squares with the magic of your looks and your smiles, who come from near or far and who, with a good dose of patience, immerse yourself in this collective warm - as only Bologna can be in summer - and welcoming whirlwind.

Thanks!

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! 

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Schermi e Lavagne, Ufficio educativo della Cineteca di Bologna, ha coinvolto un gruppo di giovani dai 16 ai 19 anni appassionati di cinema nel progetto Il Cinema Ritrovato Young: le ragazze e i ragazzi del team di giovani cinefili presenteranno al pubblico i film che hanno selezionato all’interno della programmazione ufficiale del festival.

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Seconda edizione dell'appuntamento cinematografico promosso dal Comune di Vergato, dall'Unione dei Comuni dell'Appennino bolognese in collaborazione con la Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. Dal 5 luglio per cinque settimane presso l'arena estiva del Cinema Nuovo di Vergato in programma cinque classici della storia del cinema.

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Ieri sera, in scena le magiche atmosfere delle proiezioni con lampada a carbone: sonorizzazione dal vivo di Changing Hues (film pubblicitario elaborato in forma narrativa in cui una ragazza che non può permettersi un vestito nuovo tinge quello vecchio con la tintura Twink, GB/1922) e Cainà ovvero l'isola e il continente di Gennaro Righelli (Italia/1922), protagonista la fuggiasca Cainà con Maria Jacobini. Sonorizzazione di Laura Agnusdei (sax tenore ed elettronica), Tullia Benedicta (elettronica), Stefano Pilia (chitarra ed elettronica) e Cecilia Stacchiotti (tastiere ed elettronica).

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Schermi e Lavagne, Ufficio educativo della Cineteca di Bologna, ha coinvolto un gruppo di giovani dai 16 ai 19 anni appassionati di cinema nel progetto Il Cinema Ritrovato Young: le ragazze e i ragazzi del team di giovani cinefili presenteranno al pubblico i film che hanno selezionato all’interno della programmazione ufficiale del festival.

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Il direttore del Festival di Cannes ha discusso con il direttore della Cineteca di Bologna Gian Luca Farinelli su come reinventare l’esperienza cinematografica in sala

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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.

This Year il Cinema Ritrovato dedicates two appointments to CAM Sugar, historical film music label that represents the richer source of music visuals in Italy. A selection of CAM Sugar artworks is at the centre of an exhibition that takes place in Biblioteca Renzo Renzi from June 25th to september 10th (closed in august). Besides, CAM Sugar catalogue will be presented in Piazzetta Pasolini during a dedicated event on Friday July 1st at 7PM.

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Schermi e Lavagne, Ufficio educativo della Cineteca di Bologna, ha coinvolto un gruppo di giovani dai 16 ai 19 anni appassionati di cinema. Le ragazze e i ragazzi di Il Cinema Ritrovato Young presenteranno al pubblico i film che hanno selezionato all’interno della programmazione ufficiale del festival.

The Cinderella Movies is the attempt made by an improvised film crew to make a film from the famous fairy tale Cinderella. Unfortunately, for reasons of funds, the crew is reduced to the essentials, and the director and production secretary find themselves having to do everything by themselves.

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“Quando so che c’è Il Cinema Ritrovato, io corro a Bologna. Il Cinema Ritrovato è la cosa più calda, più intelligente, più dolce che abbiamo in Italia, forse in Europa”. Con un moto d’affetto incontenibile, Gianni Amelio ha inaugurato, oggi, sabato 25 giugno, la 36ª edizione del festival promosso fino 3 luglio dalla Cineteca di Bologna.

The stars of Il Cinema Ritrovato invading Bologna during the days of the festival: Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, James Dean, Max Schreck (Nosferatu!), Peter Lorre, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Ray Charles, ...

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"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".

Making movies you're not trying to capture reality; you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. Stanley Kubrik

In the program of the 36th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, across the sections, we can identify a common thread dedicated to photography: on the one hand, we propose films involving great names of the photographic art; on the other hand, we point out in this article some titles that have become famous for the care or the uniqueness in the choices of the direction of photography.

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.

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Una Piazza Maggiore a Bologna, gremita di 6mila persone, si lascia andare a un applauso lungo e commosso, nel pieno del discorso con il quale Charlie Chaplin chiude il suo inno alla pace, Il grande dittatore, un film preveggente all’epoca – siamo nel 1939 – e ancor oggiattualissimo nella sua capacità di lanciare un messaggio di fratellanza tra i popoli, al di là delle barriere nazionali.

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.

The "cinephiles' paradise" is a space-time bubble where one can enjoy the wonders and the thousand faces of cinema, from the aesthetic to the socio-cultural, to the technical. At the same time, a place to discover those (not so) rare cases in which cinema reveals its secrets and places them at the centre of the scene. When cinema takes a moment to reflect on itself, to play with its characteristics and limitations.

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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.

We are almost ready to introduce you the detailed program of the "cinephiles' paradise" festival!

The press conference will be held on Wednesday 8 June and from that moment - on festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it - it will be possible to book your seat at the screenings and scheduled appointments. #Staytuned!

Among the many facets of Il Cinema Ritrovato, certainly we cannot overlook the musical factor that enriches many of the festival's screenings.

The Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna returns to Piazza Maggiore with two film concerts featuring original scores composed and conducted by Timothy Brock to mark the centenary of two of the masterpieces of film history: Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives on the 27th June and F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu on the 2nd July. In Piazza Maggiore Dans la nuit (1929) by Charles Vanel will be programmed with a musical accompaniment, too.

The forthcoming edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato (June 25-July 3, 2022) doesn't include an individual strand for Iranian cinema, however, it'll nonetheless feature at least five dazzling Iranian films, made between 1961 and 2022, shown across 3 different strands.

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!

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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Stefania Sandrelli inaugura Il Cinema Ritrovato in Piazza Maggiore con il nuovo restauro del Conformista di Bernardo Bertolucci.

I grandi restauri in Piazza Maggiore: dalla versione definitiva del Padrino III alla Carmen di Francesco Rosi, passando per i 70 anni di Singin' in the Rain e i 20 del Pianista di Polanski.

Martedì 10 maggio, alle ore 20 al Cinema Lumière, una serata aperta al pubblico per raccontare i temi della 36ª edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (25 giugno – 3 luglio).

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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! 

Vai alla scheda dell'evento sul sito della Cineteca

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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.

Cinema Reborn’s 2022 festival will take place at Ritz Cinemas Randwick in Sidney from 27 April to 03 May 2022. Cinema Reborn once again focuses attention on the worldwide activity of film preservation and restoration. More however it celebrates this work by presenting pristine remastered copies of cinema classics in a living, breathing theatre in the manner that has thrived for over a century and a quarter.

The International Filmmaking Academy invites emerging directors from all over the world to Bologna for an unforgettable experience under the guidance of John Landis. You will have the opportunity to shoot your short film while learning Landis' deeper approach to his cinema, and also to screen your work and get his feedback. The IFA Masterclass takes place during Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, organized by Cineteca di Bologna (from the 25th June to 3rd of Jly). A real paradise for cinephiles and one of the most important festivals in the world for film restoration.

"European cinema is luckily not just one but is composed of many voices, and these voices have something in common that we proudly call European cinema." (Wim Wenders). 

In association with the Association of European Cinematheques, ARTE brings you the many voices of European cinema and celebrates the richness of our shared cinematic heritage.

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JOHN LANDIS OSPITE AL FESTIVAL IL CINEMA RITROVATO

IL REGISTA SARÀ IL 3 LUGLIO IN PIAZZA MAGGIORE A BOLOGNA CON IL SUO FILM CULT THE BLUES BROTHERS

IL FESTIVAL DELLA CINETECA DI BOLOGNA TORNA ALLE SUE DATE TRADIZIONALI E SI SVOLGERÀ IN PRESENZA DAL 25 GIUGNO AL 3 LUGLIO

Annunciate le prime sezioni della 36ª edizione del Cinema Ritrovato. Tra queste, gli omaggi a Sophia Loren, Peter Lorre (“il più grande attore vivente”, secondo Charlie Chaplin) e alla commedia musicale tedesca dei primi anni Trenta. I cine-concerti in Piazza Maggiore con l’Orchestra del Teatro Comunale per festeggiare i centenari di due capolavori dell’epoca muta: Nosferatu di F. W. Murnau e Femmine folli di Erich von Stroheim.

Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour at University of New Hampshire has come to its fourth edition, a seven-day festival that will take place from March 25th to 31st at The Music Hall in Portsmouth and the MUB Theaters of the UNH in Durham.

Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour arrives at the University of Maryland: a first edition that will take place on March 18th, 2022 at the Old Greenbelt Theater in Greenbelt.

The ninth edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour (Rediscovered Cinema on Tour) will take place from March 10 to March 12, 2022 at the Granoff Center for the Arts, Providence. 

The Classics Restored Festival is renewed for a third edition from 4 to 13 March 2022. Cineteca di Bologna will attend with a beautiful recovered version of Accattone by Pier Paolo Pasolini, restored at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.

FIAF, in partnership with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, will be hosting the 7th Winter School on Programming FilmHeritagein Paris on 28 and 29 March 2022. 

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"In quella sovraimpressione amorosa c'è tutto il cinema. Il puro amore per il cinema, con il suo potere di farti perdere, portarti in un altro spazio".

Enrico Ghezzi

Questa volta, una segnalazione speciale dal palinsesto televisivo. La storica trasmissione di Rai3 Fuori Orario cose (mai) viste proporrà due nottate – venerdì 22 e sabato 23 ottobre – dedicate a Jean Vigo con i film del regista di culto riportati al loro originario splendore presso L'Immagine Ritrovata, il laboratorio di restauro della Cineteca di Bologna.

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La Cineteca di Bologna al Festival Lumière di Lione: l’imponente manifestazione francese dedicata alla storia del cinema, in programma fino al 17 ottobre, ospita nel suo vasto programma tre restauri della Cineteca di Bologna: Salto nel vuoto di Marco Bellocchio, Due soldi di speranza di Renato Castellani e il western cult con Bud Spencer e Terence Hill Lo chiamavano Trinità.

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Dopo la presentazione alla scorsa edizione del Cinema Ritrovato, il restauro di My Cousin, unico film sopravvissuto dei due soli interpretati da Enrico Caruso, approda alla tre giorni napoletana dedicata al tenore in occasione del centesimo anniversario della scomparsa. Dopo l’incontro al Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella con Placido Domingo, che ha aperto le celebrazioni per il centenario della morte di Enrico Caruso, dal 21 al 23 ottobre sono in programma diverse manifestazioni che si svolgeranno negli spazi del Conservatorio e in quelli dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.

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Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma, dal 30 settembre al 26 ottobre 2021 Ingresso gratuito, prenotazione obbligatoria su piattaforma Eventbrite (max 50 persone)

Dopo l’anteprima italiana presentata lo scorso luglio a Bologna, nell’ambito della XXXV edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato organizzato dalla Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, giunge a Roma, nella sala cinema dell’Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, l’intera sezione IL VERO GIAPPONE: I DOCUMENTARI DELLA IWANAMI, a cura di Alexander Jacoby e Johan Nordström. Una breve rassegna che rende omaggio al cinema documentario della Iwanami Productions, casa di produzione indipendente fondata nel 1950 e nota per la realizzazione di film educativi e promozionali, spesso commissionati da Ministeri e istituzioni museali giapponesi.

Here we are again with our trips to the foreign classic cinema festivals all around the world and the restored treasures coming from the Il Cinema Ritrovato programmes!

This time it's the turn of Assunta Spina, an italian silent masterpiece presented in the restored version at the Budapest Classics Film Marathon (21-26 Spettember 2021) by the Il Cinema Ritrovato coordinator Guy Borlée.

* "Mai nessuno, come dice Godard, parlerebbe di 'un vecchio quadro' o di 'un vecchio romanzo'. È evidente che l'arte è tale proprio perché riesce a essere contemporanea. Il passato ritrova la sua energia, il suo dialogo con il pubblico del presente. Questa è la magia delle arti". *

Nel video, le atmosfere e i protagonisti dell'edizione 2021 - che si è appena conclusa - del festival "Paradiso dei cinefili".

“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.

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Mercoledì 28 luglio, in Piazza Maggiore, il regista e sceneggiatore Premio Oscar Paul Haggis presenterà il film di Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby, di cui è sceneggiatore.

Nel pomeriggio, alle ore 16.00, sarà al Cinema Lumière per presentare il suo film Third Person, mentre alle 19.00 sarà al MAST con Nella valle di Elah.

E sempre mercoledì 28, al Cinema Odeon, un fuori programma di 3 film dal Cinema Ritrovato.

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Siamo quasi giunti al termine di questo intenso e magico viaggio nel “paradiso dei cinefili”. Domani è l’ultimo giorno del Cinema Ritrovato ma gli appuntamenti continuano con il Cinema Ritrovato Streaming, fino al 3 agosto!

Wednesday 28, Cinema Odeon – Sala A (via Mascarella 3)

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These screenings are not included in the programme of the festival; tickets are available at the Cinema Odeon box office at a cost of 5 euros per screening.

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Sei notti e tutta la magia del Cinema Ritrovato. Il Festival non è ancora finito ma vogliamo farvi rivivere i migliori momenti sotto le stelle di Piazza Maggiore e LunettArena, dal 20 al 25 luglio.

Scoprite le gallery con le foto di Lorenzo Burlando e Margherita Caprilli per compiere un viaggio a ritroso nel "paradiso dei cinefili"!

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In Piazza Maggiore apre la lettura dell’attrice Isabelle Huppert. Poi le immagini dell’operatore bolognese, Mario Fantin, membro della prima spedizione al mondo che raggiunse nel 1954 la vetta del K2. La prima assoluta del restauro delle immagini di Italia K2, con il Coro e l’Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Nel pomeriggio, la lezione di cinema del Premio Oscar Paul Haggis e i Manetti Bros. che parlano di Quentin Tarantino. E poi il cine-concerto dei Floribunda: Stefano Pilia, Edoardo Marraffa, Giuseppe Franchellucci.

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Sabato 24 luglio in Piazza Maggiore, una serata speciale con il restauro di 'Vampyr' "under the stars", musiche di Wolfgang Zeller, restaurate, adattate e dirette da Timothy Brock, eseguite dall'Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna.

Momento clou dell'evento: la campana della Torre dell'Arengo, protagonista della proiezione, si è unita eccezionalmente all'Orchestra per musicare una delle scene più rappresentative del film. Un momento straniante ed emozionante, durante il quale la città di Bologna non solo ha ospitato la proiezione, ma è diventata parte integrante dell'esperienza di visione.

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I consigli di Paolo Mereghetti sugli appuntamenti imprescindibili di lunedì 26 luglio al festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

Super8 & 16mm – Great Small Gauges. After two years of presenting exclusively short 16mm films, we are about to expand the view on small gauge filmmaking. An important part of this year’s selection is formed by long-form work, where small-gauge film stock has been used extensively. Moreover, Super8, a format which rarely finds its way into a movie theatre, is also included. The section presents pure cinematic miniatures of Helga Fanderl in a programme curated by the Super8 artist herself, lyrical documentary landscapes and cityscapes by Annik Leroy and an anti-ethnographic essay by Trinh T. Minh-ha. As an extra, the session with the wondrous Archeoscope, an ‘all gauges’ machine built and operated by Jan Kulka, will allow you to experience the magic of analogue projection, not of a film strip, but of salt, lace, dust and more. Curated by Karl Wratschko and Mariann Lewinsky.

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.

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In occasione della XXXV edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 20-27 luglio), torna l’appuntamento con Il Cinema Ritrovato Young, dedicato a giovani cinephiles dai 14 ai 18 anni, proposto dall’ufficio educativo Schermi e Lavagne. Ospiti della terza puntata i critici cinematografici Emiliano Morreale, curatore della rassegna su Aldo Fabrizi al Cinema Ritrovato, e Paolo Mereghetti.

Like every year, Il Cinema Ritrovato is not only films: two different exhibition will be set up during the festival. In Biblioteca Salaborsa and at the Grand Hotel Majestic it's already open an exhibition of some pieces from Maurizio Baroni's collection will be exhibited. Sustained by an inexhaustible passion, Baroni collected over 32,000 posters and lobby cards representing over 27,000 titles from 1945 on. In biblioteca Renzo Renzi from july 19th will be set up an exhibition dedicated to the costumist Gino Carlo Sensani.

Enrico Caruso sings as you’ve never… seen before! Yes, because the most legendary voice in the history of  ‘bel canto’ has always lacked a body: but now, here it is. One hundred years after the death of the great Neapolitan tenor (on 2nd August 1921), the Cineteca di Bologna commemorates Enrico Caruso by presenting the restoration of My Cousin, the only survivor of the two films in which he appeared, at the Cinema Ritrovato festival.

It was made in 1918 and is therefore a silent film, but thanks to an extraordinary effort to restore the film and synchronise it with his actual voice, we can finally see (and hear!) Enrico Caruso sing the celebrated aria Vesti la giubba (better known as Ridi, pagliaccio, or On with the Motley), from Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

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Questa sera alle 21.15 al Cinema Odeon uno dei capolavori di Otto Preminger in versione restaurata. In occasione della XXXV edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 20-27 luglio), torna l’appuntamento con Il Cinema Ritrovato Young, dedicato a giovani cinephiles dai 14 ai 18 anni, proposto dall’ufficio educativo Schermi e Lavagne.

Guillermo del Toro sent us a note to be read before the screening of the film he chose:  Frenchman's Creek by  Mitchell Leisen (USA/1944)

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Quattro giorni fa il "Paradiso dei Cinefili" ha aperto le sue porte: 426 film, 10 sale e un unico, grande, pubblico.

Il Festival celebra il cinema ma celebra anche tutti voi, il nostro pubblico, che riempite le sale e le piazze con la magia dei vostri sguardi e sorrisi. 

Grazie!

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I consigli di Paolo Mereghetti sugli appuntamenti imprescindibili di sabato 24 luglio al festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

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Il Cinema Ritrovato, giorno 4: due appuntamenti da non perdere 

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"I am interested in photographing the person as bare as possible. This means that I do not want to arrive at the shoot with a concept or with an idea. I don't want to put people into special situations, ask them to do specific things, or act a certain way. I try to do with a minimum of hair, make-up, and styling – or with none at all. Also, I put people in a very neutral place in terms of the décor. If I can I will use a neutral backdrop or a simple wall. I often prefer working with daylight". Brigitte Lacombe (leggi l'intervista completa di The Talks)

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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.

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Martedì 20 luglio, all'Arena del Sole, grande spettacolo d'apertura per CR Kids, che ha celebrato il centenario dalla nascita di Emanuele Luzzati con una rassegna di cortometraggi d’animazione nati dal sodalizio artistico tra lo scenografo e illustratore genovese e il regista e animatore Giulio Gianini.

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La scommessa della 35ª edizione del festival promosso dalla Cineteca di Bologna vinta con 2mila accreditati da 20 Paesi nel mondo: + 20% rispetto al 2020, 20mila presenze nei primi 2 giorni del festival, per una visione in sala in totale sicurezza.

Europa ma non solo: a Bologna da Stati Uniti e Canada, America del Sud, Medioriente, 7 sale in città e via Indipendenza che torna a essere la via dei cinema con l’Arena del Sole: solo per pochi giorni, solo con Il Cinema Ritrovato E domani sera in Piazza Maggiore c’è Nanni Moretti per il restauro del suo film La cosa, il documentario sulla crisi del PCI e la svolta della Bolognina.

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I consigli di Paolo Mereghetti sugli appuntamenti imprescindibili di venerdì 23 luglio al festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

Film history has never been as abundant and lively as it is today. Never before have archives been so active, giving us such a rich heritage of images, which allow us to get to know the past as if it were the present. Il Cinema Ritrovato is the place where this alchemy takes place, where the cinema of the past enters into the present. If so many interesting and beautiful films were produced in the past, we can only be optimistic about the future.

It's no surprise if film restoration and reels are the leading actors of the festival!

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Nella splendida cornice della Biblioteca Renzo Renzi, è possibile immergersi nel cinema a 360 gradi, passeggiando tra le novità editoriali in ambito cinematografico raccolte all'interno della Mostra Mercato dell'Editoria Cinematografica, giunta alla diciannovesima edizione. Quest'anno l'evento ospita oltre 300 titoli italiani ed internazionali tra libri e DVD, oltre alle splendide ed immancabili edizioni Cineteca di Bologna.

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Inaugurata nel 1810, sorge come “luogo dato agli spettacoli diurni” in un’area occupata dall’antico Convento di Santa Maria Maddalena. In origine era un teatro a cielo aperto; nel 1950 venne trasformata in cinema. Dal 2014 è una delle sedi di Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione - Teatro Nazionale. E oggi torna a trasformarsi in sala cinematografica in occasione del Cinema Ritrovato (con uno schermo di 72mq, 12 x 6m)!

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I consigli di Paolo Mereghetti sugli appuntamenti imprescindibili di giovedì 22 luglio al festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

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. 

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In occasione della XXXV edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 20-27 luglio), torna l’appuntamento con Il Cinema Ritrovato Young, dedicato a giovani cinephiles dai 14 ai 18 anni, proposto dall’ufficio educativo Schermi e Lavagne.

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I consigli di Paolo Mereghetti sugli appuntamenti imprescindibili di mercoledì 21 luglio al festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

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In occasione della sua partecipazione 35ª edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, Isabella Rossellini questo pomeriggio ha incontrato la stampa al Grand Hotel Majestic.

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Lunedì 19 luglio, in Piazza Maggiore "under the stars", in occasione della proiezione del restauro di Les Bas-Fonds (Verso la vita, Francia/1936) di Jean Renoir, serata che ha anticipato l'inaugurazione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, Nicolas Seydoux (Gaumont) ha dedicato una lettera al cinema e al direttore della Cineteca di Bologna Gian Luca Farinelli, con una citazione da Le Petit Prince di Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

This year conversations are a mirror of the festival’s great variety and richness. Unmissable.

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.

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Il 17 luglio sono partiti i cine-concerti in Piazza Maggiore con IT (1927) di Clarence G . Badger. Il pubblico è stato trasportato dalla musica composta e diretta da Maud Nelissen ed eseguita da The Sprockets: Daphne Balvers (sassofono soprano), Frido ter Beek (sassofono contralto), Peter Keijsers (trombone), Marco Ludemann (banjo, chitarra jazz, mandolino), Alexander Vocking (contrabbasso)

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Immagini del 1921, sonorizzazioni del 2021.

Appuntamento imperdibile il 27 luglio, ore 15.30, al Cinema Jolly con la proiezione di Arsen Georgiashvili di Ivan Perestiani (The Killing of General Gryaznov, URSS/1921). Il film, che fa parte della sezione Cento anni fa: 1921 – Frammenti di storia allo specchio, sarà sonorizzato da Floribunda: Giuseppe Franchellucci (violoncello), Edoardo Marraffa (saxofoni) e Stefano Pilia (chitarra, elettronica)

Introduce Tamara Shvediuk

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.

As usual, Schermi e Lavagne, the education department of the Cineteca di Bologna, offers a section for our youngest cinephiles. This year we are happy to offer children the experience of a return to the cinema auditorium: for seven days, younger audiences can discover films from all eras and travel through time and space in the company of cinema from around the world. Alongside the Cinema Lumière screenings there will be workshops, meetings with industry professionals, and live shows.

Browse through the full programme of Cinema Ritrovato Kids 2021, dedicated to little cinephiles!

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!). 

Looking back at the films of 100 years ago, we are invited to pose questions about our future. Has the pandemic, which we hope to be emerging from, changed us? Will the cinema be able to capture and convey this sense of change? 

Against All Flags, the retrospective dedicated to Wolfgang Staudte, allows us to get to know the unique journey of a director whose formative years were during the Nazi period, who chose to work in East Germany, and who later moved to West Germany – all the while directing challenging and personal films. Staudte is a clear representative of the anti-nationalist side of the cinema, which, from its very beginnings – thanks to its immediate global distribution and the images shot in various continents by the Lumière cameramen – has always been a collective art that transcends borders.

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.

Romy,

I watch you sleep. I’m with you, by your bedside.

You’re wearing a long black tunic and red embroidery on the bodice. These are flowers, I think, but I do not look at them.

I will say goodbye, the longest farewell, my Puppelé. That’s how I called you. It means “little doll” in German.

I do not watch the flowers, but your face and I think you’re beautiful, and never, perhaps you have been so beautiful.

Alain Delon, 29 may 1982

For many years, the programme has been excavating a history of cinema from a female perspective. In 2021, this tendency emerges in all of the different sections, with new discoveries and celebrations of female actors, directors, scriptwriters and critics.

First appointment with the section Cinemalibero: Tuesday, 20 July, 6.30 p.m, Cinema Arlecchino, the projection of Araya (Venezuela- Francia/1959) by Margot Benacerraf.

Browsing through the variety of sections of Il Cinema Ritrovato programme, we have selected here the "The century of cinema: 1901", especially with regards to the chapter dedicated to the arrival of the Seventh art in our town. Please find below the introduction to "Films seen in Bologna in 1901" and a gallery of graphics and press cuttings of the time collected during the research work for this section.

First appointment for the 'Bologna' chapter of the section: Wednsday 21 July, 9.45 PM, Piazzetta Pasolini, carbon lantern projection of: Raggi "Z" (Italy/1917) by Eleuterio Rodolfi, Photographie d’une étoile (France/1906) and La Fée aux fleurs (France/1905), piano accompaniment by Gabriel Thibaudeau.

Il Cinema Ritrovato opens with Isabella Rossellini (20 July) and closes with Isabelle Huppert (27 July).

And for the duration of the festival we will welcome guests including Nanni Moretti, Alice Rohrwacher and street artist JR, Oscar winners Paul Haggis and Volker Schlöndorff, and the writer Jonathan Coe.

"Il Cinema Ritrovato starts again on July 20, celebrating its 35th anniversary! This year there are 426 films on the program, contributed by 89 public and private institutions from 27 different countries. Eye is one of those partners and is contributing to various event". Read more

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.

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After a year in which we have successfully trialled online screenings of the great masterpieces of the past, for the 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato we will once again bring you a selection drawn from the programme of the in-person event in Bologna.

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Aspettando l'inizio del festival, una selezione di splendidi documentari, a ingresso libero al Cinema Lumière, che ci farà assaporare l'incredibile programmazione dell'edizione 2021. 

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In occasione della XXXV edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 20-27 luglio), torna l'appuntamento con Il Cinema Ritrovato Young, dedicato a giovani cinephiles dai 14 ai 18 anni, proposto dall'ufficio educativo Schermi e Lavagne.

Cinema Rediscovered returns for its fifth edition in and around Bristol UNESCO City of Film from Wed 28 July – Sun 1 Aug celebrating the return of the big screen experience with a line-up of brand new restorations and rediscoveries before going on a UK wide tour from Aug – Oct 2021.

You can already reserve your seat for the morning and afternoon screenings of the 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato. Click here to to get your festival pass.

In order to access the theatre seating plan and reserve your ticket you must enter your BADGE CODE (which you received via e-mail after the purchase of your pass) here: ilcinemaritrovato.ticka.it

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For further informations about access mode to the screening of Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021, click here.

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Si è tenuta questa mattina, mercoledì 30 giugno, la conferenza del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato. I co-direttori del festival Gian Luca Farinelli e Cecilia Cenciarelli, alla presenza dell'assessore all Cultura Matteo Lepore, hanno presentato il programma della XXXV edizione.

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

Our catalogue is more than a guide to our films! It’s an essential part of the festival, an encyclopedia of knowledge which arouses curiosity, puts the films in their proper historical context and preserves the memory of the films seen.

In the gallery below, a glimpse from the printing house of our festival catalogue in the making, with its printing plates, color tests and printing machines.

Anche quest’anno si accenderà il grande schermo di Piazza Maggiore, segnale di ripartenza atteso da un’intera comunità, per restituire al cinema la sua dimensione, quella di uno degli schermi più grandi d’Europa, quella di uno spettacolo da vivere assieme, rispettando naturalmente tutte le norme per la visione in sicurezza.

With summer approaching, it's time for the Big Screen of Piazza Maggiore to come back! It will dominate over the centre of Bologna till the middle of August, with all the evening screenings of Sotto le stelle del cinema / Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival.

Take a look at the Big Screen "under construction" in the gallery below (ph. Lorenzo Burlando).

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.

The tour around the globe of Il Cinema Ritrovato lands in Finland, France and Serbia this month, check out the wonderful programmes dedicated to film heritage proposed by our partner festivals.

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. 

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021 will take place in Bologna from 20th to 27th, July. Explore the sections of the festival. Buy your pass online.

Waiting for it, here you can find a small preview of one of the many wonders that will enrich the programme of this year's edition. In particular, here we present the trailer of the astonishing When Forever Dies, an "archival fiction" signed by Peet Gelderblom, "a cinematic fantasia, 125 years in the making", selected for the section "Documentals and Documentaries" of the festival.

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Un nuovo schermo per l’estate bolognese: Sotto le stelle del cinema, la storica manifestazione della Cineteca di Bologna che accenderà lo schermo di Piazza Maggiore nella seconda metà di giugno, si arricchirà anche quest’anno, dopo l’esperienza del 2020 al Centro Sportivo Barca, di una nuova arena, che sarà allestita all’interno del parco della Lunetta Gamberini.

Cinema Reborn is an annual film festival held in Sydney that intends to shine a light on the long history of the art of the cinema, the world-wide activity of film restoration and the treasures that exist in the world's film archives. 

Some good news at last! 

The 35th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato will take place in person – from July 20 through 27 – in the theatres and open air venues of Bologna.

The program is extremely rich and full of discoveries from across the world, an invitation to start experiencing again the thrill of being part of an audience, watching and sharing film masterpieces.

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"Nous avons le plaisir de vous dévoiler les hommages de la 49e édition du Festival La Rochelle Cinéma qui se tiendra du 25 juin au 4 juillet prochains".

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Il regista Bertrand Tavernier è stato un amico e un assiduo frequentatore del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato. Lo ricordiamo con affetto riproponendo le Lezioni di Cinema del 2016 e del 2019.

Il Cinema Ritrovato On Tour resumes its journey around the world with two programs promoted by Brown University and University of New Hampshire on the American streaming platform Eventive, in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna: 

For the sixth FIAF Winter School, FIAF joins forces with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé to offer a short training course aimed primarily at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond. The general theme of this specialized course is still “Programming Film Heritage”, and will once again be taught by experienced professionals from our sector, most of them programmers in film archives affiliated to FIAF. Because of the context, this sixth edition will take place as a online event over four half days, on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 February, Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 March 2020.

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Recobrado de Valparaiso, Cile | dal 2 al 6 novembre _ edizione online Nell’ambito del 24° Festival Internacional de Cine Recobrado, conferenza internazionale dedicata al cineasta britannico Terence Fisher (1904-1980), padre del cinema dell’orrore contemporaneo, che rivoluzionò il genere con gli adattamenti realizzati per la prima volta a colori dei grandi mostri della letteratura romantica inglese, tra cui Frankenstein (1957) e Dracula (1958).

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"Bologna in 2020 was destined to be different, with COVID-19 still lapping around. Frankly, when I saw the postponement announcement, that was the last I expected to hear of the festival this year, receding into a passed world, like so many other events. Cinema Ritrovato is my favourite festival – a week saturated with films from all of cinema’s history. In an amenable and historic city, I would find a path through the week, knowing I could not see half the offering.

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Video realizzato dai ragazzi del Corso di Alta Formazione per Filmaker, promosso dalla Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna con il sostegno del Fondo Sociale Europeo e della Regione Emilia-Romagna, in occasione della trentaquattresima edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

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Anche quest'anno il team di critici di Cinefilia Ritrovata ha seguito la programmazione del festival. Sono ora a disposizione sul magazine online dedicato alla passione per il cinema una settantina di approfondimenti tutti da recuperare, per rivivere la magia di questa trentaquattresima edizione del Cinema Ritrovato.

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"Grazie, grazie di cuore perché avete fatto un lavoro straordinario, senza di voi non ce l'avremmo mai fatta! Una nostra ospite iraniana mi ha insegnato un proverbio iraniano 'quando un matto incontra un altro matto è felice'. Ecco, io sono veramente felice di avervi incontrato, sono felice della vostra incredibile generosità, intelligenza, pazienza. Sono felice per quello che ci avete insegnato in questi mesi, grazie".

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Ultimo giorno di Cinema Ritrovato... ma il festival non vuole finire!

A sorpresa, una proiezione extra per salutare questa trentaquattresima edizione, con il cult movie A qualcuno piace caldo (Some like it hot, USA/1959) di Billy Wilder, martedì 1° settembre, ore 21.15, in PIazza Maggiore. Prenota il tuo posto!

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Alle ultime battute del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, un'ottima notizia per tutti i cinefili: C’era una volta Sergio Leone, la grande mostra all’Ara Pacis di Roma che celebra uno dei miti assoluti del cinema italiano, a 30 anni dalla morte e a 90 dalla sua nascita, è stata prorogata fino al 20 settembre.

Da non perdere!

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Domenica 30 agosto, al Cinema Arlecchino, l'incontro con l'attore svedese Stellan Skarsgård e il regista Jonathan Nossiter

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Quest'anno, tra le dieci location che hanno ospitato la programmazione del  Cinema Ritrovato, anche l'Arena Puccini!

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Gli appuntamenti principali di lunedì 31 agosto

Il Cinema Ritrovato | Ultim'ora INCONTRO CON STELLAN SKARSGARD, MATT DILLON E JONATHAN NOSSITER Sunday, August 30th, 6:00 - Cinema Arlecchino

Matt Dillon will not attend the meeting.

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Terza puntata della video-rubrica a cura di Schermi e Lavagne, dipartimento educativo della Cineteca di Bologna: i ragazzi del Cinema Ritrovato Young hanno selezionato per noi alcuni dei film in programma e ci forniscono 3 buoni motivi per rivederli.

In questa puntata gli "young cinephiles" hanno scelto Serpico di Sidney Lumet (domenica 30, proiezione serale in Piazza Maggiore e BarcArena, e lunedì 31 alle 17.30 al Cinema Arlecchino) e Il mio nome è Nessuno di Tonino Valerii (questa sera, sabato 29, al BarcArena, introdotto dai Manetti Bros.; domenica 30, ore 21.30, Arena Puccini, e lunedì 31, ore 21.30, al Teatro Manzoni).

Ospite dei ragazzi, Federico Gironi, curatore della sezione Venezia Classici del Festival del Cinema di Venezia.

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Sabato 29 agosto, ore 15.30, Cinema Lumière, la proiezione di Vampir-Cuadecuc sarà preceduta dall'introduzione del regista e produttore Pere Portabella (in video) e dal co-direttore del Festival Ehsan Khoshbakht . Seguirà l'incontro con Esteve Riambau(direttore della Filmoteca de Cataluña) e Pere Portabella (in streaming).

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Anche quest'anno Il Cinema Ritrovato vi aspetta in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini per un evento speciale. Venerdì 28 agosto, ore 19.00 avverrà la premiazione dei vincitori dei DVD Awards! 

"After a months-long industry shutdown due to the COVID-19 crisis, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is breathing new life into Italy’s cinemas, where the film is getting off to a solid start.

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Proponiamo qui la lettura di due articoli di stampa italiana dedicati al festival.

Il primo, firmato da Paolo Mereghetti per Corriere della Sera, dedicato al film antimilitarista del 1972 con Jane Fonda e Donald Sutherland - nella sezione "Documenti e Documentari" del Cinema Ritrovato - F.T.A. (F*** the Army), in replica sabato 29 agosto alle 18.00 al Lumière.

Silent masterpieces with live music in the Piazza. Two great evenings intended to renew the collaboration between Cineteca di Bologna and the Teatro Comunale Orchestra: first, on August 26, with the screening of Buster Keaton’s most beloved film, in a newly restored version, The General (1926), accompanied by a score composed and conducted by Timothy Brock.

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Gli appuntamenti principali di venerdì 28 agosto

"Devant le cruel dilemme que fait peser la crise sanitaire sur l’été des événements culturels, le festival Il Cinema ritrovato (« le cinéma retrouvé ») à Bologne, en Italie, qui d’ordinaire débute fin juin, a déplacé sa 34e édition à l’autre bout de la saison, du 25 au 31 août. Célébrant l’histoire du cinéma à travers l’actualité des restaurations et les trouvailles des cinémathèques mondiales, la manifestation affiche un programme foisonnant. Une profusion d’œuvres exhumées et restituées dans leur lustre d’origine, où perce cette année une lueur intense, celle du regard bleu acier d’Henry Fonda (1905-1982).

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Grande protagonista della giornata di domani, 27 agosto, sarà il Premio Oscar Volker Schlöndorff: il regista del Tamburo di latta è infatti al centro del nuovo documentario di Pierre-Henri Gibert, Volker Schlöndorff. The Beat of the Drum, in programma alle ore 16.20 al Cinema Lumière, seguito dall’incontro dal vivo con lo stesso Schlöndorff.

"Italy’s Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival – which has long seen thousands of heritage film lovers and distributors flock to the city of Bologna in summer – officially kicked off Tuesday with a freshly restored version of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Cronaca di un amore. It’s an emblematic opener in various ways. The now freshly restored pic stars late great Italian actor Lucia Bosé who died last March, having contracted coronavirus. Antonioni’s 1950 drama is also among titles in the Venice Film Festival’s Venice Classics section, which has migrated to Bologna this year due to the impact of Covid-19 constraints on Lido screening space.

During the days of the festival, pending on seat availability, single tickets will be available for sale:

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Quarto appuntamento con la rubrica Il Cinema Ritrovato: alla scoperta del Festival. In concomitanza con l'apertura delle prenotazioni giornaliere, vi offriremo una mappa testuale e tematica per orientarvi nella ricca proposta di eventi, proiezioni e incontri del Festival... per farvi godere appieno della magia di perdersi, per ritrovarsi, in quel Paese dei Balocchi che è Il Cinema Ritrovato.

Buona Visione!

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Durante le giornate di festival, molti gli approfondimenti dedicati agli appuntamenti in programma a partire dalle carte d'archivio conservate in Cineteca (a cura di Michela Zegna, responsabile archivi cartacei della Cineteca).

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Gli appuntamenti principali di mercoledì 26 agosto

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"Oggi accade di nuovo, ma con il supporto del digitale e delle proiezioni in streaming ci sono molte più strade per coltivare la propria passione per il cinema". Roy Menarini

During the days of the festival, pending on seat availability, single tickets will be available for sale:

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Care amiche e cari amici,

si torna finalmente in sala (dal 26 agosto con l’attesissimo Tenet di Christopher Nolan in 70mm, prevendita online), e la nostra priorità assoluta è quella di poter garantire la massima sicurezza a tutte le spettatrici e a tutti gli spettatori.

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Domani, martedì 25 agosto, inaugura la 34ª edizione del festival promosso dalla Cineteca di Bologna.

Gli appuntamenti principali di martedì 25 agosto

During the days of the festival, pending on seat availability, single tickets will be available for sale:

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Dopo la proiezione di lunedì sera, 24 agosto, con La traversée de Paris / Chronochrome Gaumont introdotta da Nicolas Seydoux (in Piazza Maggiore e BarcArena), ricordiamo che le serate di cinema all'aperto durante Il Cinema Ritrovato (da martedì 25 agosto) continueranno a essere accessibili gratuitamente anche da parte di chi non possiede l'accredito del festival.

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Grandi serate quelle scorse in Piazza Maggiore "Aspettando Il Cinema Ritrovato"... Venerdì sera abbiamo assistito alla proiezione di Gomorra - New Edition di Matteo Garrone, introdotta in video dallo stesso regista (guarda la gallery).

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Sabato 22 è stata la volta di un classico del cinema mondiale: sul grande schermo della Piazza abbiamo celebrato gli 80 anni del cult movie di Charlie Chaplin Il grande dittatore (guarda la gallery).

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Here we are with the complete list of the films, workshops and lectures available online for Il Cinema Ritrovato Streaming project, a rich selection from the programme of the 34th edition of the festival! You can purchase your on-line festival pass here. The detailed time-table of the on-line programme on MYmovies website.

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Il 24 agosto, a poche ora dall'inizio del Cinema Ritrovato, due eventi imperdibili: il documentario Le Regard de Charles al Cinema Lumière (a ingresso libero fino a esaurimento posti) e la doppia proiezione in Piazza Maggiore e BarcArena di La traversée de Paris

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La 34a edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato celebra Federico Fellini, nel centenario della nascita: l’anteprima internazionale del nuovo film di Anselma Dell’Olio, Fellini degli spiriti (domenica 23 in Piazza Maggiore e al BarcArena; domenica alle 19.00 in Piazzetta Pasolini, incontro con la regista e i produttori Maria Carolina Terzi e Luciano Stella, ingresso libero fino esaurimento posti); l’anteprima internazionale del nuovo restauro di Luci del varietà, prima co-regia di Fellini, a quattro mani con Alberto Lattuada nel 1950 (mercoledì 26, ore 16.30, Teatro Comunale); il nuovo monumentale volume di Aldo Tassone, Fellini 231⁄2. Tutti i film, dedicato all’intera filmografia del regista; un’intervista ritrovata, realizzata da Gideon Bachmann nel 1985 (martedì 25, ore 16.00, Cinema Lumière).

Please notice that, from August 24th to 31st, you can purchase your festival pass at the Hospitality Office (Renzo Renzi Library, 9am – 6.30pm) at a slightly higher price.

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80 anni per uno dei film più grandi di sempre: era il 1940 quando Charlie Chaplin scolpiva nella storia del cinema Il grande dittatore. E sabato 22 agosto la Cineteca di Bologna – che da 20 anni si dedica al restauro dell’opera di Chaplin – celebra Il grande dittatore con la proiezione del restauro in Piazza Maggiore (e in contemporanea alla BarcArena). Una serata, promossa da Canon, che ci accompagna verso la 34ª edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, che si inaugurerà martedì 25 agosto e che fino al 31 agosto presenterà 400 film in 7 sale cinematografiche e 3 arene all’aperto.

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Vi presentiamo le nuove pubblicazioni disponibili nello store online della Cineteca di Bologna!

Dear Friends,

we are ready to experience the wonders of the 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato! From Saturday 22nd August the online booking system will be active, allowing pass holders to reserve seats at the various festival venues. Ticket reservation details here.

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Venerdì 21 agosto due proiezioni speciali in Piazza Maggiore e BarcArena: Gomorra - New Edition di Matteo Garrone e A qualcuno piace caldo di Billy Wilder  per attendere l'inizio del Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 25-31 agosto) nel migliore dei modi.

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"Bonjour, Buongiorno a tutti! J’aurais tellement aimé découvrir le Festival de Boulogne pour la première fois cette année. J’aurais aimé découvrir toutes les merveilles que L’Image Retrouvée, l’Immagine Ritrovata - quel beau titre! -  propose chaque année. Alors, et bien je devrais attendre, speriamo! En attendant: viva il cinema, viva il Cinema Ritrovato! Buongiorno a tutti! Ciao!"

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Martin Scorsese manda il suo saluto da Oltreoceano al festival della Cineteca di Bologna che celebra i 30 anni di The Film Foundation. Al Cinema Ritrovato, dal 25 al 31 agosto a Bologna, una sezione dedicata alla fondazione creata da Scorsese per il restauro dei capolavori della storia del cinema, da Gli spostati ad Accattone. Scoprite la selezione di film imperdibili fatta dal regista, con alcuni dei suoi commenti alle opere.

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Care amiche e cari amici,

si torna finalmente in sala (dal 26 agosto con l'attesissimo Tenet di Christopher Nolan in 70mm, prevendita online), e la nostra priorità assoluta è quella di poter garantire la massima sicurezza a tutte le spettatrici e a tutti gli spettatori.

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In attesa della XXXIV edizione de Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, 25-31  agosto 2020), continuiamo l'esplorazione delle sezioni del ricco programma di quest’anno. Anche in questa edizione viaggeremo nel paradiso dei cinefili attraverso lo spazio e il tempo.

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I want to thank you, the audience, for coming out to this year’s festival. It’s a festival like no other, really. I want to simply acknowledge your love of cinema, our love of cinema, and the inspiring and binding power of that love. So I thank you, and have a great festival. Martin Scorsese

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In attesa della XXXIV edizione de Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, 25-31  agosto 2020), continuiamo l’esplorazione dell'imperdibile sezione Documenti e Documentari 2020, dedicata ai documentari classici (come Tempo di viaggio, co-diretto da Andrej Tarkovskij e Tonino Guerra), o ai film di storia del cinema e della cinematografia. Questa sezione propone una selezione dei migliori e più recenti documentari tra cui storie di registi leggendari (Jean Pierre Melville, Volker Schlöndorff), attori (Jane Fonda, Isabelle Huppert, Jane Birkin), direttori della fotografia (Tonino Delli Colli), distributori di film (Searching for Mr. Rugoff) – e il particolare caso di uno degli uomini più fidati di Hitler, Albert Speer, che ha avuto una singolare esperienza nel mondo del cinema, come viene raccontato in Speer Goes to Hollywood.

Waiting for the XXXIV edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, August 25-31), let's explore the sections of this year's rich program. We will travel to the paradise of cinephiles through space and time.

“This is a xenon lamp projector. The difference between the light of the xenon projector and the arc lamp projector, is the type of light emitted: xenon lamps are slightly colder. Xenon lamps are much less costly compared to carbon rods. This is why they were used in cinema, it was a matter of cost. Movies shot in the era - if the light of the era was the carbon arc, the voltaic arc, philologically they should be projected with a carbon arc projector, because the whole development and film printing process was correct for carbon arc projection”.

Waiting for the 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, today we present LA LUCE. The Light of the Movies, a short documentary directed by Debra McClutchy.

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Dal 24 al 31 agosto alla Biblioteca Renzi, dalle 9 alle 18.30, un evento imperdibile per gli appassionati di cinema, con centinaia di libri, DVD e Blu-ray: Il Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair. La Mostra Mercato dell’Editoria Cinematografica compie diciotto anni e, nonostante le difficoltà dell’anno in corso, abbiamo deciso di confermare questo appuntamento, anche se in un’edizione ridotta, per offrire agli ospiti del Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato e al pubblico di Bologna alcune importanti novità editoriali. Ampio spazio verrà riservato alle pubblicazioni edite da Cineteca di Bologna, dalle cineteche del mondo e da altri editori italiani ed internazionali.

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Vincere una scommessa nell’anno più difficile. È quanto possiamo dire di Sotto le stelle del cinema a un primo bilancio di Ferragosto: la storica manifestazione promossa dalla Cineteca di Bologna nell’ambito di Bologna Estate che da ventisei anni porta più di cinquanta sogni di cinema sul grande schermo di Piazza Maggiore era quest’anno più incerta che mai. Slittata di qualche settimana rispetto al suo consueto avvio alla metà di giugno, Sotto le stelle del cinema sta attraversando ancora una volta l’estate dei bolognesi e ci sta traghettando verso una 34ma edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato che ne raccoglierà eccezionalmente il testimone il 25 agosto.

Il Cinema Ritrovato is ready for its 34th edition. Miraculously, the programme has been printed, and two weeks before the start of the festival I can leaf through the catalogue: one of the great achievements of Il Cinema Ritrovato. Putting together a festival is always a race against time, and catalogues are seen as one of the last things to worry about. In the internet age, they are a bit of a throwback; however, here at Il Cinema Ritrovato we’re fond of relics from the past, and so our catalogue is beautiful. In fact, I would go so far as to say that no other festival in the world has a catalogue as rich as ours. Because Il Cinema Ritrovato is different from other festivals, it doesn’t distinguish between past and present, it focuses on cinema, on roads forgotten and those so well-trodden that nobody remembers why. It is driven not by trends and markets, but rather by a fidelity to cinema, to beauty, to research and to the pleasure of viewing. 

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Dal ricco programma del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato vi proponiamo qui tre incontri con ospiti in Piazzetta Pasolini, ore 19.00 (l'ingresso è libero, senza prenotazione e fino a esaurimento posti).

Su Newsweek un articolo dedicato alle arene di cinema all'aperto in giro per il mondo. "While catching a film in a theater is on hold right now, there's a silver lining—there are more places than ever to watch a movie under the stars. The pandemic has given drive-ins a new moment of prominence, but at some of these locations around the world you don't even need to stay in your car. Watch a film at a "floating cinema" on your own private mini-boat, by an English medieval castle or against the backdrop of the illuminated ancient Acropolis. You'll feel like you're in a scene from the movies—while watching one".

Nell'articolo "Outdoor theatre and cinema in Europe and the UK: readers' travel tips" di The Guardian, tra i cinema all'aperto europei consigliati dai lettori compare anche Piazza Maggiore, con Sotto le stelle del cinema e Il Cinema Ritrovato!

Tra i festival selezionati dalla rivista MovieMaker.com anche Il Cinema Ritrovato!

Waiting for the XXXIV edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, August 25-31), let’s go on with the exploration of the sections of this year’s rich program, this time with Documents and Documentaries 2020. Dedicated to classic documentaries (such as Tempo di viaggio, co-directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra), or films about cinema history and filmmaking, this section offers the best new documentaries in the field including the stories of legendary directors (Jean Pierre Melville, Volker Schlöndorff), actors (Jane Fonda, Isabelle Huppert, Jane Birkin), cinematographers (Tonino Delli Colli), film distributors (Searching for Mr. Rugoff) – and the peculiar case of one of Hitler’s most trusted men, Albert Speer, who had the most curious stint in motion pictures, as told in Speer Goes to Hollywood.

Waiting for the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, we will show you the rules, obligations and requirements for accessing the rooms. We want to offer you incredible places that welcome us safely. All well spaced, like in a Wes Anderson film, enjoying the cinema.

Waiting for the XXXIV edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, August 25-31), let's explore the sections of this year's rich program. We will travel to the paradise of cinephiles through space and time.

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In occasione dei 100 anni di Franca Valeri, la Cineteca dedica due serate in omaggio alle grande attrice. Martedì 4 agosto e mercoledì 5 agosto gli schermi di Piazza Maggiore e BarcArena si illumineranno del suo volto. 

The 34th edition or... Il Cinema Ritrovato year zero. The festival returns against all odds, rescheduled for a time of the year which is perhaps not as familiar to the festival audience as the original June date, yet no less sunny and inviting. Coming out of an experience as devastating as the Covid-19 pandemic, the desire to reconnect with life, the world and the arts is abundant. Cinema the way we know it — films on the big screen, viewed collectively — became an impossible experience for the longest stretch of time since the birth of the art form. This shook us all. We learned the lesson the hard way: yes, it can vanish. This edition, along with our usual mission, we aim to secure this much-needed re-encounter with the movies. Cinema, year zero.

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Cari Amici, con un mese di anticipo, siamo pronti a presentarvi il programma completo del Cinema Ritrovato 2020, che quest'anno si svolgerà dal 25 al 31 agosto con un festival in presenza e in piena sicurezza, diffuso in tutta la città di Bologna.

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Tutte le sere fino al 21 agosto la meraviglia del cinema "under the stars" in Piazza Maggiore e al BarcArena (via Raffaello Sanzio 6), la nuova location immersa nel verde di Sotto le stelle del cinema 2020.

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Venezia Classici sarà quest’anno al Cinema Ritrovato. La sezione della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia dedicata ai classici restaurati si svolgerà quest’anno nell’ambito della 34ª edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, promosso dalla Cineteca di Bologna dal 25 al 31 agosto.

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Ieri sera in Piazza Maggiore Sotto le stelle del cinema e, in collegamento al BarcArena, Francesco Bernardi e Gianni Canova sul palco insieme a Gian Luca Farinelli per presentare l'omaggio a Federico Fellini e ad Alberto Sordi con Lo sceicco bianco del Maestro riminese (Ita/1952), "il primo film anarchico italiano", e con Guglielmo il centone' di L. F. D'Amico (Ita/1965).

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Da un articolo di Télérama, i festival di cinema che resistono al Covid: tra questi anche Il Cinema Ritrovato, che si terrà a Bologna dal 25 al 31 agosto 2020!

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Venerdì 17 luglio in Piazza Maggiore e BarcArena, per il terzo anno consecutivo una serata interamente dedicata al fotogiornalismo, in collaborazione con la scuola di fotografia Foto Image e la World Press Photo Foundation. Sul grande schermo della Piazza verranno proiettati le foto vincitrici del World Press Photo 2020, alla presenza di Gian Luca Farinelli, direttore della Cineteca di Bologna e Fulvio Bugani, titolare di Foto Image e vincitore del premio nel 2015.

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Giovedì 16 luglio, nel programma di Sotto le stelle del cinema, il film diretto nel 1989 da Spike Lee Fa’ la cosa giusta, uno dei manifesti della protesta afroamericana (guarda la presentazione di Gian Luca Farinelli), preceduto da alcune sequenze tratte dal documentario militante, girato nel 1968 da Gregory Shuker, James Desmond, Nicholas T. Proferes, intitolato Free at Last.

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“I film di Fellini sono carichi di magia e idee che non dovrebbero collegarsi e invece si collegano. E questo è il mondo onirico”.

La 34ª edizione del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato (Bologna, 25 - 31 agosto) sarà anticipata dall’anteprima internazionale del nuovo film di Anselma Dell’Olio, Fellini degli spiriti, domenica 23 agosto, alle ore 21.30 in Piazza Maggiore a Bologna.

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"In casa avevamo una gigantografia della foto di McQueen in moto in La grande fuga. Se io mi chiamo Stefano è perché Steve McQueen era l'attore preferito di mio padre".

Martedì 14 luglio, grande serata Sotto le stelle del cinema: Stefano Accorsi ha presentato Getaway! di Sam Peckinpah (USA/1972), in occasione dell'omaggio a Steve McQueen, nei 90 anni dalla nascita.

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Anche quest'anno, contro ogni previsione, la storica rassegna di cinema all'aperto in Piazza Maggiore ha preso il via il 4 luglio scorso. E l'ha fatto con una grande novità: le 55 serate di Sotto le stelle del cinema raddoppiano, con una nuova location che si aggiunge alla piazza cittadina, il BarcArena.

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Lunedì sera, Sotto le stelle del cinema con il film Una squillo per l'ispettore Klute di Alan J. Pakula, con una strepitosa Jane Fonda (premio Oscar come migliore attrice nel '72 per questo ruolo), presentato al BarcArena dai Manetti Bros.

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Sabato scorso, una serata Sotto le stelle del cinema con il film del 1960 Francesco d'Assisi, introdotto da Liliana Cavani e dal cardinale Matteo Zuppi (guarda la presentazione).

We made it! This year too, for the 26th consecutive edition ‘Sotto le Stelle del Cinema’ will take place, and with a double, open-air venue: Piazza Maggiore and the BarcArena, same free admission, screening time and programming. 

However, in order to enjoy 55 evenings of brilliant cinema, this summer we will have to comply with recent Covid-19 regulations and book our seat in advance.

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“Credo che Cléo sia un film che rende bene l’ambivalenza del personaggio, di una donna abituata a vivere solo per lo sguardo degli altri e attraverso lo sguardo degli uomini. Una donna che nel momento in cui scopre l’angoscia della morte decide di essere lei a guardare. Trovo che questo film sia estremamente femminista, ma anche estremamente delicato”. Rosalie Varda

Dalla serata di martedì 7 luglio, il cinema "Sotto le stelle" in Piazza Maggiore con il doppio programma Cléo, dalle 5 alle 7 e Réponse de femmes della grande dame del cinema francese Agnès Varda.

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“Al mondo ci sono mille posti meravigliosi, stasera e per due mesi i mille posti più belli sono questi in Piazza. Scende la notte, si accende la luna rettangolare, il grande schermo di Sotto le stelle del cinema che illumina Bologna liberata”. Alessandro Bergonzoni

Sabato 4 luglio si è tenuta la serata di inaugurazione di Sotto le stelle 2020, che vede coinvolte quest'anno due arene, quella storica, Piazza Maggiore, e la nuova co-protagonista, BarcArena.

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Il Cinema Ritrovato 34ª edizione Bologna, 25-31 agosto

ANTICIPAZIONI SUL PROGRAMMA

GLI OMAGGI A HENRY FONDA E MARCO FERRERI

I CINE-CONCERTI IN PIAZZA MAGGIORE CON L’ORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA: THE GENERAL DI BUSTER KEATON E LA PARTITURA RITROVATA DEL CAPOLAVORO SYLVESTER 

IL TEATRO COMUNALE  DI BOLOGNA DIVENTA LA LOCATION DEDICATA AL CINEMA MUTO

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Siamo lieti di annunciare che la Biblioteca Renzo Renzi riavvia gran parte dei servizi al pubblico.

A rich series of appointments at important universities in the United States and festivals in France and in Belgium, where the Cineteca di Bologna will present a selection of its restorations and films from the past editions of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival. 

2-3 March 2020, Cinémathèque française, Paris

For the fifth year in a row, FIAF and the Cinémathèque française will join forces in the spring of 2020 to offer a short training course aimed primarily at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond.

Znovuobjavené filmové klenoty / Rediscovered film treasures 27/01 - 2/02-2020 – Kino Lumière, Špitálska 4, Bratislava

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La Cineteca di Bologna e il laboratorio L’Immagine Ritrovata partecipano per il quinto anno consecutivo al Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India. Organizzato dalla Film Heritage Foundation e dalla FIAF: il workshop si svolge quest’anno a Hyderabad dal 8 al 15 dicembre.

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La Cineteca di Bologna presenterà a Detroit una selezione dei suoi restauri e di film presentati alle scorse edizioni del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato. Dal 29 novembre al 1° dicembre, 7 film restaurati a Il Cinema Ritrovato: Festival of Restored Cinema Masterworks - Terza edizione al Detroit Film Theater, in collaborazione con il Consolato d’Italia a Detroit .

Between 4-11 September 2019, the Hungarian National Film Fund is organizing the 3rd Budapest Classics Film Marathon, the prominent international film festival of the Hungarian capital.

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La Cineteca di Bologna sbarca al Lido per la 76ª Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia, in programma dal 28 agosto al 7 settembre, con i restauri di Lo sceicco bianco di Federico Fellini e Strategia del ragno di Bernardo Bertolucci, nella sezione Venezia Classici.

Bologna: el paraíso de la cinefilia

on www.patrimonioaudiovisual.org  (July 16th, 2019)

Il Cinema Ritrovato es el festival internacional cinematográfico que se realiza en Bologna, Italia, que está especializado en la historia del cine y que hace pocos días realizó su trigésima tercera edición.

"You know what the secret is? Steal from the best! If you like something it's yours, just take it. Steal from the best, they want you to, I want you to". Francis Ford Coppola

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Terminata questa XXXIII edizione del festival "paradiso dei cinefili", abbiamo creato due gallery 'best of' dedicate al nostro pubblico e alle nostre sale...

"Film History / Discovery / Restoration", "Enrichment / Breath / Sharing", "Joy / Rarities / Pleasure", ... From the Highlights of our Instagram Stories, your point of view on the Festival... in three words!

Videointervista ai musicisti del festival.

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Il Cinema Ritrovato è giunto al termine. Ripercorriamo la XXXIII edizione con i video realizzati dal team del Festival. Fatevi trasportare ancora una volta attraverso l'allestimento di Piazza Maggiore, i luoghi del Festival e i momenti più emozionanti raccontati da tre dei protagonisti del Cinema Ritrovato: Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Mereghetti e Vincenzo Mollica. Vivete ancora una volta la magia del "paradiso dei cinefili"... Ci vediamo il prossimo anno: Bologna, 20-28 giugno 2020!

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Prima della proiezione del restaurato Essere donne abbiamo avuto l’opportunità di intervistare, la prima documentarista donna italiana, Cecilia Mangini. Il suo documentario, opera ostacolata dal clima politico dell’epoca, è tuttora una delle opere più importanti realizzate sulle condizioni di vita delle figure femminili negli anni Sessanta e alcuni aspetti sono più attuali di quanto si possa immaginare.

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"Anna Magnani, lei ha la reputazione di essere determinata, risoluta, ma anche di essere un'autentica anti-conformista: la chiamano 'l'Uragano Magnani'. Direbbe che la gente ha paura di lei?" Il volto deformato di Anna Magnani, così come si riflette in un piccolo specchio adibito al trucco, sembra osservare la giornalista con un misto di stanchezza e cinismo. Uno scatto e poi la sentenza: "A volte si morde per la paura di essere attaccati". Forse non esiste frase più appropriata a descrivere la tristezza e la furia per le quali l’attrice è diventata famosa in tutto il mondo. La romanità impetuosa e la femminilità al contempo fragile e perentoria di Anna Magnani, nella vita come sul set, restano uniche, indimenticabili, scolpite per sempre nel nostro immaginario.

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Ad un giorno dalla fine della XXXIII edizione del festival del Cinema Ritrovato, Grover Crisp presenta il restauro, realizzato da Sony Pictures Entertainment, di Husbands (Mariti, 1970) di John Cassavetes. All’interno della sezione Ritrovati e Restaurati, il film torna in sala con grande vitalità. Un film duro, definito dallo stesso regista come una commedia anche se, lui stesso ammette, le parole che lo descrivono meglio sono angoscia ed esasperazione.

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Protagonista indiscussa e icona di questa edizione del festival, a Musidora è stata dedicata un'intera sezione.

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Accoglienza straordinaria a Bologna per Jane Campion, presente alla XXXIII edizione del Cinema Ritrovato per presentare la versione restaurata del suo film Lezioni di piano, Palma d’Oro a Cannes nel 1993.

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I due grandi autori del cinema muto, Buster Keaton e Charlie Chaplin tornano al Cinema Ritrovato. Confronto e analisi di due autori intramontabili nella memoria del pubblico.

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Tra i protagonisti assoluti di questa edizione, nel filone "Mutiflix", con cadenza quotidiana lungo tutto il programma del festival, I topi grigi (Italia/1919), serial in otto puntate prodotto dalla Tiber Film di Roma, parte della complessa saga di Za la Mort, apache e fuorilegge, protagonista di dodici film, quattro serial, tre romanzi e vari spettacoli teatrali creati tra il 1914 e il 1930 da Emilio Ghione (1879-1930).

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“Toni di Jean Renoir è il più bel film presente nel programma di quest’anno” aveva dichiarato Gian Luca Farinelli alla presentazione di questa XXXIII edizione del festival. È stata infatti organizzata la lezione di cinema “Toni, un film mutante" tenuta dallo scrittore Alain Bergala.

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“La bellezza, l’originalità e lo stupore sono sempre qualcosa di penetrante. Sono sicuro – anzi, lo so! – che Francis Ford Coppola, un uomo così lontano, così diverso, sicuramente mi ha influenzato”: a rifletterci con maggiore freddezza, le parole di Marco Bellocchio non suonano affatto scontate nella sala gremita del teatro Manzoni di Bologna. La presenza di Francis Ford Coppola, ospite d’onore della trentatreesima edizione del Cinema Ritrovato, conduce inevitabilmente a un brusco cambio d’atmosfera all’interno della città tutta e se il festival conserva i tratti di un evento che ha sempre (consapevolmente) accantonato la dimensione glamour in favore dell’incontro, per Francis Ford Coppola non sembra voler fare eccezione.

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"Il Cinema Ritrovato rende magica Bologna,

è una fortuna averlo qui nella nostrà città!"

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Elaborare una narrazione personale significa essere presente, avere una coscienza, fare esercizio della propria individualità. In questo processo, gli spettatori non sono necessariamente il termine ultimo della comunicazione, ma si trasformano nello strumento attraverso cui il regista consacra la propria umanità. E così, ritagliare il proprio punto di vista, la propria prospettiva sulla bestialità umana, può essere visto come gesto formale per rendere la propria percezione un oggetto concreto, condivisibile.

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“Dal cinema astratto alla videoarte” è un omaggio al linguaggio cinematografico delle avanguardie e alla sua influenza sul cinema sperimentale contemporaneo. Il lavoro di autori che hanno tentato di tradurre in ritmo un universo visivo fatto di linee, forme e colori, diventa punto di partenza per una riflessione più ampia che coinvolge anche l’esplorazione del rapporto tra musica e immagini. 

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Il 20 gennaio 2020 ricorrerà il centenario della nascita di Federico Fellini e Il Cinema Ritrovato, anticipando i tempi, all’interno della sua XXXIII edizione ha voluto dedicargli un intero percorso di film e incontri, intitolato “100 di questi Fellini”. Il percorso si incrocia con il “Progetto Gideon Bachmann”, inaugurato quest’anno grazie alla collaborazione con Cinemazero, il quale avrà il compito di portare alla luce le interviste, le foto e i documentari del giornalista di cinema. Grazie a Bachmann, infatti, si ha moltissimo materiale relativo a Fellini e al suo modo di operare sul set.

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"Vengo al cinema ritrovato proprio per questo per vedere film che non conosco, o rivedere quelli che ho già visto; non ho visto tutta la storia del cinema. Facendo il dizionario, questo lavoro di schedatura ha solo aumentato la mia curiosità." L'autore del celebre dizionario si racconta nel suo ruolo di critico e di spettatore del festival.

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“Agnès era un fuoco ed era la più giovane di tutti (…) l’ultima volta che è stata nostra ospite, al termine del festival ci ha portato tutti fuori a bere” così Gian Luca Farinelli ricorda, senza nascondere qualche nota malinconica, Agnès Varda in occasione di una delle prime proiezioni italiane del suo ultimo film: Varda par Agnès (2019). Al cinema Jolly ad introdurre il film anche la figlia Rosalie Varda.

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Entra accompagnata da applausi scroscianti Cecilia Mangini, in un Dams Lab pieno e visibilmente emozionato. Gian Luca Farinelli introduce la proiezione di Essere donne definendolo "un piccolo capolavoro" e sottolineando la necessità della sua condivisione con il pubblico del Cinema Ritrovato.

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Stamattina la regista Jane Campion, presente in conferenza stampa, ha dedicato le sue parole al Festival, a Bologna e alle donne complesse delle suo opere:

A Bologne, le festival Il Cinema ritrovato redonne vie à des films oubliés

di Mathieu Macheret  (Le Monde, 28 giugno 2019)

La 33e édition de la manifestation, organisée par la Cinémathèque de la ville, a présenté pépites et redécouvertes.

A 40 años de su estreno, Francis Ford Coppola lanza una nueva versión de Apocalypse Now

by Marina Artusa (Clarín, June 28, 2019)

El director definió a Apocalypse Now. Final Cut como la mejor edición del material filmado durante 238 días en las Filipinas en 1978. 

June 22nd, 2019. In a blazing hot Bologna, the 33rd edition of Cinema Ritrovato opens with thousands of cinephiles ready to jump into the theaters around the city center. They walk quickly looking for shelter from the heat under the arcades while wearing black tote bags on their sides. On those bags – which tirelessly grinds tons of kilometers every day – there is she, Musidora. White skin, large black – coated eyes, mile – long lashes, red lips, with a jet black bob. The enigma of a face from the past that only needs a snap to return to delight the general public.

Dr. No seduces the grand screen today like in 1962: Sean Connery in the role of James Bond became an icon, dominating the other 23 productions and raising as the favorite among the interpreters of the world’s most famous secret British agent..

Bernardo Bertolucci is no more. He left a sense of emptiness all over the world as shown by the videos of friends who could not be at Teatro Argentina in Rome - an evening set up to celebrate his memory – like Il Cinema Ritrovato proposed with on Wednesday with the meeting “Parlando di Bernando.”

On June 27th, DAMSLab, “home” of the ‘Document and Documentaries Section’ curated by Gian Luca Farinelli, hosted the screening of Conversation avec Romy Schneider (2017) by Patrick Jeudy who was present in the room to co-introduce the film with the Festival director.

Vittorio Storaro talks about Coppola’s cinema and the origins of the surreal photography of Apocalypse Now.

Starting from the 70s, Dutch photographer Charles 'Chas' Gerretsn has worked as a war photographer in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Chile, giving the world some unforgettable shots. The most famous is the portrait of the dictator Pinochet. After moving to Hollywood in 1975 he started shooting for different studios until 1989, when Francis Ford Coppola asked him to report everything that happens on the set of his new movie in 1976. Baris Azman's documentary Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now was released after KINO Rotterdam and the Nederlands Fotomuseum collaborated together. Now, the largely undiscovered work finally comes to light. 

Marco Giusti reconstructs the life of Ferdinand Guillaume, the first great Italian silent film comedian, through an extraordinary family novel with unpublished materials that shed light on a still unknown chapter in international cinema and entertainment.

A column by the film critic Paolo Mereghetti who will present his personal highlights every day, with the festival’s program in hand. It is to be trusted! Watch the video:

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A proposito della sezione "Napoletano a Cinecittà, Eduardo De Filippo cineasta"...

Dalle battute cult di Napoli Milionaria alla mitica pernacchia di L'oro di Napoli, abbiamo chiesto agli spettatori del Cinema Ritrovato - italiani e stranieri - di cimentarsi nell'arte retorica napoletana.

Apocalypse Now terza versione. Francis Ford Coppola, maestro tra gli studenti. “Cancellate istruzione e religione per tornare ad essere unici”

by Davide Turrini (Il Fatto Quotidiano, June 28, 2019)

Masterclass virtuosa e illuminata durante il Cinema Ritrovato 2019. L’autore de Il Padrino ad 80 anni propone in anteprima europea nel grandissimo schermo di Piazza Maggiore a Bologna l’ultimo montaggio del celebre film, poi dispensa consigli e suggerimenti alle giovani leve. E intanto Megalopolis il suo nuovo lungometraggio si allontana.

Francis Ford Coppola Bologna, prima il Manzoni poi piazza Maggiore

(Il Resto del Carlino, June 27, 2019)

Il regista ha tenuto in città la Lezione di cinema, mentre venerdì sarà al 'Cinema Ritrovato' con Apocalypse Now Final- Cut.

Francis Ford Coppola, alla corte degli studenti. La lezione assoluta: "Dobbiamo tutti chiederci che cosa ci darà il cinema in futuro"

by Giulia Echites (La Repubblica, June 27, 2019)

Il grande regista, ospite della città di Bologna dove, nell'ambito del festival 'Il Cinema Ritrovato', questa sera verrà proiettato il suo capolavoro restaurato, 'Apocalypse Now – Final Cut', ha tenuto una Masterclass davanti a centinaia di giovani studenti della settima arte.

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Mercoledì 26 Jay Weissberg, direttore de Le Giornate del Cinema Muto,  ha presentato la pellicola Anders als die Andern (1919) di Richard Oswald, della sezione ‘Cento anni fa: 1919’. 

Coppola al festival del Cinema Ritrovato: «Ecco la versione perfetta di Apocalypse Now»

by Laura Zangarini (Corriere della Sera, June 27, 2019)

Il grande cineasta a Bologna presenta il terzo «capitolo» del capolavoro: il mio sogno però era di fare il fisico nucleare.

"Eduardo’s films of the first half of the fifties is very interesting because it is in a moment of a strange passage in cinema: neorealism is over, cinema is being re-defined and is in a very conflictual relationship with politics": this is the beginning that Emiliano Morreale offers on the occasion of the lesson on Eduardo De Filippo during the fifth day of the Cinema Ritrovato.

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La sezione 'Alla ricerca del colore' continua ad entusiasmare il pubblico del Cinema Ritrovato. Con Indiscreet (1958), maliziosa e divertente commedia del 1958, il ricordo del regista Stanley Donen, scomparso lo scorso febbraio, è ancora splendidamente vivido.

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Alvaro Vitali e Blasco Giurato presentano al pubblico del Cinema Ritrovato una nuovissima versione di I clowns (Federico Fellini, 1970) sogno-documentario di Fellini restaurato dalla Cineteca di Bologna in collaborazione con Compagnia Leone Cinematografica e arricchito di alcune irresistibili scene inedite.

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Cinema che scava tra le rovine del recente passato, rivelando l’urgenza di rielaborarne i dolorosi recessi, il desiderio di rinascere dalle ceneri come una fenice. “È il cinema di una nazione che cerca se stessa”, ha dichiarato il curatore Olaf Möller sabato scorso, presentando la sezione “Siamo gli indigeni della Trizonia”, dedicata alla produzione filmica della Germania Ovest tra il 1945 e il 1949.

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UPDATE: si segnala la doppia proiezione speciale di APOCALYPSE NOW - FINAL CUT : Cinema Jolly e Cinema Medica, in contemporanea a Piazza Maggiore, ore 21.45.

Una rubrica in compagnia del critico cinematografico Paolo Mereghetti che ogni giorno ci presenterà i suoi personali highlights, programma del festival alla mano. C’è da fidarsi! Guarda il video:

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La XXXIII edizione de Il Cinema Ritrovato dedica un’intera sezione ai film dell’epoca d’oro del cinema sudcoreano, "Sotto i cieli di Seul”, e inerente ad essa è la lezione di cinema intitolata “Korean new wave” tenuta martedì 25 giugno presso l’auditorium DAMSLab.

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Mercoledì 26 giugno ultima proiezione con lanterna ad arco voltaico in Piazzetta Pasolini per la serata Colori e Crimini.

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Potere sul cinema. Ripercorriamo a volo d'uccello alcuni dei documentari in programma che, in modi diversi, trattano le varie forme dell'incontro tra il mezzo espressivo cinematografico e il potere.

Venerdì 28 Giugno / Friday June 28th

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Conversazione con Rodrigo Mercês (FIAF Technical Commission) sui temi della preservazione, del restauro e della conservazione dei film, e sulla sua attività presso la Cinemateca Brasileira.

HFPA Funded Restoration of Fellini’s “Roma” screens in Bologna

by Luca Celada (Hollywood Foreign Press Association, June 27, 2019)

Cinema Ritrovato is, with the Festival Lumière in Lyon, the world’s premiere film festival devoted to classic, rare and restored films and it is not hyperbole to say that it is a magical event. For nine days the ancient city of Bologna turns into the world capital of classic movies and a cinephile’s dream, with dozens of daily screenings, talks, symposia and master classes.

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Dal 26 giugno in Sala Mastroianni le proiezioni della sezione “Georges Franju: documentario oltre il reale”. Introduce il primo appuntamento il critico e storico francese Bernard Eisenschitz. 

For the 33rd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato festival we decided to ask a few questions to the Maestro Timothy Brock who is one of our most precious collaborator.

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Il 25 giugno sono partiti i cineconcerti in piazza Maggiore con The Cameraman (1928) di Buster Keaton e Edward Sedgwick: l’Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna da il suo massimo e il pubblico, estasiato e coinvolto, accompagna la conclusione del film con una fragorosa standing ovation.

The award aims to encourage and give visibility to quality home entertainment Dvd and Blu-Ray from around the world. The competition is open to Dvd and Blu-ray released between February 2018 and February 2019 of important films made before 1989 (at least thirty years ago) and thus generally in line with the festival’s theme. The awards are divided into five categories: Best Dvd/Blu-ray (The Peter Von Bagh Award), Best Single Release, Best Special Features (bonus), Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film, Best Series/Best Box.

Buster Keaton e quella coppia di milanesi in viaggio di nozze sul suo set

by Chiara Ugolini (La Repubblica, June 26, 2019)

Rispunta il filmato amatoriale di due sposi che nel loro viaggio a New York sono incappati nel grande comico americano che stava girando 'The Cameraman". Un piccolo gioiello per cinefili presentato al Cinema Ritrovato di Bologna dove Keaton viene celebrato con nuovi restauri dei suoi lavori.

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La proiezione del musical di Vincente Minnelli si è conclusa ieri nello stracolmo Cinema Arlecchino tra gli applausi del pubblico alla presenza di John Bailey, presidente dell’Academy Film Archive.

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Il Cinema Ritrovato non smette di stupire: il 24 giugno, per la sezione “Ridateci Musidora!”, i Los Musidoros hanno provato a ricreare la forma di arte spettacolare pensata da Musidora e  hanno incantato il pubblico di sala Mastroianni offrendo, nel mezzo della proiezione di La tierra de los toros (1924), uno spettacolo che fonde cinema e teatro. 

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Esattamente cinquant’anni fa l’uomo posava il piede sulla Luna. In occasione di questa ricorrenza è nato Destinazione Luna: un progetto per bambini e ragazzi che, attraverso rassegne cinematografiche, incontri con autori, laboratori e lezioni tematiche hanno guardato alle missioni spaziali e ai viaggi sulla Luna come risultato di una serie di sovrapposizioni tra mondo scientifico e cinematografico. Racconta qualcosa in più Maria Giulia Andretta.

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Thierry Frémaux, lo storico direttore del festival di Cannes, è ospite del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato. Tra gli appuntamenti che lo vedono protagonista la Lezione di cinema: "La risposta del cinema". Frémaux ha affrontato temi centrali della controversia Cannes vs Netflix, ribadendo ancora una volta il suo attaccamento alla sala, come luogo del cinema. Con atteggiamento decisamente ottimista, il direttore di Cannes si è detto speranzoso per le sorti del cinema.

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John Bailey, presidente dell'Academy of the motion pictures arts and science, è di quelle figure che hanno vissuto di cinema e al cinema hanno dato tutto. Con oltre 40 anni di esperienza nel cinema, lavorando sia come assistente cameraman che direttore della fotografia, Bailey è tra le figure di maggior spicco nell'ambito del restauro cinematografico. Il suo amore per il cinema lo ha portato a Bologna, ospite del festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, dove ha messo a disposizione del pubblico le versioni restaurate di molti film, tra cui Il peccato di Lady Considine e La maschera della morte rossa.

Nella giornata di lunedì 24 giugno la lezione di cinema sul grande regista egiziano Youssef Chahine ha animato gli spazi del DAMSLab in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini. Alle ore 17 il pubblico ha preso posto in sala per poter approfondire grazie a un team di esperti la produzione del cineasta arabo, autore di titoli memorabili come Bab al-hadid (Central Station, 1958) e Iskanderija...Lih? (Alexandria...Why?, 1978), entrambi in programma al Cinema Ritrovato. 

A column by the film critic Paolo Mereghetti who will present his personal highlights every day, with the festival’s program in hand. It is to be trusted! Watch the video:

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Prima dell’avvento dell’audiovisivo e del digitale, prima del ripetersi quasi ossessivo dell’informazione, era il manifesto cinematografico ad attirare l’attenzione del pubblico. Sono moltissimi i cartelloni realizzati da pittori italiani che sono stati utilizzati a livello internazionale contribuendo così alla nascita di una scuola artistica italiana. Tra questi Silvano “Nano” Campeggi è il più riconosciuto nel cinema hollywoodiano e a lui e alle sue opere, tra manifesti e bozzetti, è dedicata la mostra Silvano Nano Campeggi. Pittore di Cinema / Film painter.

The young and politically committed Afghan filmmaker Mariam Ghani, director of the documentary "What we left unfinished", visited "L' Immagine Ritrovata" laboratory, finding it extremely helpful for her archive research.

Once again, the Renzo Renzi Library will host the 17th edition of the Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair from June 21st and June 30th, 2019. Born during Il Cinema Ritrovato in 2003, it has developed over the years to what it is today: a unique place in which to find cinematographic publications from all over the world. Since 2014, in fact, the Cineteca decided to give more space and visibility to the event and directly contacted publishers and distributors in order to have thorough and in-depth research.  

The guided tours of the Cineteca collections and L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory lead to the discovery of a unique heritage of its kind, a national and international reference point for professionals, scholars and cinema enthusiasts.

Second screenings of the “Under the skies of Seul” section dedicated to the Golden Era of South Korean cinema. Il Cinema Ritrovato hosts Kim Soo-yong who preceded the film with a presentation on his work in relation to time and space.   

Eddie Muller, found and president of the Film Noir Foundation, introduces the world preview of the restoration of The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) and The Threat (Braccati dai G-Men, 1949) by Felix E. Feist, extraordinary and baffling examples of series B cinematography in their most violent and bad form.  

Wednesday, june 26, 4.45 p.m, Cinema Arlecchino. "Ghazieh-e-shelk-e avval, ghazieh-e shelk-e dovvom" (Iran / 1979) will be presented for the first time ever at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival.

“Anti-bourgeois, anti-fascist, stateless. Luis Buñel was one of the great film personalities and one of the most unconventional artists of the 20th century.” This is how the festival’s co-director Cecilia Cenciarelli co-introduced Luis Buñel’s Los Olvidados (1950) in Piazza Maggiore alongside her co-director Ehsan Khoshbakht. 

A column by the film critic Paolo Mereghetti who will present his personal highlights every day, with the festival’s program in hand. It is to be trusted! Watch the video:

Easy Rider, De Filippo, Chahine: al Cinema Ritrovato di Bologna tornano grandi capolavori che hanno fatto politica dando spettacolo

by Davide Turrini (Il Fatto Quotidiano, June 25, 2019)

Il capolavoro di Dennis Hopper, restaurato da Sony Columbia per il festival organizzato dalla Cineteca di Bologna, visto sullo schermo gigantesco di Piazza Maggiore è un evento visivo senza eguali. Tra le tante sezioni quelle dedicate all’Eduardo De Filippo cineasta e a un immenso autore popolare come l’egiziano Yussef Chahine.

On Monday, June 24th, Il Cinema Ritrovato presents one of the most beautiful technicolor in the history of cinema at the Cinema Arlecchino: Under Capricorn by Alfred Hitchcock. In the presence of John Bailey, President of the Academy Film Archive, who offers viewers a detailed picture of the film.  

On Saturday, June 22nd, in the Renzo Renzi Library at Piazzetta Pasolini, the presentation of the book Epifania del vedere negatoby Sara Iommi and edited by Diabasis was held in the presence of Sara’s mother, Roy Menarini and three of the volume’s curators: Chiara Checcaglini, Elisa Mandelli and Lucia Tralli.

Vincenzo Mollica: "Quella volta che Fellini raccontò a Schulz del suo Snoopy di Fregene"

by Giulia Echites (La Repubblica, June 24, 2019)

Il giornalista premiato al Cinema ritrovato di Bologna per la sua carriera. A gennaio andrà in pensione ma non prima di aver festeggiato il centenario dell'amico Federico.

YOUSSEF CHAHINE RESTORATIONS TOUR EUROPE

di David Hudson (On Film/TheDaily - The Criterion Collection, 24 giugno 2019)

Over the past several years, Misr International Films, the company founded by the renowned Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine and currently run by his family, has been working with the Cinémathèque française, the Cineteca di Bologna, and other international institutions to restore Chahine’s eclectic oeuvre.

Conversation with Patric Cazals, author of the documentary Musidora: la dixième muse, opened Il Cinema Ritrovato’s section dedicated to the great French diva.

HENRY KING IL RE DEL FESTIVAL

by Sergio M. Grmek Germani (Alias - il manifesto, June 22, 2019)

Il cinema ritrovato. La nuova edizione del festival presenta nel vasto cartellone, la rassegna «Jean Gabin il volto della Francia», i film di Eduardo, il Fespaco, la Germania prima della Rft.

On the evening of Sunday, June 23rd, the first voltaic arc lamp projection started the series in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini. Introduced by Festival Director Mariann Lewinsky and the musician Stephen Horne played live.

My Name Is Elia Kazan (2018) was presented on Sunday. It is a one-hour docu-interview conducted by the journalistAnette Michelson, under the guidance of André Labarthe. It is the only episode of a rich series about the greatest film figures in the Cinema Ritrovato Festival program. Labarthe entertained and fascinated an audience of aficionados of the American director, but also those who did not know him.  

"The traditional cinema will never disappear, there's never been an art form that has come and gone, but what has changed is that something new has arrived, which is streaming".

Hanyeo (The Maid, 1960) by Kim Ki-young opened the section called Under the Skies of Seoul: The Golden Age of South Korean Cinema. The film was presented by the two curators of the section: Cho Hyun Jin of the London Korean Film Festival and Jung Minhwa of the Korean Film Archive

FESTIVAL DE CINEMA CELEBRA VAMPIRA QUE SEDUZIU OS JOVENS POETAS

by Inácio Araujo (Folha de S. Paulo, June 20, 2019)

Mostra italiana se afirma como o momento maior em que o cinema acerta contas com seu passado

Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids and Young opened on Saturday, June 22nd, at 6:30 PM at the Cineteca with the animated reading of Nuno salva la Luna a comic of the same name by Marino Neri edited by Canicola.

The retrospective about the great Egyptian director Youssef Chahine by the Cinema Ritrovato began at the Jolly Theater with the projection Bab al-hadid (1958). Film journalist Tewfik Hakem presented the film.

CONSERVATORS RESTORE AFRICA’S FIRST ANIMATED FILM IN COLOUR

by Nancy Kenney (The Art Newspaper, June 24, 2019)

Screening planned for Nigerien populist’s stop-motion work.

L'OCCHIO DELL'APOCALYPSE

di Cecilia Bressanelli (La Lettura - Corriere della Sera, June 23, 2019)

JODOROWSKY. LA RISATA SACRA

by Luca Valtorta (Robinson - La Repubblica, June 22, 2019)

Un pazzo? Un guru? Un santo? Un poeta? Un truffatore? Un saggio? Un filosofo? L'inventore della "psicomagia", l'autore di film cult come El Topo e La montagna sacra, oggi restaurati, forse è tutto questo. Ma il suo sberleffo è allegro o fa paura?

A column by the film critic Paolo Mereghetti who will present his personal highlights every day, with the festival’s program in hand. It is to be trusted! Watch the video:

On Saturday afternoon, before the projection of Miracolo a Milano in Piazza Maggiore, we interviewed Emi De Sica. It is something not to be missed!

First day of projections in Sala Mastroianni. A series of mute from different countries and of various lengths, accompanied by live music. Introduced by Mariann Lewinsky, Andrea Meneghelli and other experts. The only feature film projected, The Red Lantern, closed the day.

On the first day of the 33rd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato, the documentary O PÃO (Portugal, 1959 - 1963) opened the selection in the large Arlecchino theater that will host films in the Found and Restored section of the festival.

The second day of Cinema Ritrovato was held at the DAMSlab Auditorium in Piazzetta Pasolini. Nicolas Winding Refn and Peter Conheim gave a film lecture and it was moderated by Ehsan Khoshbakht. The Danish director, a guest of the 33rd edition of the Festival, presented his most recent film project ‘byNWR’ to the public.

Not only is De quelques événements sans signification a political, avant-garde or experimental film, it is also a historical document that recounts a difficult period of rebellions, arrests and censorships in Morocco.

The magical arc lamp projections began on Sunday, June 23rd at 9:15 PM, in Piazzetta Pasolini.

UPDATE: tickets are sold out for the following evenings: June 23rd and June 24th

In occasion of the 33rd edition of Cinema Ritrovato, Vincenzo Mollica received Il Cinema Ritrovato Prize: a tribute to his significant career in cultural journalism history. Then Mollica held a lecture about Federico Fellini, where he told anecdotes about his life outlining exemplary traits of both his crazy and brilliant personality.

Theater reports of the projection: Czechmate: in Search of Jiří Menzel

The director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, explains the motivations that led him to explore the history of Czechoslovakian New Wave cinema and of the fascinating figure Jiří Menzel, the director and spokesperson of his generation.

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Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Storaro. Le loro voci risuoneranno durante Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival grazie alle interviste realizzate tra il 1979 e il 1980 da Franca Faldini e Goffredo Fofi per il volume "L'avventurosa storia del cinema italiano" (Fondo Franca Faldini, archivi della Cineteca di Bologna).

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Ugo Tognazzi racconta la sua esperienza sul set di "Una storia moderna - L'ape regina"

The 33rd Edition of Cinema Ritrovato opened its doors at Cinema Modernissimo with the short film Notre-Dame, Cathédrale de Paris (1957) by Georges Franju. The four directors of the Festival introduced the first screening

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Come ogni Cinema Ritrovato, il magazine della passione per il cinema seguirà capilarmente il programma del festival "paradiso dei cinefili". Quest'anno il team di giovani critici capitanati da Roy Mearini ha iniziato in anticipo la copertura con una serie di articoli dedicati alla sezione "Documenti e Documentari":

Il Cinema Ritrovato will begin on June 22nd celebrating thirty-two years of emotion in the "paradiso dei cinefili." Every day we will propose events that you should not miss.

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Sergio Leone racconta l'America... una lunga storia d'amore intrisa di passione, gioia e un pizzico di follia.   

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Il Cinema Ritrovato festeggia i sedici anni della rassegna "Cento anni fa" proponendo ai suoi ospiti il Gelato Ritrovato, a cura del Gelatuaro (via San Vitale, 98). Gianni Figliomeni sarà presente per farci scoprire il gelato di cento anni fa nel cortile della Cineteca di Bologna (Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini).

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23 giugno 1919-2019. A 100 anni esatti torna al Cinema Modernissimo di Bologna la serie I topi grigi di e con Emilio Ghione (riproposta dal 22 giugno al Cantiere Modernissimo nella sezione Mutiflix del programma del Cinema Ritrovato).

Schermi e Lavagne, the Education Department of the Cineteca, has prepared a special programme for little film-lovers: each afternoon children can discover big and small masterpieces of film history.

Following the capitulation on 8th May 1945, Germany became an occupied territory devoid of proper nationhood, and it needed a future. It soon became clear that there would be two possible tomorrows: the Soviet-occupied zone was developed in one political direction, the US-American, British and French ones in another. From 1945 to 1948 the latter slowly fused into an administrative unity called the Trizone, which became the basis for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Youssef Chahine was a true man of the movies in the sense that he had done almost every job in the business: he was a director, of course, and a producer too, but also an actor, a singer, and an editor.

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A Jean Gabin il programma del Cinema Ritrovato dedica un'intera sezione. In occasione dell'arrivo del festival "paradiso dei cinefili" della Cineteca di Bologna, anche una mostra fotografica per celebrare il mito di Gabin, in collaborazione con Alliance Françiase di Bologna.

A can’t-miss event for all cinema fans, with hundreds books, DVDs and Blu-Rays Within the Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato.

The films shot in 1899 are a marvel. If you are into film history, these are the monuments of 19th century cinematography. If you seek glimpses of times long past, to be able to see in living pictures moments from 120 years ago amounts to a mystical experience.

“Freed from tradition, our eyes have been rejuvenated in the youthful and restrained world of Buster,” wrote Luis Buñuel about Keaton in 1927, admiring the comedy genius as “a great specialist against sentimental infection of all kinds.”

Films on cinema and recent and classic documentaries will light up the big screen.

For more than half a century, Jean Gabin’s clear-eyed charm mesmerised audiences. He was the epitome of the French movie star. Indeed, the tragic rebel he personified during the first part of his career made him a precursor to James Dean, the embodiment of a new, more sensitive type of man.

An ongoing strand of the festival, Cinemalibero has been screening films and showcasing new restorations that are not otherwise easily detected on the radar of cinephilia. This year it will celebrate the 50th anniversary of FESPACO, the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, dubbed the ‘capital of African cinema’.

If there are key revolutionary years of the 20th century, 1919 was surely one of them. The tumultuous events of that year will be explored in this programme in many different ways, such as a newsreel covering the funeral of Rosa Luxemburg.

During its twenty years of existence, the Fox Film Corporation became home to the most dazzling line-up of directorial talent in the studio era. As silent film transitioned into sound, the Fox directors included Frank Borzage, Allan Dwan, John Ford, Howard Hawks, William K. Howard, Henry King, William Cameron Menzies, F.W. Murnau, Alfred Santell, Raoul Walsh and many other significant filmmakers.

Il Cinema Ritrovato’s first survey of South Korean film is a rare opportunity to discover key works from the renaissance of one of the most influential East Asian cinemas.

Even though he was born into the movie business, Felix E. Feist was always an outlier. Il Cinema Ritrovato will screen four dark, fresh and deeply felt noir masterpieces by Feist.

Il Cinema Ritrovato has a soft spot for those American masters whose careers encompassed all of the major technical developments from the silent era to Cinemascope. Henry King, the subject of this year’s retrospective, is a prime example.

Georges Franju, who co-founded the Cinémathèque française, devoted a great deal of energy to ensuring the recognition of scientific filmmaking. It is in this apparently marginal category of the seventh art that he found the key to the mechanisms of fear in the cinema.

This year we have introduced a new section devoted to a very important 20th-century medium: small-gauge filmmaking and the beloved 16mm format. Film history would look completely different without the possibility of filmmakers using these cheaper formats.

Remember when you first heard the melodious name Musidora? It was a name out of time and reality. No family name attached. Was she a goddess? A poetess? A golden nymph?

Cinema, which never fully leaves Bologna throughout the year, is about to reclaim the streets of the city as it plays host to one of the greatest motion picture parties in the world, offering some 500 films (no typo, the figure is correct!), talks, presentations and countless other events celebrating cinema in all forms, shapes and sizes. With a brilliant array of great films, masterpieces and rarities lined up, the past has never been so close to us and the projections so entwined with our daily life.

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"Un viaggio dalle origini del cinema ai nuovi restauri, un’avventura nello spazio e nel tempo attraverso le immagini in movimento, che coinvolge cinefili da più di 60 Paesi nel mondo. Il Cinema Ritrovato è un dialogo sull’amour du cinema con i suoi 120mila spettatori: proiezioni di qualità eccezionale, la scoperta di rarità sconosciute anche ai più grandi esperti, angoli di riflessione che si aprono dentro e fuori la sala cinematografica, riaccendendo dibattiti sul cinema e sulla cultura, oggi sempre più rari. Un festival che fa del passato un momento presente, raccogliendo nella creativa varietà dei suoi programmi le origini delle immagini in movimento, fino ai nuovi documentari capaci di valorizzare le straordinarie immagini che in oltre un secolo di cinema gli archivi hanno saputo conservare e valorizzare".

Gian Luca Farinelli

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Buon compleanno Charlie Chaplin! La famiglia Chaplin e la Cineteca di Bologna festeggiano i 130 anni del Vagabondo, nato il 16 aprile 1889, lanciando il nuovo sito: www.charliechaplinarchive.org