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.

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. 

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.

From the very beginning, when it still lacked the spoken word, cinema has always sought its musicality - an interweaving of rhythms, harmonies and passions. The musicians, improvisers and composers of Cinema Ritrovato know this only too well: those artists who grind out hours at the piano, searching for the rhythms, the harmonies and the emotions that come from the silent image.