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.

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

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.

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Prestato dall'ampia collezione personale di Martin Scorsese, una delle ultime copie esistenti di The Band Wagon. Ian Christie, storico del cinema, conosce Scorsese dall'84 e sa che Vincente Minnelli è uno dei registi da lui più ammirati. Per questo conserva questo capolavoro americano dell'MGM, la fabbrica dei sogni, che trasforma il mondo in un balletto.