23RD EDITION

IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2009

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23th EDITION

What is it that makes Il Cinema Ritrovato so wonderful? What is the common denominator of film historians, restoration specialists, and archivists, who are joined every evening by the people of Bologna at the magnificent outdoor screening in the Piazza Maggiore? The simple answer is: the love of cinema. Something that is reinforced by the uncertainty of the future of cinema in general and the ghostly disappearance of opportunities for screenings of real film, much less under the privileged conditions that Bologna offers. I’ve repeatedly mentioned the festival’s collection of rediscoveries themes, protagonists, and territories of 20th century cinema believed to have been lost. As a couple of our central objectives come to mind, a golden word flashes: pleasure. It emanates from everything we show.

GUIDE TO IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2009

about the festival 2009

  • One Hour with Georges Méliès
  • Anita Berber, Goddess of the Night
  • Recovered & Restored
  • Meeting Richard Leacock
  • Mr. Capra Goes to Town
  • In Search of the Color of Film
  • Chaplin Project
  • Tribute to Harry d’Abbadie Arrast
  • A Hundred Years Ago: the Films of 1909
  • Rodolfi and Gigetta: the Couple in Comedy
  • Kinojudaica, the Image of Jews in Russian and Soviet Cinema
  • All Maciste, Strong Man
  • Jean Epstein, the Sea in Cinema
  • Every Person is a Story: Britain in the 1930’s
  • Inside Vichy: French Cinema during the Occupation
  • Vittorio Cottafavi: Don’t Shoot Poets
  • Dossier – Sole: Backstage
  • Dossier Metropolis
  • Dossier Economic Crisis in Silent Cinema
  • Dossier Josef von Sternberg
  • Dossier Cinefilia: Henri Langlois, André S. Labarthe and Bernard Chardère
  • Double Regard: Notes on Censorship in France and Italy

Thelma Schoonmaker; Mario Monicelli; Richard Leacock; Mara Blasetti

  • IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2009 CATALOGO DEL FESTIVAL

  • L’avventurosa storia del cinema italiano. Vol. 1
    a cura di Goffredo Fofi e Franca Faldini

  • Fuoco! Il Cinema di Gian Vittorio Baldi
    DVD con libro

  • Cento anni fa. Il cinema europeo del 1909 / Il cinema europeo nel 1909
    DVD con libro

  • Maciste. L’uomo forte
    a cura di Claudia Giannetto e Stella Dagna

Best Box Set

  • Douglas Fairbanks Boxset: A modern Musketeer (Flicker Alley); GPO Film Unit Collection Vol.2: We Live in Two Worlds (BFI)
  • Treasures IV: American Avant-garde ,1947 – 1986 (National Film Foundation)

Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film (ex-aequo)

  • Il mondo perduto (Feltrinelli Real Cinema)
  • La Rabbia di Pasolini (Raro Video)

Best Single Film Release (BLU-RAY) (ex-aequo)

  • Vampyr (Eureka Entertainment e Criterion)
  • Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grosstadt Melodie der Welt (Edition Filmmuseum Munchen)

Best Film 

Joris Ivens, Wereldcineast (European Foundation Joris Ivens)

Il cinema ritrovato 2009:
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