25th EDITION
25th EDITION
The editions of Il Cinema Ritrovato tend to return cyclically to one overwhelming theme: the 20th century — the first century witnessed by the cinema. The insight, knowledge and emotion that only cinema could give us. Themes and films that extend far beyond what they seem to be. Even if the theme might be too simple to mention, I’ll try to see our edition of 2011 through it, knowing of course that some other year quite innocently amounted to the same. We may also imagine one further step. If we wouldn’t have any other documentation, to how much would our selection amount? One example would be enough: our proudest development, now proposed for the ninth time – “One hundred years ago”. Reading Mariann Lewinsky’s summary, we would make this essential comment: the continuing series is not only about its time, representing a precious element missing from other passionate efforts to see our common past, it is just as much about the future, full of signs, sometimes almost as if the cinema could be a concrete predictor of things to come. The year 1911 also meant the beginning of the age of directors in the modern sense: being able to follow the growing achievement of Albert Capellani or Alice Guy casts a hypnotic spell over us 100 years later.
Bernardo Bertolucci; Charlotte Rampling; Fatih Akin; Stathis Gialelis; Kevin Brownlow; Franco Maresco; Paolo Poli; Mara Blasetti; Giuliano Montaldo; Gideon Bachman.
A LETTER TO ELIA. Un film di Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones
APPUNTI DI REGIA
a cura di Elia Kazan, DVD con Booklet
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg (Criterion)
La Naissance de Charlot – The Keystone Comedies 1914 di Charlie Chaplin (Lobster – Arte – BFI – Cineteca di Bologna – Flicker Alley/UCLA)
The Night of the Hunter (Criterion)
Max Davidson
Female Comedy Teams
The BBS Story (Criterion)
Segundo de Chomón 1903-1912 (Filmoteca de Catalunya [ICIC]/Cameo Media s.l.) EL Cine de La Fantasia
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
The Cinephiles’ Heaven
