33RD EDITION

IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2019

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33th EDITION

An unexpected and almost unreal image, but it was not due to special effects. Will we ever be able to forget seeing Notre-Dame in flames? A part of human culture went up in smoke right before our eyes. The eternal, monotonous and malleable present of the selfie era vanished; there was a glimmer of truth in this catastrophe. All of a sudden reality, with its tragic and unforeseen turn of events, reappeared. The past is not polished like the eternal present; instead it is a web of constant changes. It will do us good to see Georges Franju’s Notre-Dame, cathédrale de Paris, which Bernard Eisenschitz opened our eyes to. In 1957, before a number of restoration projects, the great cathedral of Paris looked a lot different from how we have come to know it in recent decades. A fragile, human art that also risks disappearing, cinema from the past shows us that time does not stop and that nothing is forever – not even stones. Films from the past are always at the ready to surprise us and contradict our convictions. For example, Jean Gabin can aspire to being eternal. The face, body and smile of France’s Popular Front, of a Europe that hoped for a better world but instead was rewarded with bloody wars. Like a handful of other actors, Gabin became part of history at a very young age and reappeared after the war; he was changed, not young any more, with white hair and in love with Marlene Dietrich, who, even if she had run away from Hitler, would always still be German. Gabin’s losses were the foundation of his loner legend, which in the 1950s went obstinately in the opposite direction of his times. He found refuge in the countryside (what star of the postwar era left the city to be a farmer?) and in his acting roles. He became unpopular to those who wanted everything to change at that time and he was adored by anyone who wanted everything to stay the same. Today we can watch his films and be moved by his fragile, unique (and unrepeatable?) art.

GUIDE TO IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2019

Lessons in cinema

about the festival 2019

THE TIME MACHINE

  • 1899: Year Four of Cinema
  • A Hundred Years Ago: 1919
  • “Give Us Back Musidora!”
  • Buster Keaton!
  • Documents and Documentaries

THE SPACE MACHINE

  • Youssef Chahine – The Last Arab Optimist
  • Cinemalibero. Fespaco 1969-2019
  • “We Are the Natives of Trizonia”: Inventing West German Cinema, 1945-49
  • Under the Skies of Seoul: The Golden Age of South Korean Cinema

THE CINEPHILES’ HEAVEN

  • Recovered and Restored
  • Jean Gabin, the Man with Blue Eyes
  • William Fox Presents: Rediscoveries from the Fox Film Corporation – Part II
  • Soul and Craft: A Portrait of Henry King
  • A Neapolitan at Cinecittà, Eduardo De Filippo the Filmmaker
  • In Search of Color: Technicolor & Co.
  • Brutal, Nasty, and Short: The Noir of Felix E. Feist
  • Georges Franju: Documentary Beyond the Real
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato’s Colors 2019
  • 16mm – Great Small Gauges
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids e Young

Francis Ford Coppola; Jane Campion; Nicolas Winding Refn; Bertrand Tavernier; Vincenzo Mollica; Clare Peploe; Kim Soo-yong; Souleymane Cissé; Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa; Thierry Frémaux; Marco Bellocchio; Chema Prado; Jacopo Quadri; Alba Rorhwacher; Alina Marazzi; John Bailey; Alvaro Vitali; Angela Allen; Emi De Sica; Catherine Wyler; Alexandra Stewart; Cecilia Mangini; James Thierrée

  • IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2019 CATALOGO DEL FESTIVAL
  • Polidor e Polidor 
    di Marco Giusti

Best Box Set

INGMAR BERGMAN’S CINEMA (Svezia, 1946-2003) – Criterion Collection (blu-ray)

Best Special Features

GIORNATA NERA PER L’ARIETE (IT, 1971) di Luigi Bazzoni – Arrow Films (blu-ray); LA DONNA DEL LAGO (IT, 1965) di Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini – Arrow Films (blu-ray); THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF (USA, 1950) di Felix E. Feist – Flicker Alley/Film Noir Foundation/UCLA (blu-ray + dvd)

Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film

PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERS (USA, 1911-1929) – Kino Lorber (blu-ray)

Best Single Film Release

DÉMANTY NOCI / DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT (Czechoslovakia, 1964) di Jan Němec – Second Run (blu-ray); VIDA EN SOMBRAS (Spagna, 1948-1953) di Llorenç Llobet Gràcia – Filmoteca de Catalunya/Intermedio (dvd)

Best Film (The Peter von Bagh Award)

NON CONTATE SU DI NOI (IT, 1978) di Sergio Nuti – Penny Video/Cineteca Nazionale/Cineploit (blu-ray + dvd)

PERSONAL CHOICES

  • Lorenzo Codelli
    WOODFALL: A REVOLUTION IN BRITISH CINEMA (UK, 1959-1965) di Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz, Richard Lester, Desmond Davis – BFI (blu-ray)
  • Pamela Hutchinson 
    MAY ZETTERLING: COMPLETE FILMWORKS (Sweden, 1964-1986) – Studio S Entertainment (dvd)

  • Shivendra Singh Dungapur 
    ČERNÝ PETR (Czechoslovakia, 1963) di Miloš Forman – Národní filmový archiv (blu-ray); PRÍPAD BARNABÁŠ KOS (Czechoslovakia, 1964) di Peter Solan – Slovenský filmový ústav (blu-ray)

  • Philippe Garnier
    JARMAN VOL.1: 1972-1986 (UK, 1972-1986) di Derek Jarman – BFI (blu-ray)
  • Miguel Marías
    L’ENFANT SECRET (France, 1979) di Philippe Garrel – RE:VOIR (blu-ray + dvd)
  • Paolo Mereghetti
    SAMUEL FULLER AT COLUMBIA, 1937-1961 (USA, 1937-1961) – Powerhouse Films (blu-ray)

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