35th EDITION

IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2021

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35th EDITION

It has happened every year for 35 years. As Il Cinema Ritrovato ends, we incredulously review the statistics for the event and remember the previous days, the emotions shared with our public, the words of support from friends and strangers and think: “There is no way we can stage a better event than the one that has just ended.” Impossible. We discuss the proposals we have received, add new retrospectives to the established ones and refine the structure of the programme. For 12 months we work towards Il Cinema Ritrovato, all the time thinking: “Yes, the next event won’t be bad, but there’s no way we can make it as good as last year’s.” Confirmations of long-awaited restorations arrive; new films surprise us among the new documentaries we view. The programme gradually comes into focus. We start compiling the catalogue, searching for the perfect photos, beginning the long round of corrections and revisions and then, after an enormous amount of work involving over 20 people working in ever greater synchrony, the magic moment arrives, the moment in which, for the first time, we can see the whole catalogue, with all its photos and… we’re amazed! It’s fantastic. We can’t believe that we have managed to bring so much beauty together. So take your time to peruse the almost 400 pages of this year’s catalogue: the surprising contributions of the various curators; each individual entry; and the images which act as windows into a film, narrow openings from which to glimpse whole eras, ideas, innovations and emotions. If so many interesting and beautiful films were produced in the past, we can only be optimistic about the future.

GUIDE TO IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2021

Lessons in cinema

about the festival 2021

THE TIME MACHINE

  • Century of Cinema: 1901
  • A Hundred Years Ago: 1921
  • In a Maze of Images. The Tomijiro Komiya Collection
  • Documents and Documentaries

THE SPACE MACHINE

  • The Real Japan: The Documentaries of Iwanami Productions
  • Cinemalibero: Feminine, Plural
  • Against All Flags: Wolfgang Staudte
  • Rebellious Poets and Radical Spirits: Indian Parallel Cinema

THE CINEPHILES’ HEAVEN

  • Recovered and Restored
  • Romy, Life Lived and Fiction
  • Something to Live For: The Cinema of George Stevens
  • Aldo Fabrizi: “Taken from the World too al dente”
  • Herman Mankiewicz: A Scattered Talent
  • Super8 & 16mm – Great Small Gauges
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids e Young

Volker Schlöndorff, Alice Rohrwacher, Dario Argento, Jonathan Nossiter, Stellan Skarsgård, Angela Allen, Pere Portabella

  • IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2020 CATALOGO DEL FESTIVAL
  • AUGUSTO GENINA. IL PREZZO DELLA BELLEZZA
    a cura di Mariann Lewinsky e Andrea Meneghelli
  • FELLINI 23 1⁄2. TUTTI I FILM
    di Aldo Tassone

Best Box Set

THE KOKER TRILOGY: Where Is the Friend’s House? And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees (Iran, 1987-1994) by Abbas Kiarostami – The Criterion Collection (dvd)

Best Special Features

OZU EN 20 FILMS (Japan, 1929-1962) by Yasujirō Ozu – CARLOTTA FILMS (dvd)

Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film

DAS INDISCHE GRABMAL (Germany, 1921) by Joe May – AV Visionen GmbH (bluray); A CASE FOR A ROOKIE HANGMAN (Případ pro začínajícího kata) (Czech, 1969) by Pavel Juráček – SECOND RUN (blu-ray)

Best Single Film Release

THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR (India, 1960) by Ritwik Ghatak – The Criterion Collection (blu-ray)

Best Film (The Peter von Bagh Award)

FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE (Soviet Union, 1929) by Fridrikh Ermler – Flicker Alley, LLC. (blu-ray + dvd)

PERSONAL CHOICES

  • Lorenzo Codelli
    TRAPPED (USA, 1949) by Richard Fleischer – Flicker Alley, LLC. – Film Noir Foundation (blu-ray + dvd)
  • Pamela Hutchinson 
    THE MAYA DEREN COLLECTION (USA, 1943-1977) by Maya Deren – Kino Lorber (blu-ray)
  • Philippe Garnier
    APOCALYPSE NOW (Usa, 1979) by Francis Ford Coppola – Studiocanal (bluray)
  • Miguel Marías
    FINIS TERRAE (France, 1927-1938) by Jean Epstein – Gaumont Video (blu-ray)
  • Paolo Mereghetti
    LA PRIMA NOTTE DI QUIETE (Italy-France, 1972) by Valerio Zurlini – Pathé Films (blu-ray + dvd)

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