36th EDITION

IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2022

36th EDITION

The 36th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato will be the first without two people who have been fundamental to the history of our festival – two founders who seemed eternal but unfortunately left us recently. In 1959, in Porretta Terme, a town in the Apennines outside of Bologna, Gian Paolo Testa imagined creating an independent film festival, Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero, from which Il Cinema Ritrovato was born in 1986. Ever since 1962, Vittorio Boarini – along with the Bologna’s Arts and Culture Councillor Renato Zangheri – had believed that Bologna could be home to a great film archive. Without their passion, belief in institutions, culture and utopian recklessness, this festival would not exist today and we would not be here. In recent years, Gian Paolo was unable to come due to his illness, while Vittorio remained a faithful festival participant – even last year he and his partner hopped from one film to another. Every year Vittorio managed to tear us away from our festival commitments for an evening to celebrate the friendship that has always been the secret strength of our small, maverick festival. Friendship has helped to make the festival an important event bringing together a vast international community of cinephiles and the cinema of the past, which comes to life on the screens of Il Cinema Ritrovato – memory that speaks to us now and informs our future. Thanks Vittorio and Gian Paolo for everything you have taught us.

Lessons in cinema

about the festival 2022

THE TIME MACHINE

  • Century of Cinema: 1902
  • A Hundred Years Ago: 1922
  • The Poisoned Flowers of Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
  • Documents and Documentaries

THE SPACE MACHINE

  • Kenji Misumi: An Instinctive Auteur
  • Cinemalibero
  • “Tell the Truth!” A View into Yugoslav Cinema
  • The Last Laugh. German Musical Comedies 1930-1932

THE CINEPHILES’ HEAVEN

  • Recovered and Restored
  • The Drifter’s Escape: Hugo Fregonese
  • Peter Weiss – Poetry in Motion
  • Peter Lorre: Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Forever Sophia
  • Super8, 9.5mm & 16mm – Great Small Gauges
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids e Young
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato’s Colors 2022

Isabella Rossellini, Alice Rohrwacher, JR, Jonathan Coe, Volker Schlöndorff, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Marco Tullio Giordana, Brigitte e Marian Lacombe, Bill Morrison, Thierry Fremaux, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Haggis

  • IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2021 CATALOGO DEL FESTIVAL
  • CHAPLIN
    di Peter von Bagh
  • L’AVVENTUROSA STORIA DEL CINEMA ITALIANO da La dolce vita a C’era una volta il west
    a cura di Franca Faldini

Best Box Set

ESSENTIAL FELLINI (Italy, 1950-1987) – The Criterion Collection (blu-ray)

Best Special Features

OUTSIDE. Morris Engel et Ruth Orkin Œuvres Complètes(USA, 1953-1968) – Carlotta Films (blu-ray)

Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film

DALEKÁ CESTA (Czech, 1948) by Alfréd Radok – Národní filmový archiv (blu-ray); VARIETY(USA, 1983) by Bette Gordon – Kino Lorber (blu-ray)

Best Single Film Release

MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (Germany, 1931) by Leontine Sagan – BFI (blu-ray + dvd); MANDABI (Senegal, 1968) by Ousmane Sembène – The Criterion Collection (blu-ray)

Best Documentary

JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY (USA, 1959) by Bert Stern – Kino Lorber (blu-ray); PETER NESTLER. 9 Films de 1962 à 2008 (Germany, 1962-2009) – Survivance (dvd)

Best Film (The Peter von Bagh Award)

HAXÄN (Sweden, 1922) by Benjamin Christensen – Potemkine Film (blu-ray + dvd)

PERSONAL CHOICES

  • Lorenzo Codelli
    ISTVÁN SZABÓ COLLECTION (Hungary-Germany-France, 1966-2001) – National Film Institute – Film Archive Hungary (dvd)
  • Pamela Hutchinson 
    WAXWORKS (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) (Germany, 1924) by Paul Leni, Leo Birinsky – Flicker Alley, Eureka Entertainment and Deutsche Kinemathek (blu-ray + dvd)
  • Philippe Garnier
    SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT (USA, 1967) by J.L. Anderson – Flicker Alley and Nicolas Winding Refn/by NWR (blu-ray + dvd)
  • Miguel Marías
    CHICAGO – Weltstadt in Flegeljahren (Germany, 1931) by Heinrich Hauser – Schongerfilm/Arte edition (blu-ray)
  • Paolo Mereghetti
    TIRO AL PICCIONE (Italy, 1961) di Giuliano Montaldo – Penny Video / Cineteca Nazionale (blu-ray + dvd)
  • Shivendra Singh Dungarpur 
    SCORSESE SHORTS (USA, 1963-1978) by Martin Scorsese – The Criterion Collection (blu-ray)

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