39th EDITION

IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2025

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39th EDITION

Our festival takes place over three weeks, and for eight days makes use of eight cinemas running from morning to night, as well as two arenas dedicated to open-air screenings: Piazzetta Pasolini and Piazza Maggiore. It is animated not only by screenings, but also encounters in the fine company of artists and professionals, cinema lectures, performances, and a packed programme of cine-concerts. It is incorrect to say that cinema is not a performance art; rather, one of things that makes Il Cinema Ritrovato special is the attention paid to every single seance, to the auditorium where it takes place and the quality of the introductions and the screenings. Once again this year, many films will be screened on celluloid (for some years now a whole section has been dedicated to smaller gauges), while all the silent films will have live accompaniment by the most accomplished specialists of this wonderful art, which restores music to the image. This year, we will also have a narrator, Julie Linquette, who will present Georges Méliès films and help recreate the atmosphere of early cinema performances, when every projection was magic.

GUIDE TO IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2025

Lessons in cinema

about the festival 2025

THE CINEPHILES’ HEAVEN

  • Recovered and Restored
  • Lewis Milestone: Of Wars and Men
  • Katharine Hepburn: Feminist, Acrobat and Lover
  • Life Comes First! The Cinema of Luigi Comencini
  • Coline Serreau – Like a Fish Without a Bicycle
  • Great Small Gauge: Of Songs and Society
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato’s Colours 2025
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids e Young

THE TIME MACHINE

  • Century of Cinema: 1905
  • A Hundred Years Ago: 1925
  • Isaak Babel – Odessa Stories
  • Documents and Documentaries

THE SPACE MACHINE

  • Sorrow and Passion: Pre-War Mikio Naruse
  • Masks and Music: The Films of Willi Forst
  • Cinemalibero
  • Norden noir

The Festival warmly welcomes: Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch, Coline Serreau, Bob Wilson, Peter Suschitzky, Thierry Frémaux, Nicolas Seydoux, Alice Rohrwacher, Francesca Comencini, Joshua Oppenheimer, John Simenon, Altan, Brady Corbet, Jonathan Glazer, and Asghar Farhadi.

  • KEATON! L’integrale, Volume 3 | 3 DVD, 3 Blu-ray e booklet, 549’ e pp. 72
  • Charlie Chaplin A WOMAN OF PARIS – LA DONNA DI PARIGI, 2 DVD e booklet, 89’, 102’ e pp. 80
  • FUORI. UN FILM DI MARIO MARTONE, a cura di Paolo Mereghetti e Alberto Libera, Libro pp. 176
  • ALESSANDRO BLASETTI, I film, le carte, il suo mondo, Alessandro Malfitano | Libro, pp. 319

Best Box Set

HITCHCOCK: THE BEGINNING (StudioCanal UK) — Blu-ray Box Set

Best Special Features

COFFRET JEAN EUSTACHE (Carlotta) — Blu-ray + DVD

Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film

OUSMANE SEMBÈNE: THREE REVOLUTIONARY FILMS (The Criterion Collection) — Blu-ray Box Set

Best Single Film Release

A BRIDGE TOO FAR di Richard Attemborough (Imprint Films) — Blu-ray

Best Film (The Peter von Bagh Award)

ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR, VOL.2 (Severin Films) — Blu-ray Box Set

PERSONAL CHOICES

  • Lorenzo Codelli, MICHAEL POWELL: EARLY WORKS (BFI) — Blu-ray
  • Pamela Hutchinson & Philippe Garnier:
    THE SMALL BACK ROOM di Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (StudioCanal UK) — Blu-ray
  • Miguel Marías, ÉL di Luis Buñuel (Films du Camélia) — Blu-ray
  • Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, SHICHININ NO SAMURAI di Akira Kurosawa (The Criterion Collection) — UHD + Blu-ray
  • Paolo Mereghetti, VERMISAT di Mario Brenta (Penny Video) — DVD

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