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Waiting for the XXXIV edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, August 25-31), let’s explore the sections of this year’s rich program. We will travel to the paradise of cinephiles through space and time.<\/p>\n
Yuzo Kawashima: the missing link<\/strong><\/p>\n Kawashima is the \u2018missing link\u2019 between the classical Japanese cinema and the New Wave. An apprentice of Ozu and a teacher of Imamura, he made films with the care and precision of the studio era combined with the flamboyance and daring of the 1960s. For Imamura, Kawashima \u201cpersonified the Japanese New Wave ten years before its emergence\u201d, a tribute that testifies to Kawashima\u2019s lasting impact on Japanese cinema, despite his premature death at 45. Chronic poor health inspired a pessimistic worldview and a sense of the absurd. In his oeuvre, subtle, poignant realist dramas jostle with freewheeling, unpredictable comedies, poised between satire and farce. An expert stylist, Kawashima delighted in elaborate compositions and placing his actors strategically amidst props and furnishings. An actors\u2019 director, he encouraged breezy, noisy, vital performances in which facial expression, tone of voice, posture, gesture and movement combined to bring detail and conviction to the characterisations. This retrospective will screen a selection of his finest work.<\/p>\n Curated by Alexander Jacoby and Johan Nordstro\u0308m.<\/p>\n Cinemalibero 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n This year\u2019s programme, dedicated to the memory of filmmaker, activist and poet Sarah Maldoror, offers titles a great number of which you\u2019ll see restored against all odds. After years on circuitous roads and prolonged research to tackles the puzzles of censorship and the paucity of film elements, here we are with films whose resurgence show how powerful of a vehicle film restoration is in rewriting multiple histories of cinema. The voices of this year\u2019s Cinemalibero \u2013 Jia Zhang-ke, Sarah Maldoror, Ritwik Ghatak, Mohammad Reza Aslani, Ruy Guerra, Mike de Leon and Gutie\u0301rrez Alea \u2013 speak of provincial misfits, Guyana poets, East Bengali Refugees, decadent families, guerrilla revolutionaries, far-right patriarchs and bureaucrats \u2014 articulating the language of resistance, satire and imagination. Konrad Wolf in the age of extremes<\/strong><\/p>\n Often referred to as East German cinema\u2019s greatest auteur, Konrad Wolf\u2019s life matched the exhilarating uniqueness of his films. In 1945, he returned to Nazi Germany from the USSR, where his family had been exiled to, as a teenage Red Army lieutenant, an event he later turned into the classic\u00a0Ich war neunzehn<\/em>. Wolf studied film at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography and had a successful career at DEFA directing fourteen films. A true believer in the potentials of cinema in building a socialist society, his films told stories of the past and present through a revisionist eye. Yet, he didn\u2019t shy away from sensitive subjects that crossed party lines, by doing so subjecting himself to state censorship. Go\u0308sta Werner: A sense of loss<\/strong><\/p>\n One of Sweden\u2019s most eminent film historians as well as an outstanding director mainly of commissioned shorts, cinema for Go\u0308sta Werner (1908-2009) was an all-encompassing occupation and obsession \u2013 a way of life that also included at various times writing film reviews, teaching, or reworking foreign movies for the local market. And yet, today this polymath is mainly remembered for one thing: his writings. This tribute offers a panorama of Werner\u2019s cinema: two programs of shorts explore the breadth and width of his experimentation-happy attitude towards creating films primarily meant to inform its audiences which would include canonical works such as\u00a0Midvinterblot<\/em>\u00a0(1946). Furthermore, his mid-length documentary\u00a0Mauritz Stiller<\/em>\u00a0(1987) offers a glimpse at the film historian apropos Werner\u2019s most extensively researched and venerated subject. The feature\u00a0Gatan<\/em>\u00a0(1949), finally, shows Werner at the height of his story-telling finesse. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano. In attesa della XXXIV edizione de Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival (Bologna, 25-31\u00a0 agosto 2020), continuiamo l’esplorazione delle sezioni del ricco programma di quest\u2019anno.\u00a0Anche in questa edizione viaggeremo nel paradiso dei cinefili attraverso lo spazio e il tempo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1336],"tags":[1282,1601],"class_list":["post-60333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aspettando-il-cinema-ritrovato","tag-il-cinema-ritrovato-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60338,"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60333\/revisions\/60338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Curated by Cecilia Cenciarelli<\/p>\n
\n Curated by Ralf Schenk<\/p>\n
\n Curated by Olaf Mo\u0308ller and Jon Wengstro\u0308m<\/p>\n