Discover the highlights in tomorrow’s programme!<\/p>\n
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The rediscovered Ford and other restorations\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Piazza Maggiore<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 9.45pm\u00a0|\u00a0Sala Scorsese<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 6pm<\/p>\n Coline Serreau in Piazza Maggiore with\u00a0<\/strong>Trois hommes et un couffin<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n Sala Scorsese<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 4.20pm<\/p>\n Great Small Gauge: Of Songs and Society<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Cinema Jolly<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2pm and 4.20pm<\/p>\n Cinemalibero<\/strong><\/a>
\nOne of John Ford\u2019s first films, recently rediscovered,\u00a0The Scarlet Drop<\/em>, is one of the highlights in the long list of\u00a0Recovered and Restored<\/em>\u00a0films throughout the course of the day. This surprising Western gives us a glimpse of the visual elements that became characteristic of Ford\u2019s work. The screening will feature live music accompaniment from Antonio Coppola on piano, who will also accompany two irresistible Laurel and Hardy comedies. Then it\u2019s the turn of two female icons from the history of cinema:\u00a0Les Mauvais coups<\/em>\u00a0is illuminated by Simone Signoret as never before seen, while Preminger\u2019s\u00a0Saint Joan<\/em>, with a Graham Greene screenplay adapted from a George Bernard Shaw play, marks the debut of the Godardian Jean Seberg. From medieval France, we turn our attention to Mexico of the 1960s with\u00a0En el balc\u00f3n vac\u00edo<\/em>, a fundamental turning point for independent Mexican cinema, and then delve into the labyrinthine corridors of memory and the unfathomable reasonings of love in\u00a0Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>. At Pratello Pop, genre cinema reigns supreme, with the crime film\u00a0Lo sgarro<\/em>, a forgotten masterpiece about the violence of the Neapolitan Camorra, and the Hammer classic\u00a0The Quatermass Xperiment<\/em>, preceded by cooking tips from a surprising gourmet: the master of horror Vincent Price.<\/p>\n
\nColine Serreau, actress, filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and street acrobat, is one of the protagonists of this year\u2019s festival: the French director, to whom we have dedicated a section, will be in Sala Scorsese at 6pm\u00a0to introduce\u00a0Grands-m\u00e8res de l\u2019Islam\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Mais qu\u2019est-ce qu\u2019elles veulent?<\/em>, two works where she gives the floor to other women \u2013 the grandmothers of two Muslim families and workers interviewed in their places of work. A utopian choice, which at the time represented a brave political gesture, motivated by the desire to denounce a prevailing and tangible social inequality. In the evening, Serreau will introduce\u00a0Trois hommes et un couffin<\/em>\u00a0in Piazza Maggiore, an irresistible comedy about the relationship between men and motherhood, which, as in all the director\u2019s films, deconstructs and questions gender stereotypes.<\/p>\n
\nThis year\u2019s edition focuses on a genre closely associated with the 16mm format: music documentaries, including the popular subgenre of rockumentary. In\u00a0Les grandes re\u0301pe\u0301titions: Cecil Taylor \u00e0 Paris<\/em>, Taylor discusses the philosophy of music and performance, rendering his points with an opaque, two-handed intensity on the piano that pushes bebop into abstract expressionism, and the film crew into a visceral pool of sound.\u00a0Archie Shepp chez les Tuaregs<\/em>\u00a0captures the energy of the first Pan-African Cultural Festival, a groundbreaking event for post-independent Algeria as well as for the continent of Africa, and the saxophonist\u2019s transformative journey as he seeks to reconnect with his African roots.<\/p>\n
\nAs always, the\u00a0Cinemalibero<\/em>\u00a0section takes us to the peripheries of dominant systems of production with two unmissable appointments:\u00a0Gehenu Lamai<\/em>, a lyrical telling of the story of two sisters in rural Sri Lanka, and\u00a0Ri\u1e25 Es-Sed<\/em>, whose screening in Tunisia in 1986 became a bona fide event, due to its ability to break taboos and tackle issues such as homosexuality and sexual violence head on.\u00a0Gehenu Lamai,\u00a0<\/em>along\u00a0<\/em>with\u00a0<\/em>the Indian masterpiece\u00a0Sholay,<\/em>\u00a0will be at the centre of a\u00a0restoration meeting\u00a0on Monday 23 June, featuring director, archivist and Founder Director of the Film Heritage Foundation Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and C\u00e9line St\u00e9phanie Pozzi and Elena Tammaccaro of L\u2019Immagine Ritrovata.<\/p>\n