Discover the highlights in tomorrow’s programme!<\/p>\n
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Recovered and Restored<\/strong><\/a> Documents and Documentaries<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Cinema Modernissimo\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a06pm<\/p>\n Thierry Fr\u00e9maux presents\u00a0Lumi\u00e8re, l\u2019aventure continue!<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n Auditorium DAMSLab<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 12pm<\/p>\n The raconteur, or the art of\u00a0<\/strong>boniment<\/strong><\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n Piazzetta Pasolini\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 7pm<\/p>\n Not just books… under the stars:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>La cinefilia. Invenzione di uno sguardo, storia di una cultura 1944-68<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nFollowing the\u00a0Recovered and Restored<\/em>\u00a0section step by step means undertaking an epic journey through different languages, cultures and cinemas, which speak to each other and to us. It means going from the devastated Los Angeles of\u00a0Killer of Sheep<\/em>, a fictional portrait of a working class African-American family (also the focus of a restoration meeting on Tuesday 24 June), to the 17th-century China of\u00a0The Arch<\/em>, the debut work by Shu Shuen Tang, the first Hong Kongese director to gain international recognition. Then a trip around Europe, from the Germany of the family saga\u00a0Die<\/em>\u00a0Buddenbrooks<\/em>\u00a0to the Nazi-occupied France \u2013 entirely reconstructed in Hollywood \u2013 of\u00a0Till We Meet Again<\/em>, and to the rice fields of Vercelli in\u00a0Riso amaro<\/em>. Pratello Pop also takes us back to Italy: to the Seventies of the disconcerting\u00a0\u2026hanno cambiato faccia<\/em>\u00a0and \u201ccarosello\u201d advertisements for Crodino, and to the exaggerated Eighties of the cult\u00a0Arrapaho<\/em>, \u201cthe ugliest film in the history of Italian cinema\u201d, introduced by director Ciro Ippolito.<\/p>\n
\nAuditorium DAMSLab<\/strong>\u00a0\u20132.30pm, 4.15pm and 6.15pm<\/p>\n
\nThe day\u2019s documentaries shine a spotlight on the history of cinema. It gets underway with\u00a0Franco & Hollywood<\/em>, which explores how Francoist Spain used Hollywood to gain international credibility, followed by the stories of two cinema theatres that changed the destinies of their audiences:\u00a0Le Muran\u00f3w de Varsovie<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The New Yorker Theater: A Talbot Legacy<\/em>. Alongside documentaries about cinema, we also have a programme of little gems, which includes\u00a0Il pianto delle zitelle<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 considered the first example of neorealist cinema by Antonioni \u2013 and\u00a0Le Retour<\/em>, which tells the story of the difficult journey home of French prisoners freed from concentration camps in 1945.<\/p>\n
\nCannes’ director will be the protagonist of a cinema lesson on Tuesday 24<\/strong>
\nThierry Fr\u00e9maux returns to the origins of cinema with a new film about the inventors of the\u00a0cin\u00e9matographe<\/em>,\u00a0Lumi\u00e8re, l\u2019aventure continue!<\/em>, which he will introduce at Cinema Modernissimo. \u201cIt is a world that comes to life in front of the first spectators, a world in which everything is worthy of being shot\u201d (Paolo Mereghetti). The celebrated director of the Cannes Film Festival will also be the guest at an unmissable\u00a0Cinema Lesson\u00a0on Tuesday 24 June, in conversation with Gian Luca Farinelli.<\/p>\n
\nFasten your seatbelt in the time machine, because this year Il Cinema Ritrovato is taking us on a journey to discover a figure about whom very little is known today, but who was characteristic of early cinema: the raconteur. Somewhere between a storyteller and a lecturer, they helped to bring scenes to life and elucidate certain fragments or stories that were unclear in the absence of words. Spectators at the festival will be able to travel back a century in time and experience the magic of the past thanks to Julie Linquette, a professional raconteur who, in addition to accompanying some of the screenings of the\u00a01905\u00a0<\/em>section, will be the protagonist of an essential Cinema Lesson at Auditorium DAMSLab, in conversation with \u00c9milie Cauquy.<\/p>\n
\nIl Cinema Ritrovato is more than films! Alongside the screenings and meetings with filmmakers, the festival reserves space for the most interesting publications about cinema: in the evocative setting of Piazzetta Pasolini, Antoine de Baeque\u2019s\u00a0La cinefilia. Invenzione di uno sguardo, storia di una cultura 1944-68\u00a0<\/em>(CUE Press, 2025)\u00a0<\/em>will be presented by Roy Menarini and Emiliano Morreale, who also curated the volume. The book paints portraits of the French nouvelle vague directors who, from the Liberation until 1968, cultivated a passion for cinema in Paris, founding magazines and film clubs, promoting discussion and, at times, arguing. The author of this heart-felt reconstruction, Antoine de Baeque, is a cinema critic and historian, and was the director of \u201cCahiers du cinema\u201d.<\/p>\n