Discover the highlights in tomorrow\u2019s programme!<\/p>\n
Cinema Modernissimo<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 10.45am, 4.15pm and 7pm <\/p>\n Cinema Europa<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 8.30pm and 10.15pm | \u00a0Cinema Arlecchino<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 9.30pm | \u00a0Piazza Maggiore<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 9.45pm |\u00a0Piazzetta Pasolini\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 10pm <\/p>\n Cinema Arlecchino\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 11.15am\u00a0|\u00a0Auditorium – DAMSLab\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2.30pm\u00a0|\u00a0Piazzetta Pasolini\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 7pm | Cinema Modernissimo<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 10pm <\/p>\n Sala Mastroianni\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2.30pm, 6.30pm and 7.15pm <\/p>\n Sala Scorsese<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 6.20pm <\/p>\n
\nLet\u2019s talk about cinema: Cristina Comencini, Terry Gilliam and Angela Allen at the festival<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe guests of Il Cinema Ritrovato establish a direct link to the magical images we see on the big screen. Director, author and playwright Cristina Comencini will introduce\u00a0Incompreso<\/em>, one of the symbols of her father Luigi\u2019s ability to direct children and recount childhood. The film will be accompanied by a video from an unexpected fan, Isabelle Huppert. From the intimate humanity of Comencini (whose investigative report for television\u00a0I bambini e noi<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>we are also screening) to the fanciful exaggerations from the imagination of director Terry Gilliam: the ex-member of Monty Python will hold an unmissable Cinema Lesson, where he will discuss the epic adventures of his Don Quixotesque cinema. However, it is not only directors who make cinema history: Angela Allen, the famous script supervisor, worked with directors of the calibre of Ken Russell, Roman Polanski, John Frankenheimer, Franco Zeffirelli and John Huston. She will reconstruct for us the eventful production of the Huston classic\u00a0The African Queen<\/em>, as well as present a teaser for the documentary \u2013 still a work in progress \u2013 that David Thompson is making about her extraordinary life.<\/p>\n
\nJoker, Jerry and the others\u2026<\/strong>
\nRoom for comedy at Il Cinema Ritrovato. Beginning with the book of the day,\u00a0Joker scatenato. Il lato oscuro della comicit\u00e0<\/em>\u00a0(Feltrinelli, 2025), presented by author Guido Vitiello and Emiliano Morreale. The volume tells the story of our time through comedy. A cynical and sarcastic sense of humour has taken over public discourse today. Guided by the emblematic figure of the Joker, Vitiello investigates \u201cthe dark side of farce\u201d and the inescapable link between comedy and violence. A more light-hearted sort of laughter with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in the Howard Hawks\u2019 screwball comedy\u00a0Bringing Up Baby<\/em>\u00a0and the irresistible duo of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin in the caramelised Technicolor of\u00a0Artists and Models<\/em>. Gregory Monro will also present\u00a0Chaplin et les Temps Modernes, la voie du silence<\/em>, his documentary which recounts how Charlie Chaplin, the genius of silent comedy, adapted to sound.<\/p>\n
\nHow about an evening at the pictures?<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe evening at Il Cinema Ritrovato holds some unique moments in store for us, starting with the double bill scheduled for Piazza Maggiore: the screening of\u00a0Five Easy Pieces\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 a films that symbolised New Hollywood, starring the eternally experimental Jack Nicholson \u2013 will be preceded by\u00a0The Three Bears<\/em>, an animated adaptation of the celebrated fairy tale.\u00a0In Piazzetta Pier Pasolini, the screening of\u00a0\u2019<\/em>A santanotte\u00a0<\/em>will\u00a0<\/em>be enriched by live musical accompaniment, recreating the viewing experience of spectators of silent cinema. The possibilities don\u2019t end there, however, because the evening of Wednesday 25 June will also feature the underground cult classic\u00a0Pink Narcissus<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 which will be at the centre of a\u00a0restoration meeting\u00a0on Thursday 26 June \u2013, the hyper-realist post-punk thriller\u00a0Diva<\/em>, the anti-capitalist musical\u00a0Hallelujah, I\u2019m a Bum\u00a0<\/em>and,\u00a0<\/em>finally,\u00a0Caf\u00e9 Flesh<\/em>, a surprising fresco on the production mechanisms of pornography.<\/p>\n
\nCentury of Cinema: 1905<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Albert Samama Chikli<\/strong><\/a>
\nBetween Light and Dark<\/em>, from the cinema of 120 years ago. Films exhale the air of their time and help us to understand the era in which they were made: like the French ones made during the period of political conflict that preceded the law on the separation of Church and State, or the comedies that reinforced widespread stereotypes through ridicule. They can also give rise to highly contradictory representations: such as those of reactionary America and modern America, as portrayed by Edwin S. Porter. Staying in the same year at the start of the last century, but allowing ourselves to be transported to Tunis, on the trail of the Cin\u00e9mato-Chikli screenings, which were organised by Albert Samama Chikli, the pioneer of Tunisian cinema, a brilliant filmmaker, photographer, technophile and inventor, to whom a dense and fascinating programme of restorations is also dedicated.<\/p>\n
\nMasks and Music: the films of Willi Forst<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe once celebrated career of Willi Forst has today fallen almost into oblivion. The Austrian director who allowed music to play a central role in his productions was one of the few filmmakers active in 1930s Germany to keep his work free from any obvious contamination by National Socialist ideology. The section dedicated to him opens with\u00a0Maskerade<\/em>, his second work and the one that best testifies to his spirit and style. The high watermark of that most typically Austrian cinema genre \u2013 the so-called \u201cViennese film\u201d \u2013 it is an irresistible romantic intrigue, enhanced by highly-controlled performances and the elegant photography of Franz Planer, who later collaborated with Max Oph\u00fcls and Nicholas Ray.<\/p>\n