Bologna: for nine days it will be a paradise for cinephiles, from 22 to 30 June with 480 films 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' returns
Inauguration with German director Wim Wenders.
Bologna: for nine days it will be a paradise for cinephiles, from 22 to 30 June with 480 films 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' returns.
With 480 films in 9 days, Bologna opens the doors of cinephiles' paradise. And it does so with the 38th edition of the 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' festival which will take place under the Two Towers from 22 to 30 June.
Nine days of screenings, from morning to evening, in 8 theaters and 3 outdoor locations in the city: at the Cinema Modernissimo, Sala Scorsese and Sala Mastroianni at the Cinema Lumière, Auditorium – DamsLab, Cinema Jolly, Cinema Arlecchino, Cinema Europa, Sala Cervi. And then every evening in Piazza Maggiore, also at the Puccini Arena and four special evenings, always outdoors, in Piazzetta Pasolini. At the 'Renzo Renzi' Library, the appointment with the publishing fair dedicated to cinematographic publications is renewed, which this year brings together 70 publishers. And then meetings at the Mast.Auditorium.
This year, for the first time, The Retro Cinema will also be at the Cinema Modernissimo, the “rediscovered” cinema, an underground treasure chest in the heart of Bologna, under Piazza Maggiore, restored to its original early twentieth-century beauty: screenings here as early as June 18th to experience the emotion of the great films restored in Piazza Maggiore 7 until July.
Il Cinema Ritrovato is promoted by the Cineteca di Bologna as part of Bologna Estate 2024, the program of activities coordinated by the Municipality and Metropolitan City of Bologna – Tourist Destination and supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Emilia-Romagna Region, which in recent months has become a supporting member of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. The 2024 edition was presented this morning in Bologna by Cecilia Cenciarelli and Gian Luca Farinelli, co-directors of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, with the participation of Mauro Felicori, regional councilor for Culture and Landscape of the Emilia-Romagna Region and Elena Di Gioia, the mayor's delegate for Culture of the Municipality and Metropolitan City of Bologna.
Guests and major restorations
Among the foreign guests Damien Chazelle will present in Bologna Les Parapluies de Cherbourg by Jacques Demy (which inspired La La Land) and his more recent Babylon, a tribute to the mythical era of silent cinema; Wim Wenders with his Paris, Texas, The Skladanowsky Brothers and Buena Vista Social Club and the classics by John Ford, Anthony Mann and Yasujirô Ozu; Darren Aronofsky and Amadeus by Miloš Forman; Alexander payne with his The Holdovers and the Marcel Pagnol film that inspired him, Merlusse; Volker Schlöndorff with his Homo Faber and The Blue Angel by Joseph von Sternberg with Marlene Dietrich. And again Costa-Gavras, Nicolas Seydoux, Juho Kuosmanen, Mohammad Malas.
Its Marlene Dietrich will be at the center of one of the many retrospectives, including the one dedicated to Pietro Germi 50 years after his death, and the one to another great female figure, Delphine Seyrig.
A program also dedicated to the discovery of important directors such as the American (but of Ukrainian origins) Anatole Litvak, capable of crossing, with his long filmography, 40 years of cinema history, and the Swede Gustaf Molander, discoverer of divas such as Ingrid Bergman.
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