Il Cinema Ritrovato, one of the most anticipated events of the Bolognese summer, returns from 22 to 30 June to take spectators on a journey through time. Organized by the Cineteca di Bologna, the festival celebrates its 38th edition this year, offering cinephiles a review of 480 films in nine days. The aim of Cinema Ritrovato is to bring back to the big screen the restoration of films that have made the history of world cinema.
The Cinema Ritrovato program
Among this year’s international guests, Damien Chazelle (director of La La Land And Whiplash) will present Les Parapluies de Cherbourg by Jacques Demy and his recent Babylon, a tribute to the golden age of silent cinema. Wim Wenders will bring Paris, Texas, The Skladanowsky brothers And Buena Vista Social Club, as well as classics by John Ford, Anthony Mann and Yasujirô Ozu. Darren Aronofsky will present Amadeus by Miloš Forman, while Alexander Payne will introduce The Holdovers And Merlusse by Marcel Pagnol. Volker Schlöndorff will be present with Homo Faber And The blue angel by Joseph von Sternberg. Other guests will include Costa-Gavras, Nicolas Seydoux, Juho Kuosmanen and Mohammad Malas.
Marlene Dietrich will be at the center of one of the retrospectives, together with that dedicated to Pietro Germi, 50 years after his death, and to Delphine Seyrig. The program will also include a retrospective on directors such as Anatole Litvak and Gustaf Molander, who discovered talents such as Ingrid Bergman.
For further details, see the full program here.
The locations of the screenings
During the nine days of the festival, screenings will take place from morning to evening in eight theaters and three outdoor locations: Sala Scorsese and Sala Mastroianni at Cinema Lumière, Auditorium – DamsLab, Cinema Jolly, Cinema Arlecchino, Cinema Europa and Sala Cervi. Every evening, spectators will then be able to enjoy screenings in Piazza Maggiore, at the Arena Puccini and in Piazzetta Pasolini for four special evenings.
A novelty this year is the presence of Cinema Ritrovato also at the Cinema Modernissimo, the underground theater under Piazza Maggiore recently restored to bring it back to its original splendor of the early twentieth century. Screenings in this room will begin as early as June 18th.
The Very Modern Cinema
