XXXVII Mostra internazionale del Cinema Libero
IL CINEMA RITROVATO
22th edition
Saturday June 28th - Saturday July 5th 2008
Il Cinema Ritrovato, the festival sponsored by the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero and the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna, invites film-lovers from around the world to Bologna from Saturday June 28th through Saturday July 5th, 2008. The 22nd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato will provide an array of unknown, little-known, rediscovered, and restored films.
This year there are a number of silent strands, as described on the festival site (we make a selection, focused on Italian heritage):
"Emilio Ghione (1872-1930) is the silent star of the 2008 program. The creator of Za la mort and I topi grigi (1918, this year’s morning serial) was a hugely popular actor and director in his day. He was at home in almost every genre, yet he retained an original touch, creating heroes and anti-heroes that were strictly his own with decadent, Gothic elements combining cartoon-like directness and ironic, unexplained elements, as if he was moving through mystical imprints.
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the festival organizes a series around films inspired by the work of Giovanni Guareschi, the satirist and creator of Don Camillo, played by the French Fernandel, and Peppone, the Communist mayor played by the Italian Gino Cervi (born in Bologna, where else). It will include the five Don Camillo films, pillars of Italian popular culture and, as controcanto, La Rabbia (1962), with one episode by the leftist Pier Paolo Pasolini and another from Christian Democrat Guareschi - an epochal dialogue that was shelved in its time and sees the day only now, reflecting with a memorable sense of tragedy and irony the great themes of that (and our) day: immigration, globalization, robotization..."
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