Puccini Frame by Frame

Puccini and cinema – Puccini frame by frame
by Pier Marco De Santi
Torre del Lago (Lucca) – New Theatre Auditorium

June 29 – Madame Butterfly ( 1995), director Frédéric Mitterand

July 1 – Madame Butterfly (1993), director David Cronenberg

July 2 – Tosca (1941), directed by Jean Renoir / Karl Koch

July 3 – Avanti a Lui Tremava Tutta Roma ( 1946), director Carmine Gallone

July 7 – Moonstruck (1987), director Norman Jevison

July 8 – Puccini (1974), director Sandro Bolchi

July 22 – Talk with director Paolo Benvenuti /Puccini and the Fanciulla (2008)/

July 24 – Tosca (2001), director Benoit Jacquot

July 28 – La Tosca (1973), director Luigi Magni

July 29 – La Bohème (1926), director King Vidor – Uncut version

July 30 – Manon (1949), director Henri-Georges Clouzot

August 1 – A Room with a View (1985), director James Ivory

August 4 – Harakiri (1919), director Fritz Lang - Uncut version

August 5 – La Bohème (1987), director Luigi Comencini

August 6 – La Tosca (1956), director Carmine Gallone

August 11 – House of Ricordi (1954), director Carmine Gallone,
- La Famiglia Ricordi (1995), director Mauro Bolognini

August, 12 – Tosca (1908), directed by A. Calmettes, Victorien Sardou with Sarah Bernhardt,
Tosca (1918), directed by Alfredo De Antoni with Francesca Bertini
The funeral of Puccini in Brussels (1924), Newsreel Pathè
Puccini at Home (1913)
One day with Giacomo Puccini (1915)
Tosca (1909), director Charles Le Bargy
La Bohème (1912), director Albert Capellani

August 13 – “White Night with Puccini” Special. Non-stop screening of all the sequences of the films with Puccini's music, with live music interludes.

August 18 – The Girl of the Golden West (1938), director Robert Z. Leonard

August 19 – La Bohème (1935), director Paul Stein - Uncut version in English

August 20 – My Geisha (1961), director Jack Cardiff

August 21 – Maggio Musicale (1989), director Ugo Gregoretti

August 24 – Tosca - Nei Luoghi e Nelle Ore di Tosca (1992), director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

August 25 – Madama Butterfly (1974), director Jean Pierre Ponnelle

August 26 – Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing (1999), director Zhang Yimou

September 1 – Manon Lescaut (1926), director Paul Robinson, with Lya De Putti

September 2 – La Vie de Bohème (1947), director Marcel L’Herbier

September 3 – Callas Forever (2002), director Franco Zeffirelli

September 4 – Special Evening “Puccini in Cartoons”:
Babe: Pig in the City (1998), director George Miller
Recess: School's Out (2001), director Chock Sheetz
Toys (1992), director Berry Levinson
Aria (2002), director Piotr Sapegin

September 5 – Madame Butterfly (1915), director Sidney Olcott, with Mary Pickford

September 6 – White Night with Puccini “Homage to Carmine Gallone” - Non-stop screening with live music interludes of the following films:
Il Sogno di Butterfly (1939); Madame Butterfly (1955); Puccini (1952); Tosca (1956)

September 7 – New York Stories (1989) – Episode “Life Lessons”, director Martin Scorsese
- Aria (1987) Episode “Nessun dorma”, director Ken Russell

September 11 – The Toll of the Sea (1924) – First colour copy of a Puccini film - director Chester M. Franklin

September 12 – Special “The great Puccini voices in cinema”: Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe Lugo, Tito Schipa, Jan Kiepura, Martha Eggert, Mario Lanza, Jeannette Mc Donald.

September 13 – Preview of the film Puccini and the Fanciulla (2008), director Paolo Benvenuti

September 18 – La Bohème (1923), director Gennaro Righelli

September 19 – La Bohème (1967), director Franco Zeffirelli

September 20 – Puccini (1984), director Tony Palmer

September 25 – Puccini in documentaries:
Armonie Pucciniane (1958), director Giorgio Ferroni
Puccini the Great Composer (1997), director Chris Hunt
Giacomo Puccini, director Giuliano Biagetti

September 26 – La Tosca (1976), director Gianfranco de Bosio

September 27 – Preview of the RAI serial Puccini (2008), director Giorgio Capitani