These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered

The new series of screenings and restorations of the 65th Venice Film Festival will be dedicated to 'These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered (1946 – 1975)'.
The curators of the series, Tatti Sanguineti and Sergio Toffetti, have put together the project for the retrospective, which comprises the following:

- Un uomo ritorna (A Man Returns) by Max Neufeld (1946)
- Anni difficili (Difficult Years) by Luigi Zampa (1948)
- Una lettera all’alba (A Letter at Dawn) by Giorgio Bianchi (1948)
- Il grido della terra (The Scream of the Land) by Duilio Coletti (1949)
- La città dolente (The Suffering City) by Mario Bonnard (1949)
- Il cielo è rosso (The Sky is read) by Claudio Gora (1950), based on the eponymous novel by Giuseppe Berto
- Processo alla città (A City on Trial) by Luigi Zampa (1952)
- La donna del giorno (The Doll That Took the Town) by Francesco Maselli (1956)
- Leoni al sole (Lions in the Sun) by Vittorio Caprioli (1961)
- Una vita violenta (A Violent Life) by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi (1962), based on the eponymous novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini [video 1, video 2]
and screen tests for Padre selvaggio (Wilde Father) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1962)
- Agostino by Mauro Bolognini (1962), based on the eponymous novel by Alberto Moravia [video]
- Parigi o cara (Paris, my dear) by Vittorio Caprioli (1962) [video]
- La cuccagna (Cockaigne) by Luciano Salce (1962) [video]
- I misteri di Roma (collective film) (1963)
- La bella di Lodi (Lodi Beauthy) by Mario Missiroli (1963), adapted by the Alberto Arbasino's novel [video]
- Italia proibita by Enzo Biagi (1963)
- I basilischi (The Lizards) by Lina Wertmüller (1963) [video]
- Smog by Franco Rossi (1963)
- Pelle viva (Scorched Skin) by Giuseppe Fina (1964)
- Un mondo nuovo (A New World) by Vittorio De Sica (1964)
- I mostri (The Monsters) by Dino Risi [see post 'I mostri']
- Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik) and unseen scenes from Lo Sceicco Bianco by Federico Fellini (1952) [video]
- E il Casanova di Fellini? (And Fellini's Casanova?) by Gianfranco Angelucci and Liliana Betti (1975)
and Banca di Roma advertisement with the voice of Fellini
- La forza e la ragione (Strenght and Reason) by Roberto Rossellini (interview with Salvador Allende) (1971)
- Arcana by Giulio Questi (1972) [video {interview and clips from the film}]
- Nostra Signora dei Turchi (Our Lady of the Turks) by Carmelo Bene (1968) [trailer]
- Fuoco! (Fire!) by Gianvittorio Baldi (1968)
- Flashback by Raffaele Andreassi (1969)
- Toh è morta la nonna (Oh, Grandma's Dead) by Mario Monicelli (1969)
- L’italiana in Algeri by Emanuele Luzzati (1968) (short)

Some films will be screened in the presence of leading personalities (directors, actors, and scriptwriters), and accompanied by Goffredo Fofi’s [video] presentation and debate in the auditorium.