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Elenco Ospiti, Eventi E Pubblicazioni IL CINEMA RITROVATO 1987 - 2017 http://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/edizioni-precedenti/ RASSEGNE 24 giugno – 2 luglio Jean Vigo ritrovato; Robert Mitchum; Augusto Genina; Una Domenica a Bologna; Kinemacolor e 2017 Technicolor; Wiliam K. Howard; Nicole Vedrès; Universal Pictures; Helmut Käutner; 1897 anno due; Colette e il cinema; Progetto Keaton; Il cinema di Bill Morrison; Cinema messicano; I thriller di Samuel Khachikian; Il film storico nel giappone degli anni bui; Documentari; Ritrovati & Restaurati; Cento anni fa: i film del 1917; Lezioni di cinema; Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids & Young I PROTAGONISTI Dario Argento; Agnes Varda e Jr; Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Bruce Weber; Macha Meril; D.A. Pennebaker; Nanni Moretti; Med Hondo; Costantin Costa-Gavras; Nicolas Seydoux; Angela Allen; Michael Fitzgerald EVENTI SPECIALI L’Atalante (J. Vigo), Bronenosec Potëmkin (S. Ejzenštejn); Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker); Steamboat Bill Jr. (B. 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Kinemacolor e altre magie (DVD) Il Cinema Ritrovato Miglior DVD (The Peter von Bagh Award): DVD Awards THE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925, USA, Edition Filmmuseum, DVD) 2017 Best Single Release: COLOUR BOX: 19 FILMS BY LEN LYE (1929-1980, USA/New Zealand, Len Lye Foundation/Govett- Bewster Art Gallery/Ngã Taonga Sound and Vision, DVD) Miglior Cofanetto: PIONEERS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CINEMA (1915-1944, USA, Kino Lorber, Blu-Ray) DEKALOG (1985, Poland, Arrow Films, DVD & Blu-Ray) Migliori contenuti speciali: BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (Sam Peckinpah,1974, USA, Arrow Films, Blu-ray) Migliori riscoperte: DISSENT & DISRUPTION: ALAN CLARKE AT THE BBC (1969-1989, UK, BFI, DVD & Blu-Ray) LES SAISONS, UNE TÉTRALOGIE DE MARCEL HANOUN (1968-1972, France, Re:Voir Video, DVD) Premio speciale per due edizioni “ingombranti”: WAJDA (1954-2013, Poland, Cyfrowe Repozytorium Filmowe [Digital Film Repository], DVD) ROBERT FRANK: FILM WORKS (1959-1975, USA, Steidl, DVD) RASSEGNE 25 giugno – 2 luglio Marlon Brando; Jacques Becker; Universal Pictures; Technicolor; Mario Soldati; Ebrahim Golestan; 2016 I primi film a colori giapponesi II; 1896 anno uno; Marie Epstein; Progetto Keaton; Cinema argentino; Il cinema del disgelo II; Documentari; Ritrovati & Restaurati; Cento anni fa: i film del 1916; Lezioni di cinema; Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids & Young I PROTAGONISTI Jean-Pierre e Luc Dardenne, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertrand Tavernier, Volker Schlöndorff, Marco Bellocchio, Alice Rohrwacher, Ebrahim Golestan, Vittorio Storaro, Claudia Cardinale, Giuseppe Tornatore, Emi De Sica, Jérôme e Nicolas Seydoux EVENTI SPECIALI Modern Times e The Kid (C. 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L'invenzione del cinematografo (DVD); Grand Tour (DVD) Il Cinema Ritrovato Miglior DVD (The Peter von Bagh Award): DVD Awards FREDERICK WISEMAN INTÉGRALE VOL. 1 - BLAQ OUT 2016 Migliori contenuti speciali: NICO PAPATAKIS BOX SET - Gaumont Migliori riscoperte: UNDERGROUND NEW YORK by Gideon Bachmann - RE:VOIR LE CHEMIN D’ERNOA, LA FEMME DE NULLE PART di Louis Delluc - Les documents cinématographiques … UND DEINE LIEBE AUCH & SONNTAGSFAHRER di Frank Vogel, Gerhard Klein - Edition Filmmuseum Migliori Cofanetti: THE CARL THEODOR DREYER COLLECTION - BFI THE JACQUES RIVETTE COLLECTION - Arrow Academy Miglior Serie: COLLECTION 120 ANS N.1 1885-1929 - Gaumont RASSEGNE 27 giugno – 4 luglio Ingrid Bergman; Leo McCarey; Peter Forever; Technicolor; Renato Castellani; Nouvelle vague 2015 iraniana; I primi film a colori giapponesi, il jazz al cinema; Albert Samana Chikly; Armenia, il genocidio e il silenzio del muto; I Velle; Valentina Frascaroli; Adorati Bluebirds; 120 Gaumont; Il cinema del disgelo, rarità del cinema italiano del dopoguerra; Documentari; Ritrovati & Restaurati; Cento anni fa: i film del 1915; Lezioni di cinema; Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids & Young I PROTAGONISTI Isabella Rossellini, Alexander Payne, Angela Allen, Suzanne Lloyd, Renato Casaro, Pietro Marcello, Jonathan Nossiter, Jacques Rancière, Dork Zabunyan, Alina Marazzi, Caterina D'Amico, Stig Bjorkman, Alain Sambene, Fiorella Amico, Paolo Benvenuti, Anna von Bagh EVENTI SPECIALI Rapsodia Satanica (N. 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Ray), Maudite soit la guerre (A. Machin), The Merry Widow (E. von Stroheim), La più bella serata della mia vita (E. Scola), A Hard Day’s Night (R. Lester) PUBBLICAZIONI: Sangue bleu (N. Oxilia) (DVD) Il Cinema Ritrovato Miglior DVD: Dzimn Svante - Edition Filmmuseum DVD Awards Miglior Blu-Ray: Underground – BFI 2014 Migliori contenuti speciali: Late Mizoguchi 8 films – Eureka Pintilie, Cineast – Transilvania Films Miglior riscoperta di un film dimenticato: Ikerie XB1 – Second Run Miglior Cofanetto: 3 Film di Rossellini con Ingrid Bergman – Criterion Jean Epstein - La Cinémathèque Française, Potemkine Films RASSEGNE 29 giugno – 6 luglio Allan Dwan; Vittorio De Sica; Jerry Lewis; Cinemascope europeo; I muti di Hitch; Chris Marker; 2013 I primi film sonori giapponesi; Cinemalibero; Olga Preobrazenskaja; Guerra vicina 38-39; Ritrovati & Restaurati; Cento anni fa: i film del 1913; Lezioni di cinema I PROTAGONISTI Alexander Payne, Agnès Varda, Joanna Lancaster, Manuel De Sica, Pierre Kalfon, Mara Blasetti, Jackie Raynal, Marc Scialom, Peter Becker e Jonathan Turrell, Florence Dauman EVENTI SPECIALI Roma Città Aperta (R. Rossellini), Hiroshima mon amour (A. 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I PROTAGONISTI Bernardo Bertolucci, Charlotte Rampling, Fatih Akin, Stathis Gialelis, Kevin Brownlow, Franco Maresco, Paolo Poli, Mara Blasetti, Giuliano Montaldo, Gideon Bachman EVENTI SPECIALI Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau), Le voyage dans la lune (G. Méliès), The Phantom of the Opera (R. Julian), Les enfants du paradis (M. Carné) DOSSIER: Nicholas Ray, Alessandro Blasetti, Eddie Sutherland PUBBLICAZIONI: Albert Cappelani (DVD); Elia Kazan (DVD e libro) Il Cinema Ritrovato Miglior DVD: Segundo
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