Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour in New Hampshire
  • Home
  • About
  • 2023 Edition
  • Past Editions
    • 2022 Edition
    • 2021 Edition
    • 2020 Edition
    • 2019 Edition
  • Contact Us
  • Press
  • Home
  • About
  • 2023 Edition
  • Past Editions
    • 2022 Edition
    • 2021 Edition
    • 2020 Edition
    • 2019 Edition
  • Contact Us
  • Press
Search
Picture

2023 SCHEDULE
Note: All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles

Program
Picture

Monday, March 27


Picture
Picture
Picture
​Public lecture by Allison Cooper (Bowdoin College):
"Race, Representation, and the Close-Up from Miracolo a Milano to Moonlight: Using Digital Humanities Methodologies to Analyze Narrative Film's Most Powerful Tool
"
1PM - Conant Hall 113

Omelia contadina (Peasant Homily)
Uccellacci e Uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows)

4PM - 
Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
**Introduction by Amy Boylan (UNH)
Picture
Picture
Picture
Omelia contadina (Peasant Homily)
Alice Rohrwacher and JR • 2020 • Italy-France • 10 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring 
Luciano Vergaro, Dario Sforza, Iris Pulvano, Emanuele La Barbera, Elisa Cortese, and the farm workers of the Altopiano dell’Alfina
​
Based on the concept of a homily for small-scale farmers and agricultural work, this collaboration between director Alice Rohrwacher and street artist J.R. offers a moment of poetic reflection and mourning while also serving as a call to action.

 https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/omelia-contadina/
Picture
Picture
Picture
Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows)
Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1966 • Italy • 86 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
​Starring Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Francesco Leonetti, Gabriele Baldini, Riccardo Redi, Lena Lin Solaro, Rossana di Rocco 

This fable-like film, which Pasolini considered his personal favorite, follows the adventures of a roguish father and son duo through the landscape of an Italy in the midst of the post-war Economic Boom.

​https://distribuzione.ilcinemaritrovato.it/uccellacci-e-uccellini

Restored in 4K in 2020 by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Compass Film and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà at the Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Picture
Picture
Picture
Edipo Re (Oedipus Rex)
7PM -
Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1967 • Italy • 86 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring 
Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Luciano Bartoli, Ninetto Davoli
**Introduction by Michael Leese (UNH)
​ 

Pasolini reinvents Sophocles’ tragedy through a dreamlike Freudian autobiographical lens. The action moves from a prologue set in Friuli, where Pasolini spent his childhood, to a defamiliarized ancient Greece, and ends in Pasolini’s birthplace of Bologna.

https://distribuzione.ilcinemaritrovato.it/edipo-re

Restored in 4K in 2021 by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Compass Film and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà at the Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Tuesday, March 28th

Picture
Picture
Picture
Italia K2 - Riprese di Mario Fantin
2PM - 
Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mario Fantin • 1954-2021 • Italy • 60 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring Ardito Desio and alpinists from the Italian Alpine Club (CAI)
**Introduction by Nicole Gercke (UNH)

​
In 1954, the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) sponsored an expedition to climb K2 for the first time. Bolognese cameraman and director Mario Fantin accompanied the expedition, shooting at unprecedented altitudes, in order to document the momentous occasion for Italy and its symbolic resurgence from the memories of defeat in WWII.

​https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/italia-k2-riprese-di-mario-fantin/

Restored in 4K by Cineteca di Bologna in association with CAI Film Archive and Film Centre with the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture. ​
Picture

Picture
Picture
Picture
Cinema's First Nasty Women (selections)
4:30PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
various • 1898-1926 • France, UK, US • 90 min • language: silent with English intertitles
Starring Little Chrysia, Sarah Duhamel, Alma Taylor, Chrissie White, Bertha Regustus, Fay Tincher, and Laura Bayley
**Introduction and presentation by Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota), co-curator of the project
 
From this series, the Queens of Destruction take up the mantle of their rebellious teen predecessors. They demolish the home, tyrannize their spouses, and wage feminist revolution in the streets. Their films embrace the joy of social protest and anarchic physical destruction.

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/

Picture
Picture
Picture
Sedmikrásky (Daisies)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Věra Chytilová • 1966 • Chechoslovakia • 76 min • language: Czech with English subtitles
Starring Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová
**Introduction by Elizabeth Stine (UNH)

Upon its release in 1966, this provocative and anarchic film was pulled from theaters by the Czech government among accusations of nihilism. It follows the destructive activities of two young women who want to bring about radical change, with its satirical tone providing social commentary on modern society.
​
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/sedmikrasky/

Restored in 4k in 2022 through the donation of Mrs. Milada Kučerová and Mr. Eduard Kučer, carried out by Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in collaboration with the Národní filmovy archiv, Prague and the Czech Film Fund in UPP and Soundsquare.


Wednesday, March 29th


Picture
Picture
Picture
​Public lecture by Claudia Sbuttoni (UNH):
"Cinema is the Most Powerful Weapon: Film under Italian Fascism"

2PM - Conant Hall 113

A talk on how the Italian fascist regime understood the potential of cinema and used film/film institutions to exercise cultural and political power. ​

Picture
Picture
Picture
Tenebre
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Dario Argento • 1982 • Italy • 101 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi, John Saxon, Giuliano Gemma, Carola Stagnaro
**Introduction and presentation by Damien Pollard (Cambridge University)
 
Ironically set in a brightly lit futuristic Rome, this film marks Argento’s return from the spirit world to the thriller. It tells the story of an American mystery writer in Rome to promote his book who gets drawn into the hunt for a serial killer who commits his crimes in broad daylight in a society that appears largely uninterested.

https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/tenebre/

Restored in 4k in 2022 with elements provided by Titanus by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà.

Picture
Picture
Picture
Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau • 1922 • Germany • 95 min • language: silent with English intertitles
Starring Max Schreck, Greta Schröder, Gustav von Wangenheim
with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis (UNH)
**Introduction by Wenjin Cui (UNH)
 
Inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), this expressionist work is considered one of the most influential films of the silent era. The disturbing appearance of the vampire relies on careful use of light and shadow, creepy costuming choices, and an iconic performance by Max Schreck.

​https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/nosferatu-eine-symphonie-des-grauens/

Restored by Luciano Berriatúa on behalf of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in collaboration with La Cinémathèque française and Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv Berlin/Koblenz at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory

Thursday, March 30th


Picture
Picture
Picture
Una giornata particolare (A Special Day)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ettore Scola • 1977 • Italy • 110 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
Starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
**Introduction by Edward Bowen (University of Kansas)
 
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are reunited to play against type in this quiet but powerful film set during Hitler’s visit to Rome during the Fascist era. Loren plays the exemplary Fascist wife who has a life-changing encounter with a gay, anti-Fascist radio journalist on the eve of his inprisonment.
​
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/una-giornata-particolare

Restored in 4K in 2014 by CSC – Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Surf Film at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory under the supervision of the cinematographer Luciano Tovoli

Friday, March 31st


Picture
Picture
Picture
​Public lecture by Edward Bowen (University of Kansas):
"Long Takes and Use of Space in Ettore Scola's Films"

11AM - Conant Hall 113

This talk will examine several characteristic features of Ettore Scola’s film style, with emphasis on his varied uses of long takes and restricted locations.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About
  • 2023 Edition
  • Past Editions
    • 2022 Edition
    • 2021 Edition
    • 2020 Edition
    • 2019 Edition
  • Contact Us
  • Press