2024 SCHEDULE
Note: All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles
Monday, April 1
Introduction to the 2024 Festival
A Conversation with the Curators: Guy Borlée (Cineteca di Bologna), Amy Boylan (UNH) and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
1PM - Conant Hall 113
Guy, Amy, and Nicole present the current lineup, talk about the philosophy and mission of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna and of the traveling 'on Tour' editions, give some behind-the-scenes insights into festival organization, and respond to questions from the public.
A Conversation with the Curators: Guy Borlée (Cineteca di Bologna), Amy Boylan (UNH) and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
1PM - Conant Hall 113
Guy, Amy, and Nicole present the current lineup, talk about the philosophy and mission of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna and of the traveling 'on Tour' editions, give some behind-the-scenes insights into festival organization, and respond to questions from the public.
Daughters of the Dust
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Julie Dash • USA • 1991 • 112 min • language: English, Gullah with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Wainwright (UNH)
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. The first wide release by a black female filmmaker, the film was met with wild critical acclaim and rapturous audience response when it initially opened in 1991. Casting a long legacy, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST still resonates today, most recently as a major in influence on Beyonce’s video album “Lemonade.” Restored (in conjunction with UCLA) for the first time with proper color grading overseen by cinematographer AJ Jafa, audiences will finally see the film exactly as Julie Dash intended.
https://kinolorber.com/product/daughters-of-the-dust-blu-ray
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMxR2M_ddM
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Julie Dash • USA • 1991 • 112 min • language: English, Gullah with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Wainwright (UNH)
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. The first wide release by a black female filmmaker, the film was met with wild critical acclaim and rapturous audience response when it initially opened in 1991. Casting a long legacy, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST still resonates today, most recently as a major in influence on Beyonce’s video album “Lemonade.” Restored (in conjunction with UCLA) for the first time with proper color grading overseen by cinematographer AJ Jafa, audiences will finally see the film exactly as Julie Dash intended.
https://kinolorber.com/product/daughters-of-the-dust-blu-ray
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMxR2M_ddM
Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Vittorio de Sica • 1948 • Italy • 90 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Rockwell (UNH)
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.
https://www.janusfilms.com/films/1026
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2P4xo9kmPM
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Vittorio de Sica • 1948 • Italy • 90 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Rockwell (UNH)
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.
https://www.janusfilms.com/films/1026
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2P4xo9kmPM
Tuesday, April 2nd
Cinema's First Nasty Women - a selection of silent shorts
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
with Léontine and Lea Giunchi • 1910-1913 • France/Italy • 37 min • language: French and Italian intertitles with English subtitles
**Introduction by Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota), co-curator of the project
Léontine
La pile électrique de Léontine [Léontine’s Battery] (France 1910), with Léontine
Amour et musique [Love and Music] (France 1911), with Léontine.
La peur des ombres [Fear of Shadows] (France 1911), with Léontine
Lea
Lea sui pattini [Léa on Rollerskates] (Italy 1911), with Lea Giunchi.
Riposo festivo [A Lively Day Off] (Italy 1912), with Lea Giunchi.
Léa bambola [Léa as a Doll] (Italy 1913), with Lea Giunchi.
Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play. The collection includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from 13 international film archives and libraries, and spotlighting slapstick comediennes and cross-dressing women of the silent screen. The women included are indeed very “nasty”—they organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of the chimney, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/
Teaser: https://youtu.be/dJfUrNj_7k4
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
with Léontine and Lea Giunchi • 1910-1913 • France/Italy • 37 min • language: French and Italian intertitles with English subtitles
**Introduction by Maggie Hennefeld (University of Minnesota), co-curator of the project
Léontine
La pile électrique de Léontine [Léontine’s Battery] (France 1910), with Léontine
Amour et musique [Love and Music] (France 1911), with Léontine.
La peur des ombres [Fear of Shadows] (France 1911), with Léontine
Lea
Lea sui pattini [Léa on Rollerskates] (Italy 1911), with Lea Giunchi.
Riposo festivo [A Lively Day Off] (Italy 1912), with Lea Giunchi.
Léa bambola [Léa as a Doll] (Italy 1913), with Lea Giunchi.
Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play. The collection includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from 13 international film archives and libraries, and spotlighting slapstick comediennes and cross-dressing women of the silent screen. The women included are indeed very “nasty”—they organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of the chimney, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/
Teaser: https://youtu.be/dJfUrNj_7k4
Public Lecture by Paula Salvio (UNH)
The Duty to Report: Public Pedagogy, Citizenship and Letizia Battaglia's Photographic Record of Mafia Violence
2:30PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
This talk focuses on photojournalist Letizia Battaglia's influential work and the how the presence of the mafia affects everyday life.
The Duty to Report: Public Pedagogy, Citizenship and Letizia Battaglia's Photographic Record of Mafia Violence
2:30PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
This talk focuses on photojournalist Letizia Battaglia's influential work and the how the presence of the mafia affects everyday life.
Shooting the Mafia
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Kim Longinotto • 2019 • Ireland-US • 94 min • language: English
**Introduction by Amy Boylan (UNH)
Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. A woman whose passions led her to abandon traditional family life and become a photojournalist in the 1970s—the first female photographer to be employed by an Italian daily newspaper—Battaglia found herself on the front lines during one of the bloodiest chapters in Italy’s recent history. She fearlessly and artfully captured everyday Sicilian life—from weddings and funerals to the grisly murders of ordinary citizens—to tell the narrative of how the community she loved in her native Palermo was forced into silence by the Cosa Nostra. Weaving together Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and her own memories, Shooting the Mafia paints a portrait of a remarkable woman whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.
https://cohenmedia.net/product/shooting-the-mafia
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoMqyOdR1g
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Kim Longinotto • 2019 • Ireland-US • 94 min • language: English
**Introduction by Amy Boylan (UNH)
Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared to point her camera at a brutally slain victim. A woman whose passions led her to abandon traditional family life and become a photojournalist in the 1970s—the first female photographer to be employed by an Italian daily newspaper—Battaglia found herself on the front lines during one of the bloodiest chapters in Italy’s recent history. She fearlessly and artfully captured everyday Sicilian life—from weddings and funerals to the grisly murders of ordinary citizens—to tell the narrative of how the community she loved in her native Palermo was forced into silence by the Cosa Nostra. Weaving together Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs, rare archival footage, classic Italian films, and her own memories, Shooting the Mafia paints a portrait of a remarkable woman whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.
https://cohenmedia.net/product/shooting-the-mafia
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoMqyOdR1g
Mimì metallurgico, ferito nell'onore (The Seduction of Mimì)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Lina Wertmüller • 1972 • Italy • 112 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Claudia Sbuttoni (UNH)
Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimì, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato), with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.
A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.
https://kinolorber.com/product/the-seduction-of-mimi-blu-ray
Trailer/Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJDhMLJkSI
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Lina Wertmüller • 1972 • Italy • 112 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Claudia Sbuttoni (UNH)
Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimì, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato), with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences.
A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.
https://kinolorber.com/product/the-seduction-of-mimi-blu-ray
Trailer/Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJDhMLJkSI
Wednesday, April 3rd
Kummatty (The Boogeyman)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Govindan Aravindan • 1979 • India • 90 min • language: Malayalam with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tejas Aralere (UNH)
An adaptation of a Central Kerala folk-tale featuring a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty, who comes to entertain a group of village children with dancing, singing and magic tricks. In one such game, he changes the children into animals. One boy, changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment when the magician breaks the spell restoring the children to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait until Kummatty returns.
https://www.film-foundation.org/rsr-july-2022
Trailer/Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOK4iMv-To
Restored in 4K using a vintage 35mm print struck from the original camera negative and preserved at the National Film Archive of India. Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, Film Heritage Foundation, and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with General Pictures and the family of Aravindan Govindan. Funding provided by the Material World Foundation.
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Govindan Aravindan • 1979 • India • 90 min • language: Malayalam with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tejas Aralere (UNH)
An adaptation of a Central Kerala folk-tale featuring a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty, who comes to entertain a group of village children with dancing, singing and magic tricks. In one such game, he changes the children into animals. One boy, changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment when the magician breaks the spell restoring the children to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait until Kummatty returns.
https://www.film-foundation.org/rsr-july-2022
Trailer/Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOK4iMv-To
Restored in 4K using a vintage 35mm print struck from the original camera negative and preserved at the National Film Archive of India. Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, Film Heritage Foundation, and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with General Pictures and the family of Aravindan Govindan. Funding provided by the Material World Foundation.
Bushman
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
David Schickele • 1971 • USA • 73 min • language: English
**Introduction by Casey Golomski (UNH)
In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San Francisco. Using a docu-fictional style reminiscent of Cassavetes' Shadows, the film observes the foibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider's incisive eye. The result is a vibrant snapshot of the nation's racial politics, from interracial romance to cross-cultural misunderstandings and countercultural joy. The film morphs into a documentary when the director's voice abruptly intrudes to narrate its star’s enraging fate.
https://kinolorber.com/film/bushman
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uA1eP9Nk8c
Bushman has been restored by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Additional support provided by Peter Conheim, Cinema Preservation Alliance. A Milestone Films & Video and Kino Lorber Release.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
David Schickele • 1971 • USA • 73 min • language: English
**Introduction by Casey Golomski (UNH)
In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San Francisco. Using a docu-fictional style reminiscent of Cassavetes' Shadows, the film observes the foibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider's incisive eye. The result is a vibrant snapshot of the nation's racial politics, from interracial romance to cross-cultural misunderstandings and countercultural joy. The film morphs into a documentary when the director's voice abruptly intrudes to narrate its star’s enraging fate.
https://kinolorber.com/film/bushman
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uA1eP9Nk8c
Bushman has been restored by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Additional support provided by Peter Conheim, Cinema Preservation Alliance. A Milestone Films & Video and Kino Lorber Release.
Thursday, April 4th
Public Lecture by Michela Bertossa (Ohio State University)
The Monstrous Mother Behind the Diva: Biopolitics and Abjection in Gallone's Fior di Male
11AM - Conant Hall 113
This talk will explore the role of women and mother figures in Italian silent cinema.
The Monstrous Mother Behind the Diva: Biopolitics and Abjection in Gallone's Fior di Male
11AM - Conant Hall 113
This talk will explore the role of women and mother figures in Italian silent cinema.
Prosopo me prosopo (Face to Face)
2PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Roviros Manthoulis • 1967 • Greece • 84 min • language: Greek with English subtitles
**Introduction by Michael Leese (UNH)
Dimitris embodies a typical working-class man who, despite holding a university degree, lives almost in poverty. His entrance into the house of a rich Athenian family signifies the beginning of his meeting with a new code of morals and values. This new code initially dominates his rather traditional beliefs regarding gender, sexuality, morality, entertainment, material culture and family relations. At the end of the film, however, Dimitris performs his own personal revolution and dares to abandon an environment which antagonizes his personality and depresses his manhood. In this way, he becomes a symbol of the rejection of modernity and upper-class lifestyle and, at the same time, a heroic prototype of working-class masculinity.
Achilleas Hadjikyriacou, Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema 1949-1967, Bloomsbury, London 2015
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/prosopo-me-prosopo/
2PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Roviros Manthoulis • 1967 • Greece • 84 min • language: Greek with English subtitles
**Introduction by Michael Leese (UNH)
Dimitris embodies a typical working-class man who, despite holding a university degree, lives almost in poverty. His entrance into the house of a rich Athenian family signifies the beginning of his meeting with a new code of morals and values. This new code initially dominates his rather traditional beliefs regarding gender, sexuality, morality, entertainment, material culture and family relations. At the end of the film, however, Dimitris performs his own personal revolution and dares to abandon an environment which antagonizes his personality and depresses his manhood. In this way, he becomes a symbol of the rejection of modernity and upper-class lifestyle and, at the same time, a heroic prototype of working-class masculinity.
Achilleas Hadjikyriacou, Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema 1949-1967, Bloomsbury, London 2015
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/prosopo-me-prosopo/
Persepolis
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Marjane Satrapi • 2007 • France/Iran • 97 min • language: English
**Introduction by Ann Zimo (UNH)
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable. As she gets older, Marjane's boldness causes her parents to worry over her continued safety. And so, at age fourteen, they make the difficult decision to send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. In addition, Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape.
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/persepolis
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GEsi-5P6M
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Marjane Satrapi • 2007 • France/Iran • 97 min • language: English
**Introduction by Ann Zimo (UNH)
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable. As she gets older, Marjane's boldness causes her parents to worry over her continued safety. And so, at age fourteen, they make the difficult decision to send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. In addition, Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape.
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/persepolis
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GEsi-5P6M
Et J'aime à la Fureur (Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Andrè Bonzel • 2021 • France • 95 min • language: French with English subtitles
**Introduction by Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Telling one’s own story through the images of others is a nice idea, at once modest and generous, entailing all that film – and only film – can produce in terms of shared experience… As Bonzel explains in the introduction to the film, which he himself narrates, he used family movies that he had been collecting all his life. In the images provided by dozens of anonymous amateurs showing good-natured, happy family photos, captured on celluloid and incorruptible, there emerges a personal story, more sombre, more fragmented, more mysterious; we soon understand the justification for resorting to the filmed happiness of others in the writing of that story…
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/et-jaime-a-la-fureur/
Trailer (no subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyY2JaaE04o
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Andrè Bonzel • 2021 • France • 95 min • language: French with English subtitles
**Introduction by Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Telling one’s own story through the images of others is a nice idea, at once modest and generous, entailing all that film – and only film – can produce in terms of shared experience… As Bonzel explains in the introduction to the film, which he himself narrates, he used family movies that he had been collecting all his life. In the images provided by dozens of anonymous amateurs showing good-natured, happy family photos, captured on celluloid and incorruptible, there emerges a personal story, more sombre, more fragmented, more mysterious; we soon understand the justification for resorting to the filmed happiness of others in the writing of that story…
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/et-jaime-a-la-fureur/
Trailer (no subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyY2JaaE04o
Friday, April 5th
Stella Dallas
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Henry King • 1925 • USA • 110 min • language: English intertitles
**Introduction by Michela Bertossa (Ohio State University)
Stella Dallas, the working-class mother who makes the ultimate sacrifice for her socially ambitious daughter, became one of the most resonant figures in American culture from the moment Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel appeared in 1923. A stage adaptation soon followed, as did this film version in 1925 (the first of three). Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Henry King, the film is a powerful indictment of the rigid class barriers then emerging in the prosperous, postwar America of the 1920s, but the emotional center of the film is Stella, who marries “above her station” but is unable to adapt her dress and behavior to the bourgeois standards of her new husband.
Accompanied by a new orchestral score composed by Stephen Horne and recorded at the film’s 2021 restoration premiere at the Venice Biennale.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8847
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Henry King • 1925 • USA • 110 min • language: English intertitles
**Introduction by Michela Bertossa (Ohio State University)
Stella Dallas, the working-class mother who makes the ultimate sacrifice for her socially ambitious daughter, became one of the most resonant figures in American culture from the moment Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel appeared in 1923. A stage adaptation soon followed, as did this film version in 1925 (the first of three). Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Henry King, the film is a powerful indictment of the rigid class barriers then emerging in the prosperous, postwar America of the 1920s, but the emotional center of the film is Stella, who marries “above her station” but is unable to adapt her dress and behavior to the bourgeois standards of her new husband.
Accompanied by a new orchestral score composed by Stephen Horne and recorded at the film’s 2021 restoration premiere at the Venice Biennale.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8847
Der Himmel Über Berlin (Wings of Desire)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Wim Wenders • 1987 • Germany • 127 min • language: German, French, English, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Hebrew with English subtitles
**Introduction by Elizabeth Stine
Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
https://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAzYofuItM
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Wim Wenders • 1987 • Germany • 127 min • language: German, French, English, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, Hebrew with English subtitles
**Introduction by Elizabeth Stine
Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
https://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAzYofuItM
La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mario Bava • 1960 • Italy • 87 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Jim Parsons (UNH)
While not technically the first Italian horror film, Mario Bava’s classic set a high bar for the short-lived genre. Bava’s visually beautiful and imaginative style did not receive serious attention at the time, but his body of work was later rediscovered and internationally recognized for its ground-breaking artistry. The gothic tale is set in Eastern Europe and tells the story of an alluring witch executed in the 17th century only to be resurrected 200 years later.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N05Bm7kOZgg
Restored in 4K in 2023 by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Alfredo Leone and Naor World Media Films a L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, from the original camera and sound negatives provided by Iron Mountain Entertainment Services.