The National Cinema Museum at “Il Cinema Ritrovato” festival
The National Cinema Museum will be present at the 28th edition of “Il Cinema Ritrovato” festival (Bologna, from 28 June to 5 July 2014) with two new restorations and with films from its own collections, including Cabiria, restored by the National Cinema Museum in 2006: the first kolossal in the history of film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone, celebrating its centenary this year.
The Festival is dedicating an evening event to Cabiria’s hundredth anniversary, taking place on Friday 4 July 2014 at 9.00 p.m., at the Municipal Theatre in Bologna, where the film will be screened accompanied by the performance of the original score by Ildebrando Pizzetti (the composer of the famous Fire symphony) and Manlio Mazza, restored and conducted by Timothy Brock with the Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra and Chorus. The screening will be introduced by Donata Pesenti Campagnoni, the Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Cinema Museum.
This event intends to re-establish both the greatness and exceptionality, one hundred years on, of the operation Giovanni Pastrone carried out with his masterpiece Cabiria: a film that left a deep mark on the burgeoning art of cinema, in being a forerunner and becoming a reference for countless international directors and for the worldwide film market itself.
Two new restorations will be presented as national premieres at the Festival.
The restoration of Amor di regina (For The Queen’s Honour, Italy/1913) by Guido Volante will be unveiled on Saturday 28 June 2014 at 4.15 p.m. on the Cinema Lumière Mastroianni screen, within the One hundred years ago. Around 1914 section. The screening will be introduced by the section curator Mariann Lewinsky. Piano accompaniment by Gabriel Thibaudeau.
On Wednesday 2 July 2014, it will be possible to watch the screening of the restoration of Addio giovinezza (Farewell youth, Italy/1918) by Augusto Genina, also on the Cinema Lumière Mastroianni screen at 6.15 p.m., within the Retrieved and Restored section. The screening will be introduced to the public attending the theatre by Akira Tochigi (National Film Center – The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), Claudia Gianetto (Turin National Cinema Museum) and Gian Luca Farinelli (Bologna Film Archive). Piano accompaniment by Daniele Furlati. To follow, a meeting on film restoration titled “Welcome back, Farewell Youth” with Claudia Gianetto and Stella Dagna (National Cinema Museum), Davide Pozzi and Silvia Spadotto (L’Immagine Ritrovata), Akira Tochigi, Hiroshi Komatsu (Waseda University) and Mariann Lewinsky.
The restorations programme presented by the National Cinema Museum will be closed by the screening of Festa pirotecnica nel cielo di Londra (Firework fête in the sky of London), restored by the National Cinema Museum in 2011, on Saturday 5 July 2014 at 10.30 a.m., on the Cinema Lumière Mastroianni screen – within the 100 Chaplin section in the framework of Chaplin’s London and Calvero’s Colleagues. Piano accompaniment by Neil Brand.
Both restorations were followed by the National Cinema Museum and by the Bologna Film Archive.