Monday, 12 May 2025

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025 | Which Films Play in Each Strand

La ragazza di Bube

This is a list of the titles that will be screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato, excluding the 1905 and 1925 strands. The listings for the Documentary and Restored & Recovered strands are not exhaustive — more titles will be added later.


CINECONCERTS 

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Quo vadis? (1913) d. Enrico Guazzoni 

Die Rose von Stambul (1919) d. Felix Basch, Arthur Wellin 

The Gold Rush (1925) d. Charles Chaplin 

Strike (1925) d. Sergej Ėjzenštejn 

The Salvation Hunters (1925) d. Josef von Sternberg 

Les Misérables (1925) d. Henri Fescourt 

The Garden of Eden (Eden Palace, 1928) 

Ljudyna Z Kinoaparatom (Man with a Movie Camera, 1929) d. Dziga Vertov 



RECOVERED & RESTORED

Curated by Gian Luca Farinelli

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Those Awful Hats (1909) d. D.W. Griffith 

The French Duel (1909) d. D.W. Griffith 

Miss Harry’s femme serpent (1911) d. Pathé Frères 

Max boxeur par amour (1912) d. Max Linder 

Petrolini disperato per eccesso di buonumore (1913) d. Ubaldo Pittei 

La pantomima della morte (1915) d. Mario Caserini 

Ursus (1917) d. Giulio Antamoro 

The Scarlet Drop (1918) d. John Ford 

La paura di amare (The Fear of Love, 1920) d. Roberto Roberti 

Caporal Saetta (Chief Saetta, 1924) d. Eugenio Perego 

Moi Syn (My Son, 1928) d. Evgenii Cherviakov 

Europa (1931) d. Franciszka e Stefan Thermerson 

Die verliebte Firma (The Company’s in Love, 1932) d. Max Ophüls 

Aysel, Bataklı Damın Kızı (The Girl from the Marsh Croft, 1935) d. Muhsin Ertuğrul 

Monsieur Fantômas (1937) d. Ernst Moerman 

Przygoda Człowieka Poczciwego (The Adventures of a Good Citizen, 1937)  d. Franciszka e Stefan Themerson 

Calling Mr. Smith (1943)  d. Franciszka e Stefan Thermerson 

Till We Meet Again (1944) d. Frank Borzage 

The Eye and the Ear (1945) d. Franciszka e Stefan Themerson 

Duel in the Sun (1946) d. King Vidor 

The Paradine Case (1947) d. Alfred Hitchcock 

Riso amaro (1949) d. Giuseppe De Santis 

Contro la legge (1950) d. Flavio Calzavara 

Kike wadatsumi no koe: Nippon senbotsu gakusei shuki (Listen to the Voices from the Sea, 1950) d. Hideo Sekigawa 

La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (The Truth About Bebe Donge, 1952) d. Henri Decoin

Four Sided Triangle (1953) d. Terence Fisher 

Ukigumo (Floating Clouds, 1955) d. Mikio Naruse 

Artists and Models (1955) d. Frank Tashlin 

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) d. Val Guest 

Saint Joan (Santa Giovanna, 1957) d. Otto Preminger 

El inquilino (The Tenant, 1957) d. José Antonio Nieves Conde 

Esterina (1959) d. Carlo Lizzani 

En el balcón vacío (On the Empty Balcony, 1961) d. Jomi Garcia Ascot 

Sterne (1959) d. Konrad Wolf 

Strongroom (1962) d. Vernon Sewell [brand new 35mm print]

Lo sgarro (1962) d. Silvio Siano

Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (Director's Cut) (1964) d. Wojciech Has 

Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) d. David Secter 

The Sensualist (1966) d. Emmanuel Goldman 

El grito (The Scream, 1968) d. Leobardo López Arretche 

Performance (1970) d. Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg 

Reed México Insurgente (Reed: Insurgent Mexico, 1970) d. Paul Leduc 

Pink Narcissus (1971) d. James Bidgood 

Five Easy Pieces (1970) d. Bob Rafelson 

Non si sevizia un paperino (Don't Torture a Duckling, 1972) d. Lucio Fulci

Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (The Hourglass Sanatorium, 1973) d. Wojciech Has

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) d. Miloš Forman 

Sholay (1975) d. Ramesh Sippy 

The Story of Joanna (1975) d. Gerard Damiano 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) [70mm] d. Steven Spielberg 

Killer of Sheep (1978) d. Charles Burnett 

Ms. 45 (1981) d. Abel Ferrara 

Café Flesh (1982) d. Stephen Sayadian 

Doña Herlinda y su hijo (Mrs. Herlinda and Her Son, 1982) d. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo 

Redondo (Round, 1982) d. Raúl Busteros

Arrapaho (1984) d. Ciro Ippolito

Lifeboat Hitchcock, Alfred 

Planet of the Apes Schaffner, Franklin J.

Rapt Kirsanoff, Dimitri

Les Mauvais Coups Leterrier, François

Les Mistons Truffaut, François

Diva Beineix, Jean-Jacques

L'Horloger de Saint-Paul Tavernier, Bertrand

Amores Perros Inarritu, Alejandro

Thief Mann, Michael

A History of Violence Cronenberg, David

Barry Lyndon Kubrick, Stanley

Out of the Inkwell - Jumping Beans Fleischer, Max

Betty Boop - SOS Fleischer, Max

Color Classics - Small Fry Fleischer, Max

Talkartoons - Bimbo's Initiation Fleischer, Max

Inkwell Imps - Earth Control Fleischer, Max

Talkartoons - Swing You Sinners Fleischer, Max

Superman - Bulleteers Fleischer, Max

Betty Boop - Snow White Fleischer, Max

Seisaku no Tsuma Masumara, Yasuzo



LEWIS MILESTONE: OF WARS AND MEN

Curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht

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The Garden of Eden (1928)

The Racket (1928) 

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 

Rain (1932) 

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933) 

The Captain Hates the Sea (1934) 

Of Mice and Men (1939) 

Edge of Darkness (1943) 

The North Star (1943) 

A Walk in the Sun (1945) 

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 

Arch of Triumph (1948)

The Red Pony (1949)



KATHARINE HEPBURN: FEMINIST, ACROBAT AND LOVER

Curated by Molly Haskell

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Christopher Strong (1933) d.  Dorothy Arzner 

Alice Adams (1935) d. George Stevens 

Sylvia Scarlett (1935) d. George Cukor 

Stage Door (1937) d. Gregory La Cava 

Bringing Up Baby (1938) d. Howard Hawks 

Holiday (1938) d. George Cukor 

Woman of the Year (1942), d. George Stevens 

Adam’s Rib (1949) d. George Cukor 

The African Queen (1951) d. John Huston 

Summertime (1955) d. David Lean 

Desk Set (1957) d. Walter Lang 



LIFE FIRST! THE CINEMA OF LUIGI COMENCINI

Curated by Francesca Comencini and Emiliano Morreale

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Bambini in città (1946) 

Il Museo dei sogni (1950) 

L'ospedale del delitto (1950)

La valigia dei sogni (1953)

La finestra sul Luna Park (1957) 

E ciò al lunedì mattina (1959) 

La ragazza di Bube (Bebo’s Girl, 1963) 

Incompreso (Misunderstood, 1966)

Senza sapere niente di lei (1969) 

I bambini e noi (1970, 2 ep.) 

Pinocchio (1972) 

Delitto d'amore (1974)

L'amore in Italia (1978, 2 ep.) 

Voltati Eugenio (Turn Around Eugenio, 1980) 



COLINE SERREAU, LIKE A FISH WITHOUT A BICYCLE

Curated by Émilie Cauquy

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Le Rendez-vous (1975) 

Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent ? (1975) 

Pourquoi pas! (1977) 

Grand-mères de l’Islam (1980)

Trois hommes et un couffin (1985) 

Romuald et Juliette (1988) 

Chaos (2001)



GREAT SMALL GAUGE: OF SONGS AND SOCIETY

Curated by Karl Wratschko 

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Festival (1967) d. Murray Lerner 

Les Grandes répétitions: Cecil Taylor à Paris (1968) d. Gérard Patris

We Came Back (Archie Shepp chez les touaregs, 1969) d. Ghaouti Bendeddouche

Right on! (1971) d. Herbert Danska

Wattstax (1973) d. Mel Stuart

Berlin Wall and the Sex Pistols (1978) d. Babeth Mondini-VanLoo

Who Is Poly Styrene? (1979) d. Ted Clisby 

Dread Beat an’ Blood (1979) d. Franco Rosso

The Decline of Western Civilisation (1981) d. Penelope Spheeris 



DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARIES 

Curated by Gian Luca Farinelli

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Il pianto delle zitelle (1939) d. Giacomo Pozzi-Bellini 

Le Retour (1945) d. Henri Cartier-Bresson 

Nus masculins (1954) d. François Reichenbach 

À la mémoire du rock (1963) d. François Reichenbach 

Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il Vangelo secondo Matteo (Location Hunting in Palestine, 1965) d. Pier Paolo Pasolini 

Bóbita (1965) d. Marta Mészáros 

Lászlo Emlékére (1969) d. Marta Mészáros 

The Sensualist (1966) d. Peter Emmanuel Goldman 

La partenza (1968) d. Jean-Claude Biette 

A Lörinci Fonóban (1972) d. Marta Mészáros 

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1985) d. Howard Brookner 

Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) d. Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper

Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993) d. David Heeley

Paradjanov, le dernier collage (1995) d. Krikor Hamel,  Ruben Gevorkyants 

Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man [Director’s Cut] (2024) d. Paul Joyce 

Conversation avec Martin Scorsese, en notes et en images (2024) d. Clara e Julia Kuperberg 

Mara Blasetti, una lady di ferro (2025) d. Michela Zegna 

David Lynch, une énigme à Hollywood (2025) d. Stéphane Ghez 

Gli amici di Pier Paolo (2025) d. Francesco Giuncolucci  



BABEL - ODESSA

Curated by Mariann Lewinsky

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Evrejskoe sčast'e (1925) d. Aleksei Granowsky, Isaak Babel 

Jagodka ljubvi (Love’s Berries, 1926) d. Oleksandr Dovshenko 

Odessa (1935) d. Jean Lods, Isaak Babel

Cirk (1936) d. Grigorij Aleksandrov, Isaak Babel

Komissar (1967) d. Aleksandr Askoldov



SORROW AND PASSION: PRE-WAR MIKIO NARUSE

Curated by Alexander Jacoby and Johan Nordström

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Otome-gokoro sannin shimai (Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, 1935) 

Tsuma yo bara no yo ni (Wife! Be Like a Rose!, 1935) 

Uwasa no musume (The Girl in the Rumor, 1935) 

Kimi to yuku michi (The Road I Travel with You, 1936) 

Nadare (Avalanche, 1937) 

Nyonin aishu (A Woman's Sorrows, 1937) 

Kafuku zempen (Learn from Experience, Part I, 1937) 

Kafuku kôhen (Learn from Experience, Part II, 1937) 

Hataraku ikka (The Whole Family Works, 1939) 

Magokoro (Sincerity, 1939) 



MASKS AND MUSIC: THE FILMS OF WILLI FORST

Curated by Lukas Foerster

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Leise flehen meine Lieder (Gently My Songs Entreat, 1933) 

Maskerade (Masquerade, 1934) 

Mazurka (1935) 

Allotria (Tomfoolery, 1936) 



CINEMALIBERO

Curated by Cecilia Cenciarelli

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La paga (1962) d. Ciro Durán 

São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima (1965) d. Luís Sérgio Person 

Postchi (1972) d. Dariush Mehrjui 

Safar (1972) d. Bahram Beyzaie 

O Regresso de Amílcar Cabral (The Return of Amílcar Cabral, 1976) d. Djalma Fettermann, Flora Gomes, Jose Bolama, Josefina Crato, Sana Na N’Hada 

Gehenu Lamai (Girls, 1978) d. Sumitra Peries 

Ghazl el-Banat / Une vie suspendue (L’Adolescente sucre d’amour) (A Suspended Life, 1985) d. Jocelyne Saab 

Rih essed / L’Homme de cendres (Man of Ashes, 1986) d. Nouri Bouzid 

Al Ôrs d. Collectif Nouveau Théâtre de Tunis

Uirá, um Índio em Busca de Deus d. Dahl, Gustavo



NORDEN NOIR

Curated by Tora Berg, Mikael Braae, Sophie Engberg Sonne and Irene Torp Halvorsen 

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Mordets melodi (Melody of Murder, 1944) d. Bodil Ipsen

Døden er et kjærtegn (Death Is a Caress, 1949) d. Edith Carlmar 

John og Irene (John and Irene, 1949) d. Asbjørn Andersen e Anker Sørensen

Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths, 1950) d. Hasse Ekman 

To minutter for sent (Two Minutes Too Late, 1952) d. Torben Anton Svendsen 

I dimma dold (In the Mist, 1953) d. Lars-Eric Kjellgren 

På slaget åtte (Eight O’Clock Sharp, 1957) d. Nils R. Müller




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