Friday, 5 June 2026

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2026 | Films on Film (16mm & 35mm)


This year, Il Cinema Ritrovato will present more than 120 titles on celluloid, the majority in 35mm and a dozen in 16mm. These are the films to be screened on film:


La sposa del Nilo | Enrico Guazzoni | 1911
Agrippina | Enrico Guazzoni | 1911
Una tragedia al cinematografo | - | 1913
Alla deriva | Enrico Guazzoni | 1915
La casa di nessuno | Enrico Guazzoni | 1915
Tol’able David | Henry King | 1921
The Big Swim | Raoul Barré & Charles R. Bowers | 1926
Chōkon | Itō Daisuke | 1926
Anémic cinéma | Marcel Duchamp | 1926
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei | Carmine Gallone & Amleto Palermi | 1926
Jerry the Troublesome Tyke: He Gets Fired | Sid Griffiths | 1926
Po Zakonu | Lev Kulešov | 1926
The Magician | Walter Lantz | 1926
So This Is Paris | Ernst Lubitsch | 1926
Die Tragödie einer Uraufführung (Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat) | O.F. Mauer | 1926
Kemurigusa monogatari | Noburō Ōfuji | 1926
Process o trёch millionach | Jakov Aleksandrovič Protazanov | 1926
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed | Lotte Reininger | 1926
Der Aufstieg | Walther Ruttmann & Julius Pinschewer | 1926
Flickan i frack | Karin Swanstrom | 1926
What's the World Coming To? | Richard Wallace | 1926
Chuji tabi nikki | Itō Daisuke | 1927
La Sirène des Tropiques | Henri Etiévant & Mario Nalpas | 1927
Zanjin zanbaken | Itō Daisuke | 1928
Varhaník u sv. Víta | Martin Frič | 1929
Ich kusse ihre Hand, Madame | Robert Land | 1929
Ladies of Leisure | Frank Capra | 1930
Otsurae Jirokichi Gōshi | Itō Daisuke | 1931
Die Verkaufte Braut | Max Ophuls | 1932
Cradle Song | Mitchell Leisen | 1933
Death Takes a Holiday | Mitchell Leisen | 1934
Murder at the Vanities | Mitchell Leisen | 1934
Eight Girls in a Boat | Richard Wallace | 1934
Hands Across the Table | Mitchell Leisen | 1935
Swing High, Swing Low | Mitchell Leisen | 1937
Easy Living | Mitchell Leisen | 1937
Stella Dallas | King Vidor | 1937
Ball of Fire | Howard Hawks | 1941
No Time for Love | Mitchell Leisen | 1943
Practically Yours | Mitchell Leisen | 1944
Lady in the Dark | Mitchell Leisen | 1944
Ōshō | Itō Daisuke | 1948
No Man of Her Own | Mitchell Leisen | 1950
Oborokago | Itō Daisuke | 1951
Oedo gonin otoko | Itō Daisuke | 1951
Young Man with Ideas | Mitchell Leisen | 1952
Shishi no za | Itō Daisuke | 1953
Meiji ichidai onna | Itō Daisuke | 1955
Gerō no kubi | Itō Daisuke | 1955
Calle Mayor | Juan Antonio Bardem | 1956
Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957
Plan 9 from Outer Space | Ed Wood | 1957
Hangyakuji | Itō Daisuke | 1961
Whistle Down the Wind | Bryan Forbes | 1961
Putney Swope | Robert Downey Sr. | 1969
The Devils (Director's Cut) | Ken Russell | 1971
Coming to a Festival Near You: An Academy Film Archive Trailer Show | 1930–1990


There will be films by Albert Capellani, dating from 1906, screened in 35mm:

Pauvre mère

La Désespérée

La Femme du lutteur

Mortelle idylle

La Jeteuse de sort

La Fille du sonneur

Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse

Nuit de Carnaval


From the same year, the work of another filmmaker, Gaston Velle, will be featured on celluloid: 

Les Effets de la foudre

La Peine du Talion

Bicyclette présentée en liberté

Un viaggio in una stella


Other 1906 auteurs: In this case, authorship simply means that we know their names – more or less.

Chiens contrebandiers | Georges Hatot

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces | James Stuart Blackton

And the Villain Still Pursued Her | James Stuart Blackton

The Hand of the Artist | Walter R. Booth

The Squatter's Daughter | Lewin Fitzhamon

Black Beauty | Lewin Fitzhamon

Madame a des envies | Alice Guy

Trois sous de poireaux | Georges Hatot

Chiens contrebandiers | Georges Hatot

Anarkistens Svingermoder | Viggo Larsegn

Excursion aux chutes du niagara | Léo Lefebvre

La Grève des bonnes | Charles Lucien Lépine

Le Fils du Diable | Charles Lucien Lépine

La Fée carabosse ou le poignard fatal | Georges Méliès

Un drame à Venise | Lucien Nonguet

Le Melon providentiel | Pathé Frères

Meissner Porzellan | Franz Porten

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend | Edwin S. Porter

Tartans of Scottish Clans | George Albert Smith

Two Clowns | George Albert Smith

[Buona sera signorina Bonelli!] | Giovanni Vitrotti

La Fée printemps | Ferdinand Zecca

 

There's even more from 1906 in 35mm:

Whitsuntide Fair at Preston

The Wellman Polar Expedition

Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire

Les Alpes par le télescope

An Indian Washing the Baby

Lèvres collées

Squadrone guardie del re

Aux bains de mer

Noce en goguette

Je vais chercher du pain

Pour la fête de sa mère

Bain forcé

Les Gaietés du divorce

Le Matelas de la Mariée

Le Pendu

Le Détective

Aux bains de mer

Le Thermomètre de l'amour

Les Rapides de la Rivière Ozu

Noce en goguette

Les Rapides de la Rivière Ozu

Un attentat sur la voie ferrée

Rauschlied A. Künstlerblut

Lèvres collées

Mésaventures d'une mission nègre à Paris

La Catastrophe de Courrières: 1200 victimes

Vienne en tramway


Screenings on 16mm:

Ballet sur un thème paraphrénique | Eric Duvivier | 1963

Concerto mécanique pour la folie ou La Folle Mécamorphose | Eric Duvivier | 1963

Le monde du nouveau né | Eric Duvivier | 1964

Schmeerguntz | Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley | 1966

Auto-stop. Les cinq grandes constitutions psychopathiques | Eric Duvivier | 1967

Phobie d'impulsion | Eric Duvivier | 1967

Muir Beach | Gunvor Nelson | 1969

Kirsa Nicholina | Gunvor Nelson | 1969

My Name is Oona | Gunvor Nelson | 1969

Take Off | Gunvor Nelson | 1972

Moons Pool | Gunvor Nelson | 1973

Oona is my Daughter’s Name | James Thomas Vale | 1974

Autoportrait d'un schizophrène | Eric Duvivier | 1978

Frame Line | Gunvor Nelson | 1983

Red Shift | Gunvor Nelson | 1984

Light Years | Gunvor Nelson | 1987

Field Study #2 | Gunvor Nelson | 1988

Time Being | Gunvor Nelson | 1991


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