An event sponsored by
Azienda Speciale Palaexpo & La Farfalla sul Mirino
Promoted by
Assessorato alla Cultura di Roma Capitale & Azienda Speciale Palaexpo
In collaboration with
SNCCI - Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani – Gruppo Regione Lazio
Many thanks to
Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Danish Film Institute (Copenhagen),
Park Circus (London), Light Cone (Paris), Lab80 Film (Bergamo)
Acknowledged masterpieces and gems to be rediscovered, great Hollywood titles and avant-garde cinema, not forgetting some gems from the silent era: Some Like It Classic is back for the fourteenth year. The program brings to an audience of enthusiasts the history of cinema in all its surprising richness. Each film will be introduced by an expert from the National Union of Italian Film Critics.
Always inextricably linked to the love of 35mm film, the event also features this year some sensational digital restorations, starting with the two opening and closing titles: Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday and Charles Vidor's Gilda will in fact be presented in the 4K restorations made for the Columbia Pictures Centennial to celebrate one of the pillars of Golden Age Hollywood. The Masque of the Red Death will be screened in a restored full length version, a tribute to the genius of Roger Corman, standard bearer of independent cinema and unparalleled talent scout, exactly one year after his death. In February there will be an opportunity to celebrate another maverick of American cinema: with The Long Goodbye, based on Raymond Chandler's novel and swansong of the noir cinema, we will celebrate the centenary of Robert Altman's birth.
On the other hand, the special event related to Straight Shooting, the first feature film directed by John Ford in 1917, will be a different experience: the film will be presented in the vintage photochemical restoration made by the Cineteca di Bologna, with an introduction to the audience by Guy Borlée, coordinator of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, and live piano accompaniment by Maestro Antonio Coppola.
Also showed on 35mm film, two little-known titles of American cinema stand out: William Wyler's Dead End and Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment, the brilliant director's last Hollywood effort, as well as two uncompromising masterpieces of European cinema, such as Dreyer's Day of Wrath, which returns to the theme of witchcraft fifteen years after The Passion of Joan of Arc, and Bresson's Mouchette. Finally, we will present a selection of films by Germaine Dulac, a key personality of the historic avant-garde movements of the 1920s, considered by many to be the first feminist filmmaker in the history of cinema.