Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022 Special dispatch: Il Cinema Ritrovato is back, and all in person! People around the world are returning to the city bustling with excitement. A reporter sent from Reel-to-reel is now in Bologna!This year there are also some selections from Asia: newly restored Labourer's Love (1922), one of the earliest surviving films from China premiered a century ago; Ebrahim Golestan’s early documentary A Fire (1961), Cheshmeh (1972),…
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Mike de Leon’s cult classic horror ITIM Mike de Leon’s cult classic horror ITIM (aka The Rites of May, 1976) was restored and premiered in Cannes Classics 2022. He won the Best Director at the 24th Asian Film Festival (later restructured as Asia-Pacific Film Festival) in 1978.As the original 35mm negative and optical soundtrack were stored at the British Film Institute National Archive, it provided the restoration with well-preserved source…
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Finding a cult film, London After Midnight London After Midnight (1927), a cult film starring Lon Chaney as a detective and a vampire, is considered one of the most sought-after pieces of film history. The film was lost after a fire in MGM studios in 1965. Rob Murphy, head film projectionist at the Sun Theatre in Yarraville, Australia, believes the print could exist there, as Australia was at the end…
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The Other Side of the Wind back to life in 2018 With the backing of Netflix, producer Filip Jan Rymsza teamed up and Frank Marshall, together with a crew of Hollywood professionals, to bring Orson Welles’s last film The Other Side of the Wind to life in 2018, after almost half a century since the production started in 1970. Photo: A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making…
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World’s first feature length documentary First released on 11 June 1922 in New York, Nanook of the North is considered the world’s first feature length documentary. The film preserved the disappearing ethnographic culture of the Inuit indigenous community in Canada. Robert Flaherty, an American explorer and director of the film, was considered the Father of Documentary.Although the film is widely celebrated as a pioneering documentary, most of the sequences were…
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Fujiko A’s TV animation Futa-kun Manga artist Fujiko A. Fujio's early work Futa-kun was serialised in a manga magazine from 1964 to 1967. At that time, he still cooperated with his partner Fujiko F. Fujio (as the writing duo Fujiko Fujio). Because of the popularity of Little Ghost Q-Taro TV animation, a TV station planned to launch Futa-kun in 1967. Later, there were rumours that several pilot episodes were shown…
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Nitrate Picture Show 2022 The Nitrate Picture Show returns and opens at the George Eastman Museum today. Watching archival nitrate prints projected in the Dryden Theatre, one of the few venues in the world equipped to exhibit highly flammable nitrate film is such a privileged experience.Nitrate film is renowned for its breath-taking images. The higher silver salt content in nitrate stock made richer blacks and whites, and shimmering grey tones.…
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