05/10/2025
Each year, Bologna, Italy, becomes the site of an annual festival called Il Cinema Ritrovato—literally, “refound cinema.” For movie buffs, “a more fitting translation would be ‘paradise regained,’ ” Anthony Lane writes. Run under the auspices of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, a major film archive, it specializes in the shock of the old: films that have been forgotten, overlooked, undervalued, truncated by studios, or damaged by time, and that are asking to be brought back into the light. Over time, the festival has swelled from what was once a quiet, five-day affair to a sprawling showcase of more than 400 films that draws 140,000 spectators to the city. One of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in which wounded films can be healed. “If movies were people,” Lane writes, “Bologna is where they would choose to live.” Read the full story: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KG0pP0
