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AI CITTADINI DEL RITROVATO<br />

TO THE CITIZENS OF RITROVATO<br />

Peter von Bagh<br />

Negli otto giorni in cui la XXVI e<strong>di</strong>zione del Cinema Ritrovato<br />

illuminerà le nostre vite, le voci sulla morte del cinema parranno<br />

follemente esagerate. 317 film, la maggior parte dei quali presentata<br />

nell’impeccabile forma originale (in celluloide, e nelle<br />

migliori versioni a nostra <strong>di</strong>sposizione), descriveranno un secolo<br />

perduto.<br />

Cosa ci svela la nostra macchina del tempo, nell’e<strong>di</strong>zione del<br />

2012? Cominciamo con un magnifico anniversario: i <strong>di</strong>eci anni<br />

della sezione Cento anni fa, questa volta de<strong>di</strong>cata al 1912. A<br />

quell’epoca i lungometraggi iniziavano a insi<strong>di</strong>are il fascino aleatorio<br />

delle miscellanee <strong>di</strong> cortometraggi. Da ammiratore <strong>di</strong> questa<br />

sezione voglio sottolineare con quanta eleganza la sua curatrice<br />

Mariann Lewinsky sia riuscita nell’impegnativo compito, in<strong>di</strong>viduando<br />

ben 96 film che esprimono l’essenza <strong>di</strong> quell’anno. Allora<br />

contava ancora la quantità <strong>di</strong> film, non il singolo capolavoro consacrato.<br />

Tutto era vivo e palpitante.<br />

I film che presenteremo nelle nostre quattro sale rifletteranno<br />

come sempre una personale visione della loro epoca e del cinema<br />

stesso, e al piacere <strong>di</strong> vederli si accompagnerà il piacere ancor<br />

più grande <strong>di</strong> capire cosa c’è <strong>di</strong>etro <strong>di</strong> essi. Gli anni Dieci <strong>di</strong> Lois<br />

Weber; il crollo <strong>di</strong> Wall Street nel 1929, che fece tremare anche<br />

il mondo del cinema; un’epoca terribile vista attraverso il prisma<br />

della ‘comme<strong>di</strong>a musicale kolchoziana’; gli anni Sessanta rispecchiati<br />

nel ‘cinema <strong>di</strong>retto’ del documentarista Mario Ruspoli. Paradossi<br />

ovunque, e forse un’ovvietà: capita che i film più allusivi<br />

siano capaci <strong>di</strong> raccontare la realtà che li circonda quanto le<br />

testimonianze più <strong>di</strong>rette. Posso anticipare brivi<strong>di</strong> <strong>di</strong> piacere alla<br />

visione <strong>di</strong> Shoes, The Big Trail, David Golder, Murder!, Kome<strong>di</strong>e<br />

om Geld, Gueule d’amour e <strong>di</strong> altri film che susciteranno la stessa<br />

reazione <strong>di</strong> sorpresa e gioia.<br />

Per esempio, chi ha mai visto il primo sonoro <strong>di</strong> Kenji Mizoguchi?<br />

Grazie a questo film ne sapremo <strong>di</strong> più sul grande cineasta<br />

giapponese e sull’anno 1930. Per una <strong>di</strong> quelle splen<strong>di</strong>de coincidenze<br />

che la logica inconscia dei festival cinematografici sembra<br />

creare, ben due importanti sezioni si concentrano sui primi anni<br />

Trenta. Vedremo la prima delle due parti <strong>di</strong> una retrospettiva curata<br />

da Alexander Jacoby e Johan Nordström sui primi sonori del<br />

Sol Levante, dove i muti regnarono fin oltre la metà degli anni<br />

Trenta. Il programma comprenderà non solo film più o meno noti<br />

<strong>di</strong> artisti come Kinugasa, Mizoguchi, Shimizu, Ozu e altri, ma<br />

tenterà anche <strong>di</strong> ricreare le modalità <strong>di</strong> visione <strong>di</strong> un’epoca in cui<br />

il cinema muto con commento benshi stava cedendo il passo al<br />

sonoro.<br />

The rumor about the death of cinema will seem like a wild exaggeration<br />

during the eight days that will illuminate our lives during<br />

the 26 th e<strong>di</strong>tion of Il Cinema Ritrovato. 317 films, most of them<br />

in their impeccable original form (meaning celluloid and mostly,<br />

at least this is our effort, in the best prints available) will capture<br />

a lost century and a few fleeting years more.<br />

What does our time machine reveal with the present 2012 e<strong>di</strong>tion?<br />

Let’s start with a beautiful anniversary – the tenth annual<br />

presentation of One hundred years ago, now focused on 1912.<br />

That was the moment when longer, feature-length films started<br />

seriously to shatter the fascinating aleatory mixtures of short<br />

films. As an admirer of Mariann Lewinsky’s programming, I want<br />

to point out how elegantly this <strong>di</strong>fficult equation has been conceived<br />

– once she located 96 films to express the essence of a<br />

single year. We are still in the period when the multitude, not<br />

canonized masterpieces, counted. Everything was breathing.<br />

As we enter the arena of what our four cinemas will offer, the<br />

same question is asked over and over again: the times that the<br />

cinema reflected, the personalities that made those times palpable.<br />

The pleasure of seeing the films, and the added pleasure<br />

of comprehen<strong>di</strong>ng what is behind them. The 1910s of Lois Weber.<br />

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 that also produced an earthquake<br />

in the world of the cinema. The most terrible of times<br />

seen through the prism of a ‘kolhoz musical’. The most secretive<br />

‘<strong>di</strong>rect’ view of the 1960s by the documentarist Mario Ruspoli.<br />

Paradoxes everywhere, as well as the fact that is perhaps obvious:<br />

every so often the most <strong>di</strong>screet films reveal as much about the<br />

circumstances around them as the more <strong>di</strong>rect testimonies. I can<br />

anticipate shivering pleasures watching Shoes, The Big Trail, David<br />

Golder, Murder!, Kome<strong>di</strong>e om Geld, Song of Siberia, Gueule<br />

d’amour... and parallel personal choices that do not include any<br />

of these titles but elicit the same surprise and joy.<br />

Who, for instance, has seen the first sound film of Kenji Mizoguchi?<br />

You will be able to see it here, and after that we will know<br />

mysteriously more about the great Japanese filmmaker and also<br />

about the year 1930. By one of those beautiful coincidences that<br />

the unconscious logic of film festivals seems to create, two main<br />

programs focus on the early Thirties. We’ll start a two-part retrospective,<br />

curated by Alexander Jacoby and Johan Nordström,<br />

about early Japanese sound cinema where the realm of silents<br />

lingered into the mid-1930s and beyond. The series will not only<br />

include unknown or very little-known films by the likes of Kinugasa,<br />

Mizoguchi, Shimizu, Ozu and others but a recreation of an<br />

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