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Il Cinema Ritrovato –
If you´re reading this at the time of writing (10 July 2014) you have just missed the Cinemateca Bologna´s yearly festival of classic (in the sense of old) movies. It is ranked second in the list of yearly events every self-respecting macmahonian should follow (after Pordenone´s Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, coincidentally, and felicitously, also held in Italy). The title of the Bolognese festival does speak to the heart of The MacMahonian. For the record, and for fun, this year´s highlights were:
If you´re reading this at the time of writing (10 July 2014) you have just missed the Cinemateca Bologna´s yearly festival of classic (in the sense of old) movies. It is ranked second in the list of yearly events every self-respecting macmahonian should follow (after Pordenone´s Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, coincidentally, and felicitously, also held in Italy). The title of the Bolognese festival does speak to the heart of The MacMahonian. For the record, and for fun, this year´s highlights were:
- Beggars of Life – William Wellman (1928): Wellman is respected, although not idolized, in The MacMahonian, but this film is generally highly considered in the director´s filmography, up there with Wings (1927) and The Public Enemy (1931). Oh, and it features Louise Brooks, as none other than “The Girl”.
- Hitori Musuko – Yasujiro Ozu (1936): Ozu´s first talkie, who thereby sort of beat Charlie Chaplin in not being the last major director to convert to sound (assuming it´s OK to consider Chaplin´s Modern Times, also 1936, is only part silent). It is, would you believe it, a family melodrama.
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I clarify I have not yet seen any of these films, but The MacMahonian will revert to them in due course, or not, as the case may be.