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2015
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Venice Classic Awards
At the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film went to Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Salò e le 120 giornate di Sodoma, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1975). The restoration, for Cineteca di Bologna and CSC - Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Alberto Grimaldi, was carried out by L’Immagine Ritrovata.
It is the third consecutive year that L'Immagine Ritrovata has won the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film. In 2014, the award went to the film A Special Day (Una giornata particolare, Ettore Scola, Italy/France, 1977) and in 2013 to Property Is No Longer a Theft (La proprietà non è più un furto, Elio Petri, Italy/France, 1973).
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L'Immagine Ritrovata at the Venice Film Festival
L'Immagine Ritrovata is present at the 72th Venice Film Festival with seven restorations:
Amarcord
(Federico Fellini, Italy, 1973)
Restored for the Cineteca di Bologna, supported by yoox.com and the Comune di Rimini. In collaboration with Cristaldifilm and Warner Bros.
Othello
(Orson Welles, Morocco/Italy, 1952)
Restored for CSC – Cineteca Nazionale.
Léon Morin, prêtre (Léon Morin, priest)
(Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1961)
Restored for Studiocanal.
I mostri
(Dino Risi, Italy, 1963)
Restored for the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino – Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo and the Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Rti-Mediaset, Lyon Film and Surf Film.
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom)
(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1975)
Restored for the Cineteca di Bologna and CSC - Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Alberto Grimaldi.
La lupa (She wolf)
(Alberto Lattuada, Italy, 1953)
Restored for CSC – Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Filmauro.
Vogliamo i colonnelli (We want the colonels)
(Mario Monicelli, Italy, 1973)
Restored for CSC – Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Dean Film.
The Venice Film Festival takes place from September 2nd to 12th, 2015. -
Il Cinema Ritrovato
From June 27th to July 4th Cineteca di Bologna hosts Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival, 8 days of screenings and meetings in five theatres, as well as open air evening screenings in Bologna’s wonderful main square, Piazza Maggiore, and in Cineteca’s courtyard called Piazzetta Pasolini.
Il Cinema Ritrovato offers an extraordinary point of view on technological developments in film restoration as well as a breath-taking journey through film history.
L'Immagine Ritrovata is happy to give its contribution to the many restorations - realized over the past year (and in most cases in recent months) - that will be screen at the festival, both in 35mm and digital formats. Thanks to these restorations, we can recapture the lost meaning of films.
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L'Immagine Ritrovata Asia official opening
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L’Immagine Ritrovata – Film Restoration & Preservation is happy to announce that on June 12th it has opened its first overseas laboratory in Hong Kong, called L’Immagine Ritrovata Asia.
Founded in 1992 in Bologna, L'Immagine Ritrovata is a laboratory exclusively specialized in film restoration and based in Bologna (Italy). Today, thanks to its innovative methodologies, consistent research, and the variety and complexity of its restoration projects around the world, L'Immagine Ritrovata is a leading laboratory in the field.
The active presence of L'Immagine Ritrovata in Asia for the past several years prompted the laboratory to start an operation in Hong Kong, using the city as the base to extend its film restoration service to a growing Asian demand on film restoration and conservation.
The new branch enables the laboratory to serve Hong Kong and Asian archives and film libraries more effectively, without long distance logistics and significant time difference in communication. Archives from Hong Kong and Asia will save on the shipping costs while easily monitoring the progress of the work.
Find out more at the L'Immagine Ritrovata Asia website.
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Focal Award for best restoration
L'immagine Ritrovata has the honour of accepting, on behalf of Murnau-Stiftung, this year's prestigious FOCAL Award for Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Title for the restoration of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, R. Wiene, Germany, 1920).
The annual FOCAL International Awards ceremony was held in London on 21st May, 2015.The restoration, at a resolution of 4K, of this quintessential masterpiece of German Expressionist Cinema, promoted by Murnau-Stiftung, took a year to complete and was carried out at L'Immagine Ritrovata.
It is the second year running that L'Immagine Ritrovata has accepted the FOCAL Award for Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Title. In 2014, the award went to the restoration of Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, Philippines, 1975), carried out at our laboratory. Also, in 2013, L'Immagine Ritrovata received the FOCAL Preservation Film Laboratory of the Year Award. -
L'Immagine Ritrovata Asia Opening Soon
A state-of-the-art film restoration laboratory in terms of quality, technology and business, L’Immagine Ritrovata is launching a new challenge to the Asian markets: with well-established relationships with the Asian film market, the time has come to open a new company, L’Immagine Ritrovata Asia, in Hong Kong. A branch in Asia and focused on image and sound digitization, the new laboratory represents a new gate towards the East to settle in Asia, cradle of cinema, where masters like Wong Kar-wai and John Woo are working, and legends like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan have burst out.This is a crucial achievement for the company that is in a growing phase and that in the last ten years has considerably increased its turnover.Local highly specialized operators who were trained during film restoration schools organized by L’Immagine Ritrovata and Cineteca di Bologna since 2007 will be the outpost for film restoration in the Southern-eastern region. -
L'Immagine Ritrovata at the Cannes Festival 2014
L’Immagine Ritrovata is delighted to participate at the 68th edition of the Cannes Festival, taking place from the 13th to 24th May, 2015, presenting five new restorations:
Rocco and his brothers
(Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1960)
A presentation of The Film Foundation. 4K restoration carried out by Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory, in association with Titanus, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels and The Film Foundation. Restoration with funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation.
Insiang
(Lino Brocka, Philippines, 1976)
Restored in 2015 by Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Film Developement Council of the Philippines.
Black Girl
(Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1966)
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with Sembène Estate, Institute National de l’Audiovisuel, INA, Eclair laboratories and Centre National de la Cinematographie. Restoration carried out at Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory.
A touch of Zen
(King Hu, Taiwan, 1973)
A presentation of the Taiwan Film Institute. Digital restoration made in 4K by the Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna from the negative. The director of photography supervised the color grading.
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L'Immagine Ritrovata at the SEAPAVAA conference
L’Immagine Ritrovata is present at the 19th SEAPAVAA (Southeast Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association) Conference, taking place in Singapore from 22nd to 28th April, 2015. This year, the theme for this important annual meeting of the archives of Southeast Asia is Advocate, Connect, Engage.
Furthermore, L’Immagine Ritrovata is the main sponsor of Restoration Asia II, a day dedicated to film restoration and one of the most important events of the SEAPAVAA Conference, with contributions from important Asian and international film archives.
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L'Immagine Ritrovata at the FIAF congress
L'Immagine Ritrovata, already a supporter of FIAF, is present with a stand at the 71st FIAF Congress. This year, the important annual congress of cinematheques and film archives worldwide is being held in Sydney and Canberra from 11th to 18th April, 2015. The theme of the 71st edition is Fairly Legal - Intellectual property, content regulation and film archiving: where are we heading?
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L'Immagine Ritrovata at the Hong Kong FILMART
We are proud to announce that L’Immagine Ritrovata will take part at 18th Hong Kong FILMART between 23th – 26th March 2015. FILMART is Asia’s largest film market.
During FILMART there will be screenings, world and international premieres as well as thematic seminars and conferences.
At the same time, from the 23th March to the 6th April also the Hong Kong International Film Festival will take place, and L’Immagine Ritrovata is going to show 4 of its restoration works:
Paris, Texas
(W. Wenders, Germany/France, 1984)
26th March at 2 PM and 5th April at 6.30 PM, The Grand Cinema
Once Upon a Time in America
(S. Leone, USA/Italy, 1984)
1st April at 7.30 PM, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Grand Theatre
The Color of the Pomegranates
(S. Parajanov, Armenia, 1969)
2nd April at 10.15 PM, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Grand Theatre
Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
(R. Wiene, Germany, 1920)
5th April at 1 PM, Hong Kong Cultural Centre Grand Theatre
Find out more at FILMART and Hong Kong International Film Festival websites.
