The cut scene of violence, Rocco and his brothers, the specimens of pupils distinguished in the Experimental Center such as Domenico Modugno, Raffaella Carrà, and Claudia Cardinale, images of the stars of the dumb by Lyda Borelli in Leopoldo Fregoli, and cuts of censorship, de La Ricotta Pier Paolo Pasolini, the short degree of filmmakers who have become masters such as Marco Bellocchio, one of the last public meetings of Bernardo Bertolucci, on the occasion of the restoration of The last tango in Paris. There are so many of the materials of the exhibition dedicated to the seventy years of the National film library , which opens today at the Teatro dei Dioscuri at the Quirinale, we asked the President of the Foundation Felice Laudadio tell us ten good reasons to visit it, for free, until January 12, 2020.
the 70 years of the history of the Cinematheque: Mastroianni, Fellini, and the stars of the silent
“The first reason is that through the historic photographs library, the visitor will make a real plunge of the past, a distant past like that of the silent film era but also the past, the movie, which we have restored in the last years at the festivals of Venice, Berlin and Cannes. – says Laudadio – As a second reason, we can say that the exhibition helps to understand what it means to restoring the film , a complex and expensive operation, of which not all viewers have totally awareness. There will be a video to show the difference between before and after the restoration, often a radical transformation, as was the case for example for the Dust of the stars Alberto Sordi, who was in very bad conditions”.
