FREE Opening Night Program This program is free with a reception to follow. Featuring three Germaine Dulac Illustrated Records (1930) + The Voice of the Nightingale (1923) + Patouillard Has a Jealous Wife (1912) Thursday, February 15 at 7:00pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About […]

A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) Thursday, February 15 at 8:30pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About A Page of Madness Kinugasa’s most celebrated film is an avant-garde classic exceptional in his career, Kurutta ichipeiji (A Page of Madness). He had already directed more than 30 […]

Bushman Friday, February 16 at 7:00pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About Bushman A tracking shot follows a young man as he walks along the side of a gently sloping road. Hands in his pockets, he proceeds barefoot with a pair of Converse on his […]

Leila and the Wolves (Layla wa zi’ab) Friday, February 16 at 9:00pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About Leila and the Wolves (Layla wa zi’ab) Weaving together memory, myth and archival materials, Layla wa zi’ab is a significant point of intersection between the militant and […]

Peter Saturday, February 17 at 2:00pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About Peter When we meet Eva Wild (Franziska Gaal), she and her grandfather have just been evicted from their humble flat. Together, they try to make ends meet in a world that has only […]

Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo) Saturday, February 17 at 4:00pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo) I vividly remember seeing Banditi at the New York Film Festival in the early 1960s. It was one of the most unusual […]

The Ballad of Tara (Cherike-ye Tara) Saturday, February 17 at 7:00pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About The Ballad of Tara (Cherike-ye Tara) Bahram Beyzaie’s seamless blend of myth, symbolism, folklore and classical Persian literature in Cherike-ye Tara is unparalleled in its complexity. Yet, apart […]

The Outsiders (Ceddo) Saturday, February 17 at 9:00pm Highlighting restored, archival, and silent cinema from Il Cinema Ritrovato’s annual festival in Bologna, Italy. About The Outsiders (Ceddo) Long before many, the great Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007), a founding, and, in many ways, spiritual father of African cinema, who posited History as central to all creative work, […]

Lady Windermere’s Fan Screening at The Heights Theater (3951 Central Ave NE, Columbia Heights) with live accompaniment by The Poor Nobodys – Sunday, February 18 at 7:30pm Closing night of Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour  $20 tickets (not included in festival pass) RESERVE TICKETS HERE About Lady Windermere’s Fan By 1925, Lady Windermere’s Fan, which […]