Il Cinema Ritrovato 2018 - Features
All feature films screened at the 2018 Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival.
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- DirectorErnst LubitschRaoul WalshStarsMary PickfordHolbrook BlinnIrene RichRosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
- DirectorÖdön Uher ifj.StarsMelitta MeaEmil FenyöMari K. Demjén
- DirectorElvira NotariStarsEduardo NotariRosè AngioneAntonio PalmieriNanninella, a young girl, is exploited and abused by her father, whom she maintains with her waitress salary.
- DirectorSerge NadejdineJacques RobertStarsGaston ModotGina ManèsLilian ConstantiniAntonio Arcella, a popular singer and Pinatucchio, a beggar, love the same woman, Costanzella, each in his own way: one is frivolous while the other is selfish. The beautiful but cruel young woman loves playing with her two lovers, pitting one against the other. But this is a dangerous game: driven crazy by her attitude, Pinatucchios loses control.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsRita HayworthGlenn FordGeorge MacreadyA small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsPedro ArmendárizCarlos López MoctezumaMaría DouglasGarcía Mata, civil servant, arrives to the village to investigate Cardoza's murder, a candidate to the local presidency, enemy of "cacique" Rosauro Castro.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsCharles BoyerDanielle DarrieuxVittorio De SicaWhen an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsMarcello MastroianniDaniela RoccaStefania SandrelliA married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
- DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
- DirectorHubert MoestStarsHans SaltenFerry SiklaHedda VernonFritzi works in an elegant fashion house. One day she accidentally breaks an expensive mannequin and solves the problem by taking its place.
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsHenny PortenHeinrich SchrothMartin LübbertThe king of the country visits the Count, to meet the Countess. The Countess, however, decides to make off with her three suitors. Karolina now pretends to be the Countess and the rest of the staff take on the role of aristocrats when the king visits. Meanwhile, the Countess is arrested and pretends to be her kitchen maid Karolina.
- DirectorUrban GadStarsConrad VeidtLillebil IbsenHermann VallentinChristian Wahnschaffe, the spoiled son of an industrialist, meets Iwan Becker, a leader in the Russian Nihilist movement. Impressed by Becker's concern for society's weak and poor, Christian develops sympathies for the movement's ideals.
- DirectorMonta BellStarsMarion DaviesConrad NagelFrank CurrierFely and Anne are twins orphaned when their mother dies en route from Ireland to America. Fely is adopted by the O'Tandys, who live in New York's Shantytown, and Anne is adopted by the wealthy De Rhondos. Fely grows up without knowing her sister and becomes a dancer in Tony Pastor's theater. Dirk De Rhondo, Anne's stepbrother, is attracted to Fely, and after protecting her during the great Orangemen's riot falls in love with her. She consents to his proposal but later retracts when Dirk's father dispossesses her family. Fely's father, however, becomes wealthy when his investment in Edison's incandescent light pays off, but Dirk's father is ruined. Fely saves De Rhondo's bank from a run by making a large deposit, thus winning over Dirk's family and paving the way for their marriage.
- DirectorFranz OstenStarsHimanshu RaiCharu RoySeeta Devi Jr.A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima (Enakshi) is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz (Rai). She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan (Roy), who falls for her, to the chagrin of the wily Dalia (Seeta Devi). When Selima is caught with Shiraz, the young man is condemned to be trampled to death by an elephant. A pendant reveals Selima's royal status and she saves her brother, marries the prince and becomes Empress Mumtaz Mahal while Dalia is banned for her machinations against Selima. When Selima dies (1629), the emperor builds her a monument to the design of the now old and blind Shiraz, the Taj Mahal. The film contains a number of passionate kissing scenes.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsPierre BatcheffJim GéraldVéra FloryGaradoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to seduce Cecile, but she prefers Fremissin...
- DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsMaría FélixPedro ArmendárizFernando FernándezDuring the Mexican Revolution, a macho rebel general falls in love with the independent-minded daughter of an aristocrat in the town he is occupying.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsTom NealAnn SavageClaudia DrakeThe life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJames DunnMona FreemanWilliam MarshallA mother encourages Ziggy, her teen daughter, to grow up quickly, and her boyfriend recruits Ziggy into his racket. Living fast and loose, Ziggy is soon a single mother herself.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsMaurice ChevalierFrançois PérierMarcelle Derrien1910. A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his young friend Jacques returns from military service complaining his misfortune with women. Once he follows Emile's advice to have an affair, he meets Lucette and falls in love with her instead.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRod CameronIlona MasseyLorna GrayCavalry officer John Drum attempts to track down outlaw Whit Lacey, but finds he must join forces with Lacey to fight a Sioux war party.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsHumphrey BogartGloria GrahameFrank LovejoyA potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsKinuyo TanakaTsukie MatsuuraIchirô SugaiFollows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsWendell CoreyMargaret LockwoodForrest TuckerBased on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her lover, Jen Farrell wins a fight that should have led to a meeting with heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan but crooks, who had sought to fix the fight, fixed him instead and Farrell is so hurt that Laughing Anne realizes he will never fight again. They drift to the Eastern seas where Anne becomes a singer in sordid Javanese bars. There she meets Captain Davidson, the master of a trading schooner, stows away on his ship and begs him to take her to Singapore. In the slow lazy cruise, Davidson falls under the spell of Laughing Anne and begs her to marry him, but she has learned from him an old forgotten sense of loyalty, jumps ship at Singapore and makes her way back to the blowzy, forlorn life with Farrell. Years later, Davidson meets her again when an unusual cargo takes him to a strange lonely, hot-and-steamy jungle settlement; the Woman with the Laugh has sunk in squalor and, although she is still with Farrell, she has a little boy named Davy with her. Davidson's heart and mind leap back to the rapture of that Archipelago cruise and he tells Annie he will take her and Davy away with him. But Farrell has heard of Davidson's rich cargo and plans to seize it.
- DirectorEttore GianniniStarsLéonide MassineAchille MilloAgostino SalviettiThe life of a family of street singers.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChikage AwashimaRyô IkebeTeiji TakahashiA young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsKen OgataMasayuki ShionoyaHiroshi MikamiA fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsJeff BridgesJoan AllenMartin LandauThe story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJohn AgarLori NelsonJohn BromfieldMen capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBette DavisJoan CrawfordVictor BuonoA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsZero MostelGene WilderDick ShawnA stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio BucciAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsJohn TravoltaOlivia Newton-JohnStockard ChanningGood girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
- DirectorJean GrémillonStarsCharles VanelHabib BengliaGaston DuboscShades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah's husband. Forward-thinking and absorbing.
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsMarsha HuntAlexander KnoxHenry TraversThe career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
- DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsPaul HubschmidIlse WernerStefan SkodlerDr. Benn Wittich's obsession with his work pulls him apart from his girlfriend Cornelia who, resentful, marries industrialist Robert Roy. However, Benn cannot forget her.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsSigne HassoAlf KjellinUlf PalmeA story of two refugees - wife and husband - from the dictatorship. Their quiet life in a new free country is impossible because of the husband's dark secret.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsAnna KarinaLiselotte PulverMicheline PresleSuzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses.
- DirectorWitold LeszczynskiStarsFranciszek PieczkaAnna MilewskaWirgiliusz GrynMateusz is a weird man living a peaceful life in a remote country house by the lake. When a stranger is attracted to his beloved sister, his life starts falling apart.
- DirectorYuliy FaytStarsNatalya BogunovaNikolay BurlyaevAntonina BendovaOn a shore, a young tourist falls in love with a waitress. When he leaves the hotel, she must face his absence and a bigger issue.
- DirectorDennis HopperStarsJulie AdamsDaniel AdesRichmond L. AguilarAfter a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind to witness the ways that filmmaking affects the locals.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsMarcello MirandaCarlo GiordanoPietro ArciadiaconoPaletta steals from a shrine to pay a prostitute. Fefè, an aging homosexual, attends his lover's wake and steals his ring. Lazzaro is killed by the mafia. Totò, a humble messiah, resurrects the man, who rushes off to take his revenge.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisLeopoldo SavonaStarsMarcello MastroianniMarina VladyGiulio CalìA man and a woman would like to get married, but lack the necessary funds for the traditional "big" wedding. Thus they plan to escape to the countryside and "live in sin".
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsSophia LorenCharles BoyerMarcello MastroianniA photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsMarcello MastroianniClaudia CardinalePierre BrasseurA newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsMarcello MastroianniJacques PerrinSylvieA man recollects the life of his late younger brother.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriGabriella GiorgelliA former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsMarcello MastroianniRaquel WelchGuido AlbertiStuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito (Marcello Mastroianni) sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the Police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsMarcello MastroianniBillie WhitelawCalvin LockhartA social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsSally O'NeilAlan DinehartFrank AlbertsonA society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVictor McLaglenEdmund LoweGreta NissenMarines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims; then they go to Egypt, where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWarner BaxterMiriam JordanJohn BolesA murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsAdolphe MenjouMinna GombellArthur PiersonA middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsSpencer TracyClaire TrevorRalph MorganBootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
- DirectorErik CharellStarsCharles BoyerLoretta YoungJean ParkerMember of royal family is forced to marry a vagabond.
- DirectorEdwin J. BurkeStarsSpencer TracyHelen TwelvetreesAlice FayeGolden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he'll quit when he makes $200,000. When he fixes a fight he gets mobster Mossiter mad, then loses his fortune to him. He pawns his wife's jewels and takes out an insurance policy on himself.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorWarner BaxterWalter Woolf KingOne More Spring is a 1935 film about three people (Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, and Walter Woolf King) living together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets. The film was written by Edwin J. Burke from the Robert Nathan novel and directed.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsAnna BaldiniVera CarmiEmilio CigoliA variety of different people, both adults, children, families, young lovers and youth gangs, spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia outside Rome.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsAldo FabriziHenri GuisolAve NinchiA group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsLucia BosèCosetta GrecoMarcello MastroianniThree beautiful seamstresses from one of the fashionable dress salons near the Piazza de Spagna in Rome gather on the steps of the square to eat lunch and talk of their love lives. Marisa, the oldest in a large family, is engaged to a truck driver; Elena lives with her widowed mother and is in love with an opportunist, Alberto, who is also romancing the boss's daughter; Lucia lives on the outskirts of Rome, where a small-in-stature jockey worships her but, she, however has eyes for only tall men, and keeps many of those on a string.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsPablo PicassoJean DavyThe evolution of Picasso's painting up to his «pink phase».
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsLino VenturaMagali NoëlMarina VladyItalians migrate to Holland to make money in coal mining. After their first work accident, two friends make different future plans: one spends money on a weekend holiday; the other determines to return to Italy soon.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsFlorence ReedHugh ThompsonGareth HughesAfter a foreword introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, young shipping clerk Jim O'Neil is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. Celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes New York's first female juror. Although Jim pleads innocence, he refuses to elaborate until his sweetheart Helen testifies that Knox raped her when she pleaded for Jim, who was fired unjustly, to be reinstated. Jim testifies that he intended to kill Knox but found him dead already. During an angry all-night deliberation, the jury remains deadlocked 11-to-1, with Grace voting against a guilty verdict. In the morning, when she learns that her sister Edith has died, Grace confesses to killing Knox for seducing Edith and failing to honor his promise of marriage. After the foreman reminds the jury of their oath to keep their proceedings secret, they agree not to reveal Grace's story, and vote to acquit Jim.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsJohn BolesGenevieve TobinLois WilsonBart is a clerk for a publishing company. He has written a novel. He and his wife Peggy have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred manages the company's Paris office. She manages to get the novel published and talks Bart into marrying her after he divorces Peggy. Initially successful, Bart must turn to writing trash to keep Mildred in money. When he sees how well his four sons and daughter Margaret have grown without his help, he asks Peggy to let them all come live with him and Mildred. Peggy agrees, but the arrival of Bart's beloved children puts Mildred's future in jeopardy.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsClaudette ColbertWarren WilliamRochelle HudsonA struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsIrene DunneCharles BoyerBarbara O'NeilA concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsMonty WoolleyGracie FieldsLaird CregarFrom Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsHenry FondaMaureen O'HaraThomas MitchellDuring a WW2 patrol in the North-African desert, a Canadian corporal reminisces about his sweetheart and must lead his platoon when the sergeant gets wounded.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGene TierneyCornel WildeJeanne CrainA writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRod TaylorTippi HedrenJessica TandyA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTippi HedrenSean ConneryMartin GabelMark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsSteve McQueenAli MacGrawBen JohnsonA recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsJon VoightBurt ReynoldsNed BeattyIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
- DirectorScott SidneyStarsElmo LincolnEnid MarkeyTrue BoardmanReared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?
- DirectorJane MagnussonStarsIngmar BergmanLena EndreThorsten FlinckJourneying through 1957, the year Bergman released two of his most acclaimed features (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), made a TV film and directed four plays for theatre, Magnusson has amassed a wealth of archive and contemporary interviews, along with a fantastic selection of clips from his vast body of work.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsCharles BoyerDanielle DarrieuxVittorio De SicaWhen an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
- StarsBilly WilderVolker SchlöndorffHellmuth KarasekDirector Billy Wilder is interviewed by German critic Hellmut Karasek and director Volker Schlöndorff about his movies.
- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris BabochkinBoris BlinovVarvara MyasnikovaThis film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.