There is a lot of dark, a lot of noir to be found in Bologna after all….
Bologna in late June is terracotta porticos, scorching sun and sweat. A city in dusty pastel colours, full of medieval remnants, with the world’s oldest university. Quite possibly the opposite of noir. But hidden away between the pasta places and the ice cream shops are cinemas – one quite literally under the Piazza Maggiore, the main square. And for 38 years now, late June sees the arrival of people who like to lurk in the dark: cinema lovers, restaurateurs, archivists. During the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, they fill the Piazzetta in front of the Cineteca di Bologna, they form queues that span several blocks – just to watch newly restored or seldomly screened gems of cinema history. There is a lot of dark, a lot of noir to be found in Bologna after all….
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Theresa Rodewald, MA, studied Cinema Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden and Cultural Studies in Germany and Ireland. She writes for a number of independent film magazines, including L-MAG and Berliner Filmfestivals, and has written about critiques of capitalism in current gangster films, images of masculinity in Scarface (1932) and the representation of queer women in mainstream cinema. She is a contributor to David Fincher’s Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).
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