Special Events, Previews And Classic
BFM — 42
BFM — 42
Opening BFM 42
Cult Movies
Walter Matthau
Tribute to Walter Matthau, the actor chosen as testimonial for BFM 42’s Support campaign.
- A New LeafItalian title: È ricca, la sposo e l’ammazzo
Directed by Elaine May
Usa / 1971 / 102 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it. - Cactus FlowerItalian title: Fiore di cactus
Directed by Gene Saks
Usa / 1969 / 103 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it. - Hello, Dolly!Italian title: Hello, Dolly!
Directed by Gene Kelly
Usa / 1969 / 146 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it. - The Front PageItalian title: Prima pagina
Directed by Billy Wilder
Usa / 1974 / 105 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it. - The Odd CoupleItalian title: La strana coppia
Directed by Gene Saks
Usa / 1966 / 87 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it.
Sci-fi marathon
After 4 years, the BFM’s nightly sci-fi and horror marathon is back. We go back to 1960, with a film that lands in 2024, Edgar G. Ulmer’s Beyond The Time Barrier. In addition we celebrate 50 years since the release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper’s slasher masterpiece. A Must-see.
- Beyond the Time BarrierItalian title: Oltre la barriera del tempo [t.l.]
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Usa / 1960 / 74 min., bw, O.V., o.v. sub. it. - The Texas Chain Saw MassacreItalian title: Non aprite quella porta
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Usa / 1974 / 84 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it.
ORLANDO
Festival
BFM will present a preview of the 11th edition of the Orlando Festival (scheduled for May 3-12, 2024 in Bergamo, Italy). In addition to the presentation of the feature film The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Who Lived for Twenty and Eight Years all Alone on an Inhabited Island and Said It Was His by Benjamin Deboosere, BFM will screen a feature film within the Kino Club section, Lobo e Cão by Cláudia Varejão.
- The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Who Lived for Twenty and Eight Years All Alone on an Inhabited Island and Said It Was HisItalian title: La vita e le strane e sorprendenti avventure di Robinson Crusoe che visse per ventotto anni completamente solo su un’isola disabitata dicendo fosse la sua [t.l.]
Directed by Benjamin Deboosere
Belgium / 2023 / 74 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it.
Encounters: Cinema and Contemporary Art
Bergamo Film Meeting renews the collaboration with The Blank Contemporary Art through the section called ENCOUNTERS: CINEMA AND CONTEMPORARY ART, which this year features as protagonist the Greek artist and filmmaker Janis Rafa (Athens, Greece, 1984). Janis Rafa will present her first feature film Kala Azar (2020) in Bergamo on Saturday, March 9. The film, which premiered in 2020 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it won the Critics’ Award, is set in a desolate, perhaps post-apocalyptic landscape, where a young couple works for a crematorium, paying house calls to people who have lost their pets. Rafa’s body of work combines film, video installation and sculpture. Her narratives are located at the margins of the urban, haunted by stray dogs, roadkills, hunted prey, forgotten ruins, abandonment and dissipated death. Dead and living, human and non-human beings coexist in an accord of dream and sensuality.
In collaboration with The Blank Contemporary Art.
- Kala azarItalian title: Kala azar
Directed by Janis Rafa
Netherlands, Greece / 2020 / 91 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it.
Film without borders
- Peccato che sia una canagliaItalian title: Peccato che sia una canaglia
Directed by Alessandro Blasetti
Italia / 1954 / 95 min., col., V.O.
New restored classics
Premiere of the new 4K digital restoration from the original Ilford Black & White 35mm negatives and 35mm Fine Grain, preserved at the BFI Archives. The director will hold a Q&A following the screening.
In collaboration with Lab 80 film.
- Radio OnItalian title: Radio On
Directed by Chris Petit
Great Britain, West Germany / 1979 / 101 min., bw, O.V., o.v. sub. it.
Ermanno Olmi Award
In 2019, the City of Bergamo established the Ermanno Olmi Award in memoriam of the late lamented director and fellow citizen. Main goal of the Ermanno Olmi Award is the promotion of young filmmakers and their works. It is addressed to filmmakers of all nationalities and not older than 30. The fiction short film Štarter by Péter Dóczé (Hungary, 2022) won first prize and is being screened again during this edition of the Festival, along with the other finalist films.
- Busan, 1999Italian title: Busan, 1999
Directed by Thomas Percy Kim
Usa, Republic of Korea / 2023 / 11 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it. - Le temps qui passeItalian title: Il passare del tempo [t.l.]
Directed by Nathan Le Graciet
France / 2022 / 11 min., bw, O.V., o.v. sub. it. - Serpêhatiyên NeqewimîItalian title: Cose mai sentite [t.l.]
Directed by Ramazan Kılıç
Turkey / 2022 / 15 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it. - ŠtarterItalian title: Avviatore [t.l.]
Directed by Péter Dóczé
Hungary / 2022 / 11 min., col., O.V., o.v. sub. it.
Émile Cohl – volume II
In 2022, Émile Cohl – Volume I enchanted the viewers of BFM 40: the twelve short films, livescored by electric guitar and percussion, received such an enthusiastic response that we could not help but offer a second part. To a score by Erik Satie, the two classical guitars of French musicians Julien Coulon and Xavier Courtet will accompany ten of Cohl’s shorts chosen from the author’s substantial filmography: from Fantasmagorie, the first animated short in the history of cinema, to Les métamorphoses comiques, a selection that will make people rediscover some of the masterpieces of the pioneer of animated cinema.
- FantasmagorieItalian title: Fantasmagoria [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1908 / 1 min., bw, mixed animation, O.V., no dialogue - Jobard a tué sa belle-mèreItalian title: Jobard uccide la suocera [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1911 / 7 min., bw, O.V., no dialogue - La musicomanieItalian title: Musicomania [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1910 / 4 min., bw, mixed animation and images from real life, O.V., no dialogue - Le cauchemar d’un fantocheItalian title: L’incubo di un burattino [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1908 / 3 min., bn, mixed animation, O.V., no dialogue - Le cheveu délateurItalian title: Il capello rivelatore [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1911 / 5 min., bw, mixed animation and images from real life, O.V., no dialogue - Le retapeur de cervellesItalian title: L’aggiusta-cervelli [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1911 / 6 min., bw, mixed animation and images from real life, O.V., no dialogue - Le songe du garçon de caféItalian title: Il sogno di un cameriere [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1910 / 5 min., bw, mixed animation and images from real life, O.V., no dialogue - Les joyeux microbesItalian title: I microbi allegri [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1909 / 5 min., bw, mixed animation, O.V., no dialogue - Les métamorphoses comiquesItalian title: Metamorfosi comiche [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1912 / 3 min., bw, mixed animation and images from real life, O.V., no dialogue - Un drame chez les fantochesItalian title: Tragedia tra i burattini [t.l.]
Directed by Émile Cohl
France / 1908 / 3 min., bw, traditional animation, O.V., no dialogue
