August 8

CARDIO
Alberto Fabi, voce, chitarra
Nicola Matteaggi, chitarra
Massimo Polenzani, basso
Matteo Brodi, batteria

HIS WOODEN WEDDING
by Leo McCarey , with Charlie Chase, Katherine Grant, Gale Henry, U.S.A., 20 december 1925, 20 min.

Standing at the altar, Charley gets a message saying that it's better for him not to marry her: his bride hides a wooden leg.

GATTO MARTE
Nino Cotone, violino
Giuseppe Brancaccio, fagotto
Maximilian Brooks, pianoforte

A WOMAN
by Charlie Chaplin, with Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance, U.S.A., 12 july 1915, 20 min.

In the park, Charlot meets a model family. He will make mother and daughter fall in love with him. And the head of the family too.

HARMONIRAPTUS
Vincent Boniface, clarinetto, flauto, cornamusa
Paolo dall’Ara, flauto, cornamuse
Filippo Gambetta, organetto diatonico
Fernando Raimondo, ghironda
Federico Bagnasco, contrabasso

HE DID AND HE DIDN’T
by Roscoe Arbuckle, with Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, U.S.A., 1916

Fatty is happy, rich and married to a woman who loves him. But one day an old lover of his wife knocks at his door.



LOME'
Riccardo Ruggeri, voce
Andrea Manzoni, pianoforte
Luca Bertinaria, contrabbasso
Stefano Melis, sax

CONEY ISLAND
by Roscoe Arbuckle, with Roscoe Arbuckle e Buster Keaton, U.S.A., 1917

It’s summer in New York. In Coney Island, Buster’s wife falls in love with a fop. After that, she will run into Roscoe’s arms but he is chased down by his wife.

ZENO GABAGLIO
violoncello solo

FEET OF MUD
di Harry Edwards, con Harry Langdon, U.S.A., 1924

Harry wants to marry his girlfriend, but her father asks him to become a reasonable man first, with a decent and respectable job.

GENERAZIONE COMBUSTIBILE
Angelo Sabia, pianoforte
Urso Charly, banjo, chitarra acustica
Ivan Giannini, basso/voce

SMILE PLEASE
di Hampton e Roy del Ruth con Harry Langdon, U.S.A., 1924

Photograph and sheriff, Harry copes with both his passion and his work, in his own way.

REIGUAI
Riccardo Lorenzi, voce, synth, computer
Enrico Rossi, basso
Pier Francesco Alberti, chitarra
Hans Cecconi, spiritual collaborazione ritmica

THE LAST OF THE LINE
Thomas Ince, U.S.A., 1914

The son of the last Sioux chief seems not to be in the same class as his father's. Action scenes and strong feelings: the basic plot of "western melodramas", one of the first genres in which young Hollywood excelled

ENSEMBLE ATMOSPHERE
Carlo Pellizzari, violino
Stefano Morelli, pianoforte

THE BIG KICK
by Hal Roach, with Harry Langdon, U.S.A., 1925

Harry is the worst mechanic in the U.S.A. and a band of gangsters is going to visit his own garage...

Conference Variazioni Keaton

LOUIS SCLAVIS QUINTET
Louis Sclavis, clarinetti
Dominique Pifarély, violino
Vincent Courtois, violoncello
Jean Louis Matinier, fisarmonica
François Merville, percussioni, marimba

DANS LA NUIT (France, 1929)
regia: Charles Vanel; sceneggiatura: Charles Vanel; fotografia: Georges Asselin; cast: Charles Vanel, Sandra Milovanoff; 35mm, 75'; provenienza: Institut Lumière

Love, identity, dream and reality are the main themes of this forgotten masterpiece of French cinema, first shot, behind the camera, of an actor-director who gave to French silent cinema a movie similar, for its artistic quality and its critical fortune, to the other rare pearl of movie history, The night of the hunter, by Charles Laughton. Recently restored by the Cinémathèque française, Dans la nuit has been set to music, on Bertrand Tavernier's request, by Louis Sclavis who paid tribute with a powerful and elegant composition to this movie that, as M. Sclavis himself says, "mixes Murnau and Renoir".

BOJAN ZULFIKARPASIC
Piano solo

SUNRISE (U.S.A., 1927)
produzione: William Fox (Fox Film Corporation); regia: F. W. Murnau; sceneggiatura: Carl Mayer, tratto dal romanzo "Die Reise nach Tilsit" di Hermann Sudermann; fotografia: Charles Rosher, Karl Struss; cast: George O'Brien (The Man (Anses), Janet Gaynor (The Wife (Indre), Margaret Livingston (The Woman from the City), Bodil Rosing (The Maid), J. Farrell MacDonald (The Photographer); 35mm, 94' (24 fps); provenienza: Cineteca di Bologna

A young and charming countryman is seduced by a vamp from the city and induced to kill his wife but, incapable of doing such an evil deed, he just frightens the woman and makes her run away. He follows her, reconciles with her, they celebrate their renewed love in a dreamlike, excessive, disproportionate town: the visionary raptures of a simple mind stunned by big city's greatness. But their love is still in danger... One of the best movies in history - "the best one ever made" wrote in 1957 the Cahiers du Cinéma - Sunrise represents the sum of the first thirty years of the Seventh Art. 

OSCAR DEL BARBA QUARTET
Oscar del Barba, pianoforte
Achille Succi, clarinetto, clarinetto basso
Salvatore Majore, contrabbasso
Carlo Cantini, violino

BLACKMAIL (U.K., 1929)
produzione: John Maxwell (British International Pictures); regia: Alfred Hitchcock; sceneggiatura: Charles Bennett, Alfred Hitchcock; fotografia: Jack E. Cox; cast: Anny Ondra (Alice White), Sara Allgood (Mrs. White), Charles Paton (Mr. White), John Longden (Det. Frank Webber), Donald Calthrop (Tracy); 35mm, 73' (24 fps); provenienza: Cineteca di Bologna (restauro effettuato da: National Film&Television Archive, Cineteca di Bologna)

A young lady kills the man who tries to rape her. The Scotland Yard's detective assigned to the case is her boyfriend. He immediately understands that she is guilty but when he tries to slow down the investigation, an unexpected witness comes up, blackmailing them. Shot twice - a silent and a talking version - Blackmail places itself at the heart of the English part of Hitchcock's career. Visually influenced by German expressionism, it contains extraordinary scenes: among them, a breath-taking chase inside the British Museum.

GLENN FERRIS TRIO
Glenn Ferris, trombone
Vincent Segal, violoncello
Bruno Rousselet, contrabbasso

OUR HOSPITALITY (U.S.A., 1923)
produzione: Joseph M. Schenk (Joseph M. Schenk Production); regia: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton; sceneggiatura: Clyde Bruckman, Jean C. Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell; fotografia: Gordon Jennings, Elgin Lessley; cast: Joe Roberts (Joseph Canfield), Ralph Bushman (Clayton Canfield), Craig Ward (Lee Canfield), Monte Collins (The Parson), Joe Keaton (The Engineer), Kitty Bradbury (Aunt Mary), Natalie Talmadge (Virginia Canfield), Buster Keaton Jr. (Willie McKay - 1 year old), Buster Keaton (Willie McKay - 21 years old); 16mm, 74' (24 fps); provenienza: Cineteca del Friuli

Young Will-McKay falls in love with beautiful Virginia Canfield and wants to marry  her. But there is a problem: McKays and Canfields hate each other from generation to generation. But Will-Buster doesn’t give up and, admitted in Canfields’ residence, protected by the legendary hospitality of the South, he tries to win their opposition. In Our hospitality, one of his funniest movies, Buster “stoneface” Keaton offers the best of his comic-stuntman’s repertoire in a long, breathtaking final scene.