Cinema Reborn

19/07/2026

https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/2026/07/sixty-years-of-art-cinema-1960-2020.html

Farrok Ghaffari b.1921 Ebrahim Golestan n b.1922 Dariush Mehrjui b.1939 Sohrab Shahid Saless b.1944 ********************** Forugh Farrokhza...

17/07/2026

https://substack.com/home/post/p-207361340

10/07/2026

Vale Tony Rayns. He was a great supporter of Cinema Reborn. He recommended to us and contributed program notes for Sergei Paradjanov's THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES a highlight of our very first season in 2019. Superb program notes for Yasuzo Masumura's THE WIFE OF SEISAKU in this year's program. Here's a link to a small memoir.

My friend Tony Rayns died a sudden death on Saturday 27 June on his return from Bologna's Il Cinema Ritrovato. It happened only moments afte...

10/07/2026

Pretty sure this is the first ever public screening in Australia of Mary Stephen's debut feature made way back in 1979 and now restored at Cineteca di Bologna's L'Immagine Ritrovato laboratory. Follows on from successful screenings round the world. Details and bookings if you hit the link below.

Long out of circulation, this evocatively elliptical tale of Sapphic yearning in 1930s Shanghai – newly restored – has been hailed as a major rediscovery.

09/07/2026

https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-nordic-film-festival-2026-tom-ryan.html

Bo Widerberg Two highlights from the Nordic Film Festival, sponsored by Hurtigruten and happening across Australia in July-August 2026, ...

07/07/2026

One of the incidental, nostalgia prolonging, pleasures of Cineteca di Bologna's Il Cinema Ritrovato is Ehsan Khoshbakht's annual poll of favourites and discoveries....and a most deserving winner...

International poll on the best films shown at Il Cinema Ritrovato XL

04/07/2026

https://cinemareborn.substack.com/p/july-announcement-unknown-pleasures

Unknown Pleasures screens Grace, who waits alone (Georgia Temple, 2016)

02/07/2026

https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/2026/07/on-4k-uhd-and-blu-ray-david-hare-risks.html

This is both an exciting and a bewildering release. On the fabulous side the box includes not only the existing 4K mastered disc of The Re...

30/06/2026

https://ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-best-in-silents-il-cinema-ritrovato.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawSw25dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeISlIfrxQ-NchwzzoyWw89Q4rHVZDKId75E_8zFaCLKSsYmLE57Lzcqpu9rg_aem_zc0DAZ8J0NuyZV-tnVhSQQ

It’s just struck me that not only was this edition number 40 of the Ritrovato but that was the number in centigrade the temperature hit ...

30/06/2026

https://filmalert101.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-bologna-diary-links-and-picture.html

Day 1 - Marco Bellocchio, Mitchell Leisen, John Abraham, Daisuke Ito Day 2 - Kon Ichikawa Day 3 - Dariush Mehrjui, Mitchell Leisen, Daisu...