A qualcuno piace classico

(USA 1941)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine
b/w, 99', 35mm Italian dubbed version
Among audiences' favorite Hitchcock, Suspicion is a perfect essay in suspense and ambiguity, fully-fledged proof of François Truffaut's famous line: "all [Hitchcock's] love scenes were filmed like murder and all the murder scenes like love scenes". The "glas [...]

(France, 1954)
directed by Jacques Becker, starring Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau
b/w, 94', 35mm Italian dubbed version
Max, a gangster, wants to get back the loot (the "grisbi" in French Mafia jargon) that he stashed away. But many unexpected twists and reversals of fortune work against him, including the kidnap of his partner Riton and his betrayal by the be [...]

(Italy, 1948)
directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Maria Micale, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono
b/w, 160', 35mm restored original version
Loosely based on the Italian novel I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga, the film is a powerful rendering of the harshest realities of the South of Italy, told in a hybrid language merging neo-realism with an uncompromising cla [...]

(USA 1953)
directed by Fritz Lang, starring Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern
b/w, 90', 35mm Italian dubbed version
A young call-center girl is shocked because she's convinced that, while she was drunk, she killed the man who tried to take advantage of her. A bright journalist helps her as she tries to discover the truth. McCarthyism left director Fr [...]

(France 1953)
directed by Max Ophuls, starring Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica
b/w, 100', 35mm Italian dubbed version
A pair of earrings, sold by a woman from Parisian high society, fall into her husbands' hands  and then into her lover's, only to end up with her again. But this strange carousel is doomed for a  tragic ending. One of director Max Ophu [...]

(France/Italy 1964)
directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret
b/w, 97', 35mm Italian dubbed version
1929. Célestine, from Paris, is working as a maid in a country mansion full of bizarre characters: the landlord is a sex addict, the landlady is frigid and snobbish and the gardener is a fascist. Based on Octave Mirbeau's novel, direct [...]

(Usa 1946)
directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan
b/w, 97', 35mm original English version with Italian subtitles
Wyatt Earp's and the O.K. Corral's tale is told by John Ford through one of the most intense and moving western films in the history of Cinema. The ornate, almost baroque style, the precise use of music, the [...]

(Spain 1955)
directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, starring Lucia Bosè, Alberto Closas, Otello Toso, Carlos Casaravilla
b/w,  88', 35mm Italian dubbed version
A car accidently runs over a man on a bicycle, leaving the rider in agony. A couple of secret lovers are at the wheel. But later an acquaintance of the female passenger threatens to tell everything to her husband. The [...]

(France 1939)
directed by Marcel Carné, starring Jean Gabin, Arletty, Bernard Blier, Jacqueline Laurent
b/w, 93', 35mm Italian dubbed version
Working class François kills his love rival and shuts himself up in his room. While the police are laying siege to him, François thinks about his recent love relationships: one with a girl who sells flowers, the other with a world [...]

(France 1967)
directed by Jacques Tati, starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
color, 115', 35mm Italian dubbed version
Tati's most daring work and one of the biggest productions and creative efforts in the history of French cinema, Play Time was a box-office bomb, gaining cult status only many years after its release. Set in a futuristic Paris, the adventur [...]