Giovanni Vimercati

The Stuff of History: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022

July 28, 2022

A man escaped: The 36th edition fo the festival featured an eye-opening retrospective of the Hollywood films of Hugo Fregonese along with a wealth of newly restored and rediscovered classics like Franco Rossi’s Smog

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Giovanni Vimercati

July 12, 2019

Whose canon?: the festival once again brought to light forgotten, underrated, vanished, or poetically exiled films

Festivals: Cairo

By Giovanni Vimercati

December 28, 2018

Letters from the Middle East: the legacy of Arab cinema and a glimpse of one possible future were on view at the Egyptian showcase

In Memoriam: Paolo Villaggio

By Giovanni Vimercati

August 7, 2017

Industrial strength comedy: a remembrance of the Italian comedian who satirized soulless corporatism and Marxist sacred cows

Holy Seeing: The Vatican on Screen

By Giovanni Vimercati

April 17, 2017

Easter eggs: surveying some Vatican films in Italian cinema in the wake of The Young Pope

Rep Diary: Who’s Crazy?

By Giovanni Vimercati

August 24, 2016

Outside of the box: a radical 1967 film about escaped psychiatric patients questions the function of institutions and society itself

Festivals: Karlovy Vary

By Giovanni Vimercati

July 27, 2015

The spa-town fest celebrated its gold anniversary this year, but how is the venerable event holding up?

Rep Diary: Tropicália

By Giovanni Vimercati

November 17, 2014

Lost in the paradise: revolutionary Brazilian directors Bressane and Sganzerla get their due at MoMA

Festivals: Berlin

By Giovanni Vimercati

March 27, 2014

Porumboiu and more: weathering the onslaught at this year's Berlinale

Festivals: Rotterdam

By Giovanni Vimercati

February 11, 2014

Beyond the valley of the photo-ops: Rotterdam continues to be the festival that makes you to eat your cinematic greens

Asian Cinema Pick: Life of Oharu

By Giovanni Vimercati

July 9, 2013

(Criterion, $29.95)

Festivals: Locarno

By Giovanni Vimercati

August 30, 2012

This year, Locarno served as an incubator for cinematic innovation