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A Fistful of Dollars will be screened at Cannes 67, but the new so-called "restoration" has given rise to some controversy, since this masterpiece had already been properly restored in 2007. Here a press release by Ripley's Film:
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It's not enough to present a masterpiece from the past -- not in the society of the “event.†Some piece of news has to be built around it. A film, at least, needs to have been just restored. What if it didn't need to be restored? If it has already been restored? That's no big thing. The frenzy of the scoop has no memory. As often happens, A Fistful of Dollars has now been “re-restored†by the CINETECA DI BOLOGNA for a presentation at the Festival de Cannes.
There are some obvious second thoughts about the use of public funds to “save†films whose safety has been already guaranteed for a long time rather than to save others that would arouse less media attention. Beyond these thoughts, it remains to be said that Sergio Leone's masterpiece, restored years ago by RIPLEY'S FILM and CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA - CINETECA NAZIONALE, was already presented at the opening of the 64th Venice Film Festival in 2007, playing to broad media coverage. The difference is that then the restoration was done on the film philologically - i.e. respecting not only the content of the work but also the support that it was put on originally, as must be done for a work of art.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/ripley...52425272305056
It's not enough to present a masterpiece from the past -- not in the society of the “event.†Some piece of news has to be built around it. A film, at least, needs to have been just restored. What if it didn't need to be restored? If it has already been restored? That's no big thing. The frenzy of the scoop has no memory. As often happens, A Fistful of Dollars has now been “re-restored†by the CINETECA DI BOLOGNA for a presentation at the Festival de Cannes.
There are some obvious second thoughts about the use of public funds to “save†films whose safety has been already guaranteed for a long time rather than to save others that would arouse less media attention. Beyond these thoughts, it remains to be said that Sergio Leone's masterpiece, restored years ago by RIPLEY'S FILM and CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA - CINETECA NAZIONALE, was already presented at the opening of the 64th Venice Film Festival in 2007, playing to broad media coverage. The difference is that then the restoration was done on the film philologically - i.e. respecting not only the content of the work but also the support that it was put on originally, as must be done for a work of art.
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