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Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek (1949) is an American actress and singer with an enduring and award-winning career in film and television. She became a star with her Oscar-nominated performance in Carrie (1976), in which...

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Richard Conte

Richard Conte (1910-1975) was an American actor, who often appeared in Film Noirs and crime dramas of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Two decades later, he returned to the screen as gangster boss Don...

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Katharine Hepburn: Feminist, Acrobat and Lover

We continue a yearly tradition, EFSP follows Il Cinema Ritrovato from 21 - 29 June. We love the festival dedicated to cinematic masterpieces, timeless classics, and hidden gems. For nine days, films...

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Back to 1905

From 21 to 29 June, we're in Italy for Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025, as the festival's website boasts 'the world’s premiere festival dedicated to cinematic masterpieces, timeless classics, and hidden...

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Masks and Music: The Films of Willi Forst

We're in Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato from 21 - 29 June. One of the highlights for us is a tribute to Austrian actor-turned-director Willi Forst curated by Lukas Foerster. A consummate craftsman,...

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Lewis Milestone: of Wars and Men

A milestone of visual flair and virtuosity in American cinema, the career of Lewis Milestone – a Russian Jewish émigré – bridged silent cinema and the 70mm spectacles of the 1960s. Milestone is the...

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Christian Martyrs in Antiquity

Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025 is much more than countless film screenings. Today, there are two workshops which include presentations on the British Film Institute (BFI)’s silent antiquity prints with...

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One Hundred Years Ago: 1925

Once again, Il Cinema Ritrovato offers a selection of classics and rarities made or released in 1925, the year that marked the 30th anniversary of the birth of cinema. The year saw the emergence of...

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John Stuart

We're still in Italy and enjoy Il Cinema Ritrovato (21 June-29 June 2025). In the section One Hundred Years Ago: 1925, Alfred Hitchcock's debut film will be showcased in the programme. The sensational...

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Axel von Ambesser

In Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025's tribute to Willi Forst, one of the highlights is the musical Frauen sind keine Engel / Women Are No Angels (1943) starring Marte Harell. Her co-star in this film was Axel...

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Recovered and Restored: La Pantomima della morte (1917)

We're following the world’s premier festival dedicated to cinematic masterpieces, timeless classics, and hidden gems: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2025 in Bologna. As every edition, the programme includes such...

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Paula Raymond

Paula Raymond (1924-2003) was an American model and actress who played the leading lady in numerous films and television series. In 1950, she was put under contract by MGM, where she acted opposite...

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Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) was a two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist, and raconteur. He played Batiatus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960) and had also roles in...

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Lea Massari (1933-2025)

On 23 June 2025, Lea Massari (1933) passed away. The Italian actress and singer worked in both Italian and French cinema. She is best remembered for such film classics as Michelangelo Antonioni's...

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Guy Madison

Handsome American leading man Guy Madison (1922-1996) appeared in 85 films, on radio, and on television. In the 1940s, he started as a fresh-faced dreamboat. He became a hero to the Baby Boom...

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Kenneth Spencer

American operatic singer and actor Kenneth Spencer (1911-1964) starred in a few Broadway musicals and musical films in the United States during the 1940s. Frustrated with the racial prejudice he...

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La Collectionneuse: Gail Patrick

Elegant dark-haired beauty Gail Patrick was no conventional heroine and never hesitated to play unsympathetic, scheming, nasty, calculating or haughty characters during her career. But she never really...

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Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan (1961) is an American film actress. She is best known for her roles as quirky, charismatic women in romantic comedies such as When Harry Met Sally... (1989) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993)....

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Photo by Lothar Winkler

German photographer Lothar Winkler (1927-2000) made countless star portraits and film stills during the 1950s and 1960s. His photos document the Zeitgeist: the post-war period when the public longed...

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Fernando Rey

Suave film, theatre, and television actor Fernando Rey (1917-1994) became the first international Spanish film star He achieved his greatest fame after he turned 50, and is best known for his roles in...

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Phillips Holmes

American-Canadian actor Phillips Holmes (1907-1942) was a handsome, blond and blue-eyed leading man. From 1928 to 1938, he starred in 44 films. He had the role of his career in Dreiser's An American...

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Helena Makowska

Polish singer and actress Helena Makowska (1893-1964) was a beautiful diva of the Italian silent cinema in the 1910s. During the 1920s, she moved to Berlin and became a star of the German cinema....

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Nelson Eddy

The only career Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) ever considered was singing. The classically trained baritone achieved his greatest popularity through eight films with Jeanette MacDonald, with whom he formed a...

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Tina Turner

With 100 million records sold, American singer and icon Tina Turner (1939-2023) is one of the best-selling artists ever. She won as many as 12 Grammy Awards, the most prestigious awards in the music...

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The Milton Post Card

The 'Milton Post Cards' were published in Great Britain from around 1900. By 1902, Gustave Woolstone had registered the Milton trademark - the firm operated off Milton Street in the Postcard Mile of...

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