With the reopening of the newly restored underpass just under ‘Palazzo Re Enzo’, this year’s festival attendees will have the opportunity to visit Folgorazioni figurative, an exhibition devoted to Pier Paolo Pasolini, born 100 years ago in Bologna. We think this to be a fantastically fitting marriage between one of Bologna’s great cinematic sons, and a festival steeped in local history.
Also this year, the Bologna Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Timothy Brock, will be back to Piazza Maggiore to accompany two masterpieces turning 100: the magnificent Foolish Wives by Erich von Stroheim will be the first cine-concert on June 27th, while on July 2nd one of the cornerstones of horror and expressionist cinema, Nosferatu by F.W. Murnau, will likely hypnotise Piazza Maggiore audience.