Someone Likes Classico crosses the finish line of its twelfth edition and returns to offer the public a series of masterpieces from the history of cinema, to finally be rediscovered in theaters and on 35mm film. As last year, the usual formula is enriched by the collaboration with the National Union of Italian Film Critics - Lazio Region Group, thanks to which each film will be introduced to viewers by a different critic, in order to best contextualise all the titles in the programme.

A sensational comedy from the golden years of Hollywood opens on January 24th, Love at First Love, which brings together the unparalleled talents of Billy Wilder and Howard Hawks, respectively writing and directing, as well as those of Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper in the in the role of a dancer and an awkward professor forced to come out of his shell. Comedy remains the protagonist of this year's program with some of its greatest creators, such as Frank Capra in Il Teatro di Minnie, a jewel of the silent era presented in a historic restoration at the Cineteca di Bologna, or Woody Allen in Zelig, among the results taller than New York genius. In their own way, The Protagonists, a biting satire of the world of cinema by Robert Altman, and Not Everyone Has It..., a symbolic film of the Swinging London season, are also comedies, without forgetting Bring on the Pianist himself, an early work by François Truffaut in which you can breathe all the lightness and irony of the first Nouvelle Vague.

A cinema with stronger colors is instead that of two directors much loved by our public, Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock, whose rarer titles are offered, Mrs Doyle's Confession and Sabotage, the latter belonging to the English period of the master of suspense and based on Joseph Conrad. Finally, completing the program is a pair of legendary names of auteur cinema such as Béla Tarr and Maya Deren, who have made experimentation with language their flagship. Perdition, whose cinephile cult remains alive today, will be presented by the Hungarian Tarr, while a tribute will be dedicated to Maya Deren with a selection of short films that fully restore her role as a formidable pioneer of American avant-garde cinema.

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