Presented by David Robinson
NSFF 2021
7 January 2021
8:30 PM (local time)
Presentation: ENGLISH
Films: NL with ENG subtitles
Only via livestream!
Film historians have largely been ignoring Italian silent comedy for a while, but that will change on January 7, 2021. That evening, NSFF 2021 will be opened by our program ITALIAN COMEDY 101. A coproduction with Bristol Slapstick Festival and Eye Filmmuseum, curated by film historian David Robinson.
We open the new year with a spectacular selection of Italian silent comedies. Robinson has gone through more than a hundred Italian-made silent comedies and will also be introducing the films live.
The Italian film industry saw great potential for comedy at the beginning of the twentieth century. Comedians were recruited from everywhere and nowhere, out of circuses and off the street, to perform in silent comedies.
We’ll have a selection of films for you from before World War I with leading roles for Cretinetti, Polidor and Kri Kri, among others. The evening will be musically accompanied live by Daan van den Hurk (piano).
The following films will be presented:
AL CINEMATOGRAFO GUARDATE… E NON TOCCATE
IT, 1912
6’02”
Cast: Ernesto Vaser
LE DUE INNAMORATE DI CRETINETTI
IT, 1911
9′
Cast: André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli
FINALMENTE SOLI!
IT, 1912
8’29”
Cast: Ernesto Vaser
TONTOLINI SBAGLIA PIANO
IT, 1912
6’40”
Cast: Polidor
POLIDOR VUOL SUICIDARSI
IT, 1912
7’07”
Cast: Polidor
POLIDOR E I GATTI
IT, 1913
5’41”
Cast: Polidor
LEA BAMBOLA
IT, 1913
6′
Cast: Lea Giunchi
LE AVVENTURE DI UN MONELLO
IT, 1912
7′
Cast: André Deed
KRI KRI FUMA L’OPPIO
IT, 1913
5’46”
Cast: Kri Kri
KRI KRI SENZA TESTA
IT, 1913
6′
Cast: Kri Kri, Lea Giunchi, Gildo Bocci
MADAMIGELLA ROBINET
IT, 1913
8’04”
Cast: Robinet
INTERVIEW WITH GIGETTA MORANO
IT, 1985
4′
L’ACQUA MIRACOLOSA
IT, 1914
9’26”
Cast: Eleuterio Rodolfi, Gigetta Morano