This Thursday begins the projections cycle by the 65th anniversary of Cinemateca de Cuba with the projection of the Franco-Litralian co-production Lilas Puerta.
A note from the Cuban station Radio Encyclopedia informs that February will be the month of celebrations for that reason, and that it will be characterized by a special program. Includes the film Napoleon, by Abel Gance, recently restored, and productions of filmmakers such as Stanley Kubrick, Marco Bellocchio and Iván Zulueta, film director Rapture.
The film Lilas Puerta (1957) was selected to inaugurate the cycle, Oscar nominated for the best non -English speech movie and the Bafta Awards for Best Foreign Film and Actor (Pierre Brasseur).
This black and white film directed by René Clair, has the performances of Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal and Dani Carrel.
The presentation of restored shorts of the Lumière brothers has been a news for the specialists of the Cinemateca and the spectators. You can see the images taken by the inventors of the cinematographer and its cameramen at the end of the 19th century with amazing quality, thanks to the most modern digital technologies used in the restoration processes of film materials.
This restoration has been possible by carrying them to 4 k already 60 fps (60 paintings per second). At the same time they were colored (not colored), a technique that consists in the fact that from the gray shades of the black and white images it can be determined what their original colors were and make them visible.
Friday will be the premiere in Cuba of the copy of The raptureof the Italian Marco Bellocchio. This co -production between Italy, France and Germany, has Filippo Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Barbara Ronchi and Paolo Pierobon in its cast.
