Ep. 259: K.J. Relth-Miller on Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024: Sisters of Nishijin, Amadeus, Anatole Livtak retro, The Innerview, The Sealed Soil

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual festival of revivals and restorations, showcases a bounty of discoveries, classics, and rarities in Bologna, Italy, many of which will then make their way across the world. Among the eager audience members was K.J. Relth-Miller, director of film programs at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, who joins this episode to share some highlights. Film discussed include: Sisters of Nishijin and Undercurrent (both directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura), L’Equipage and The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak), The Innerview (Richard Beymer), Deliverance (John Boorman), The Sealed Soil (Marva Nabili, whose film is the earliest surviving Iranian feature by a female director), and already touring this week in a restoration, Amadeus (Milos Forman).

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