Throughout cinematic history, countless wonderful films have been made, but unfortunately many of them are no longer shown on the silver screen. A simple reason for that is often that no decent copies of them exist anymore. And that’s a terrible shame, a sentiment shared by Martin Scorsese, the American director with masterpieces such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Wolf of Wall Street to his name.
In order to rescue all those magnificent classics from oblivion, Scorsese started the World Cinema Project in 2007 – a project aimed at restoring and preserving precisely these films, especially films from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central and South America, and the Middle East. Once restored, each of them could be re-released in cinemas. The project has salvaged 65 films to date.
Rialto fully endorses the special, valuable nature of the project, which is why it presented Eight Treasures Unveiled in December 2023, a programme featuring eight gems that are again available to the public thanks to the World Cinema Project. Since then, over a year has passed and it is now time to display more of these treasures. Starting 21 February, Rialto will again present eight classics from the World Cinema Project catalogue, under the title Another Eight Treasures Unveiled. The films will screened at Rialto De Pijp as well as Rialto VU.
