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Havana, March 28 (RHC) One of the main attractions of the program celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic) today is the screening of restored classics from the national filmography.
These days, from last March 22 to March 30, the Festival for Cuban Cinema reserved rooms 23 and 12, in central Havana’s Vedado, for the presentation of titles treasured by the Cuban Cinematheque for restoration purposes.
As part of this billboard, the capital’s public has the possibility of accessing very good quality copies of essential films of the work of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Titón), among them, “Memories of underdevelopment” (1968), “A Cuban fight against the demons” (1971) and “The Last Supper” (1976).
Other films are “In a certain way” (1974), by Sara Gómez, restored by the German firm Arsenal, “The other Cristóbal” (1963), by Armand Gatti, one of the first co-productions of Icaic with France and which became the first Cuban film at the Cannes Festival.
The director of the Cuban Cinematheque, Luciano Castillo, says that years have passed since the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana welcomed the initiative of other highly renowned events of its type, such as Cannes and Venice, to include samples of works renovated after a long and expensive process to return them to their original splendor.
In a writing published regarding the tribute to Icaic, the film critic recalled that in the case of “The Survivors” (1978), by Gutiérrez Alea, the laboratory hired by the Hollywood Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences was able to achieve the chromatic treatment intended at the time by the filmmaker and photographer Mario García Joya, which could not be admired at its premiere.
Castillo suggested that moviegoers on the Caribbean island not miss two other masterful pieces by Titón that make up the program thanks to the contribution of the American academy through an agreement promoted by the Cuban Cinematheque, they are “The Death of a Bureaucrat” (1966). and “The art of tobacco” (1974). (Source: Prensa Latina)
