Ep. 131: James Vaughan on Il Cinema Ritrovato: Muratova, Mambéty, and More!

James Vaughan on Il Cinema Ritrovato: Muratova, Mambéty, and More! Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Il Cinema Ritrovato is an incredible film festival of restorations, revivals, and retrospectives that takes place every year in Bologna, Italy. It’s a source of discovery (and/or envy) for many film lovers, and so when I heard the filmmaker James Vaughan—director of Friends and Strangers, one of my favorite movies in recent years—was attending, I knew we had to talk. Vaughan was a guest on The Last Thing I Saw last summer to talk about some very fine silent films he had been watching. In Bologna, he was looking at movies for the Sydney-based film festival Cinema Reborn, and some of his favorites included work by Kira Muratova, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Arby Ovanessian—plus the Weimar Cinema comedy The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari. Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets Photo by Steve Snodgrass