Rivista del Cinematografo

Rivista del Cinematografo
Title	Rivista del Cinematografo
Category	Film magazine
Firstdate	1928
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Rivista del Cinematografo is an Italian film magazine founded in 1928 that has chronicled cinema, criticism, and industry developments across decades, intersecting with Italian and international film cultures. The magazine has engaged with major figures, movements, and institutions such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Carmelo Bene, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesco Rosi, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Moravia and Anna Magnani while reviewing films from studios like Cinecittà, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros..

History

Rivista emerged during the late 1920s alongside contemporaries like Cinema, Bianco e Nero, Sight & Sound, Cahiers du cinéma, Film Quarterly and Positif, reflecting debates involving figures such as Luigi Pirandello, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Benedetto Croce and institutions like Istituto Luce, Ministry of Popular Culture (Italy), Fascist Italy and later Italian Republic. The magazine documented the transition from silent film to sound with coverage of filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein and Fritz Lang, and tracked wartime and postwar reconstruction with reporting on Neorealism, Venice Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and production centers like Turin and Rome. Through the 1950s and 1960s it engaged debates involving Antonioni, Rossellini, De Sica, Rossellini's Stromboli and auteurs associated with Auteur theory, responding to movements including French New Wave, German Expressionism, Soviet Montage, Italian Neorealism and the later New Hollywood. In subsequent decades the magazine covered international phenomena linked to Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wong Kar-wai, Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Bong Joon-ho and Paolo Sorrentino.

Editorial Profile and Content

Rivista combined criticism, interviews, and industry reporting with sections on festivals like Berlin International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and awards such as the Academy Awards, César Awards, BAFTA Awards, Golden Lion, Palme d'Or. Editorial positions engaged with intellectuals and novelists such as Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese and poets like Salvatore Quasimodo while featuring profiles of actors including Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and directors like Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Ermanno Olmi and Kenji Mizoguchi. Coverage extended to technical crafts with pieces on cinematographers such as Giuseppe Rotunno, Vittorio Storaro, Sergio Leone's collaborations, editors like Ruggiero Mastroianni, and composers such as Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, John Williams and Bernard Herrmann.

Notable Contributors and Editors

Contributors and editors included critics, scholars and filmmakers linked to institutions like Università degli Studi di Torino, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and archives such as Archivio Storico Istituto Luce. Notable names across decades appear alongside contemporaries from Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound including Andre Bazin, Roland Barthes, Gillo Pontecorvo, Ettore Scola, Nanni Moretti, Paolo Virzì, Michele Serra, Roberto Longo, Gianni Amelio, Lina Wertmüller, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola and scholars such as Mario Verdone, Pasquale Iannone, Jacques Rivette and Peter Wollen.

Awards, Influence, and Reception

The magazine's influence intersected with major prizes and institutions including the David di Donatello, Nastro d'Argento, Golden Globe Awards, Independent Spirit Awards and festival juries at Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. Critics from its pages shaped reception of works by Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Rossellini's Rome, Open City, De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and later international hits like The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Parasite, Roma (film), La La Land, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Seventh Seal. Scholarly reception connected it to debates in film studies alongside journals such as Journal of Film and Video and Screen and to conferences at institutions like European Film Academy, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

Publication Details and Circulation

Published in Italian and based in Milan and Rome at various times, the magazine has appeared in print with periodic special issues dedicated to retrospectives on Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Murnau, Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and contemporary figures like Paolo Sorrentino and Matteo Garrone. Circulation figures varied across decades, responding to market shifts involving publishers such as Mondadori, RCS MediaGroup, Feltrinelli and distribution networks linked to Edizioni Sabinae and retail chains like Feltrinelli bookstore.

Archive and Digital Availability

Archival holdings reside in collections at Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Cineteca di Bologna, Cineteca Italiana, Filmoteca Española and university libraries including University of Bologna, Sapienza University of Rome and University of Turin. Digital availability has been developed in collaboration with platforms such as Europeana, JSTOR, ProQuest and national digitization projects run by MiBACT and cultural bodies like Direzione generale Biblioteche e diritto d'autore to facilitate access for researchers working on archives of Italian cinema, festival histories involving Venice Film Festival and director retrospectives featuring Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini and international auteurs.

Category:Italian film magazines