● ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PLACES is the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Italy. For on each evening in the last week of June, this vast open space is converted into an open-air cinema for free screenings of classic movies, as part of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival.
For a cinephile it is hard to top the experience of watching, say, Stanley Donen’s musical in the company of a few thousand people. This year I saw the latest restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s (1922), a
