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I found cinema incredibly inspiring, but I wasn't hearing any voices that felt like my voice in that world.
"At first, I found cinema cold," says Arena. "It means performing before a camera, which is a cold machine – while the public is a collection of people.
A later highlight presented itself magnificently for the director who found cinema most akin to music among the arts, when he directed Mozart's The Magic Flute (1974) for Swedish television.
But Il Cinema Ritrovato has a serious purpose – this festival of "found cinema" showcases recognised classics and largely unseen works, which might have been thought lost, or have been overlooked or underappreciated.
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"I'm glad to find cinema can still affect things". The Magdalene Sisters, Peter Mullan's acclaimed 2002 film, afforded similar subject matter less mainstream treatment.
Yet it was becoming increasingly difficult to find cinema with a conscience, as I like to call it, showing outside of festivals or special events.
I've long been a fan of imperfect heroes, and I find cinema is always better when an underdog is involved.
"People are leaving rural localities in the Black Forest: the younger generation is moving into larger towns where they can find cinemas, friends, services, shops and jobs," says Carsten Erhardt, the leader of the Nordrach town council.
So as a child I found the cinema to be a house of horrors, or I was totally mystified.
Less obvious, but equally interesting parallels might be found in cinema, by comparing J to Michael Haneke's Caché, with its similarly guilty and muddled sense of history, or David Lynch's Lost Highway.
Fancher found a cinema treatment by William S. Burroughs for Alan E. Nourse's novel The Bladerunner (1974), titled Blade Runner (a movie).
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