A century after its birth on 8 March 1924, the Band Apart film association remembers Walter Chiari, one of the most popular stars of the Italian scene after the Second World War. In his honor, a small film festival "100 revolutions of Walter" is proposed which starts on Tuesday 5 March with the screening of "That Ghost of My Husband" (1950) by Camillo Mastrocinque.
«Endowed with instinctive sympathy and great verve, Chiari established himself in the magazine and in vaudeville, achieving extraordinary success for decades but it was TV, of which he was one of the elegant entertainers for years, that consecrated him as one of the most familiar faces of local entertainment, until some sensational legal events undermined its fame", recall the organizers of the event.
«He loved cinema a little less, even if his filmography boasts around a hundred titles, although mostly irrelevant - they add - Among these stand out some unknown works, sometimes authorial, absolutely to be (re)discovered in order to appreciate the acting facets of a interpreter that the seventh art has often not taken into account".
Some of these films will be the subject of Walter's 100 rpm review, divided into three events: after today's event, we continue on Tuesday 12th with "Il giorno" (1964) by Dino Risi and finally on the 19th with "Io, io, io ... and the others” (1966) by Alessandro Blasetti. “It will be an opportunity to pay homage to one of the most original, prolific and beloved actors of his generation and rescue him from the incredible oblivion to which he is still unjustly relegated today”.
The appointments are at 8.45pm at the association's headquarters in via Canalis in Oristano.
