Through Nightmare Classic, the historic section curated by our programmer Carlo Tagliazucca, Ravenna Nightmare can showcase the cinema of the past thanks to retrospectives and homages, highlighting its constant importance and influence and showcasing important titles, mostly restored and belonging to film archives and private collections.
The titles that make up the Nightmare Classic selection for this year, focused on the relationship between noir and melodrama, are:
Vertigine by Otto Preminger, 1944;
99 River Street by Phil Karlson, 1953;
Out of The Past by Jacques Tourneur, 1947.
