Bologna is the site of an annual festival called Il Cinema Ritrovato—literally, “refound cinema,” although for movie buffs a more fitting translation would be “paradise regained.” Run under the auspices of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, a major film archive, it specializes in the shock of the old: films that have been forgotten, overlooked, undervalued, truncated by studios, or damaged by time, and that are asking to be brought back into the light. Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in which wounded films can be healed. Some of the healing is undertaken locally, at a restoration laboratory owned by the Cineteca. Basically, if movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live.