Cannes Classics Line-Up Announced

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Cannes Classics Line-Up Announced

Posted April 29, 2013 05:40 PM by Webmaster



The Cannes Film Festival organizers have revealed the complete line-up of films that will be screened in the Classics section of the prestigious event. This year, 20 feature-length films and three documentaries will be screened, amongst them new restorations of Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour, Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Patrice Chéreau's Queen Margot.

Here's the complete line-up:

RESTORED PRINTS
  • Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
  • Borom Sarret (1963) Ousmane Sembène
  • Charulata (1964) Satyajit Ray
  • Cleopatra (1963) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Fedora (1978) Billy Wilder
  • Goha (1957) Jacques Baratier
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Alain Resnais
  • The Desert of Tartars (1976) Valerio Zurlini
  • La grande bouffe (1973) Marco Ferreri
  • La Reine Margot (1994) Patrice Chéreau
  • Le Joli Mai (1963) Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Jacques Demy
  • Lucky Luciano (1973) Francesco Rosi
  • The Nail of Brightness (1975) Lino Brocka
  • Purple Noon (1960) René Clément
  • An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Yasujirō Ozu
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) Ted Kotcheff
  • The Last Detail (1973) By Hal Ashby
  • The Last Emperor 3D (1987) Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Visions of Eight (1973) Youri Ozerov, Milos Forman, Mai Zetterling, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Kon Ichikawa.
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARIES
  • Con La Pata Quebrada (2013) Diego Galán
  • A Story Of Children And Film (2013) Mark Cousins
In tribute to Joanne Woodward (presence to be confirmed), who can be seen with husband Paul Newman on the poster of the 66th edition, the Festival will screen the final film she produced: Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld (2013, 1:29).

Finally, Cannes Classics will also be part of CINEMA DE LA PLAGE where the following restored films will be shown:

Jour de Fete (France, 1949, 1:27) by Jacques Tati
The General (1926, 1:18) by Buster Keaton
The Birds (1963, 2:09) by Alfred Hitchcock
LE Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) (1988, 2:16) by Luc Besson
The Ladies Man (1961, 1:35) by Jerry Lewis
L'homme de Rio (The Man From Rio) (France, 1964, 1:52) by Philippe de Broca
Safety Last (1923, 1:13) by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor