Thanks to a new initiative from state film organization CNC, more classic and important French films will be digitally restored. Some of the films already approved for restoration are Jacques Tati's
Jour de Fete,
Mon Oncle and
Playtime, Rene Vautier's
Avoir 20 Ans Dans Les Aures, Agnes Varda's
Jacquot de Nantes and Jacques Demy's
Le Joli Mai and
Peau d'Ane.
Claude Lelouch, Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard's documentary feature
Far From Vietnam will also be restored, as well as three short films.
The CNC committee, which selects the films that will be restored each year, is headed by Gilles Jacob, the current president of the Cannes Film Festival.
Note: As reported by Blu-ray.com back in March (
here), French distributors Gaumont are also planning to restore 270 films from their catalog during the next four years. The restorations will have a minimum quality of at least 2K. Amongst the films considered for restoration are such classics as Jean Renoir's
Toni (1935), Henri-Georges Clouzot's
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942), and Carl Theodor Dreyer's
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).