Cannes Classics line-up revealed; Costa-Gavras guest of honour

Costa-Gavras has been named guest of honour at this year’s Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).

The Greek-French film director and producer won the Palme d’or with Missing in 1982, was member of the jury in 1976 that crowned Taxi Driver and picked up the award for best director with Section spéciale in 1975.

The filmmaker will be present for a screening of Z, which won the jury prize in 1969, and has had the original negative scanned in 4k and restored frame by frame in 2K, supervised by Costa-Gavras.

Orson Welles

Marking 100 years since the birth of Orson Welles, Cannes will screen restorations of films from the legendary US actor, director, writer and producer, who died in 1985.

The titles include his staggering debut Citizen Kane (1941), which has received a 4k restoration completed at Warner Brothers Motion Picture Imagery by colorist Janet Wilson, with supervision by Ned Price. The image was reconstructed from three nitrate fine grain master positives as the original camera negative no longer survives.

Also screened will be Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949), presented by Studiocanal. An intermediate film print, 2nd generation of nitrate film (non-existent original negative), was scanned in 4K and restored frame by frame in 4K by Deluxe in the UK. The restoration supervised by Studiocanal. 

Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1948) will also be included in the tribute, presented by Park Circus and restored in 4K at Colorworks at Sony Pictures. The nitrate original negative was scanned in 4K at Deluxe in Hollywood before digital restoration, part of the work completed at MTI Film in Los Angeles.

Two new documentaries about Welles that will form part of the celebration include Orson Welles, Autopsie d’une légende by Elisabeth Kapnist, produced by Phares et balises and Arte France; and This Is Orson Welles by Clara and Julia Kuperberg, produced by TCM Cinéma and Wichita Films.

Documentaries about cinema

• Hitchcock/Truffaut by Kent Jones (2015, 1h28)

Co-written by Kent Jones and Serge Toubiana. Produced by Artline Films, Cohen Media Group and Arte France.

• Depardieu grandeur nature by Richard Melloul (2014, 1h)

Produced by Richard Melloul Productions and Productions Tony Comiti.

• Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans by Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna (2015, 1h52)

Produced by John McKenna. 

• By Sidney Lumet by Nancy Buirski (2015, 1h43)

Produced by Augusta Films, co-produced by American Masters. Presented by RatPac Documentary Films.

• Harold and Lilian : a Hollywood love story de Daniel Raim (2015, 1h41)

Produced by Adama Films.

Within the framework of the tribute to Ingrid Bergman, will be screened:

• Jag Är Ingrid (Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words) by Stig Björkman (2015, 1h54)

Produced by Stina Gardell/Mantaray Film.

To celebrate the anniversary of the 60 years of the creation of the Palme d’or: 

• The Golden Palm’s Legend (La légende de la Palme d’or) by Alexis Veller (2015, 1h10)

Produced by AV Productions.  

An evening with Barbet Schroeder

More by Barbet Schroeder (1969, 1h57)

Restoration made by Digimage Classics in 2K. The laboratory worked with the original film and sound negatives. Color grading under the supervision of Barbet Schroeder.

The film will be screened after Amnesia (2015, 1h36) selected in Séance spéciale.  

Tribute to Manoel de Oliveira

Cannes will pay tribute to Portuguese film-maker Manoel de Oliveira, who died earlier this month aged 106, with a screening of Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (1982). It has only previously been screened at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisboa and Porto, Manoel de Oliveira’s city of birth.      

Lumière

To celebrate 120 years since the birth of the Cinématographe Lumière, there will be a screening of a selection of Lumière films in the Grand Théâtre… Lumière.

A presentation of the Institut Lumière, of the Centre National du Cinéma and the Cinémathèque française. Screening in 4K DCP. 4K restoration carried out by Eclair Group, in collaboration with l’Immagine Ritrovata.

Restored Prints

• Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers/Rocco et ses frères) by Luchino Visconti (1960, 2h57)

A presentation of The Film Foundation. 4K restoration carried out by Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory, in association with Titanus, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels and The Film Foundation. Restoration with funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation.

• Les Yeux brûlés by Laurent Roth (1986, 58mn)  

A presentation by the CNC and the ECPAD with Laurent Roth in attendance. Digital restoration made from 2K scanning of the 35mm négatives and the scanning of original elements if they were still existent from archive images. Restoration made by the laboratory of the CNC at Bois d’Arcy.

• Ascenseur pour l’échafaud by Louis Malle (1958, 1h33) 

2K restoration presented by Gaumont. Work on the image done by Eclair, sound restored by Diapason in parternship with Eclair.

• La Noire de… (Black Girl) by Ousmane Sembène (1966, 1h05)

Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Sembène Estate, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, INA, Eclair Laboratories and the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, CNC.

Restoration carried out at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory.

Preceded by the documentary: 

SEMBENE! by Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman (2015, 1h22)

Produced by Galle Ceddo Projects, Impact Partners, New Mexico Media Partners, SNE Partners.

• Insiang by Lino Brocka (1976, 1h35)

Insiang was the first Filipino feature film to be presented at Cannes.

Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project.

Restored by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Film Development Council of the Philippines.

• Sur (The South/Le Sud) by Fernando Solanas (1988, 2h03)

Presented by Cinesur and Blaq Out in partnership with UniversCiné and the INCAA. HD restoration made by Cinecolor laboratory-Industrias Audiovisuales S.A, headed by Roberto Zambrino and supervised by Fernando Solanas upon the occasion of the restoration of all his films which will be released as a DVD boxset (Blaq Out editions).

• Zangiku Monogatari (The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum/Le Conte du chrysanthème tardif) by Kenji Mizoguchi (1939, 2h23)

A presentation of Shochiku studio. The digital restoration is from a 4K film transfer (2K projection) by Shochiku Co., Ltd.

• Jingi Naki Tatakai (Battles without Honor and Humanity aka Yakusa Paper/Combat sans code d’honneur) by Kinji Fukasaku (1973, 1h39)

A presentation of TOEI COMPANY, LTD. The film has been restored from 4K 35mm print original negative into 2K digital by TOEI LABO TECH. The film will be distributed in France by Wild Side Films.

• Szegénylegények (The Round-Up/Les Sans espoir) by Miklós Jancsó (1965, 1h28)

A presentation of the Hungarian National Film Fund and of the Hungarian National Digital Film Archive and Film Institute (MaNDA). In competition at the Festival de Cannes in 1966. 2K film and sound restoration by the Hungarian Filmlab from the 35mm negative. 

• Les Ordres (Orderers) by Michel Brault (1974, 1h48)           

A présentation of « Éléphant, mémoire du cinéma québécois. » HD scanning from three sources: original negative 35 mm A and B colors, 35 mm intermediate film print and internegative.  Restored sound from a 35 mm three-track magnetic mix. Restorations lead by Marie-José Raymond, and the color grading lead by Claude Fournier with director Michel Brault at Technicolor Montréal.

• Panique by Julien Duvivier (1946, 1h31)

Presented by TF1 DA. As the original negative has disappeared, a 2K restoration from the nitrate intermediate film print done at Digimage.

• Xia Nu (俠女/A Touch of Zen) by King Hu (1973, 3h)

A presentation of the Taiwan Film Institute. The first Taiwanese film and the first film in Mandarin presented at the Festival de Cannes. 40th anniversary of the Grand Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique in 1975. Digital restoration made in 4K by the Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna from the negative. The director of photography supervised the color grading.

• Dobro Pozhalovat, Ili Postoronnim Vkhod Vospreshchen (Welcome or No Trespassing) by Elem Klimov (1964, 1h14)

A presentation of the Open World Foundation and Mosfilm. A 2K scanning, sound and film restoration by Mosfilm and Krupny Plan.  

• La Historia Oficial (The Official Story/L’Histoire officielle) by Luis Puenzo (1984, 1h50)

A presentation of Historias Cinematográficas. Award for Best Actress Ex-aequo at the Festival de Cannes 1985 for Norma Aleandro and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. A 4K Restoration from the original négative. New color grading done by the director and the director of photography. Digitization of the sound from a restoration of the magnetic tapes the remixed in 5.1 with new effects and additional orchestrations. Funding provided by the Argentinian National Film Institute (INCAA) and work done at Cinecolor Lab under the supervision of director/producer Luis Puenzo.

• Marius by Alexander Korda (1931, 2h), script and dialogues by Marcel Pagnol

Restoration by the Compagnie méditerranéenne de film - MPC and La Cinémathèque française, with the support of the CNC, the Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain DGA-MPA-SACEM- WGAW, the help of ARTE France Unité Cinéma and the Archives Audiovisuelles de Monaco, with SOGEDA Monaco. 4K restoration supervised by Nicolas Pagnol and Hervé Pichard (La Cinémathèque française). Works done by DIGIMAGE laboratory. Color grading carried out by Guillaume Schiffman.  

Cannes Classics at the Cinéma de la Plage

• Ran by Akira Kurosawa (1985, 2h42)

Original negative scanned in 4K and restored frame by frame in 4k by Éclair. Image and sound restoration under STUDIOCANAL supervision with Kadokawa (Japanese co-producer). Color grading approved by Mr. Ueda (cinematographer), Akira Kurosawa’s close associate on the film.

• Hibernatus by Edouard Molinaro (1969, 1h40)

2K restoration presented by Gaumont. Image works done by Eclair, sound restored by Diapason with Eclair. 

• Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire by Yves Robert (1972, 1h30) 

2K restoration presented by Gaumont. Image works done by Eclair, sound restored by Diapason with Eclair. 

• Jurassic Park 3D by Steven Spielberg (1993, 2h01)

• Ivan the Terrible 1 and 2 by Sergueï Eisenstein (1944, 1h40 et 1945, 1h26)

Digital restoration of image and sound by MOSFILM Cinema Concern. Producer of restoration Karen Shakhnazarov.

• The Terminator by James Cameron (1984, 1h48)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios’ presents the feature ahead of Park Circus’ worldwide reissue of the film in over 20 territories this June.  

• The Usual Suspects by Brian Singer (1995, 1h46)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios will be presenting the film on DCP (in digital format) for the first time, 20 years after it made its premiere at the Festival de Cannes.                                                                     

• Hôtel du Nord by Marcel Carné (1938, 1h35)

Restoration presented by MK2 with the support of the CNC. 2K image restoration (from a 4K scan of the image nitrate negative) done by Digimage Classics.

• Joe Hill de Bo Widerberg (1971, 1h50)

2K restoration presented by Malavida Films and the Swedish Film Institute which carried out the works from the original negative.

Besides, the Cinéma de la Plage will screen as a world premiere Rabid Dogs by Eric Hannezo (2015, 1h40) starring Lambert Wilson, Guillaume Gouix et Virginie Ledoyen.

Produced by Black Dynamite and JD Prod.