Martin Scorsese launches a virtual cinema to screen classics of the seventh art

To promote, save and save classic cinema from oblivion, Martin Scorsese spares no effort and has worked for more than three decades at the head of the association The Film Foundation, which has helped restore nearly a thousand films since its creation.

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The association will launch a new initiative on May 9: a virtual screening room (the address of the platform, which is not currently available in France, is here).

At the beginning of each month, a feature film will be honoured.

On May 9, the gothic romance, a big hit at the English box office in 1945,

by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger will open the ball.

The Film Foundation oversaw its restoration with the British film library, the BFI.

The film had had the honors last summer of a Cannes Classics session at the Cannes Film Festival.

Scorsese's personal connection with Powell

The opportunity for moviegoers to rediscover the story of this ambitious young Englishwoman (Wendy Hiller), desiring a wealthy marriage, who travels to the Hebrides to marry her wealthy older fiancé.

When time separates them on different islands, she begins to have doubts about the merits of this arrangement and to be torn between this man and a naval officer (Roger Livesey).

Each work selected by The Film Foundation will be available for a 24-hour window on the second Monday of each month.

The online and virtual screening will be accompanied by discussions with historians, filmmakers and archivists who will tell about the restoration process.

Like a real cinema session, the event will start at a given time.

I Know Where I'm Going

will be preceded by an introductory word from Martin Scorsese.

Then comes Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, the favorite editor of the director of

and widow of Michael Powell.

Martin Scorsese had played the matchmaker between the two artists.

Filmmakers Joanna Hogg

), Kevin Macdonald (

) and comedian Tilda Swinton will also speak to explain why this film has mattered in their film careers and education.

After

will follow

by Federico Fellini, the Indian classic

the film noir

by Edgar G. Ulmer,

by Arthur D. Ripley, the Angolan political drama

by Sarah Maldoror,

of Marlon Brando and

of John Huston.