Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Wenders, Pasolini ... cult directors brought up to date by the 2020 selection just unveiled by Cannes Classics. Each year, this section of Cannes highlights the heritage enhancement work carried out by production companies, rights holders, cinematheques or national archives around the world.
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Part of the Official Selection, Cannes Classics presents masterpieces and rarities in the history of cinema in restored copies, and has selected for its 2020 edition twenty-five feature films and seven documentaries which will benefit from releases in theaters, DVD or VOD.
" As the Cannes Film Festival did not take place , Cannes Classics 2020 will be hosted, in whole or in part, by the Lumière festival in Lyon (from October 10 to 18, 2020) and by the Cannes Cinematographic Meetings (from November 23 to 26, 2020) ) ” , Announced the organizers.
An eclectic selection
Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960, L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni will also be celebrated, as will great filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Federico Fellini who would have turned 100, Bertrand Blier or Glauber Rocha.
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Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation, which celebrates its 30th anniversary, will also be in the spotlight with restored versions of Accattone (1961) by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Shatranje bad (1976) by Mohammad Reza Aslani, a legendary Iranian film thought he was lost.
On the documentary side, a film on Charlie Chaplin Génie de la liberté by François Aymé and Yves Jeuland, with the voice of Mathieu Amalric, is one of the works selected. The classics have enough to occupy us before the return to the theater of contemporary productions!
