In keeping with tradition, the 2023 edition of Cannes Classics promises to be a feast for cineastes with tributes to global masters and restored versions of all-time classics.
Cannes Classics Memories of Jean-Luc Godard strand pays homage to the master who died in 2022 by screening a restored version of Contempt (1963); Godard by Godard, a self-portrait of the auteur; and the world premiere of Phony Wars, a trailer for a film that will never get made, described by the festival as a venture where the filmmaker transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs.
Liv Ullman will be present at the strand with Liv Ullmann A Road Less Travelled, a documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar.
Japanese master Ozu Yasujiro will be paid tribute to with screenings of Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) and The Munekata Sisters (1950) off restored prints. Return to Reason where four films of painter, photographer and director Man Ray have been restored and Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, from the group Sqrl, have brought them together into a single artistic object and composed the soundtrack will be screened in the presence of Jarmusch and Logan.
There will also be several world premieres of restored classics. These include Alfred Hitchcocks Spellbound (1945), Claude Sautets Danger Ahead (1960), Frounze Dovlatians Hello, Its Me (1965), Paul Carpitas Le Rendez-vous des quais (1955), Pietro Germis Il ferroviere (1956), Bertrand Tavernier and Robert Parrishs Mississippi Blues (1983), Ulrich Schamonis Es (1966), Leopold Lindtbergs The Village (1953), Pierre Colombiers Ces Messieurs de la sant (1934) and Judit Eleks The Lady from Constantinople (1969).
The restored classics also include Rogelio A. Gonzlezs Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1959), Ren Mugicas Man on Pink Corner (1962), Jacques Rivettes Lamour fou (1969), Caligula The Ultimate Cut (1979) and Aribam Syam Sharmas Ishanou (1990).
Documentaries include 100 Years of Warner Bros. from Leslie Iwerks, Nelson Pereira dos Santos A Life of Cinema by Aida Marques and Ivelise Ferreira, Viva Varda! by Pierre-Henri Gibert, Anita by Svetlana Zill and Alexis Bloom, The Family by Michel Denisot and Florent Maillet and Room 999 by Lubna Playoust.
As part of the festivals honorary Palme dOr for Michael Douglas, the documentary Michael Douglas, The Prodigal Son by Amine Mestari will be screened.
The festivals Cinema on the Beach section will feature screenings of Underground by Emir Kusturica, Thelma Louise by Ridley Scott, One Deadly Summer by Jean Becker, The Sense of Celebration by ric Toldano and Olivier Nakache, the world premiere of Flo by Graldine Danon, for the 50th anniversary of Bruce lees death The Way of the Dragon by Lee, Carmen by Carlos Saura, the world premiere of Mars Express by Jrmie Prin and an homage to the late producer Edward Pressman in the shape of Terrence Malicks Badlands, produced by Pressman.
Also shown on the beach will be LEt en pente douce by Grard Krawczyk, Sarafina! by Darrell Roodt, Alberto Express by Arthur Joff and the world premiere of Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger.