Cannes Classics program to celebrate Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles

PanARMENIAN.Net - Palme d’or winner Costa-Gavras will be the guest of honor at this year’s Cannes Classics program, which will celebrate Ingrid Bergman and Orson Welles, Cannes Film Festival organizers announced on Wednesday, April 29, according to TheWrap.

Costa-Gavras, a Greek filmmaker who won the Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor in 1982 for “Missing,” will participate in a screening of “Z,” which won the Jury Prize in 1969. Costa-Gavras oversaw the restoration and color grading of the print restored frame by frame.

Welles work will be honored in a centennial with a Warner Bros. presentation of a restored version of “Citizen Kane,” as well as screenings of “The Third Man” and “The Lady from Shanghai,” plus two documentaries about the filmmaker, Elisabeth Kapnist’s “Orson Welles, Autopsie d’une légende” and “This Is Orson Welles,” directed by Clara and Julia Kuperberg.

Within the framework of the festival’s overall mission to pay tribute to Bergman, the program includes a screening of Stig Björkman’s “Jag Är Ingrid (Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words).”

Other scheduled events include an evening with Barbet Schroeder. The “Single White Female” director’s 1969 film “More” will be screened after his latest, “Amnesia.”

In a tribute to Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, his 1982 posthumous film “Visita ou Memórias e Confissões” will be screened. Previously unseen, it would have been only screened at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisboa and Porto, Oliveira’s city of birth.