Overview
- Cannes Classics, which announced its Official Selection on Tuesday, set a program of 21 restored features, three shorts and six documentaries alongside two contemporary titles.
- The lineup opens with a 4K restoration of Pan’s Labyrinth at a May 12 pre‑opening screening that Guillermo del Toro supervised from the original negative and will attend for the film’s 20th‑anniversary return to Cannes.
- Restored standouts include Akira Kurosawa’s 1943 debut Sugata Sanshiro with a newly reintegrated 12‑minute sequence, Orson Welles’ The Stranger, Roger Corman’s Machine Gun Kelly, Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine and Ken Russell’s The Devils.
- Mike Mendez’s Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern joins the slate with footage drawn from more than 50 hours of conversations and interviews featuring Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Payne, Patty Jenkins and others, with Bruce and Laura Dern set to attend.
- Organizers dedicated this year’s section to production designer Dean Tavoularis, honoring the Oscar winner whose work shaped films like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now.