For the 5th year in a row, the Festival uses Cannes Classics to place the spotlight on rediscovered or restored masterworks from the past, or ones that have been re-released in theatres or on DVD. This programme is presented in the Palais des Festivals (in either the Buñuel theatres or Soixantième theatre) as well as at the Cinéma de la Plage and in the La Licorne Theater.

Cannes Classics 2008 is placed under the sign of Manoel de Oliveira to whom the Festival pays the most lively of tributes for his 100th birthday, by screening the first of his films DOURO, FAINA FLUVIAL (1931, 18’, Portugal) in the main Lumière theatre, and with Wong Kar Wai presenting ASHES OF TIME REDUX (1994, 120’, Hong-Kong) in the Debussy theatre.


THE PROGRAMME IN DETAIL


Main event: Lola Montes by Max Ophuls


Documentaries about cinema


A selection of 9 new or restored prints


1968: 40 years on


David Lean Centenary (1908-1991)


Kawakita Memorial Film Institute


World Cinema Foundation: second year, second harvest.


Warner Bros, 85th Anniversary