Unearthed, restored, back on the screen
Distributors in France, the land of film-lovers, are keen on cinema heritage and are always digging up treasures from the past.
Impending general releases will be screened at pre-premières, introduced by experts. Also to be shown will be restorations begun in 2009 by the French CNC's Archives françaises du film, the Cinémathèque française in Paris and other production companies.
Dernière heure, édition spéciale by Maurice de Canonge (1949) preceded by Obsession by Maurice Tourneur (1933)
Escape from Yesterday (La Bandera, Julien Duvivier, 1935)
The Devil's Envoys (Les Visiteurs du soir, Marcel Carné, 1942)
Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954)
Brigadoon (Vincente Minnelli, 1954)
Rififi (Du Rififi chez les hommes, Jules Dassin, 1955)
This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson, 1963)
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Yoyo (Pierre Etaix, 1965)
Far from Vietnam (Loin du Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, 1967)
Soldier Blue (Ralph Nelson, 1970)
Exterior Night (Extérieur, Nuit, Jacques Bral, 1980)
Photo: Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse in Brigadoon by Vincente Minnelli, 1954 © DR / Coll. Institut Lumière
