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Cannes Film Festival · 2015

Cannes Film Festival 2015

Cannes Classics

Programme

7 films · 6 reviews

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Citizen Kane

Review preview for Citizen Kane

The story is wonderfully told, and it absorbs the viewer completely.

James Benefield · 5 out of 5
Reporters clamour to uncover the secrets of a newspaper tycoon after his demise. Frequently acclaimed as the best film ever made.

(Country: US; Year: 1941; Director: Orson Welles; Writer: Herman J Mankiewicz, Orson Welles; Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane) , Trailer

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Review preview for Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut has the intriguing aura of a first episode with all the questions answered easily producing 500 more to be asked.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
Filmmakers talk about the influence of Truffaut's book Cinema According To Hitchcock.

(Country: France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Kent Jones, Serge Toubiana; Stars: Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut)

The Lady from Shanghai

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

(Country: US; Year: 1947; Director: Orson Welles; Writer: Sherwood King, Orson Welles, William Castle, Charles Lederer, Fletcher Markle; Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Carl Frank, Louis Merrill, Evelyn Ellis, Harry Shannon, William Alland, Jessie Arnold, Wong Artarne, Jack Baxley)

Ran

Review preview for Ran

One of the greatest works of art in cinematic history.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
A warlord splits his kingdom between his sons only to see the older two cause chaos as they battle for supremacy in this vivid Japanese reworking of King Lear.

(Country: Japan; Year: 1985; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Writer: Akira Kurosawa, based on the play by William Shakespeare; Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Mieko Harada)

The Terminator

Review preview for The Terminator

James Cameron's masterpiece. A lean, brooding, violent and unforgettable experience from a director hungry for success.

Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
Relentless cyborg tries to alter a planet's future by changing one woman's past.

(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: James Cameron; Writer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher Jr.; Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Bess Motta, Earl Boen, Rick Rossovich, Dick Miller, Shawn Schepps, Bruce M Kerner, Franco Columbu, Bill Paxton, Brad Rearden, Brian Thompson)

The Third Man

Review preview for The Third Man

Lime is one of the cinema’s greatest baddies.

Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
A man searching for his missing friend in post-war Vienna uncovers a ruthless conspiracy.

(Country: UK; Year: 1949; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: Graham Greene, Alexander Korda, Graham Greene, Carol Reed, Orson Welles; Stars: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Wilfrid Hyde-White)

The Usual Suspects

Review preview for The Usual Suspects

Singer and McQuarrie expertly sustain a rich and tantalising conceit, keeping the reader guessing to a superb climax – and beyond.

Jeff Robson · 4.5 out of 5
Five criminals thrown together in a police line-up decide to team up for a high-stakes job.

(Country: US, Germany; Year: 1995; Director: Bryan Singer; Writer: Christopher McQuarrie; Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri, Suzy Amis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dan Hedaya) , Trailer