Cannes Classics 2019 © FDC
Both Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Easy Rider (which turns 50 this year), which was written by Peter Fonda and directed by the late Dennis Hopper, are both set to screen as part of this year’s Cannes Classics later next month.
None other than Alfonso Cuarón will present the midnight screening of Kubrick’s classic The Shining, while Fonda himself will introduce Easy Rider.
Easy Rider celebrates its 50th birthday in 2019 – it originally screened at Cannes in 1969 where Hopper received the First Film Award (Prix de la première œuvre.
The Shining was released in 1980. Both films featured the legendary acting talents of Jack Nicholson.
50 years of La Cité de la peur will also be celebrated at this year’s Cannes Classics, while three of Luis Buñuel’s films will also be screened; Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned), Nazarín, and L’Âge d’or (The Golden Age). The festival also says that there will also be a tribute to Lina Wertmüller with a screening of the 1975 film Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties). There will also be a tribute to the late Milos Forman with a showing of his 1965 film Lásky jedné plavovlásky (Loves of a Blonde), as well as the documentary Forman vs. Forman.
The Palme d’or was created in 1955 but the Grand Prix awarded to Miracle in Milan by Vittorio De Sica in 1951. It will also screen at this year’s festival.
The 72nd Cannes Film Festival takes place in the south of France from 14-25th May. The festival opens with Jim Jarmusch’s latest, The Dead Don’t Die.
