Cannes Classics Lineup Includes Mark Cousins Doc ‘The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas’ + Lynch, Kieślowski, Ophüls Restorations & More

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2021 Cannes Classics section. Made up of a selection of restored prints, the roster also includes new documentaries that explore the history of cinema. Among the offerings is Mark Cousins’ pre-opening doc, The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas, which covers a yearly drive with the British producer from London to Cannes. Cousins and Thomas will be in town for the presentation. (Scroll down for the full Cannes Classics list.)

Restored titles include David Lynch’s 2001 Mulholland Drive; 1945’s I Know Where I’m Going! by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1991 drama The Double Life Of Véronique; Orson Welles’ F For Fake from 1973; and Friendship’s Death by Peter Wollen which features Tilda Swinton’s first role.

Among the special events are a tribute to director and actor Bill Duke who will present his 1985 The Killing Floor which premiered at Critics’ Week that year; Japanese actress and filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka’s 1955 Tsuki Wa Noborinu (The Moon Has Risen); Spanish actress, director, screenwriter and producer Ana Marisca’s El Camino (The Path) from 1964; Marcel Camus’ Orfeu Negro (Black Orfeus), which won the Palme d’Or in 1959; Roberto Rossellini’s Francesco, Giullare Di Dio (The Flowers Of St. Francis) from 1950; and 1935’s Murder In Harlem by Oscar Micheaux, the first African-American director in the history of U.S. cinema, as well as documentary Oscar Micheaux — The Superhero Of Black Filmmaking by Francesco Zippel who will be in Cannes.