early spring 2012 series

Cornell Cinema is pleased to present a selection of films that garnered the highest prize awarded at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival as part of its Monday Night Classic Cinema series this spring, with several of the films being screened in new or restored 35mm prints. The Palme d’Or, or Golden Palm, wasn’t created until 1955, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival, which had been given until that year, but we’re including some pre-1955 winners in our series anyway, like Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) and the recently restored The Wages of Fear (1953), “one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot” (Janus Films), which we’ll be showing in April as part of a Clouzot series. Other highlights include Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), in its most complete restoration to date, a film Martin Scorsese trumpets as "one of the greatest visual experiences in cinema," and the candy colored Jacques Demy classic, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), just in time for Valentine’s Day. And don’t miss the spectacular dance sequences in the rare screenings of Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical All That Jazz (1980), being shown in a print that comes courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.