Lyon, France — Four-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón and “Time Bandits” helmer Terry Gilliam will join a star director-studded lineup at this year’s Lumière Film Festival including Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne and Wim Wenders.
Cuarón is returning to Lyon – where he was a guest of honor in 2018 – to present a selection of films by Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner.
Gilliam will screen the newly restored version of his 1995 sci-fi thriller “Twelve Monkeys.”
One of Anderson’s latest shorts, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” part of four Roald Dahl adaptations to be released on Netflix later this month, will screen at Lyon’s plush 2,000-seat Auditorium, where he will give a masterclass.
Like other guests, he will not only be introducing a retrospective of his own films but works by others, as part of an ongoing drive by the festival “to strengthen the link between the past and the present of cinema,...
Cuarón is returning to Lyon – where he was a guest of honor in 2018 – to present a selection of films by Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner.
Gilliam will screen the newly restored version of his 1995 sci-fi thriller “Twelve Monkeys.”
One of Anderson’s latest shorts, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” part of four Roald Dahl adaptations to be released on Netflix later this month, will screen at Lyon’s plush 2,000-seat Auditorium, where he will give a masterclass.
Like other guests, he will not only be introducing a retrospective of his own films but works by others, as part of an ongoing drive by the festival “to strengthen the link between the past and the present of cinema,...
- 9/19/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Rome -- The Locarno Film Festival will give its Leopard of Honor award for career achievement to Swiss director Alain Tanner in this year's edition, festival organizers said Thursday.
The 90-year-old Tanner whose 1969 drama "Charles mort ou vif" (Charles Dead or Alive) won Locarno's top prize, will also give a masterclass during the Aug. 4-14 lakeside festival.
Tanner, best known for "Les Annees lumiere" (Light Years Away), which won the jury prize in Cannes in 1981, is also one of the protagonists in the New Swiss Cinema movement.
In a statement, Tanner said he was "delighted" to receive the Leopard of Honor prize. "Locarno is a festival close to my heart, to which I am strongly attached, and one I have always supported."
Locarno artistic director Olivier Pere said the selection of Tanner would illustrate his "intelligence and independence."
Previous winners of Locarno's Leopard of Honor award include Wim Wenders, Ken Loach,...
The 90-year-old Tanner whose 1969 drama "Charles mort ou vif" (Charles Dead or Alive) won Locarno's top prize, will also give a masterclass during the Aug. 4-14 lakeside festival.
Tanner, best known for "Les Annees lumiere" (Light Years Away), which won the jury prize in Cannes in 1981, is also one of the protagonists in the New Swiss Cinema movement.
In a statement, Tanner said he was "delighted" to receive the Leopard of Honor prize. "Locarno is a festival close to my heart, to which I am strongly attached, and one I have always supported."
Locarno artistic director Olivier Pere said the selection of Tanner would illustrate his "intelligence and independence."
Previous winners of Locarno's Leopard of Honor award include Wim Wenders, Ken Loach,...
- 1/28/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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