Cannes Film Festival will pay its own tribute to Warner Bros.
The Cannes Film Festival announced plans on Wednesday to pay tribute to Warner Bros. on the studio’s 85th anniversary by screening a classic movie from the studio’s archives.
Cannes’ Cinema de la Plage will screen a Warner pic every night, including a one-off “Looney Tunes” event, as part of the Cannes Classic section.
The tribute begins with a screening of Mervyn LeRoy’s 1932 I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and ends with 1999′s The Matrix.
The festival said that it will also premiere film critic Richard Schickel’s documentary, You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story, narrated by Clint Eastwood, as well as a night of Looney Tunes shorts.
Somewhat surprisingly, the film series does not include a screening of The Jazz Singer, the first sound film, produced in 1927 and starring entertainer Al Jolson.
