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.
