It's all about the Man with No Name at the moment!
The self-professed Spaghetti Western super fan will
introduce a showing of the Sergio Leone classic, starring Clint Eastwood, at a
special event after the Palme d’Or award ceremony. Quentin Tarantino will host
a special screening of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, starring Clint
Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonte, at the close of the Cannes Film Festival.
Festival organizers said the special screening and
Tarantino’s presence would be included to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the
birth of the Spaghetti Western in 1964, the year Leone directed his classic
film.
The film will be screened on Saturday, May 24, after the
festival awards ceremony. Tarantino hosts as a “great admirer” of Leone, having
always been open about how much his own filmmaking owes to the influence of the
Western’s great Italian masters.
The restoration of A Fistful of Dollars was undertaken by
the Cineteca di Bologna and Unidis Jolly Film (the film’s original producer and
distributor) with the involvement of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation.
The work was carried out by the Immagine Ritrovata film
restoration laboratory.
The original Techniscope camera negative was digitized by
immersion and restored to 4K resolution with cinematographer Ennio Guarneri
overseeing the digital calibration, while a period copy printed in Technicolor
was used as a visual reference.
The Hollywood Reporter
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