Hitchcock Restoration Selected For Cannes Classics

Hitchcock Restoration Selected For Cannes Classics:

The BFI is pleased to announce that the newly restored print of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Ring (1927) will screen in this year’s Cannes Classics at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday 19th May, 5.30pm, Salle Buñuel. Palais des Festivals.
The Cannes screening of this new restoration will be a curtain-raiser for the BFI’s summer blockbuster The Genius of Hitchcock which includes screenings of the new BFI restorations of all nine of Hitchcock’s surviving silent films.
The project will feature a full retrospective of Hitchcock’s work and a range of spectacular, one-off musical events as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Additional events, lectures, debates, screenings, celebrity guests, a new BFI publication 39 Steps to Alfred Hitchcock and new web resources add up to a rich and rare celebration (June – October 2012).