Scorsese to oversee Cannes retrospective section

Paris, April 30: Filmmaker and cinema historian Martin Scorsese will serve as honorary president of the sixth annual Cannes Classics sidebar at next month`s Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.

This year`s retrospective lineup will feature the works of such familiar names as Jean-Luc Godard ("Pierrot le Fou"), Michelangelo Antonioni ("L`avventura"), Luchino Visconti ("Senso") and Jacques Tati ("Mr. Hulot`s Holiday"), while Scorsese will personally present a restored version of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger`s 1948 feature "The Red Shoes." Scorsese`s nonprofit World Cinema Foundation will present three films: Edward Yang`s "A Brighter Summer Day" (1991), Shadi Abdei Salam`s "Al-Momia" (1969) and Emilio Gomez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann`s "Redes" (1936). Other special screenings include "To Hell and Back, Memories of Henri-Georges Clouzot," Serge Bromberg`s recomposition of lost footage from Clouzot`s mythical 1964 shoot of "L`Enfer"; and unseen footage from Ingmar Bergman home movies in "Images From the Playground," restored by Stig Bjorkman. Cannes Classics also will celebrate Joseph Losey`s 100th birthday with a Joseph Losey Centenary section complete with screenings of "Accident" (1967) and a new print of "Don Giovanni" (1979). Bureau Report