38th TIFF - The Cinematheque
TIFF CINEMATHEQUE
An Autumn Afternoon
Yasujiro Ozu, Japan
Yasujiro Ozu's final film is the gentle, heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to life's ever-shifting currents.
Though widower Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter,
a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure.
Digital restoration by Shochiku Co. Ltd., the National Film Center and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Special thanks to Janus Films.
Gun Crazy
Joseph H. Lewis, USA
This stylistically audacious, seminal “rural noir” from director Joseph H. Lewis placed American reverence
for firearms in its crosshairs, unloading a sociopathic-erotic crime spree
— and setting the template for subsequent lovers-on-the-run thrillers like Bonnie and Clyde.
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Preserved in cooperation with Warner Bros. from the original 35mm picture and track negatives.
Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais, France/Japan
Alain Resnais’ epochal masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour
stars Emmanuelle Riva as a French woman visiting post-war Hiroshima,
who has an affair with a local architect (Eiji Okada) that evokes painful memories of her first love,
a German soldier, in Nazi-occupied France.
The restoration in 4K was carried out from the original negative by Argos Films,
the Technicolor Foundation, the Groupama Gan Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna,
with the support of the CNC.
It was supervised by the director of photography Renato Berta.
The work was done by L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
Special thanks to Argos Films and Tamasa Distribution.
The Lovely Month of May (Le Joli Mai)
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme, France
Long unavailable in the U.S. and a major work in the oeuvre of filmmaker Chris Marker (1921–2012),
this restoration of Le Joli Mai (The Lovely Month of May) debuted at the Cannes film festival,
50 years after the film first premiered there.
It was created according to the wishes of Marker, supervised by the film's cinematographer and co-director, Pierre Lhomme.
Le Joli Mai is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria
and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.
Restoration and digitization made possible by the Center national du cinema et de l’image animee
and the Archives francaises du film.
Special thanks to Icarus Films.
Manila in the Claws of Light (Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag)
Lino Brocka, Philippines
A brilliant fusion of florid melodrama and gritty realism, Lino Brocka’s story of a country boy traversing the myriad pitfalls of Manila’s urban jungle — presented here in a dazzling 4K restoration — is widely considered to be the greatest Philippine film of all time.
Restored in 2013 by the World Cinema Foundation
and the Film Development Council of the Philippines at Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory,
in association with LVN, Cinema Artists Philippines and Mike de Leon.
Shivers
David Cronenberg, Canada
David Cronenberg’s third feature film announced him as the master of “body horror”
and features a fast spreading parasite that quickly overruns a Montreal apartment complex,
turning its residents into sex-crazed zombies.
A TIFF digital restoration in partnership with Technicolor Creative Services Toronto.
Colour correction was supervised by David Cronenberg.