Since 2004, the Cannes Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival has been presenting heritage films and masterpieces of cinema in restored versions, tribute screenings of classics, and new documentaries. A parallel and non-competitive section of the festival, it is supported by dozens of affiliated institutions from the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée to the Academy Film Archive and the Film Heritage Foundation. This year, the section celebrates its 20th anniversary with a series of screenings, including a 4K restoration of Wim Wenders' “Paris, Texas”, winner of the Palme d'Or 40 years ago, and Akira Kurosawa's “Seven Samurai”, which will mark 70 years since the film's release. The highlight of this edition, however, will be Jean-Luc Godard's last film, the 18-minute short “Scénarios”, which was completed the day before his death in 2022. We took a look into the Cannes Classics archive and paid a small tribute to a few films that have donned the “emperor's new clothes” in the digital age.

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