Fiftieth Anniversary screenings of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and Ramesh Sippy’s Indian action epic Sholay are among the TIFF Classics programme un
Fiftieth Anniversary screenings of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and Ramesh Sippy’s Indian action epic Sholay are among the TIFF Classics programme unveiled on Friday by Toronto International Film festival (TIFF, September 4-14).
The selection of 4K restorations include the tardy Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira’s children’s tale Aniki-Bóbó, Iranian New Wave pioneer Bahram Beyzaie’s Bashu, The Little Stranger, T’ang Shushuen’s early independent Hong Kong film The Arch, and Michael Almereyda’s New York-set Dracula interpretation Nadja.
TIFF Classics are supported by Ontario Creates and the Canada Council for the Arts, presented by Mubi, and programmed by Robyn Citizen, TIFF’s director of programming, and senior curator Andréa Picard.
The selectiton appears in alphabetical order below.
Aniki-Bóbó (Portugal, 1942)
Dir. Manoel de Oliveira
North American premiere of 4K restoration
Bashu, The Little Stranger (Bashu Gharibeh Kouchak, Iran, 1986)
Dir. Bahram Beyzaie
North American premiere of 4K restoration
Days And Nights In The Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri, India, 1970)
Dir. Satyajit Ray
North American premiere of 4K restoration
Jaws (US, 1975)
Dir. Steven Spielberg
50th Anniversary – 35mm Canadian exclusive
Nadja (US, 1994)
Dir. Michael Almereyda
World premiere of 4K restoration
Sholay (India, 1975)
Dir. Ramesh Sippy
50th Anniversary and North American premiere of 4K restoration
Gala (previously announced), co-presented by Classics
The Arch (董夫人, Hong Kong, 1968)
Dir. T’ang Shushuen
North American Premiere of 4K restoration.
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