The last film I saw on my fifth trip to the Cannes Film Festival Thursday night was “Psycho” (1960), presented in honor of its 50th anniversary next month with a newly restored soundtrack, said to be the first in true multiplex sound.
It sounded great looked great too on the big screen at the Salle du Soixantieme, a venue in back of the Palais I had never been to before.
I saw it as part of the festival’s Cannes Classics program with a mostly French audience that was largely under 25. Most had apparently never seen Hitchcock’s classic and seemed a little underwhelmed. Or maybe mid-century California seems almost as remote to them as 16th Century China.
On the way back to my apartment on the Croisette, I stopped for a while to watch the evening’s free offering at Le Cinema du Plage, where the festival was offering Roy Rowland’s “The Girl Hunters” (1962) on a giant screen anchored just offshore while people watched in beach chairs.
Last week they showed a beautiful new restoration of “From Here to Eternity” and the waves were quite appropriately rolling in up to the second aisle.
I’m leaving for New York first thing Friday morning. Thanks for reading.