Cannes Classics 2023

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It's still a dream to  watch the list of movies in every category, participating in Cannes Film Festivals. Each movie screened in the festival dominate the year later on and the following year also. Therefore, it's more challenging to manage to complete the list of films untill next Cannes Festival.

Thus, I have made my own private mechanisms to compensate this ufulfillment. Firstly, I have watched the one representative movie from the directors who are taking part in 2023. Secondly, I will watch all the movies which had been competed in 2022, as all of them are almost released and available to watch. Finally, I will watch the Cannes Classics 2023, the most alluring official selection from the Cannes archive. To watch classics is unavoidable for me after watching; I will say reading the movies of Chaplin & Eisenstein from silent era.

In 2023, Cannes Classics selection list is mostly elegant and splendid because of, English Hitchcock, French Godard and Japanese Ozu, surprisingly, a pair of films have been selected from later two, and an extra pleasure of Godard's latest Droles de Guerres (2023). 

This tendency is not new that happens with me. I have been suffering this syndrome from my childhood. In the years of 90s, only one movie had to be telecasted on only national tv channel (BTV) on friday in a month. It's was impossible and there was no culture in my family to go to the movie theater to enjoy newly released movies. Therefore, I would listen the trailer of the movies on radio, I would rehearse alone in the closed door room whatever part of dialogue I could remember. 

I would watch movies, listen trailers, act screenplays, direct myself for a cinemas and now I read movies. I think I won't get rid of from making cinemas.

Happy Cannes Classics 2023

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