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Above: Sophia Loren, this year's Guest of Honor, in Vittorio De Sica's Marriage Italian Style

The following films comprise this year's slate of Cannes Classics:

Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica)

A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)

Regards sur une revolution: Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (Marceline Loridan & Joris Ivens)

Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)

Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)

Overlord (Stuart Cooper)

Fear (Roberto Rossellini)

Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

The Last Metro (François Truffaut)

Dragon Inn (King Hu)

Daybreak (Marcel Carné)

The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)

Gracious Living (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)

Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)

Les violons du bal (Michel Drach)

Blue Mountains (Eldar Shengelaia)

Lost Horizon (Frank Capra)

La chienne (Jean Renoir)

Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)

8½ (Federico Fellini)

Two Documentaries about Cinema:

Life Itself (Steve James)

The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (Hilla Medalia)

None of these films will be presented on film.

Sophia Loren named guest of honour and Kieslowski returns to Cannes Film Festival. No 35mm prints to be screened for the first time.

The Cannes Classics line-up of film masterpieces, presented in restored prints, has been announced. The programme comprises 22 features and two documentaries, screened in either 2K or 4K. But for the first time no 35mm print will be screened at Cannes Classics “with regret for some or with celebration for others”, according to a statement.

Guest of honour will be Sophia Loren, who won the award for Best Actress at Cannes in 1961 and was president of the jury in 1966. She will be present at the screening of La Voce Humana (2014), directed by Edoardo Ponti, which marks her return to movies.

That same evening, a 4K restoration of 1964 film Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all’italiana) by Vittorio De Sica will be screened.

Loren has also accepted to give a masterclass - a conversation which will take...