Screening will be introduced by filmmaker and essayist Alexandre Phillippe.
“Every movie ever made is an attempt to remake The Wizard of Oz,” said Joel Coen, one of the many artists whose works has been influenced by MGM’s 1939’s musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s books. Like the Coen brothers, and many others, David Lynch, Derek Jarman, Elton John and Salman Rushdie payed tribute to Victor Fleming’s film, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of a land "somewhere over the rainbow." Dorothy's dream comes true when she, her dog, Toto, and her family's house are transported by a tornado to a bright and magical world, ruled by an all powerful wizard, where a tin man with no heart, a cowardly lion and a scarecrow without a brain are her friends and a wicked witch her mortal enemy.
Winner of Academy Awards for the classic song, "Over The Rainbow" and for "Best Score," the family classic also received an Oscar nomination for "Best Picture." A special Oscar for "the best juvenile performer of the year" was awarded to Judy Garland.
Restored by Warner Bros. in 4k from the original three-strip negative retrieved from storage at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, N.Y.