Alfonso Cuaron, Terry Gilliam Join Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne, Wim Wenders in a Star Director Lumiere Festival Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLise Pedersen LYON, France — Four-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón and “Time Bandits” helmer Terry Gilliam will join a star director-studded lineup at this year’s Lumière Film Festival including Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne and Wim Wenders.
Cuarón (“Roma,” “Gravity”) is returning to Lyon – where he was a guest of honor in 2018 – to present a selection of films by Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner (“Charles Dead or Alive,” “The Salamander,” “Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000”).
Gilliam will screen the newly restored version of his 1995 sci-fi thriller “Twelve Monkeys.” One of Anderson’s latest shorts, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” part of four Roald Dahl adaptations to be released on Netflix later this month, will screen at Lyon’s plush 2,000-seat Auditorium, where he will give a masterclass.
Like other guests, he will not only be introducing a retrospective of his own films but works by others, as part of an ongoing drive by the festival “to strengthen the link between the past and the present of cinema,” said Maelle Arnaud, head programmer at Lyon’s high-energy Lumière Institute which organizes the fest. “From the start, we created this link by asking actors and filmmakers of today to talk about classic films.
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