Films about films are also films. As a novelist writing an essay on someone else's work, a filmmaker can create new images by recounting the history of cinema. Cannes Classics offers a particular venue for these films, these documentaries on filmmaking.
In the 2006 programme we find: one director (John Ford) and one legend (John Wayne), one actor and his century (Marcello Mastroianni), one film (Rome Open City) whose story also tells of the birth of neo-realism.