“In James Dean, contemporary youth recognizes itself completely, less for the reasons that are usually said-violence, sadism, frenzy, darkness, pessimism and cruelty- than for others infinitely more simple and everyday: emotional modesty, fantasy every moment, the eternal taste of adolescence for the test, drunkenness, pride and regret at feeling ‘outside' of society, refusal of the desire to belong, and finally the acceptance-or refusal-of the world as it is.”-François Truffaut
This series presents beautiful new digital restorations of the three films James Dean made for Warner Brothers: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant. In the case of East of Eden, for which the originals sustained heavy physical damage due to the popularity of the film, and Giant, the digital restorations were made as 4K scans from the original 35mm camera negatives. The restoration of Rebel Without a Cause was completed from an 8K scan of the original CinemaScope camera negative, which because of color fading issues can no longer be used to make an acceptable 35mm print. With these new restorations, screened here in 4K, James Dean will remain forever young for generations of viewers.