Timeless star of the Actors Studio generation and cultural icon, James Dean is the protagonist of this year’s ‘restoration trilogy’: after Rebel Without a Cause, the restored version of his only two other films, East of Eden (1955) by Elia Kazan and The Giant (1956) by George Stevens, will be presented. François Truffaut wrote: “James Dean goes against fifty years of cinema. Every gesture, every attitude, every expression is an affront to the psychological tradition. The acting of James Dean is more animal than human. For this reason it is unpredictable: what will happen next?”.