Henri Langlois
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Biography: Henri Langlois was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: İzmir, Ottoman Empire
Adult: No
Birthday: November 13, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 13, 1977
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Cinéma et Réalité
Overview: In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Godard Cinema
Overview: Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-05
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World Without a Game
Overview: Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-05-29
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Carl Th. Dreyer
Overview: A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died. In this film Dreyer tells about the style in his feature films and about the important things in film making: the script and the casting. He tells about his theories about setting and acting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-11-14
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Festivals 66 Cinéma 67
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-30
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Louis Lumière
Overview: Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Overview: Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-19
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
Overview: A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art
Overview: The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Herbert Kline. The film shows footage of great modern artists in their studios creating and commenting on their work, with narration and commentary by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-05
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Langlois
Overview: Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-19
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Overview: A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-22
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À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Overview: Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Extraordinary Voyage
Overview: An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece A Trip to the Moon (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-08
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La Cinémathèque française
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Retour d'Henri Langlois à Paris
Overview: Wednesday July 31, 1968, almost six months after the start of the "Langlois affair" which saw the government attempt to oust the founder of the Cinémathèque française, triggering massive support from the biggest names in world cinema, Henri Langlois finally resumed possession of the hall of the Palais de Chaillot and celebrates his return with a tribute to Charlie Chaplin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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Langlois-Keaton à Paris
Overview: Furtive traces of a visit, a certain February 22, 1962: Buster Keaton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-22
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Henri Langlois : élaboration du musée du cinéma
Overview: Unfinished documentary portrait. During 1971, Henri Langlois was spending his life at the Cinémathèque at the Palais de Chaillot and devoting himself entirely to the development of his museum without ever sparing himself. He needs to touch, place, nail, shape each corner himself, imagining each new arrangement. The smallest detail counts, the smallest fold of costume. He can spend hours adjusting a jacket, and fatigue sometimes surprises him around a staircase ...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque
Overview: Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Visite de Charlie Chaplin à la Cinémathèque française
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Conversation avec Henri Langlois
Overview: Henri Langlois, interviewed in the Cinema Museum at the Palais de Chaillot, talks about his vision of cinema's past, present and future, before a brief jaunt through the museum as it was in 1975.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Let's Talk Cinema, Henri Langlois' anti-courses
Overview: Henri Langlois, founder and director of the Cinémathèque française, is interviewed in his museum at the Palais de Chaillot and talks about cinema. “Henri Langlois's anti-courses” are made up of a set of short films, or more exactly of chapters. Each chapter is devoted to a filmmaker or to a significant pivotal period of such or such a country and of such or such style, or to a group of men whose action was, at one time, decisive for the course of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Rossellini
Overview: A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid Bergman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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