Movies: Henri Langlois

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...

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 grou...

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....

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, J...

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 a...

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....

Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon....

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas....

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, na...

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Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema....

A woman finds herself mysteriously pregnant. We do not know anything about the father who could be a simple ... bilboquet!...

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 neoreali...

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 ...

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française....

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 Well...

A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid Bergman....

Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, several films devoted to great artists, with their cooperation, by entrusting them with virgin film stock. Wrote Langlois on the unfinished project, epic...

Furtive traces of a visit, a certain February 22, 1962: Buster Keaton....

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall....