Henri Langlois
Nacimiento : 1914-11-13, İzmir, Ottoman Empire
Muerte : 1977-01-13
Historia
Henri Langlois was a French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema.
Self (archive footage)
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.
Self - Film Archivist (archive footage)
Un repaso a la extraordinaria vida del pionero del cine Georges Méliès (1861-1938) y la sorprendente historia de la copia en color de su obra maestra «Viaje a la Luna» (1902), inesperadamente encontrada en España y restaurada gracias a los heroicos esfuerzos de un grupo de verdaderos amantes del cine.
Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid Bergman.
Self
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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.
Self
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.
Himself
Henri Langlois, entrevistado en el Musée du Cinéma del Palais de Chaillot, evoca su visión de la historia del cine y de sus obras maestras.
Director
"On 2 March 1974, Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque française, screened a partly impromptu edit of films and fragments from the nation’s silent film production." - IFFR 2019 Programme "It was originally made by Langlois for a presentation whose origins or motives are unclear, as is the thematic or narrative through-line in the epic, though it is said that when he presented the film Langlois was doing something akin to cutting it together live in the projection booth. It definitely goes chronologically through French cinema, definitely avoids a general historiography and obvious citations, and definitely gravitates towards films shot in Paris, yet none of these touchpoints elucidate exactly what Langlois’s epic essay film was intended for. It was found in the Cinémathèque on the shelves only recently and digitized, embalming what feels like a very specific and quite personal guided tour through cinema, with the guide (Langlois) missing." - Daniel Kasman, MUBI
Himself
Filmación anónima de la visita de Charles Chaplin a la Cinemateca francesa el 12 de septiembre de 1973.
Himself
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 ...
Producer
A woman finds herself mysteriously pregnant. We do not know anything about the father who could be a simple ... bilboquet!
Self
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Writer
Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.
Director
Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.
Self
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Himself
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.
Self
Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.
Lui-même
Self
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.
Self
At the world premiere of "Gertrud" in Paris, December 1964, Dreyer is greeted by many celebrities of the French cinema: Clouzot, Langlois, Truffaut, Godard, Anna Karina. Afterwards Dreyer delivers short comments on the style of each of his films.
Self
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.
Self
Furtive traces of a visit, a certain February 22, 1962: Buster Keaton.
Himself
Producer
"Las prisas de Matisse", ocho minutos de recortes frente a la cámara de Frédéric Rossif constituyen el episodio más completo y presentable de la serie de películas sobre artistas que Langlois estaba interesado en producir. Documento filmado entre la villa Le Rêve en Vence y en el Hôtel Régina de Niza, donde el pintor sistematiza el proceso de corte entre pintura y escultura. Entre 1947 y 1954, Matisse realizó más de 200 gouaches recortados.
Writer
"Las prisas de Matisse", ocho minutos de recortes frente a la cámara de Frédéric Rossif constituyen el episodio más completo y presentable de la serie de películas sobre artistas que Langlois estaba interesado en producir. Documento filmado entre la villa Le Rêve en Vence y en el Hôtel Régina de Niza, donde el pintor sistematiza el proceso de corte entre pintura y escultura. Entre 1947 y 1954, Matisse realizó más de 200 gouaches recortados.
Director
"Las prisas de Matisse", ocho minutos de recortes frente a la cámara de Frédéric Rossif constituyen el episodio más completo y presentable de la serie de películas sobre artistas que Langlois estaba interesado en producir. Documento filmado entre la villa Le Rêve en Vence y en el Hôtel Régina de Niza, donde el pintor sistematiza el proceso de corte entre pintura y escultura. Entre 1947 y 1954, Matisse realizó más de 200 gouaches recortados.
Director
This silent film on the Paris Metro was the first foray into film by Georges Franju and only foray into the realization of the future creator of the Cinémathèque Française, Henri Langlois.
