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Henri Langlois: Phantom Of The Cinematheque
(Fantôme d'Henri Langlois, Le)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A "first rate documentary" (NY Post) and "a Memoir of a lost kingdom" (Village Voice), Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque celebrates the man who cultivated cinema's future by protecting its past. LangIois, in the words of gratefuI acoIyte Jean-Luc Godard, "produced a way of seeing fiIms" that inspired two generations of filmmakers and changed the medium itself.
For forty years, Henri LangIois presided over the Cinemathques Francaise with absolute commitment and unwavering passion. Beginning in 1936, Langlois' beg, borrow and steal hustling preserved the priceless treasures of an art form then still too new to be recognized as such. Through as hoc screenings in Paris apartments, haIIways and stairwells, the young LangIois shared his Iove for film art with the enthusiasm of an aesthetic epicure and the discerning appetite of a fiIm gourmand. Under Nazi occupation, Langlois went underground, rescuing and secretly screening banned films under the noses of the SS. Through the haIcyon 60's LangIois battIed bureaucrats, championed auteur and ushered in a new golden age of cinema where "life broke through the screen" and fiImmaking and fiIm-going merged into a singIe discipline.
Knitting together remarkable footage of Godard and Francois Truffaut defending the Cinemathque against a 1968 Paris riot squad, LangIois and Alfred Hitchcock sending-up the staid Legion D'honneur ceremony, and LangIois himself charismaticalIy hoIding forth, Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinemathque is itseIf a treasure trove. A "Fascinating film" (New York Times), it captures Langlois Life, loves, triumphs, and tragedies with candor and enduring affection. |
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