Henri Langlois

Godard Cinema (2023)

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 ...

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman (2016)

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema's most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à ...

The Extraordinary Voyage (2011)

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 t ...

Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque (2005)

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

Rossellini (1990)

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

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)

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

Let's Talk Cinema, Henri Langlois' anti-courses (1976)

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 cha ...

Conversation avec Henri Langlois (1975)

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. ...

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1974)

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 ...

Charlie Chaplin's visit to the French Cinematheque (1973)

On September 12, 1973, Charlie Chaplin was present at the Cinémathèque française for the inauguration of a retrospective in his honor. ...

Henri Langlois : élaboration du musée du cinéma (1971)

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, ...

Langlois (1970)

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

À la recherche de Jean Grémillon (1969)

Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon. ...

Retour d'Henri Langlois à Paris (1968)

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 fin ...

Louis Lumière (1968)

Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière. ...

Festivals 66 Cinéma 67 (1967)

Wanderings during the Cannes and Hyères 1966 festivals. Interviews with Louise de Vilmorin, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Louis Comolli, François Truffaut. Lunch on the grass of the Cahiers du cinéma, young onlookers on mopeds, ...

Cinéma et Réalité (1967)

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. ...

Carl Th. Dreyer (1966)

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 h ...

World Without a Game (1966)

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

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)

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 ...

Langlois-Keaton à Paris (1962)

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

La Cinémathèque française (1962)

Montage muet français Palais des Congrès (1974)

"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 ...

Les yeux de maman sont des étoiles (1971)

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

Chagall dans son jardin a Saint-Paul-de-Vence (1970)

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

Programme Paul Nadar (1896-1898) (1970)

Six films by photographer Paul Nadar in 1896 were combined into a program in 1970 by the Cinemathèque Francaise. It contains four dance routines and two Paris-based actualities. ...

Matisse (1951)

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 in ...

Paris 1900 (1948)

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enric ...

Le Métro (1934)

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. ...