Henri Langlois Movies

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

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his...

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

A documentary portrait of Carl Th. Dreyer, filmed shortly after the Paris premiere of "Gertrud." Through Dreyer’s own reflections on his films,...

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol...

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

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...

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and...

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured...

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

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...

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

A surviving fragment from Henri Langlois’s unfinished Cinémathèque française project inviting artists, writers, scholars,...

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

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

Henri Langlois, founder and director of the Cinémathèque française, is interviewed in his museum at the Palais de Chaillot and...

The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Herbert Kline. The film shows footage of great modern...

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...

Six films by photographer Paul Nadar in 1896 were combined into a program in 1970 by the Cinemathèque Francaise. It contains four dance...