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Oct 12, 2003 · Langlois saved movies from death and disintegration, not just the rags of cinema but the riches as well. It is because of Langlois that Abel Gance’s silent-era epic “Napoléon” (1927) survives.
Jan 13, 2020 · Langlois set out to conceal films the Germans wanted destroyed and smuggle others overseas. At his request, Langlois’ allies hid film canisters in their homes and gardens.
2014 marks the centennial of Henri Langlois, one of the most important figures in the history of cinema. Langlois was a co-founder, director and curator of the Cinémathèque Française, one of the world’s most important and celebrated film archives.
Henri Langlois and Georges Franju met Georges Méliès in 1935. Langlois would devote all his energy to locating traces of his vanished universe and to preserving his work.
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Documentary follows the career of the eccentric, longtime curator and film preservationist of the Cinematheque Francaise, founded by Langlois and Georges Franju in 1936. A fanatical collector, Langlois began by preserving silent films and hiding banned works from the Nazis during their occupation of Paris.
Langlois was co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française with Georges Franju and Jean Mitry and also co-founder of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in 1938. Through close collaboration with the Cinémathèque's longtime chief archivist, Lotte Eisner, he worked to preserve films and film history in the post-war era.
