- Studio: Leisure Time Features
- Release Date: Oct 12, 2005
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Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque
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- Summary: This documentary chronicles the life, times, and passions of the legendary film archivist.
- Director: Jacques Richard
- Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary
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88Includes insightful and often hilarious archival interviews with Langlois and dozens of associates, as well as wonderful footage of Langlois.
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80A labor of love made over the course of seven years that crucially matches the energy and passion Langlois himself embodied, this deep-dish account of the life and times of the longtime head of the Cinematheque Francaise will enthrall buffs.
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80While the astonishing street footage of "l'affaire Langlois"--perhaps more familiar to the French than to us--is where this exhaustive talking-heads portrait becomes beautifully, bafflingly surreal, the whole project, however conventional, has the allure of a communal embrace, a home movie of a motherland left irrevocably in the past.
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80Mr. Richard's film makes a persuasive case for Langlois as one of the most important figures in the history of film and therefore in the history of 20th-century art.
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jeannen.9Superb, compelling. Answered so many questions for me and revealed to me the intensity of the french love for film.
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