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Jean-Paul Belmondo in À bout de souffle, 1960, by Jean-Luc Godard.
Jean-Luc Godard at Berkeley, 1968. (via)
À bout de souffle, 1960, by Jean-Luc Godard.
“Langlois affair” Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française with Georges Franju and Jean Mitry, was fired on 9th February 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, and replaced by a then unknown Pierre Barbin. Directors and actors of the New Wave (la Nouvelle Vague) like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Marais joined by students, requested in a demonstration held on February 20th 1968 to have Langlois reinstated. The office of Pierre Barbin was invaded as he was calling the police. On 18th March of that same year, a new protest took place, this time outside the headquarters of the Cinémathèque, while other demonstrations of support were held either in the projection room of the Cinémathèque, or in different neighborhoods of Paris, in the province and abroad. Henri Langlois (born November 13, 1914 in Izmir, Turkey, died Jan. 13, 1977 in Paris) was the pioneer of the conservation and restoration of films. He began this archive with private funds and only ten films. Over the decades, the collection grew to several thousand titles. (via)
Jean-Luc Godard.
Anna Karina.
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