Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.
Direction
Captures Langlois's hoarding genius without sanitizing his mess.
Production
Rare footage of the actual Cinémathèque vaults—film cans everywhere.
Director
Eila Hershon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Langlois's 1968 firing sparked the May protests that canceled Cannes, essentially inventing the film-festival-as-political-stage.
He supposedly saved 80,000 films including nitrate prints that studios wanted destroyed—some were literally pulled from trash heaps.
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