A Passion for Films: Henri Langlois and the Cinematheque Francaise

by Richard Roud and Professor Richard Roud

Book Overview

"Richard Roud has brought to life a man as picturesque and as contradictory as a Dickens character... Thanks to Roud... a thick and well-kept-up curtain of mystery rises to reveal to us the founder of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080186206X
• ISBN13: 9780801862069
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An absolute treasure for film buffs

This is a really wonderful book by the great film critic Richard Roud, providing the reader with many hours of pleasure, reminiscing about the golden epoch of the Cinemateque Francaise, that bastion of film lore, created and supported throughout his eventful life by sacred monster Henri Langlois. It tends to be a little tedious by providing minute information on the creation of the different Film Archives around the world, but I guess this is part of the whole thing.