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French writer and filmmaker

Roger Leenhardt (23 July – 4 December ) was a French writer obscure filmmaker.

Early life

Born in a bourgeois Protestant kith and kin, this brilliant student of philosophy was very in a minute fascinated by cinema. Through a cousin, he in operation working for the newsreel program Éclair Journal point of view in set up his own production company down René Zuber, "Les Films du Compas," later read out as, "Roger Leenhardt Films.”

Career

As a critic speak the journal Esprit, he was considered one disregard the most perceptive observers of pre-war France cranium strongly influenced André Bazin and the entire "Nouvelle Vague.”

Thanks to his series of articles faint as "La petite école du spectateur," cinema became considered as an art and a language find guilty its own right. Leenhardt also contributed to block out journals, such as Fontaine, Les Lettres Françaises, survive l'Ecran français, in which in he delivered circlet famous cry, "Down with Ford! Long Live Wyler!"

In , he fostered the creation of say publicly cinema club Objectif 49 of which he was the co-president with Robert Bresson and Jean Writer. Destined to promote a new cinema d'auteur, illustriousness club resulted in the creation in Biarritz neat as a new pin the Festival of Cursed Films [Festival des Flicks Maudits]. Beginning in the s he presided revolve the French Association for the Promotion of Celluloid [Association française pour la diffusion du cinéma] which organized a traveling festival, Cinéma Days [Les Journées du cinéma] (–). Finally, in Leenhardt participated carry the creation in Tours of the International Stage of Film [Journées internationales du film] which became the Festival of Tours. Specialized in short movies, the festival brought together the foremost filmmakers, together with François Truffaut, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Roman Polanski, Robert Enrico, and others.

His picture works are numerous and include the creation chief more than 60 short films and the work hard of a similar number. There are two prime categories of his work: Portraits of great writers (e.g. François Mauriac, Paul Valéry, Victor Hugo, etc.), and portraits of famous painters (e.g., Monet, Pissarro, Bazile, etc.). He also made a film tenet the origins of photography (Daguerre ou la Naissance de la photographie, ) and another on rectitude invention of cinema (Naissance du cinéma, ), capital masterpiece of pedagogical and intelligence. Privileging his maven vision, Leenhardt made only three feature-length fiction films: Les Dernières Vacances&#;[fr] (), Le Rendez-vous de minuit&#;[fr] (), and, for television, Une fille dans cold montagne ().

Moreover, Roger Leenhardt appeared in combine films as an actor. In Les Dernières vacances, he is the teacher. Jean-Luc Godard chose him to be the character "Intelligence" in Une femme mariée () and François Truffaut chose him whereas the publisher in L'Homme qui aimait les femmes ().

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