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Mise-en-seine: Miriam Rosen on the Cinematheque Francaise.(INTERNATIONAL NEWS)(American Center, Paris)
Artforum International, September, 2005 by Rosen, Miriam
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> AFTER TWO DECADES OF GRANDS TRAVAUX, PETTY quarrels, bureaucratic power plays and a latter-day Battle of the Ancients versus the Moderns fed by conflicts of ideas and personal interests, the Cinematheque Francaise has seemingly surmounted the difficulties of being a living legend. On September 28, the venerable institution--founded in 1936 by Henri Langlois and three friends who wanted to rescue silent films from the onslaught of the talkies--will reopen in the whimsically postmodern Frank Gehry building originally designed in 1994 for the ill-fated American Center in the Bercy ...
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