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9/2 - |
During a meeting of the administrative council of the Cinémathèque Française, Pierre Moinot is elected to the presidency, replacing film director Marc Allégret. Moinot demands the suspension of founder Henri Langlois and that he be replaced by Pierre Barbin. [MORE] [ADD] |
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10/2 - |
Le Monde publishes a protest signed by 40 directors at the ousting of Henri Langlois as head of the Cinémathèque Française. [MORE] [ADD] |
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8/4 - |
Minister for Information George Gorse authorises the release of Romain Gary’s Les Oiseaux vont mourir au Péron (The Birds Come to Die in Peru) despite a request from the Cinema Control Commission for it to be banned. Jean Seberg and Maurice Ronet star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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17/4 - |
François Truffaut’s La Mariée était en noir (The Bride Wore Black) is released. Based on a novel by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich), it stars Jean Seberg as an avenging widow tracking down the men who killed her husband on their wedding day. [MORE] [ADD] |
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30/4 - |
Henri Langlois is re-instated as head of the Cinémathèque Française after protracted protests about his sacking. [MORE] [ADD] |
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6/5 - |
Robert Favre Le Bret, the general organiser of the Cannes Film Festival, promises the daily paper, Combat, that "this year's Festival will have sportsmen, musicians, festivities of all kinds and a truly exceptional selection of films." [MORE] [ADD] |
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18/5 - |
A group of protestors, including Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Lelouch, Claude Berri, the critic Jean-Louis Bory and the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, prevent the screening of the Carlos Saura's Peppermint Frappé at the Cannes Film Festival in support of the student protests in Paris. Four members of the jury, including Louis Malle and Roman Polanski, resign their positions, and Alain Resnais, Milos Forman and Carlos Saura withdraw their films from the Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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30/10 - |
Alain Cavalier’s La Chamade (Heartbeat), based on the novel by Françoise Sagan is released. Michel Piccoli and Catherine Deneuve star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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11/11 - |
Walerian Borowczyk, a French director of Polish origin, wins the art film prize for his Goto, l'ile d'amour (Goto, the Island of Love), which stars Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Ginette Leclerc and René Dary. [MORE] [ADD] |
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12/11 - |
The classes of the Institute of Advanced Cinema Studies (IDHEC) are held in the Raleigh Cinema building in rue des Vignes, Paris from today. [MORE] [ADD] |
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22/12 - |
Three Parisian sex cinemas, the Strasbourg, Rex and Bosphore, are closed by the police for two months. [MORE] [ADD] |
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France 1968 - Other Films of Note |
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Baisers voles (Stolen Kisses) (François Truffaut) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Les Biches (Claude Chabrol) [MORE] [ADD] |
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L’Enfance Nue (Maurice Pialat) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Immortal Story (Orson Welles) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Je t’aime, je t’aime (Alain Resnais) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Un soir, un train (Andre Delvaux) [MORE] [ADD] |
