La Cinémathèque française is a French film organization that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world. Founded by Henri Langlois in 1936, La Cinémathèque française is cinema’s living memory. Its remarkable international holding comprises 40,000 films, some of them extremely rare, from the birth of cinema up to the present. La Cinémathèque française also has collections of movie equipment, costumes, models, sets, posters, photographs, manuscripts, books and drawings. A veritable crossroads of cinephilia, la Cinémathèque française constantly takes a new look at cinema across all periods, horizons and genres. It thereby enables spectators to make wonderful film discoveries through films and lectures (4 auditoriums), exhibitions such as Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese or James Cameron, the Méliès Museum, a film library, a bookshop, a restaurant, and young people’s activities.
We are proud to count the Golden Globe Foundation among our major sponsors, for the most ambitious restoration and reconstruction in the history of cinema : Napoléon vu par Abel Gance.
