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La
beauté du geste
2004 -- 97 min. - documentaire - vidéo numérique
French
A look behind the scenes of the Cinémathèque
québécoise, the
year of it's 40th anniversary. A reflexion on the history, the present
stakes and the future of this jewel of Montreal's cultural life.
ONLY AVAILABLE IN FRENCH
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presentation
Between the warehouses in Boucherville and the
projection booth, between the curators and the spectators of the
Claude-Jutra theatre, between the archives and the exhibition rooms,
this film proposes a number of circuits that take stock of the perpetual
dialogue between films and audiences.
press
Montréal: La
Beauté du geste
Journal of FIlm Preservation no 67,
(FIAF)
Eric Le Roy, 2004
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credits
As I finish this film, the employees of
the Cinémathèque are experiencing some difficult moments:
lay-offs, cutbacks, and temporary withdrawal from public activities.
These are the people who quietly – with their loving, calm gestures – go
about making the essential dialogue between films and audiences
possible, day in and day out. They are the soul of the
Cinémathèque, that site of culture and memory in a country
where we forget so easily.
This film is dedicated to them, with wholehearted gratitude
featuring
François Auger
Olivier Boucher
Stéphanie Côté
Robert Daudelin
Serge Desaulniers
Guy Fournier
Pierre Jutras
Nicole Laurin
Christophe Paradis
Gabriel Thibaudeau
Pierre Véronneau
de la Cinémathèque
québécoise
and
Michel Brault
Freddy Buache
Jean Chabot
Sylvia Ipirautaq Cloutier
Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Sylvain L’Espérance
André Pâquet
Nicolas Philibert
June Shappa
and
René Beauclair
Robert Beaudoin
Robert Boivin
Vincent Champagne
Marco de Blois
Julie Dubuc
Dominique Dugas
Diane Gladu
Johanne Marcotte
Élia Martineau
Carole Line Robert
Manon Viens
with the kids from
Marguerite-Bourgoys day care
and day camp of city of Repentigny
and specially
Emmanuelle Duchesneau
who draw the eye
with the voices of
Olivier Asselin
Lorne Brass
Martine Chartrand
Denis Chouinard
Bernard Émond
Hélène Falardeau
Jérémie Falardeau
Pierre Falardeau
Serge Giguère
Sylvie Groulx
Lucie Lambert
Micheline Lanctôt
Michel Langlois
Jacques Leduc
Julie Perron
Léa Pool
and also those of
Robert Favreau
André Forcier
Gérard Grugeau
Pierre Hébert
Michel Houle
Guy Joussemet
Don McWilliams
Anne Claire Poirier
with the Cinémathèque Choir
under the direction of Marie-Josèphe
Lemay
images
Jacques Leduc
Jeanne Crépeau
images of the presentation
of Nanook of the North
Serge Giguère
sounds
Marie-France Delagrave
Richard Lavoie
sounds of the presentation
of Nanook of the North
Claude Beaugrand
Olivier Calvert
Esther Auger
shooting of the nitrate sequence
Guy-Jude Côté
additional sound recording
Frédérique Cloutier
Luc Léger
editing
Vincent Guignard
Jeanne Crépeau
sound editing
Claude Beaugrand
Francine Poirier
and also Martin Allard
assistant director
Catherine Goupil
and also Julie Perron
inline editing and timming
Denis Pilon
titres
Serge Gaspard Gaudreau
titles
Denis Gathelier
folley
Geneviève Lapointe
folley recording
Daniel Bisson
re-recording
Shleey Craig
coordonator for ACIC (NFB)
Marie-Christine Guité
producer for ACIC (NFB)
Monique Létourneau
logistic support at the Cinémathèque
François Auger
Robert Beaudoin
Nathalie Boivin
Stéphanie Côté
Nicole Laurin
Michel Louis-Charles
Johanne Marcotte
projet manager for the
Cinémathèque
Dominique Dugas
with extracts from the following films :
On est au coton
Denys Arcand
1970
Inferno
Francesco Bertolini et Adolfo Padovan
1911
piano score
Gabriel Thibaudeau
El Hotel Eléctrico
Segundo de Chomon
1905
Cine Boom
Robert Russel et Claude Jutra
1964
L’Homme aux oiseaux
Bernard Devlin et Jean Palardy
1952
The Searchers
John Ford
1956
L’Oeil au-dessus du puits
Johan van der Keuken
1988
A Chairy Tale
Claude Jutra et Norman McLaren
1957
Moi, un noir
Jean Rouch
1958
Pour la suite du monde
Michel Brault et Pierre Perrault
1963
Nanook of the North
Robert Flaherty
1921
music
piano
Gabriel Thibaudeau
voices
Sylvia Ipirautaq Cloutier
June Shappa
Le Singe bleu
Esther Valiquette
1992
Notre Dame des chevaux
Jean Chabot
1997
with sound extracts from the following films :
Jour après jour
Clément Perron
1962
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
1942
Begone Dull Care
Norman McLaren et Evelyn Lambart
1949
Boudu sauvé des eaux
Jean Renoir
1932
Entre tu et vous
Gilles Groulx
1970
Entre la mer et l’eau douce
Michel Brault
1967
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
1964
Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais
1959
Les Bons Débarras
Francis Mankiewicz
1980
Konitz, Portrait of the Artist as a
Saxophonist
Robert Daudelin
1986
with the following books :
A true love for cinema : Jacques Ledoux,
curator of the Royal Film Archive and Film
Museum of Belgium, 1948-1988, Anne Head,
Universitaire Pers Rotterdam, 1988
Lettre à Freddy Buache, Jean-Luc
Godard, Éditions Demoures, 2001
Death of Cinema : History, Cultural Memory
and the Digital Dark Age, Paolo Cherchi
Usai, BFI Publishing, 2001
Venise, Art & Architecture, Marion
Kaminski, Ed. Könemann, 1999
Musée National, Guide
illustré du Musée
d’Athènes, Semni Karouzou, Ekdotike
Athenon s.a., 1989
Histoire de l’Art, architecture,
sculpture, peinture, Jacques Thuillier,
Flammarion, 2002
Les cinémathèques, Raymond
Borde, Éditons L’Âge d’Homme,
1983
avec la traduction des citations de
« La Divine Comédie, l’enfer
» de Dante
de Jacqueline Risset, Flammarion, 1985
and the flip books :
Hen Hop, Norman McLaren
The Magician’s Hat, Patrick Jenkins
Gothic Scream, Fliptomania
Gamineries, Emile Cohl
Icare, Julie Perron
Empire State Building, Optical toys
Felix, Otto Messmer
Cat galloping, Daisy galloping
et Miner, using a pick d’Eadweard
Muybridge
with the photographs:
from the exhibit « Espaces d’un
moment » by Jacques Leduc,
from George Eastman House, Motion Picture
Stills Collection
(James Card, George Pratt et Louise
Brooks),
and from archives of the Cinémathèque
québécoise
this film was produced with the financial
support of the Media Arts Commission Film Program of the Canada Arts
Council.
great thanks to the producers,
distributors, filmmakers and musicians who gave autorisation to use
their films and archives: Denys Arcand, Louis
Bélanger, Michel Brault,
Cinéma Libre, Claude Gauthier,
Jacques Godbout, Sylvie Groulx, Michel La
Veaux, Robert Marcel Lepage, Michael Snow,
Jean-Marie Straub, Alain Tanner, Laurence
Braunberger of Films du jeudi, Tony Di
Paolo of Criterion, Anita Benoliel
of Ciné-Tamaris and the National FIlm Board of Canada.
also thanks to
Claire Valade and Marie-Christine Picard of
Festival international Nouveau
cinéma Nouveaux médias de
Montréal (FCMM), to Catalina
Bricenio of Fondation Daniel Langlois,to André Dudemaine of
Présence autochtone,
thanks
to Véronique Dubois for her hospitality,
to Films du tricycle
(Sylvain L’Espérance et Lucie
Lambert),
to Productions du Rapide Blanc,
to Mathieu Denis of Films de
l’autre for his patience, entousiam and skills,
to Sylvain Robert for his wise advices,
to Danielle Raymond for a good help,
to Paolo Cherchi Usai of George
Eastman House for his enlightening comments
and to Anthony L’Abbate for his friendly efficiency
many thanks tp
Jean-Claude Coulbois, Bernard
Émond, René Roberge and
Sylvain L'Espérance for their
generous comments, friendly but sharp and to David Lavoie of
Vision Globale who deliver an important cassette to me, at my place, on a
stormy night...
thanks to all those who been so kind to my camera
thanks to Dominique Dugas for this project
thanks to Catherine for so many things
and thanks to Robert Daudelin for everything.
Jeanne Crépeau
box film
2004
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June
Shappa and Sylvia Ipirautaq Cloutier sing during the screening of
Nanook of the North
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Robert Daudelin in his office
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Stéphanie
Côté checks up a nitrate film
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Michel Brault and the Bolex
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Nicolas Philibert tells a story about a film
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Francine Poirier and Jean
Chabot after a screening
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Freddy Buache in
Lausanne
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| Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
each side of Pierre Jutras |
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