Marcel L'Herbier

Marcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur (April 23, 1888 or 1890 – November 26, 1979) was a French writer, producer and director. He was the founder and President of the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques.^[1] Chiang Kai-sheks Légion dhonneur. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Early life

L'Herbier was born in Paris, he attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris and later the University of Paris where he studied Law. L'Herbier started out as a writer, he wrote plays, poetry and essays but it wasn't until he became intersted in the medium of film that he found his true vocation. During World War I, after having been in the Service Auxiliaire from 1914-1917, L'Herbier was put into cinematography section of the French army from 1917-1918. It was during the time spent here, that he came to realise the power of the film medium and its potential. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur Tossed by the waves, she does not founder Coordinates : , Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) Administration Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Département Paris (75) Région ÃŽle-de-France Mayor Bertrand Delanoë (PS) City (commune) Characteristics Land Area 86. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire French Empire Italy Russian Empire Kingdom of Serbia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria German Empire Ottoman Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Ferdinand Foch Nikolay II Nikolay Yudenich Radomir Putnik Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Reinhard Scheer Franz Josef I Oskar...

Career

After the War L'Herbier's career in film really started to take off, in 1918 he directed his first feature length film Rose-France. He gained early prominence from 1919 to 1922 with a number of films for Gaumont's Série Pax, most notably L'Homme du large and El Dorado. In 1922 he set up his own production company, Cinégraphic. Résurrection and L'Inhumaine followed. These films and the earlier ones, helped to put L'Herbier right amongst the leaders of French Avant-garde cinema. Inspired by Abel Gance's Napoléon, L'Herbier directed his 1928 silent epic L'Argent an updating of Émile Zola's novel L'Argent. The film starred Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory and Yvette Guilbert. L'Herbier's and his Cinégraphic company influenced and helped many other film makers such as Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara. Gaumont Pictures was founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). ... Resurrection is the name of a number of motion pictures, both silent and in various languages, based on the Leo Tolstoy novel of the same title. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Abel Gance (October 25, 1889 - November 10, 1981) a world renowned French film director, producer, writer, actor and editor. ... Napoléon is an epic (1927) silent French film directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of the rise of Napoleon I of France. ... Émile Zola Émile Zola (April 2, 1840 – September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. ... LArgent is a 1891 novel by Emile Zola, the eighteenth in his Les Rougon-Macquart series. ... Brigitte Helm in Metropolis Brigitte Helm (March 17, 1908 – June 11, 1996) was a German actress. ... Yvette Guilbert, born January 20, 1867 in Paris, France – died February 4, 1944 in Aix-en-Provence, was a music-hall singer and actress. ... Claude Autant-Lara (b. ...

In 1930 L'Herbier directed his first talkie L'Enfant de l'amour, it wasn't particularly well received and marked the start of L'Herbier's transition into a more mainstream film maker. In 1937 L'Herbier co-founded the film technicians union CGT, he was General Secretary and later President. 1943 brought about L'Herbier's greatest contribution to film, he founded the film school the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). The French Government helped fund the school and the IDHEC taught all manner of technical courses in film production, film history, film theory and film criticism. ^[2] Notable alumni from the IDHEC include; Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Volker Schlöndorff, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Claude Sautet, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Patrice Leconte and Costa Gavras.^[3] L'Herbier was President of the IDHEC for 25 years. In 1986 the IDHEC became the Fondation Européene des Métiers de l'Image et du son, better known as La Fémis. A sound film (or talkie) is a motion picture with synchronized sound, as opposed to a silent movie. ... Mainstream is, generally, the common current of thought of the majority. ... Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was a French film director. ... Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 in Vannes, France) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, and Last Year at Marienbad (Lannée dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. ... Volker Schlondorff Volker Schlöndorff (born in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31, 1939) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. ... Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1st, 1943) is a French film director. ... Claude Sautet - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Nelso Pereira dos Santos is a Brazilian movie director. ... Patrice Leconte (born November 12, 1947, in Paris, France) is a French film director and screenwriter. ... Constantinos Gavras (born February 12, 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece), better known as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French filmmaker best known for films with overt political themes. ...

Later career

From 1952 to 1962 L'Herbier moved to television production, he was a pioneer of cultural programmes for French TV, he also worked for Luxembourg and Swiss TV. L'Herbier continued to write for Newspapers and in 1953 he helped establish Le Monde's cinema section. He wrote his memoirs in 1978 La tête qui tourne (The head that shoots/turns). Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ...

Reference

External link

• Marcel L'Herbier at the Internet Movie Database