Book : MÉLIÈS - LA MAGIE DU CINÉMA

Author and director: Laurent MANNONI (France - 2021)

On the occasion of the opening of the MÉLIÈS Museum in 2021, the Cinémathèque Française has published this very beautiful reference book on the life and work, the birth of cinema and the posterity of Georges MÉLIÈS.

Preface by Martin Scorsese.

Many testimonies and quotes by David Wark Griffith, Sergueï Eisenstein, Charles Pathé, Luis Buñuel, Jean Renoir, René Clair, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Henri Langlois, Georges Franju, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman McLaren, Edgar Morin, George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Christopher Nolan, Abel & Gordon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Olivier Assayas, Tim Burton, Rob Legato, Luc Besson, Bruno Podalydès.

With a complete filmography of Georges Méliès.

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(pdf - 40 pages)