Henri Langlois

And famously, the students didn't like it because they liked the way he was running the Film Institute, the Minister of Culture, whose name was Andre Malraux.

He was a, actually, he fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republic.

The minister who was in charge of the film institute, Henri Langlois, was fired.

It was claimed that he was disorganized.

And in protest, students came out because he was very popular with the students.

But when Martin Luther King...

You know more about Martin Luther King's organizing, but...

When he began as a young minister and organizing his community, what was his vision then? Did he say, oh, we're going to get all the white folks on our side, all the liberals on our side, and get some movie stars to march with us, and it'll...

Yeah, and there's a whole chapter on basically the slopification of, like, content curation going forward.

And Henri Langlois, who was the, you know, director of the Cinematheque Francaise and-

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... was one of the formative people to be, uh, you know, collecting and preserving films, and he was indiscriminate.

He was like, "You've got to collect it all 'cause you, you don't know what's gonna be important in fifty years' time." And he was totally right.

But the Henri Langlois of, of, you know, twenty twenty-six would be saving, like, an invaluable amount of, of content.

And I guess what I wanted to say is, whatever FOMO you and I feel about, like, "Oh gosh, I wish I could have seen this thing," or, or, "This movie's been banned," or, "This movie has been, you know, shelved by Warner Brothers," or, "This film was never finished," or, "The director's cut is lost in the, you know, annals of, you know, some studio's archives." You know, okay, so what, what are we trying to...

What, what am I trying to give to my son? You know? What, what, what is actually the thing that I feel I'm missing, and how do we make peace with losing movies? Because cinema as an art form, I do think it is finite.