In 1914, an unknown French director arrived in New York. Four years later, Maurice Tourneur was one of the most celebrated American filmmakers with D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. From his beginnings as a painter, this presentation will endeavour to recapture the essence of an artist who helped to shape the feature film in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Presenter: Christine Leteux is a film historian based in Paris. She is the author Albert Capellani – Pioneer of the Silent Screen (2015, University Press of Kentucky), Continental Films – French Cinema under German Control (2022, University of Wisconsin Press) and Maurice Tourneur – Franco-American Film Pioneer (to be published by University of Wisconsin Press). She is the translator of several books by British film historian and filmmaker Kevin Brownlow and the winner of the Raymond Chirat Prize, awarded by the Lumière Institute in Lyon.
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