Cinematheque
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A cinematheque is a typically small motion-picture theater that specializes in historically important, experimental, avant-garde, or art-house films. Often part of a university or private archive, a cinematheque may have only one screen, but larger ones have multiple screens.[1][2]
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History
In 1935 Henri Langlois and Georges Franju founded a film club ("Cercle du cinéma") to show old films from which originated the Cinémathèque Française in 1936.
The idea to archive old films was by no means self-evident at the time. Langlois was able to save many films the companies had intended to throw away. In 1933, the British Film Institute was founded in London. In 1938 Henri Storck, André Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique in Belgium. Also in 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) was founded in Paris.[3]
America
- North America
- Canada
- Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal
- Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver
- TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto
- Cinematheque Waterloo in Waterloo
- Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque in Winnipeg
- United States
- The Screen at Santa Fe University of Art and Design
- American Cinematheque in Los Angeles
- New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles
- San Francisco Cinematheque in San Francisco
- Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago
- Cleveland Cinematheque in Cleveland
- University of Virginia Cinematheque in Charlottesville
- Cinematheque at University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Mexico
- Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City
- Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City
- South America
- Cinemateca Uruguaya in Montevideo, Uruguay
- Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela
- Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo, Brazil
Asia
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- Sinematek Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Broadway Cinematheque in Hong Kong (a cinema rather than a cinematheque proper)
- China Film Archive in Beijing, China
- Korean Film Archive in Seoul, South Korea
- Seoul Art Cinema in Seoul, South Korea
- Cinematheque Busan in Busan, South Korea
- Asian Film Archive in Singapore
- Hanoi Cinematheque in Hanoi, Vietnam
Middle East
- Jerusalem Cinematheque in Jerusalem, Israel
- Tel Aviv Cinematheque in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Haifa Cinematheque in Haifa, Israel
- Herzliya Cinematheque in Herzliya, Israel
- Holon Cinematheque in Holon, Israel
- Sderot Cinematheque in Sderot, Israel
- Rosh Pina Cinematheque in Rosh Pinna, Israel
- Tehran Cinematheque in Tehran, Iran
- Pardis Gholhak Cinematheque in Tehran, Iran
Australia
- Australian Cinémathèque in the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland
- Melbourne Cinematheque in Melbourne, Victoria
- Adelaide Cinémathèque in the Mercury Cinema, Adelaide, South Australia
Europe
- Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in Brussels, Belgium[4]
- Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg[5]
- Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека) in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France
- Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne, Switzerland
- Slovenska kinoteka in Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Germany
- Cineteca di Bologna in Bologna, Italy
- Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal
- Arhiva Nationala de Filme - Cinemateca in Bucharest, Romania
- Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade, Serbia
- Filmoteca Española in Madrid, Spain
- Cinemateket in Stockholm, Sweden
- Cinemateket in Oslo, Norway
- Cinemateket in Trondheim, Norway
- Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark
- British Film Institute in London, UK
- National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK
- Národní filmový archiv in Prague, Czech Republic (and its Ponrepo cinema)
- Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain
- Cinémathèque Méliès - Les Amis de Georges Méliès in Paris, France[6]
See also
References
- ^ cinematheque at Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- ^ cinematheque. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. (accessed March 24, 2015).
- ^ [1] Archived December 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Cinémathèque royale de Belgique official site". Cinémathèque royale de Belgique. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ "Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg". Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- ^ "Cinémathèque Méliès - Les Amis de Georges Méliès". Cinémathèque Méliès.
External links
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- International Federation of Film Archives - Official Website
- Pacific Cinémathèque - Official Website
- Cinematheque Ontario - Official Website
- Cinematheque Waterloo - Official Website
- Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque - Official Website
- Korean Film Archive - Official Website
- Australian Cinémathèque - Official Website
- Swedish Cinematheque - Official Website
- Slovenian Cinematheque - Official Website