The Dryden will screen Voyage à travers le cinéma français (My Journey through French Cinema, Bertrand Tavernier, France 2016, 195 min., DCP, French w/subtitles).

Writer-director Bertrand Tavernier is truly one of the grand auteurs of the movies. His experience is vast, his knowledge voluminous, his love inexhaustible, and his perspective matched by only that of Martin Scorsese. This magnificent, epic documentary has been a lifetime in the making. Tavernier knows his native cinema inside and out, from the giants like Renoir, Godard, and Melville (for whom he worked as an assistant) to now overlooked and forgotten figures like Edmund T. Gréville and Guy Gilles. His observations and reminiscences are never less than penetrating and always deeply personal.

[source: George Eastman Museum, 2018-Jan-2]