Pierre Lherminier
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2 January 1931
Pierre Lherminier | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pierre Thévenet 2 January 1931 Oullins, France |
| Died | 25 January 2021(2021-01-25) (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Historian |
Pierre Thévenet, known as Pierre Lherminier, (2 January 1931 – 25 January 2021) was a French cinematic historian and writer.
Lherminier was the brother of film producer René Thévenet. He began working in cinema with his contributions to a French film encyclopedia. He became well-known when he became director of the "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui" collection, published by Éditions Seghers [fr].[1] He published "biofilms" about great French directors.[2] It was released on 22 March 1962 and was commended by Le Film français.[3] Jean Collet's segment on Jean-Luc Godard sold over 500,000 copies.
In 1968, he entered a film competition with the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, but it was cancelled due to the events of May 68. In 1970, he left Seghers and joined Robert Laffont [fr]. Five years later, he became an independent publisher and reprised "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui" and created several other collections. When "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui" was re-released in 1979, it was once again hailed by critics in the Revue du cinéma.[4] He stopped self-publishing in 1988 and joined upper management at Éditions des Quatre-Vents.[5] He would sign several books and assist in the publishing of books by Jean Vigo and Louis Delluc.[6] In 2012, he published the first volume of Annales du cinéma français.[7][8][9] Critic Philippe Roger [fr] called it a "modest and ambitious" project which constitutes a "sum of intelligent erudition",[10] and Laurent Aknin called it a "work of reference for all to order first".[11] He became Editor-in-Chief of Présence du cinéma français and created the bookstore Contacts in 1955, which closed its doors in 2013.[12]
In 1973, Lherminier founded the Comité de liaison de l'édition cinématographique, which organized a cinematic book fair in 1985, an event subsequently adopted by Cinémathique Française. He deposited his archives at the Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives in 1996.[13]
Pierre Lherminier died on 25 January 2021 at the age of 90.[14]
Works
- L'Art du cinéma (1960)
- Luis Buñuel (1964)
- Jean Vigo (1967)
- Cinéma 2000 (1974)
- Cinéma pleine page : l'édition cinématographique de langue française (1985)
- Chronique du cinéma (1992)
- Signoret, Montand : deux vies dans le siècle (2005)
- Jean Vigo, un cinéma singulier (2007)
- Louis Delluc et le cinéma français (2008)
- Annales du cinéma français : les voies du silence (1895-1929) (2012)
References
- ↑ "Biographie de Pierre Lherminier". France Culture (in French). 4 December 2005.
- ↑ "LE GUIDE DU CHERCHEUR D'OR". Le Monde (in French). 25 April 1985.
- ↑ "Cinéma d'aujourd'hui". Le Film français (in French). Paris. 6 April 1962.
- ↑ "POUR LA PLUS GRANDE JOIE DES CINÉPHILES". Le Monde (in French). 14 June 1979.
- ↑ Bauvy, Jacques (1989). Pierre Lherminier : le danseur de corde dans un bain de jouvence (in French). Script.
- ↑ "Louis Delluc aurait cent ans Pour célébrer le centenaire du cinéaste également essayiste et critique l'intégrale de ses écrits". Le Monde (in French). 2 January 1991.
- ↑ "Quand la France avait le premier cinéma du monde..." Bibliobs (in French). 17 May 2013.
- ↑ "Quand la France était reine du cinéma". Le Monde (in French). 14 February 2013.
- ↑ "Aux premiers âges du cinéma". L'Humanité (in French). 2 January 2013.
- ↑ "Annales du cinéma français". Études (in French).
- ↑ "Livres de cinéma" (PDF). L'Avant-scène cinéma (in French). 2013.
- ↑ "La librairie Contacts ferme ses portes à la fleur de l'âge". AFCinema (in French). 8 September 2013.
- ↑ "Pierre Lherminier, éditeur". Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (in French).
- ↑ "Décès de Pierre Lherminier, éditeur et historien du cinéma". Livres Hebdo (in French). 4 February 2021.
