Interviewed by Christophe DECHAVANNE, Jack LANG looks back on the third edition of the festival of cinema which he is delighted about. However, he points out the decline in film attendance. According to him, new relationships between cinema and television must be established urgently. "It is necessary to avoid that television does not, by a massive diffusion of films, too great competition to the cinemas," he stresses.
Interview on stage with the Minister of Culture and spokesman for the government, Jack LANG, who talks about the government’s desire to keep films before they fall apart.
Report at the Palais de Tokyo which should become the cinema palace, bringing together the Cinémathèque, the National Center of Photography and the National School of Cinema with the creation of the modern cinema museum and a library dedicated to the 7th Art.Interview of Jack LANG, minister of culture.
Jack LANG, former Minister of Culture, spoke on the financing of cinema and the relationship between cinema and television. It emphasises that its policy has been to combat concentration and to promote all sources of funding and decisions. He fears the TF1 monopoly and the degradation of the French audiovisual landscape.
Inauguration by Jack LANG, Minister of Culture, of the Institut National de la Formation aux métiers de l'Image et du Son (INIS) located in the right wing of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The place is becoming the future palace of the image and the first place in the world that will bring together cinema, photography and professional training. Excerpt from Jack Lang’s dictionary in the presence of Delphine Seyrig, Agnès Varda, Yves Montand and Jean-Claude Carrière.
This morning, Jack LANG presented a series of measures to support and promote creation in French cinema. He also encouraged the public to rediscover the 7th art. Reactions of Jean-Paul BELMONDO, Alain DELON, Claude BERRI and deJean-Luc GODARD.
Interview with Jack LANG Minister of Culture about measures taken to help French cinema: "Funds will be released to support exploitation and I want to regularize the passage of films on television... In the land of the brothers, cinema must not die...".
Interview with Jack LANG on his positions regarding American cinema. He defends himself from being anti-American cinema but would like more reciprocity. 'I think there is an inequity in the economic and financial relationship between American companies distributing films in France and French cinema. We have a lot of American films coming in, and that’s not true."
Henri CHAPIER questions Jack LANG about his ambiguous positions towards the American film industry. The Minister of Culture says he is not at war with the big American film companies but says that "the government has been committed from the beginning to defend the interests of our national industry".
Colloquium "Cinema and Freedoms": More than a hundred directors met in Cannes and discussed the various obstacles that bind cinema around the world, and decided to form an association to remedy them. Declaration of Danielle MITTERRAND: "It is not by chance that the goal of France- Libertés is to help this project to be realized." Jack LANG: "Cinema must proclaim its independence." Interview Yves MONTAND: "We have to support the directors to allow them to realize their work.".
The Minister of Culture Jack LANG arrived in Lorient to attend the inauguration of the interceltic festival of Lorient bringing together bagads from several cities and nationalities. When he arrives by plane, he is greeted by the director of the festival and the mayor of Lorient. Interviewed, Jack LANG explains that this is the first time that he comes to Lorient, that it is also the first time that a Minister of Culture participates in his opening and that he is the first to give money to regional and community culture, previously no subsidy was granted to this culture either from a government or from the Regional Council of Brittany.
The cultural operation "Les Arts au Soleil" is being tested this summer on the coast of Languedoc Roussillon and started in Palavas les Flots. This operation offers holidaymakers street shows in the form of free concerts, painter’s exhibitions and meetings with writers and publishers on the Don Juan goelette. Jacques IMBERT, Director of the DRAC explains what this operation consists of, which offers shows and meetings with artists and writers of quality for an audience far away from those attending the summer festivals.
Report in Collioure where ends for this summer the operation "The arts in the sun" launched on the coast of Languedoc Roussillon with the launch to the sea from a Catalan boat of bottles including personalized messages in the form of poems, drawings of children, testimonies of holidaymakers on the theme "culture is for all" and the cultural diversity of the region. This summer, 250 free cultural events took place on the coast of Languedoc Roussillon to meet the general public. Pascale GABINEL, DRAC Montpellier Project Manager discusses the development of these cultural events in the form of a show, but also around the book and for children. Images of the bottles and their launch in the water from a Catalan boat.
Bruno MASURE talks with Jack LANG, Minister of Education and Culture about the operation "Les Arts au Soleil" which takes place for the third consecutive year on the beaches and in monuments during the summer holidays and offers concerts, street shows, free workshops and artists' meetings with the public. For Parisians who do not go on holiday is set up the operation "Paris quartier d'été" with concerts and in the suburbs schools and colleges remain open and offer sports and artistic activities "for a summer of joy, discoveries and learning new horizons".
The operation "The Arts in the Sun" was presented this morning to the Ministry of Culture in Paris. The event, which will run from 4 July to 15 September, aims to introduce 15 million holidaymakers to art in all its forms. It will take place on the 3,200 KM of French coastline, from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. Interview with Jack LANG, Minister of Culture, who explains the progress of this operation which was already tested last summer on the coast of Languedoc-Roussillon and proposing to millions of holidaymakers, often a popular audience but more accessible in summer than in winter, to discover on the French coast "beautiful things of art: music, painting, sculpture, literature". Images of the launch of this operation in Paris and the columns of Buren in the courtyard of the Louvre.
In Dunkerque, the operation "Les arts du Soleil" and its caravan of artist trailers was launched in the presence of the Minister of Culture Jack LANG and the Minister of Public Service and Mayor of Dunkerque Michel DELEBARRE. Interview with Jack LANG. Images of decorated trailers, musicians and posters of Ben.
Visit of François Mitterrand to Avignon on the 10th anniversary of the death of Jean VILAR. Factual images of his arrival from the airport to the city center then visit the exhibition Jean Vilar.
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