:02:12
The movie was Sam Fuller's
'Shock Corridor'.
:02:16
lts images were so powerful,
it was like being hypnotised.
:02:22
l was 20 years old.
lt was the late 60s.
:02:25
l'd come to Paris for a year
to study French.
:02:28
Here l got my real education.
:02:32
l became a member of what
was kind of a freemasonry.
:02:37
The freemasonry of cinephiles.
:02:39
What we'd call 'film buffs'.
:02:49
l was one of the insatiables...
:02:51
the ones you'd always find
sitting closest to the screen.
:02:56
Why do we sit so close?
:02:59
Maybe it was because we wanted
to receive the images first,
:03:03
when they were still new,
still fresh,
:03:06
before they cleared
the hurdles of the rows behind us.
:03:09
Before they had been relayed back
from row to row,
:03:12
spectatorto spectator,
:03:14
until, worn out, second-hand,
the size of a postage stamp,
:03:18
it returned to the
projectionist's cabin.
:03:20
Doctor, l'm not nuts,
l'm here forthe paper!
:03:23
Maybe, too, the screen
really was a screen.
:03:26
lt screened us from the world.
:03:41
But there was one evening,
:03:42
in the spring of 1968,
:03:45
when the world finally burst
through the screen.
:03:49
Obeying an obscure coalition
of dubious interests,
:03:52
the Minister Malraux has driven...
:03:55
Henri Langlois
out of French Cinematheque.
:03:58
Chaillot offered us all
a free and fair conception...