Méliès The magic of cinema

"We are all descendants of Méliès! "
Martin Scorsese

A beautiful book to accompany the opening of the Musée Méliès
A beautiful reference book on his life and work, the birth of cinema and the posterity of Méliès.

Author and editor: Laurent Mannoni.
Preface by Martin Scorsese and numerous testimonies...

"We are all descendants of Méliès! "
Martin Scorsese

A beautiful book to accompany the opening of the Musée Méliès
A beautiful reference book on his life and work, the birth of cinema and the posterity of Méliès.

Author and editor: Laurent Mannoni.
Preface by Martin Scorsese and numerous testimonies and quotations from David Wark Griffith, Sergueï Eisenstein, Charles Pathé, Luis Buñuel, Jean Renoir, René Clair, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Henri Langlois, Georges Franju, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman McLaren, Edgar Morin, George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, Christopher Nolan, Abel & Gordon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Olivier Assayas, Tim Burton, Rob Legato, Luc Besson, Bruno Podalydès. With a complete filmography of Georges Méliès.

French language
400 pages / 500 illustrations

La Cinémathèque française / Flammarion