Global InformationCinema of France information
| Cinema of France | |
|---|---|
 | |
| No. of screens | 5,653 (2014)[1] |
| Main distributors | 20th Century Studios (The Walt Disney Company) (14.6%) Warner Bros. (9.8%) UGC (6.9%)[1] |
| Produced feature films (2018[2]) | |
| Total | 258 |
| Animated | 36 (5.3%) |
| Documentary | 127 (18.6%) |
| Number of admissions (2018[2]) | |
| Total | 197.1 million |
| National films | 77.8 million (39.47%) |
| Gross box office (2018[2]) | |
| Total | €1.31 billion |
| National films | €493.10 million (43.1%) |
French cinema consists of the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad. It is the oldest and largest precursor of national cinemas in Europe; with primary influence also on the creation of national cinemas in Asia.
France continues to have a particularly strong film industry, due in part to protections afforded by the French government.[3] In 2013, France was the second largest exporter of films in the world after the United States.[4] A study in April 2014 showed that French cinema maintains a positive influence around the world, being the most appreciated by global audiences after that of the United States.[4]
France currently has the most successful film industry in Europe, in terms of number of films produced per annum, with a record-breaking 300 feature-length films produced in 2015.[5] France is also one of the few countries where non-American productions have the biggest share: American films only represented 44.9% of total admissions in 2014. This is largely due to the commercial strength of domestic productions, which accounted for 44.5% of admissions in 2014 (35.5% in 2015; 35.3% in 2016).[6] The French film industry is closer to being entirely self-sufficient than any other country in Europe, recovering around 80–90% of costs from revenues generated in the domestic market alone.[7]
The most influential film directors in the history of French cinema are Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Other important film directors are René Clair, Jean Cocteau, René Clément, Robert Bresson, Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy, Claude Chabrol, Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Sautet, Eric Rohmer, Agnès Varda, Maurice Pialat, Bertrand Blier, André Téchiné, François Ozon and Christophe Honoré.
Apart from its strong and innovative film tradition, France has also been a leading destination for filmmakers and actors from around the world; consequently, French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations. Directors from nations such as Poland (Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Andrzej Żuławski), Argentina (Gaspar Noé and Edgardo Cozarinsky), Russia (Alexandre Alexeieff, Anatole Litvak), Austria (Michael Haneke), and Georgia (Géla Babluani, Otar Iosseliani) are prominent in the ranks of French cinema. Conversely, French directors have had prolific and influential careers in other countries, such as Luc Besson, Jacques Tourneur, or Francis Veber in the United States.
Paris has the highest density of cinemas in the world, measured by the number of movie theaters per inhabitant,[8] and that in most "downtown Paris" movie theaters, foreign movies which would be secluded to "art houses" cinemas in other places are shown alongside "mainstream" works. Philippe Binant realized, on 2 February 2000, the first digital cinema projection in Europe, with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments, in Paris.[9][10][11] Paris also boasts the Cité du cinéma, a major studio north of the city, and Disney Studio, a theme park devoted to the cinema and the third theme park near the city behind Disneyland and Parc Asterix.[12]
A favorite theme has been the French Revolution, with hundreds of titles.[13][14][15][16][17]
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- ^ 20 questions about studying in France Archived 2011-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cahiers du cinéma, n°hors-série, Paris, April 2000, p. 32 (cf. also Histoire des communications, 2011, p. 10. Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ "Cf. Binant, " Au cœur de la projection numérique ", Actions, 29, Kodak, Paris, 2007, p. 12" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ^ Creton, Laurent; Kitsopanidou, Kira (20 November 2013). Les salles de cinéma: Enjeux, défis et perspectives. Armand Colin. ISBN 9782200290115. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2023 – via Google Books.
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- ^ Casey Harison, "The French Revolution on Film: American and French Perspectives." The History Teacher 38.3 (2005): 299–324. online[dead link]
- ^ Leger Grindon, "Hollywood history and the French Revolution: from The Bastille to The Black Book." Velvet Light Trap (1991): 32–49.
- ^ Robert M. Maniquis, "The French Revolution and the Cinema: Problems in Filmography." Primary Sources & Original Works 1.1–2 (1992): 57–77.
- ^ Antoine de Baecque, "Robespierre au cinéma." Rencontres (2014): 271–281.
- ^ Pascal Dupuy. "La Diffusion des stéréotypes révolutionnaires dans la littérature et le cinéma anglo-saxons (1789–1989)." Annales historiques de la Révolution française (1996) pp. 511–528.