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Roger Leenhardt was a French writer and filmmaker. Born in a bourgeois Protestant family, this brilliant student of philosophy was very soon fascinated by cinema. Through a cousin, he started working for the newsreel program Éclair Journal and in 1934 set up his own production company, "Les Films du Compas,†later known as, "Roger Leenhardt Films. †As a critic in the journal Esprit, he was considered one of the most perceptive observers of pre-war France and strongly influenced André Bazin and the entire "Nouvelle Vague. †Thanks to his series of articles known as "La petite école du spectateur,†cinema became considered as an art and a language in its own right. Leenhardt also contributed to other journals, such as Fontaine, Les Lettres Françaises, and l'Ecran français, in which in 1948 he delivered his famous cry, "Down with Ford! Long Live Wyler!
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Roger Leenhardt
Born 1903-07-23 (122 years ago) in Montpellier.
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