Serge Toubiana abandons the head of the French Cinematheque … – Liberation

The rumored for about a week. Serge Toubiana announced on his blog that he was ending his general manager duties of the French Cinematheque at December 31, 2015: “This is the fruit of a long, sober, and taking into consideration several elements. [...] He enters my mind the desire to move on. It comes down to me to write about cinema. I feel the need, time passes. I have thus spent almost thirteen years at the head of the French Cinematheque. Almost a record! “. Former editor of Cahiers du cinema , co-author of a biography of François Truffaut Antoine de Baecque currently for a second season at the head of the commission ahead of CNC recipe, Serge Toubiana, 66, believes that it “have accomplished a lot, thanks to the trust of Costa-Gavras, president of the Cinémathèque, the board, and the public guardianship: the Ministry of Culture and the CNC. “. He operated the transfer of the Cinematheque in the new premises of the former American Center in Bercy Franck Gehry and worked to both keep the historian vocation of the place while searching attracting an audience of young moviegoers. The exhibitions have been either true blockbusters, earning visits per tonne as was the case with that on Tim Burton, others were lesser success (the one Henri Langlois, figure of patriarch-house, for example) .

No successor

In his final season, Toubiana has put the dishes in the big with an exhibition and a retrospective Martin Scorsese in the fall and spring 2016 a similar event around Gus Van Sant and Gerard Depardieu retrospective, Raul Ruiz, John Huston and even Pierre Richard.

The issue of estate of one who embodied the institution for more than a decade arises without any profile stated only necessary yet. It seems that the founder of Lobster Films guru and restoration of rare films, Serge Bromberg think the position often while shaving in the morning; there would also be a natural succession handover between Toubiana fashion and its current and experienced program director Jean François Rauger. But the decision to return ultimately to the Minister Fleur Pellerin, currently in full controversy over the decision to transfer Nicolas Bourriaud head of the School of Fine Arts in Paris.