Georges Charensol
Georges Charensol (26 December 1899 – 15 May 1995) was a French journalist, art critic, literary and film critic.
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Biography
Georges Charensol was born in Privas, Ardèche. At the age of 16, he left to apprentice as a watchmaker in Crest, then in Lyon and Paris, where he learned about the arts and became aware that cinema was one of them. In 1918 in Paris, he met the circle of Louis Touchagues, Henri Béraud, Marcel Achard, Henri Jeanson and Pierre Scize.
In 1923, he became an editorial secretary at Paris-Journal thanks to Scize and at the Théâtre et Comoedia Illustré, owned by Jacques Hébertot, director of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. There he met René Clair, who became a great friend of his. He acted as an extra in the short film Entr'acte, made for the ballet Relâche, created in 1924 by Picabia and Erik Satie.
He was close to Louis Aragon and the Surrealists and collaborated in Florent Fels' magazine L'Art Vivant.
In 1925, he joined the Nouvelles Littéraires as an editorial secretary under the direction of Maurice Martin du Gard. in 1926, he co-founded the Prix Renaudot, which crowned Aragon, Marcel Aymé and Louis-Ferdinand Céline among others.
He met the painters Marc Chagall, Abraham Mintchine, Georges Rouault, Moïse Kisling, Pascin, Marcel Gromaire, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain and the merchant and patron Ambroise Vollard.
He left for Spain in 1930 as a correspondent for Vu and Le Soir, anticipating the Spanish revolution. In 1935, he married Rose Monier.
In 1937, he co-founded the Louis Delluc Prize, which crowned The Lower Depths by Jean Renoir. He became literary director of L'Intransigeant, collaborated with the Matin, and participated in Radio Luxembourg in 1938 alongside Paul Gilson.
In 1940, Les Nouvelles Littéraires was scuttled, only to reappear in 1945. During this period he was a civil servant at the Ministry of the Family in Ardèche, and after the war he took over the cinema section and in 1949 became editor-in-chief of Les Nouvelles Littéraires as well as a juror at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1946 he created the magazine program l'Art et la Vie at France Inter. He met Robert Bresson, Henry de Montherlant and Léon-Paul Fargue.
From 1958, he acted as a film critic for the Le Masque et la Plume and leaved the memory of his jousts with Jean-Louis Bory[1]
In 1962, he left the editorial office of the Nouvelles Littéraires, but kept a film column until the paper disappearance in 1984. He then collaborated with L'Événement du Jeudi.
He was Officer of the Legion of Honor, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, and Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Works
- Georges Rouault (1925)
- Maurice Utrillo (1929)
- Panorama du cinéma (1930; 1946)
- L’Affaire Dreyfus et la 3e République (1930)
- Comment ils écrivent (1932)
- Quarante ans de cinéma (1935)
- Bilans de la 3e République
- Renaissance du cinéma français (1946)
- Moïse Kisling (1948)
- Pascin
- Un Maître du cinéma: René Clair (1952; with Roger Régent)
- Les Belles de nuit (1953; film by René Clair)
- Le Livre de Paris (1957; illustrated with photographs by Janine Niépce)
- Correspondance complète de Vincent Van Gogh (1960)
- Encyclopédie du Cinéma (1966)
- Les Grands Maîtres de la peinture moderne (1967)
- Arlequins préface sur des dessins de Michel Ciry (1971)
- D'une Rive à l'autre (1973)
- Cinquante ans de cinéma avec René Clair (1979; with Roger Régent)
- De Montmartre à Montparnasse (1990; interviews with Jérôme Garcin)
Notes
- ↑ This radio show was directed by François Morel in his play Instants critiques (2011).
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- 1899 births
- 1995 deaths
- 20th-century French essayists
- 20th-century French journalists
- 20th-century French male writers
- Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- French film critics
- Grand Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
