Jean-Baptise ThoretQu'elle était verte ma vallée : écrits sur le cinéma

“Author and director, Jean-Baptiste Thoret has been allowing us for 20 years to experience, discover and learn about popular, auteur, French and foreign cinema, especially American cinema of the 1970s – the New Hollywood. After having been a critic in the popular and specialized press (Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Charlie Hebdo, Le Nouvel Obs, Libé…), on the radio (France Culture); having animated film clubs (Centre des arts d’Enghien), having written more than a dozen books (Le cinéma américain des années 1970… ) and directed 3 films (We blew it, Dario Argento -soupirs dans un corridor lointain, Michael Cimino – un mirage américain), Jean-Baptiste Thoret collects in this book a sum of selected pieces, writings, essays, articles, chronicles, published from his beginnings until today in the press, the paper and video edition. Qu’elle était verte ma vallée offers, in the form of a robust 500-page printed companion, a sum, a precipitate in the early 2020s of Jean-Baptiste Thoret’s singular, profound and warm thought on Cinema; for all cinephiles, film lovers, hardcores or modest connoisseurs of the 7th art, but also for neophytes wishing to be initiated into the arcana of this lost and always rediscovered cinephilic universe.”