Freddy Buache

Freddy Buache 29 December 1924 28 May 2019 was a Swiss journalist cinema critic and film historian He was the director of the Swiss Film Archive a foundation for the conservation and study of films and cinematography from 1951 to 1996 He was a privatdozent at the University of Lausanne He was born in Lausanne Switzerland spending his early childhood in VillarsMendraz Vaud where his parents ran the Café de la Poste The family moved to Lausanne in 1933 where Buache later attended the Collège Scientifique A meeting with Henri Langlois in 1945 at an international cinema conference in Basle led to the startup with other film enthusiasts of Lausannes first film club in 1946 In 1948 Buache and Charles Apothéloz made a stage adaptation of a film script by JeanPaul Sartre entitled Les Faux Nez The False Noses for the Société de BellesLettres It was performed by Apothéloz amateur theatre company at the Théatre de lAtelier Lausanne on 22 and 23 June 1948 as a competition entry Buache played the part of the Prince Apothéloz company took its name La Compagnie des FauxNez from the play and the underground former winecellar which housed their plays when the company turned professional is still called Le Caveau des FauxNez As an independent journalist Buache wrote the Cinema column for the Nouvelle Revue de Lausanne between 1952 and 1959 and from 1959 for the Tribune de Lausanne which later became Le Matin His continuing contacts with the founders of the Cinémathèque Française Henri Langlois and the film director Georges Franju resulted in an equivalent Swiss institution Buache was one of the ten cofounders in 1950 of the Swiss Film Archive frCinémathèque Suisse a foundation for the conservation and study of films and cinematography He was the director from 1951 to 1996 and afterwards the president of its council His successor was Hervé Dumont who inherited some 65000 copies of films amassed during Buaches time as director From 1967 to 1970 Buache was the codirector with Sandro Bianconi of the Locarno International Film Festival and the second head of the jury at the 1973 Berlin International Film Festival In 1955 Buache was a contributor to the shortlived Marxist review Clartés along with Roland Barthes and others He was also sympathetic to the Algerian independence movement showing a number of films by the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic GPRA at the Swiss Film Archive to an invited audience In the somewhat conservative Swiss political atmosphere of the 1950s and early 1960s his reviews of East German films at the 1964 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival attracted attacks in rightwing journals such as the Bulletin National dInformation accusing him of abject bias insincerity and vulgarity In a 1987 interview he hoped that he continued to hold leftwing views He married the French journalist and art critic MarieMagdeleine Brumagne 8 July 1920 10 November 2005 they first met in 1951 He died in May 2019 at the age of 94 Source Article Freddy Buache from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30