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Lenny Borger, Former Variety Paris Correspondent and Longtime Champion of French Film, Dies at 73
Lenny Borger, Variety's Paris correspondent in the 1980s, subtitle expert and champion of French cinema, died Dec. 23 in Paris. He was 73.
Lenny Borger, who served as Variety ‘s Paris correspondent and film reviewer throughout the 1980s and who championed French cinema for decades as a researcher and subtitle expert for numerous films including Jean-Luc Godard’s “ Breathless,” died Dec. 23 in Paris. Borger created entirely new or extensively revised subtitles for films by directors including Jean Renoir (“Grand Illusion”) and Jean-Luc Godard (“Breathless,” “Contempt,” “Une femme est une femme”), Jules Dassin (“Rififi”) and Jean-Pierre Melville (“Army of Shadows,” “Le Doulos”). He was instrumental in unearthing rare and missing French films, and discovered the nitrate camera negative of Raymond Bernard’s “The Chess Player,” which he found in the East German Film Archives after it had been hidden by the Nazi occupiers of France.
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