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Chantal Lauby
Chantal Lauby (born 23 March 1948) is a French actress, film director, screenwriter, humorist, comedian and television host. She is a member and founder of the group of comedians ''Les Nuls'' alongside Bruno Carette, Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia. Career Born in Gap, Chantal Lauby spent her childhood in Auvergne, between Auzon and Clermont-Ferrand. She begins to television as an announcer on FR3 Auvergne. Her career on regional offices of France 3 and Radio France where she meets Bruno Carette. Personal life She is the mother of Jennifer Ayache (born 1983), singer of the French rock band Superbus Superbus (Latin for superb, proud, arrogant) may refer to: * Superbus (band), a French pop-rock band formed in 1999 * 18596 Superbus, a Main-belt asteroid discovered on January 21, 1998 * Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (before 535 BC – 496 BC), th .... In one of her films, the album Aéromusical was the official soundtrack of the movie. Theatre Filmography External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Cannes Film Festival
The 67th Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2014. New Zealand film director Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the main competition section. The Palme d'Or was awarded to the Turkish film '' Winter Sleep'' directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The festival opened with the long delayed '' Grace of Monaco'', directed by Olivier Dahan and starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly, which played out of competition. The restored 4K version of Sergio Leone's 1964 western ''A Fistful of Dollars'', served as the closing night film. Due to European Parliament elections which took place on 25 May 2014, the winner of the Palme d'Or was announced on 24 May, and the winning film in the Un Certain Regard section announced on 23 May. The festival poster featured Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni from Federico Fellini's 1963 film ''8½'', which was presented in the 1963 Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection, within the Out of Competition section. The Official Selection of film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France 3
France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info. It is made up of a network of regional television services providing daily news programming and around ten hours of entertainment and cultural programming produced for and about the regions each week. The channel also broadcasts various national programming and national and international news from Paris. The channel was known as France Régions 3 (FR3) until its official replacement by France 3 in September 1992. Prior to the establishment of RFO, now Outre-Mer 1ère, it also broadcast to the various French overseas departments and territories. History La Troisième Chaîne Couleur (1972–1974) On March 22, 1969, the government mentioned a plan to create a third national television channel. Jean-Louis Guillaud, attached to the Office of the President of the Republic, coordinated the preparatory studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didier (film)
''Didier'' is a 1997 French comedy film written and directed by Alain Chabat. It stars Jean-Pierre Bacri and Alain Chabat. Chabat received a César Award for Best Debut in 1998. Plot Jean-Pierre, a soccer agent, has agreed to keep Didier, the dog of friend and film journalist Annabelle. During the night, the Labrador is transformed into a human, at least in appearance, but Didier is still a dog psychologically. Confronted by Richard, the boss of the soccer club that hires him, Jean-Pierre did not need another problem in addition to the ones from his famous soccer players, Fabrice and Baco, both injured only one week before a very important match against the Paris Saint-Germain. Didier is going to help him and replace the injured players. But the real mission of Didier is to reconcile Jean-Pierre and his girlfriend Maria. Cast * Jean-Pierre Bacri as Jean-Pierre Costa * Alain Chabat as Didier / Didje Hazanavicius, the dog transformed into a human * Isabelle Gélinas as Maria * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Jean-Paul Lilienfeld (born 17 July 1962) is a French actor, writer and director. His film, '' La journée de la jupe'', was nominated for three César Awards in 2009, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for Lilienfeld. Director filmography *'' Il n'y a guère que les actions qui montent'' (1990) (short) *'' Seventh Heaven (De zevende hemel)'' (1993) *'' XY, drôle de conception'' (1996) *'' Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir'' (1997) *''HS - hors service'' (2001) *'' La journée de la jupe'' (2009) *''Arrêtez-moi'' (2012) Actor filmography * ''L'été en pente douce ''L'été en pente douce'' (''Summer on a gentle slope'') is a French film, an adaptation of a novel by Pierre Pelot. It was directed by Gérard Krawczyk, and released in 1987. Synopsis Following the death of his mother, Stephane Leheurt, nickn ...'' (1987) * '' La vie est à nous !'' (2005) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lilienfeld, Jean-Paul French male screenwriters French scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cité De La Peur
( "The City of Fear"), also known as ("The Les Nuls Movie"), is a 1994 French comedy film written by and starring Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia of the comedy group Les Nuls, and directed by Alain Berbérian in 1994. The movie parodies big budget American films ('' Basic Instinct'', ''Pretty Woman'' and ''The Terminator'', among others, are directly spoofed) and relies heavily on puns and word play, which makes it somewhat inaccessible for non native French speakers. Synopsis Odile Deray ( Lauby) is the publicist for the slasher movie ''Red is Dead'', which features a serial killer whose weapons of choice are the hammer and sickle. She is invited to the Cannes film festival, where she is faced with the unanimous opinion that the movie is extremely bad. However, ''Red is Dead'' soon attracts the public attention when its projectionist is murdered by what seems to be a copycat of the movie's killer. Ecstatic, Odile brings the movie's intellectually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Berbérian
Alain Berbérian ( hy, Ալեն Բերբերյան; 2 July 1953 – 22 August 2017) was a French film director and writer of Armenia, Armenian descent. Biography Born in Beirut to an Armenian father and a Greek mother, Berbérian spent his youth in Lebanon before finishing his studies in France. He was the brother of cartoonist Charles Berberian. He began his career in the audiovisual field, working as an editor at Canal+. His first feature film was the comedy ''La Cité de la peur'', which was hit in France. Based on a script by Les Nuls, the film describes a series of murders in Cannes. Berbérian returned in 1998 with ''Paparazzi (1998 French film), Paparazzi'', starring Vincent Lindon and Patrick Timsit. The film follows the life of a night watchman (Timsit) who is fired after being photographed at a soccer game, instead of being at his job. He then meets Michel (Lindon), who teaches him how to be a paparazzo. In 2000, Berbérian directed ''Six-Pack'', a thriller with Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Ribes
Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed ''Merci Bernard'' and since 1988 works on ''Palace''. In 2008, Ribes had directed ''Batailles'' which he co-wrote with Roland Topor and next year became a director of the ''Un garçon impossible'', a play by Petter S. Rosenlund and 's ''Les Diablogues''. In 2010, in Théâtre du Rond-Point he directed ''Les Nouvelles Brèves de Comptoir'' in which Jean-Marie Gourio had starred. In 2011, he wrote and directed ''René l’énervé - Opéra bouffe et tumultueux'', on the music by Reinhardt Wagner. A year later, he returned to Théâtre du Rond-Point at which he directed play ''Théâtre sans animaux'' and Sébastien Thiéry's '' L’Origine du Monde'' in 2013. Theater Filmography *1978: '' The Swindle'' *1986: ''La galette du roi'' *199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7 D'Or
The ''7 d'Or'' or ''Sept d'Or'' ( French for "Seven of Gold" or "Golden Seven") was a French television production award (similar in nature to the Emmy Awards), presented by '' Télé 7 Jours'' (a weekly French magazine with listings of TV shows). The awards were presented in the fall of each year from 1985 to 2003 (no awards were presented in 1992, 1998 and 2002) during a televised "Night of the 7 d'Or" awards ceremony (1988 and 2003 were not televised). The first ceremonies took place in Le Lido in Paris. Since 2003, several attempts have been made to bring back the "7 d'Or" awards. In 2005, some sources announced a possible return of the awards, produced by Endemol; in 2008, a second return was mentioned on Direct 8, but this project didn't come to fruition; in late November 2011, the editor in chief of ''Télé 7 Jours'' announced that negotiations were taking place with France Télévisions to try to bring back the ceremonies in 2012. List of award winners The following i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joël Santoni
Joël Santoni (5 November 1943 – 18 April 2018) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1976 film '' Scrambled Eggs'', which starred Jean Carmet and Anna Karina. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau
Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau is a theater located at 14 boulevard de Strasbourg in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The 800-seat Italian Style theater was built in the year 1866. It functioned under a variety of names through the years, opening as Theatre des Menus-Plaisirs (1866–1874, 1877–1879, 1882–1888), then Théâtre des Arts (1874–1876, 1879–1881), Opéra-Bouffe (1876–1877), and the Comédie-Parisienne (1881). Théâtre-Libre (1888-1897) and Théâtre-Antoine (1897-1906) In 1888 it became the venue for the Théâtre Libre company of André Antoine. Although short-lived, lasting only eight years, the theater's pioneering naturalism proved extremely influential. Antoine departed in 1894 under financial pressure, the enterprise closed in 1896, but Antoine returned the following year to the renamed Théâtre AntoineAnne I. Miller, The Independent Theatre in Europe, 1887 to the Present', page 40. with a more deliberately provocative program that lasted unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière (; 17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing '' Heureux Anniversaire'' (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972), ''That Obscure Object of Desire'' (1977), and ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in ''The Return of Martin Guerre'' (1983). Carrière was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school that he helped establish. He was noted as a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of the latter's late French films. Early life Carrière was born in Colombières-sur-Orb in southwestern France on 17 September 1931. His family worked as vintners, and his parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Prévost
Daniel Prévost (born 20 October 1939) is a French actor, comedian and writer. Early life Daniel Prévost, alias Denis Forestier, was born to Micheline Chevalier and Mohand Ait Salem. His father was of Berber descent from Algeria (Kabylie region), a fact which he did not discover until later life. Personal life He is the father of actors Sören Prévost, Erling Prévost and Christophe Prévost. Career After attending drama school in Paris, Prévost made his theatre début alongside the likes of Michel Serrault in ''Un certain M. Blot''. In his early beginnings he both performed alongside Boby Lapointe and became acquainted with Jean Yanne, later becoming one of the latter's favourite actors. Although his television and cinema career began in the 1960s, it was in the 1970s that he found fame through Jacques Martin's satirical news programme ''Le petit rapporteur'', the part for which he is best known. He excelled as an evilly leering tax inspector – "he'd audit his own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
