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Georges Rouquier
Georges Rouquier (23 June 1909 – 19 December 1989) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He worked principally on documentary films, and his best-known work is ''Farrebique'' (1947) a lyrical evocation of farming life in Aveyron. Biography Georges Rouquier was born in Lunel-Viel, Hérault into a family of modest means. He trained as a typographer and then a Linotype operator in Montpellier, and in the latter role he took a job in Paris in 1926. He developed an enthusiasm for the cinema and the works of Chaplin, DeMille, Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, and especially the documentarist Robert Flaherty. He met the documentary film-maker Eugène Deslaw who was impressed by his enthusiasm and agreed to teach him the basic techniques of film. Rouquier bought a second-hand camera and made his first (silent) film, ''Vendanges'' (1929; now lost), about grape-harvesting in his native region. He continued working in the printing business while further familiarising himself wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunel-Viel
Lunel-Viel (; oc, Lunèl Vièlh, literally: "old Lunel") is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Lunel-Viel station has rail connections to Narbonne, Montpellier and Avignon. Population See also *Communes of the Hérault department The following is a list of the 342 communes of the Hérault department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Hérault {{Hérault-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Z (1969 Film)
''Z'' is a 1969 Algerian political thriller film, directed by Costa-Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Semprún, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. The film presents a thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of the democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963. With its dark view of Greek politics and its downbeat ending, the film captures the director's outrage about the junta that then ruled Greece. The film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as the investigating magistrate, an analogue of Christos Sartzetakis, who would be the Greek president from 1985 to 1990. International stars Yves Montand and Irene Papas also appear but, despite their star billing have very little screen time. Jacques Perrin, who coproduced the film, plays a key role as a photojournalist. The film's title refers to a popular Greek protest slogan ( el, Ζει, ) meaning "he lives," in reference to Lambrakis. It was the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director. He is most known for his films ''The Battle of Chile'' (1975-1979) and ''Salvador Allende'' (2004). Career Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in Europe and Latin America, and is the founder and director of the International Documentary Festival of Santiago (FIDOCS). He lives in France. His 1983 film ''The Compass Rose'' was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2015 film ''The Pearl Button'' screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. He received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for his 2010 film ''Nostalgia for the Light''. Filmography * '' La Tortura y otras formas de diálogo'' (1968) * '' El Paraíso ortopédico'' (1969) * '' Primer año'' (1971) * ''La Respuesta de octubre'' (1972) * '' La Batalla de Chile: La insurrección de la burguesía'' (1975) * '' L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Vautrin
Jean Vautrin (17 May 1933 – 16 June 2015), real name Jean Herman, was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic. Life and career After studying literature at Auxerre, he took first place in the Id'HEC competition. He studied French literature at the University of Bombay; he became assistant director to Roberto Rossellini. Back in France, he produced five feature films. He became famous among the general public in 1989, winning the Prix Goncourt for his novel ''Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu''. His novel ‘Le Cri du Peuple’ was adapted as a graphic novel by Jacques Tardi. Filmography Assistant director * ''India, Terre Mère'' * ''Paris nous appartient'' * ''Les Quatre Cavaliers de l'Apocalypse'' * ''Le Jour le plus long'' Director * 1958 '' Voyage en Boscavie'' (co-directed by Claude Choublier) (short) * 1960 '' Actua-Tilt'' (short) * 1961 '' La Quille'' (short) * 1962 '' Twist Parade'' (short) * 1962 '' Le Chemin de la mauvaise route'' (short) * 1963 '' Les Fusi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff (1969 Film)
''Jeff'' is a 1969 French-Italian crime film financed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Starring Alain Delon and Mireille Darc, it tells the story of a gang of thieves who fall out after a robbery and start killing each other off. Plot In Paris, a gang rob a diamond merchant after abducting his wife and killing his chauffeur. The loot is given to Jeff, their leader, who will take it to a fence in Antwerp and then return to share out the cash proceeds. But he never returns. All of the gang believe he has cheated them, apart from Laurent who still trusts his leader. They leave one member to guard Laurent and go to Jeff's apartment, where they torture his mistress Eva. Laurent kills his guard, rescues Eva, and sets off with her to Antwerp. There they find the fence, who says Jeff has the money. The other members find the fence, kill him, and abduct his wife, who they force to tell Eva that Jeff has cheated everybody. Laurent meanwhile has found Jeff's hideaway and kills him. Going to me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Jean-Paul Étienne Dreyfus, better known as Jean-Paul Le Chanois (25 October 1909 – 8 July 1985), was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film '' ...Sans laisser d'adresse'' won the Golden Bear (Comedies) award at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''España'' (1936) * '' The Time of the Cherries'' (1938) * ''Girl with Grey Eyes'' (1945) * ''Her Final Role'' (1946) * ''Dilemma of Two Angels'' (1948) * ''Without Leaving an Address'' (1951) * '' Matrimonial Agency'' (1952) * '' The House on the Dune'' (1952) * '' Alarm in Morocco'' (1953) * ''Papa, maman, la bonne et moi'' (1954) * ''Papa, maman, ma femme et moi'' (1955) * ''The Case of Doctor Laurent'' (1957) * ''Les Misérables'' (1958) * '' Mandrin'' (1962) * ''Monsieur'' (1964) * ''The Gardener of Argenteuil ''The Gardener of Argenteuil'' (French: ''Le jardinier d'Argenteuil'', German: ''Blüten, Gauner und die Nacht von Nizza'') is a 1966 French-German comedy crime fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandrin (1962 Film)
''Mandrin'' is a 1962 French-Italian historical adventure film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Georges Rivière, Silvia Monfort, Jeanne Valérie and Dany Robin.Oscherwitz & Higgins p·378 It is based on the life of the celebrated smuggler and brigand Louis Mandrin who operated during the reign of Louis XV. The film's sets were designed by the art director Anatol Radzinowicz. Location shooting took place around the town of Zakopane in southern Poland as well as the Château de Vigny outside Paris. Cast * Georges Rivière as Louis Mandrin * Silvia Monfort as Myrtille * Jeanne Valérie as Antoinette * Georges Wilson as Bélissard * Dany Robin as La baronne d'Escourt * Maurice Baquet as Court-Toujours * Jess Hahn as Bertrand le braco * Armand Mestral as Sigismond de Moret * Albert Rémy as Grain de sel * André Versini as Le marquis d'Ulrich * Gil Baladou as Le ménestrel * Tadeusz Bartosik as Le gitan Marco * Leon Niemczyk as Le traître Grandville * Claude C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Marker
Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and Essay#Film, film essayist. His best known films are ''La Jetée'' (1962), ''A Grin Without a Cat'' (1977) and ''Sans Soleil'' (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank Cinema, Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy. His friend and sometime collaborator Alain Resnais called him "the prototype of the twenty-first-century man."Wakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 2. The H. W. Wilson Company. 1988. 649–654. Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: "Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique...The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker." Early life Marker was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964) and ''The Young Girls of Rochefort'' (1967). Career After working with the animator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd César Awards
The 3rd César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1977 and took place on 4 February 1978 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Jeanne Moreau and hosted by Pierre Tchernia for the third time. '' Providence'' won the award for Best Film. Winners and nominees Films with multiple nominations and awards The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards: See also * 50th Academy Awards * 31st British Academy Film Awards The 31st British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1978, honoured the best films of 1977. Winners and nominees BAFTA Fellowship: Fred Zinnemann Statistics See also * 50th Academy Awards * 3rd ... References External links Official website* 3rd César Awardsat '' AlloCiné'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Cesar Awards 1978 1978 1978 film awards Cesar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Painlevé
Jean Painlevé (20 November 1902 – 2 July 1989) was a photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé. Upbringing A few days after Painlevé was born, his mother, Marguerite Petit de Villeneuve, died from complications arising from an infection contracted during childbirth. Painlevé, an only son, was raised by his father's sister Marie, a widow. In the ''Lycée Louis Le Grand'', he was a poor and inattentive student who preferred to skip classes and go to the ''Jardin d'Acclimatation'' where he was assisting the guard in taking care of the animals. Painlevé later wrote: "In high school, my classmates hated me. They hated people in the margins, such as Vigo, son of the anarchist Almereyda, or Pierre Merle, son of , director of atirical weekly''Merle Blanc'' ("White Blackbird"). Me, I was the son of a ''Boche'' ("Kraut)", that Painlevé who had fought for Sarrail, solitary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
