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Jacques Dupont (director)
Jacques Dupont (21 April 1921, Ruelle-sur-Touvre – 10 March 2013) was a French film director. Life Formerly of the IDHEC, and a specialist in exotic cinema, he appeared less comfortable in '' Les Distractions'', in which he directed Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alexandra Stewart, than he did in evoking French volunteers in Korea in '' Crèvecoeur''. Filmography Short films * 1946 : '' Au pays des Pygmées'' * 1947 : '' Pirogues sur l'Ogooué'' * 1949 : '' La Grande case'' * 1953 : ''Stock car'' * 1954 : '' L'Enfant au fennec'' * 1955 : '' Coureurs de brousse'' Full features * 1950 : '' Savage Africa ( Congolaise)'' * 1955 : '' Crèvecoeur'' * 1958 : '' La Passe du diable (The Devil's Pass)'' with Pierre Schoendoerffer Pierre Schoendoerffer (french: Pierre Schœndœrffer; 5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was ... * 1960 : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruelle-sur-Touvre
Ruelle-sur-Touvre is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Population International relations The commune has been twinned with Amstetten, Lower Austria since 1972 and Banbridge in Northern Ireland since 1994. See also *Communes of the Charente department The following is a list of the 364 communes of the Charente department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official site Communes of Charente [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stock Car (film)
''Stock Car'' is a 1955 British crime drama film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Paul Carpenter, Rona Anderson, and Susan Shaw. Plot When her father dies during a stock car race, Katie Glebe (Rona Anderson) takes over the running of his garage, helped by American driver Larry Duke (Paul Carpenter). Katie struggles to fend off creditors, including the unscrupulous Turk McNeil (Paul Whitsun-Jones), who seeks to repossess her property. Further dramas ensue when Turk's girlfriend Gina (Susan Shaw) shows an interest in Larry. Cast * Paul Carpenter as Larry Duke * Rona Anderson as Katie Glebe * Susan Shaw as Gina * Harry Fowler as Monty Albright * Robert Rietty as Roberto * Paul Whitsun-Jones as Turk McNeil * Sabrina as Trixie * Alma Taylor as Nurse Sprott * Patrick Jordan as Jack * Lorrae Desmond as Singer * Frank Thornton as Doctor Critical reception The ''Radio Times'' noted, "The mediocrity is unrelenting, with the race sequences every bit as hackneyed as the risible melodra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * 19 (film), ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * Nineteen (film), ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * 19 (Adele album), ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD (rapper), MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * XIX (EP), ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * 19 (song), "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album ''Refugee (Bad4Good album), Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * Nineteen (song), "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Pierre Schoendoerffer (french: Pierre Schœndœrffer; 5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007. In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for ''The Anderson Platoon''. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966. Biography Family Pierre Schoendoerffer was born in Chamalières of a French Alsace, Alsatian Protestant family. As Alsace was a territory contested and annexed in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries by both France and Germany leading to the Franco-Prussian War (1870) next World War I (1914–18), his forefathers were French, and lost all their belongings. His maternal grandfather, who was an 1870 veteran, volunteered in the French Army in 1914 at the age of 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Passe Du Diable
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Africa
''Savage Africa'' is a 1950 French film directed by Jacques Dupont. The film is also known as ''Congolaise'' (American new title). Plot summary Cast *Robert St. John Robert William St. John (March 9, 1902 – February 6, 2003) was an American writer, broadcaster, and journalist. Biography Early life Robert William St. John was born on March 9, 1902, in Chicago. His mother Amy (''nee'' Archer) was a nur ... as Narrator * Ray Morgan as Narrator Soundtrack References External links * * 1950 films French documentary films 1950s French-language films French black-and-white films Visual anthropology 1950 documentary films 1950s English-language films 1950s French films {{France-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Enfant Au Fennec ''
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L'Enfant may refer to: * ''L'Enfant'' (film), a 2005 Belgian film * L'Enfant (poster), a noted 1987 photographic poster * Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer credited with planning the city of Washington, D.C. * , a 1943 cargo ship * L'Enfant Plaza, a complex of office buildings, a hotel, and an underground shopping mall in Washington, D.C. ** L'Enfant Plaza Station, a transit station serving the plaza * "L'Enfant", a song by Vangelis from the 1979 album '' Opéra sauvage'' * "L'Enfant", a poem by Victor Hugo from the 1829 collection ''Les Orientales ''Les Orientales'' is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, inspired by the Greek War of Independence. They were first published in January 1829. Of the forty-one poems, thirty-six were written during 1828. They offer a series of highly coloured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Grande Case
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institut Des Hautes études Cinématographiques
L'Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC; the "Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies") is a French film school, founded during World War II under the leadership of Marcel L'Herbier who was its president from 1944 to 1969. IDHEC offered training for directors and producers, cameramen, sound technicians, editors, art directors and costume designers. It became highly influential, and many prominent film-makers received their training there including Paulo Rocha, Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Claire Denis, Peter Lilienthal, Volker Schlöndorff, Andrzej Żuławski, René Vautier, Andre Weinfeld, Mostafa Derkaoui, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Claude Sautet, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Patrice Leconte, Costa Gavras, Theo Angelopoulos, Omar Amiralay, Rithy Panh, Arnaud Desplechin, Claude Miller, Alfonso Gumucio DagronAnnuaire des anciens élèves de l’IDHEC – 1961 18th promotion – 1988 - Christopher Miles and Pascale Ferran. It was reorganized between 1986 and 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirogues Sur L'Ogooué
A pirogue ( or ), also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish , which comes from the Carib '. Description The term 'pirogue' does not refer to a specific kind of boat, but is a generic term for small native boats in regions once colonized by France and Spain, particularly dugouts made from a single log. In French West Africa, the term refers to handcrafted banana-shaped boats used by traditional fishermen. In Madagascar, it also includes the more elaborate Austronesian '' lakana'' outrigger canoe. Pirogues are usually propelled by paddles that have one blade (as opposed to a kayak paddle, which has two). It can also be punted with a push pole in shallow water. Small sails are built by local fishermen, and they can also be employed. There are two types of sails with differences in their shapes: the square one is used mainly for fishing near the coast and is only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
