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Louis Feuillade
Louis Feuillade (; 19 February 1873 – 25 February 1925) was a French filmmaker of the silent era. Between 1906 and 1924, he directed over 630 films. He is primarily known for the crime serials ''Fantômas'', ''Les Vampires'' and ''Judex'' made between 1913 and 1916. Early life and career Feuillade was born in Lunel (Hérault) to Barthélémy Feuillade, a modest wine merchant, and Marie Avesque. Just beyond adolescence, he showed a deep interest in literature and created numerous drama and vaudeville projects. His excessively academic poems were occasionally published in local newspapers, and he acquired a reputation for his articles devoted to bullfighting. At twelve, he was sent by his parents to a Catholic seminary in Carcassonne, which has been credited for his gothic stylization in his later career. His biographer Francis Lacassin has suggested that "the strange, surrealist flashes of anarchy which spark through the work of this pillar of society can only be explained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunel, Hérault
Lunel (; Provençal: ''Lunèl'') is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. According to legend, Lunel was founded by Jews from Jericho in the first century. It had a Jewish population by the first millennium, and an ancient synagogue is located there. Lunel is located east of Montpellier and southwest of Nîmes (Gard). Lunel station has rail connections to Narbonne, Montpellier, Nîmes and Avignon. History The ancient Roman site of Ambrussum is located nearby. The troubadour Folquet de Lunel was from Lunel. Lunel was a centre of Jewish learning. It is thought that the family of Rashi (1040–1105), the great Rabbi and commentator, originated in Lunel. Other scholars include Jonathan of Lunel, Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, his son Aaron ben Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, Abraham ben David who taught in Lunel before moving to Posquières, and Asher ben Meshullam of Lunel. Lunel was the birthplace of Louis Feuillade (1873–1925), film director fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Lacassin
Francis Lacassin (; 18 November 1931 – 12 August 2008) ''lefigaro.fr'' d'après AFP, 14 août 2008 was a French journalist, editor, writer, screenplay writer and essayist. Biography Lacassin started to work for the 's magazine '' Bizarre'' in 1964. He was writing about fantastic and detective literature in '' Magazine Littéraire'', worked for ' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrabas (film)
''Barrabas'' is a 1920 French silent crime thriller film serial directed and written by Louis Feuillade. Plot Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the brutal leader of an underground gang who causes mayhem and destruction to the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring Strelitz to justice for the purpose of revenge, after his father was wrongly guillotined for the murder of Laure d'Hérigny, a mistress of a missing American millionaire. Later Claude Varèse's sister, Françoise, is then abducted by the evil Dr Lucius, one of Barrabas' henchmen. Cast *Fernand Herrmann ... L'avocat Jacques Varèse *Édouard Mathé ... Raoul de Nérac *Gaston Michel ... Rudolph Strélitz *Georges Biscot ... Biscotin *Blanche Montel ... Françoise Varèse *Jeanne Rollette ... Biscotine *Albert Mayer ... Rougier * Edmond Bréon ... Dr. Lucius * Lugane ... Simne Delpierre *Lyne Stanka ... Laure d'Herigny *Violette Jyl ... Noëlle Maupré ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tih Minh
''Tih Minh'' is a 1918 French film serial directed by Louis Feuillade. Plot ''Tih Minh'' tells the story of Jacques d'Athys who returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina. Tih Minh (Mary Harald), a young woman from Laos, accompanies him. Athys and his servant, Placide, soon become involved with an international band of jewel thieves-cum-spies that include among its members a mysterious noble person, a hypnotist and an evil doctor who renders their victims amnesiacs. Unknown to Athys, he has returned to France with a book that contains a coded message revealing the location of treasure and sensitive government intelligence. This makes him and Tih Minh the target of the spies who will stop at nothing to obtain the book. Cast * Mary Harald ( fr) as Tih Minh * René Cresté as Jacques d'Athys * Georges Biscot as Placido * Édouard Mathé as Sir Francis Grey * Louis Leubas ( fr) as Kistna * Gaston Michel as Dr. Gilson * Marcel Marquet as Dr. Clauzel (as Marque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bout De Zan Et L'embusqué
''Bout de Zan et l'embusqué'' ''(Bout de Zan and the Shirker)'' is a 1915 short silent film by Louis Feuillade. Louis Feuillade directed between 1912 and 1916 about sixty short films with Bout de Zan, a little boy played by René Poyen, as a recurring hero.Review, synopsis and link to watch the film: Plot France during World War I: Bout de Zan is irritated by his uncle's friend Marius always bragging about his shooting skills. When Marius bets that he will shoot a small bird in a tree, Bout de Zan finds out that he has paid a boy to drop a dead bird from the tree against which he will shoot a blank. Bout de Zan has the dead bird replaced by a stuffed one accompanied by a note saying that rather than lying he should go and fight the Germans. Ashamed, Marius rushes to enlist. Production The film was produced by Sté. des Etablissements L. Gaumont, the company created in 1895 by Léon Gaumont Léon Ernest Gaumont (; 10 May 1864 – 10 August 1946) was a French inventor, engi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Vampires
''Les Vampires'' is a 1915–16 French silent crime serial film written and directed by Louis Feuillade. Set in Paris, it stars Édouard Mathé, Musidora and Marcel Lévesque. The main characters are a journalist and his friend who become involved in trying to uncover and stop a bizarre underground Apache gang, known as The Vampires (who are not the mythological beings their name suggests). The serial consists of ten episodes, which vary greatly in length. Being roughly 7 hours long, it is considered one of the longest films ever made. It was produced and distributed by Feuillade's company Gaumont. Due to its stylistic similarities with Feuillade's other crime serials ''Fantômas'' and ''Judex'', the three are often considered a trilogy. Fresh from the success of Feuillade's previous serial, ''Fantômas'', and facing competition from rival company Pathé, Feuillade made the film quickly and inexpensively with very little written script. Upon its initial release ''Les Vampires' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Roman Orgy
''A Roman Orgy'' (french: L'orgie romaine), also known as ''Heliogabalus'' (french: Héliogabale), is a 1911 French short historical drama film directed by Louis Feuillade for Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont. It features Jean Aymé as the lecherous Emperor Elagabalus (Heliogabalus) who sets a pack of lions on his guests. It also stars Louise Lagrange, Luitz-Morat, Renée Carl, Edmond Bréon, and Léonce Perret Léonce Joseph Perret (14 March 1880 – 12 August 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer.The Museum of Modern Art(retrieved 7 June 2007) He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant .... The film was released on 24 November 1911. The Dutch Film Museum has a copy of the film. References External links * * 1911 films 1910s historical films 1911 short films Cultural depictions of Elagabalus Films directed by Louis Feuillade Films set in the 3rd century Films set in the Roman Empire Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", he became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director despite five nominations. Hitchcock initially trained as a technical clerk and copy writer before entering the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer. His directorial debut was the British-German silent film '' The Pleasure Garden'' (1925). His first successful film, '' The Lodger: A Story of the London F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.Obituary ''Variety'', August 4, 1976, p. 63. One of the best-known ''émigrés'' from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. He has been cited as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Lang's most celebrated films include the groundbreaking futuristic ''Metropolis'' (1927) and the influential '' M'' (1931), a film noir precursor. His 1929 film ''Woman in the Moon'' showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered the concept of a rocket launch pad (a rocket standing upright against a tall building before launch having been slowly rolled into place) and the rocket-launch countdown clock. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musidora As Irma Vep
Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is best known for her acting in silent films, and rose to public attention for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials ''Les Vampires'' as Irma Vep and in ''Judex'' as Marie Verdier. Early life Born Jeanne Roques in Paris, France to music composer and theorist of socialism Jacques Roques and painter and feminist Adèle Clémence Porchez, Musidora began her career in the arts at an early age, writing her first novel at the age of fifteen and acting on the stage with the likes of Colette, one of her lifelong friends. During the very early years of French cinema Musidora began a professional collaboration with the highly successful French film director Louis Feuillade. She made her film debut in ''Les miseres de l'aiguille'', directed by Raphael Clamour, in January 1914. The film highlights the problems of the urban women in the French wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantômas2
Fantômas () is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death. The character was also the basis of various film, television, and comic book adaptations. In the history of crime fiction, he represents a transition from Gothic novel villains of the 19th century to modern-day serial killers. The books and films that came out in quick succession anticipate current production methods of Hollywood, in two respects: First, the authors distributed the writing among themselves; their "working method was to draw up the general plot between them and then go off and write alternate chapters independently of each other, meeting up to tie the two halves of the story together in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Champreux
Maurice Champreux (1893–1976) was a French film director, cinematographer and editor.Goble p.129 Biography Maurice Champreux married with Isabelle Feuillade. She is the daughter of famous French film director Louis Feuillade. Maurice and Isabelle Champreux had a son, Jacques Champreux who became an actor, screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography Director *'' After Love'' (1924) * '' The Five Cents of Lavarede'' (1927) * '' Let's Touch Wood'' (1933) * ''Judex Judex (real name Jacques de Trémeuse) is a fictional French vigilante hero created by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède for the 1916 silent film ''Judex''. Judex (whose name is Latin for "judge") is a mysterious avenger who dresses in black and ...'' (1934) Cinematographer * '' Barrabas'' (1920) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1893 births 1976 deaths French film directors French film editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
