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Riton Liebman
Henri Liebman (born 29 January 1964), known as Riton Liebman, is a Belgian comedian, actor, and director. Career Liebman made his first impression with audiences at age 13, when French director Bertrand Blier discovered him and cast him as Christian in the 1978 film ''Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'', where he is credited simply as Riton. While Liebman said he had strained relations with stars Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982) was a French film actor. Born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin. Actor from a young age, his career lasted more than 21 years, until his suicide in ..., Blier defended him during and after filming. Liebman made his directorial debut with '' Je suis supporter du Standard'' (2013). Filmography Theater References External links * 1964 births Belgian male actors Belgian male comedians Living people {{Belgium-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Deray
Jacques Deray (born Jacques Desrayaud; 19 February 1929 – 9 August 2003) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films. Biography Born Jacques Desrayaud in Lyon, France, in 1929 to a family of Lyon industrialists. At the age of 19 he went to Paris to study drama under René Simon. Deray played minor roles on the stage and in films from the age of 19. From 1952, Deray worked as assistant to a number of directors, including Luis Buñuel, Gilles Grangier, Jules Dassin, and Jean Boyer. Deray's first film was the drama '' Le Gigolo'' released in 1960. Deray was fascinated by American film noir and began to focus on crime stories. Deray's early work includes ''Du rififi à Tokyo'', an homage to Jules Dassin's ''Rififi''. Deray's reputation was established with the 1969 film '' La Piscine'' which starred Romy Schneider and Alain Delon. ''La Piscine'' was not distributed widely outside France, but the follow-up gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Verheyde
Sylvie Verheyde (born 1967) is a French film director, actress, and screenwriter. Director The films Verheyde has directed include ''Un frère'' (1997), in which Emma de Caunes won a César Award for Most Promising Actress, ''Princesses'' (2000), ''Amour de Femme'' (2001), '' Stella'' (2008) and '' Confession of a Child of the Century'' (2011), starring Pete Doherty, which was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, ''Sex Doll'' (2016; she also wrote the screenplay for this film), and directed ''Madame Claude'' (2021). With Sylvie Ohayon, she co-wrote the screenplay of the 2021 film ''Haute Couture''. The movies ''Stella'' (2008) and ''Stella In Love'' (2022) are both references to Verheyde's childhood. ''Sex Doll'' (2016) and ''Madame Claude'' (2021) are both movies about prostitution, again a topic close to Verheyde as her grandmother and one of her cousin were prostitutes. Awards *Best Director for ''Sang froid'' at Television Festival of La Rochelle, 2007 *Lina Mangi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hervé Le Roux
Hervé Le Roux (1958 – 26 July 2017) was a French film critic and director. Early life Hervé Le Roux was born in 1958. Career Le Roux began his career as a critic for ''Cahiers du Cinéma''. In 1989, he was an assistant director to Alain Bergala's ''Incognito''. Le Roux directed three films. His first film, ''Grand bonheur'', was released in 1993. His second film, released in 1997, was a three-hour documentary called ''Reprise''. The film showed the reactions of factory workers in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (, literally ''Saint-Ouen on Seine'') is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region of France. It is located in the northern suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. The commune was call ... who had to return to work at the end of the 1968 strikes. His third film, ''On appelle ça... le printemps'', was released in 2001. Death Le Roux died on 26 July 2017 in Poitiers at the age of 59. References 1958 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Jacques Beineix (; 8 October 1946 – 13 January 2022) was a French film director best known for the films ''Diva'' and ''Betty Blue''. His work is regarded as a prime example of the '' cinéma du look'' film movement in France. Early life and education Jean-Jacques Beineix was the son of Robert Beineix, director of an insurance company, and wife Madeleine Maréchal. He was a student at both the Lycée Carnot and Lycée Condorcet in Paris. After earning his secondary baccalaureat, he enrolled in medical school, but dropped out after the events of May 1968. He took the competitive entrance exam for the Paris film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC), but failed it (his final rank was 21st). Career Jean-Jacques Beineix began his career in 1964 as Jean Becker's assistant director on the popular French TV series '. He remained with the series for three years. In 1970, he worked for Claude Berri and, the following year, for Claude Zidi. In 1972, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortel Transfert
''Mortel Transfert'' is a Franco-German thriller, directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jean-Pierre Gattégno. The music was provided by the composer of ''Roselyne et les lions'', Reinhardt Wagner.Phil Powrie, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Manchester University Press 2001 Cast * Jean-Hugues Anglade as Michel Durand * Hélène de Fougerolles as Olga Kubler * Miki Manojlovic as Erostrate * Valentina Sauca as Hélène Maier * Robert Hirsch as Armand Slibovic * Yves Rénier as Max Kubler * Catherine Mouchet as The professor of maths * Denis Podalydès as Commissioner Chapireau * Riton Liebman Henri Liebman (born 29 January 1964), known as Riton Liebman, is a Belgian comedian, actor, and director. Career Liebman made his first impression with audiences at age 13, when French director Bertrand Blier discovered him and cast him as Christ ... as The disc-jockey References External links * {{IMDb title, 0239670 2001 films 2001 thriller films Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cédric Klapisch
Cédric Klapisch ( ; born 4 September 1961) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Klapisch was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII. He was rejected on two occasions by the French film school IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques), now known as La fémis. He later attended the film school at New York University from 1983 to 1985. During the 1980s, he started to shoot short films such as ''In transit'' or ''Ce qui me meut''. He subsequently worked as a scriptwriter and he became a director for feature films. He has also directed a nature documentary for French television. In 1992, Klapisch shot his first feature film, '' Riens du tout''. A year later, a TV channel asked him to make a film about high school life, set in 1975, '' Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peut-être
''Peut-être'' (''Maybe''; ''Perhaps'') is a 1999 French science fiction comedy film. Directed by Cédric Klapisch with a budget of 75 million franc, the film runs for 109 minutes. It featured Romain Duris, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Géraldine Pailhas and Julie Depardieu. The film premiered at a Buck Rogers-themed New Year's Eve party. Plot After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie (Pailhas) in a bathroom, Arthur (Duris) discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako (Belmondo) who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future. Cast * Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ako * Romain Duris as Arthur * Géraldine Pailhas as Lucie * Julie Depardieu as Nathalie * Lorànt Deutsch as Prince Fur * Emmanuelle Devos as Juliette * Léa Drucker as Clotilde * Vincent Elbaz as Philippe * Hélène Fillières ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navarro (TV Series)
''Navarro'' is a drama series about a French commissioner that aired on TF1. It was on the air for 18 years. Plot Antoine Navarro solves cases as a French police officer in Paris. Cast * Roger Hanin as Commissioner Antoine Navarro (1989-2005) * Emmanuelle Boidron as Yolande Navarro, Navarro's Daughter (1989-2005) * Catherine Allégret as Ginette "Ginou" Bouloche (1989-1995 / 1999–2005) * Françoise Armelle as Gabrielle "Gaby" Laisi (1997-1998) * Jacques Martial as Inspector Bain-Marie (later lieutenant) (1989-2004) * Christian Rauth as Inspector René Auquelin (later Lieutenant) (1989-2004) * Daniel Rialet as Inspector Joseph Blomet (later Lieutenant) (1989-2004) * Jean-Claude Caron as Inspector Guisseppe Borelli (later Lieutenant) (1994-2005) * Grace de Capitani as Inspector Laura Marcos (1993) * Viktor Lazlo as Captain Roussel (2005) * Jean-Marie Mistral as Officer Christian Martin (1989-2005) * Marie Fugain as Lieutenant Carole Maudiard (2000-2005) * Filip Nikolic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Vecchiali
Paul Vecchiali (28 April 1930 – 18 January 2023) was a French filmmaker and author. Biography Vecchiali was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. He spent his childhood in Toulon. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war. His cinema took as a starting point the French cinema of the 1930s, with an experimental and autobiographical tone. His best-known films are arguably ''Rosa la rose'' and ''Encore''.Romain Charbon, 'Vesperales', in ''Têtu'', October 2008, issue 137, page 32 His films were notably low-budget. In 1987, he became the first director to link AIDS to homosexuality in a French film with his film ''Encore''. Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, at the age of 92. Filmography *''Les Ruses du diable'' (1965) *''L'Étrangleur'' (1972) *''Femmes Femmes'' (1974) *''Change pas de main'' (1975) *''La Machine'' (1977) *''Corps à cœur'' (1978) *''That's Life'' (''C'est la vie'') (1981) *''At the Top of the Stairs'' (1983) *''Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabien Onteniente
Fabien Onteniente (born 27 April 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. Filmography * 1989 : '' Bobby et l'aspirateur'' (short film) * 1992 : ''À la vitesse d'un cheval au galop'' * 1995 : '' Tom est tout seul'' * 1996 : '' Le Tuteur'' (TV) * 1998 : '' Grève party'' * 2000 : ''Jet Set'' * 2001 : '' Tel épris'' (TV) * 2002 : ''3 zéros'' * 2004 : ''People'' * 2006 : ''Camping'' * 2008 : ''Disco'' * 2010 : ''Camping 2'' * 2013 : ''Turf'' * 2016 : ''Camping 3'' * 2019 : ''All Inclusive'' * 2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ... : ''100% Bio'' (TV) External links * French film directors 1958 births Living people French male screenwriters French screenwriters {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Capretz
Pierre Jean Capretz (30 January 1925 – 2 April 2014) was a French educator and writer, noted for his audio-visual methods for teaching French. A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida and joined the faculty of Yale University in 1956, eventually becoming Director of the Language Laboratory and then Director of the Language Development Studio. He is best known as the creator and host of the PBS television series ''French in Action ''French in Action'' is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University. The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series. The television series — the best-known aspect of the cours ...''. He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Middlebury College in August 1993. He died in 2014 at the age of 89. List of degrees received *Doctorate, University of Paris, 1950 *Law Degree, University of Paris, 1947 *Doctor of Letters, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
