Damian (also Damien) Pettigrew (March 10, 1963) is a Canadian
filmmaker
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,
screenwriter
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...
,
producer
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,
author
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, and
multimedia artist
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, best known for his cinematic portraits of
Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his image ...
,
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most i ...
, and
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
.
Released theatrically in fifteen countries, his film ''
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' won the Rockie Award for Best Documentary at the
Banff World Television Festival
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and was nominated for the Prix Arte at the
European Film Awards
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, Europe's equivalent of the
Oscars
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.
Biography
Pettigrew's mother was a child psychologist. His father, Dr. J.F. Pettigrew, was the first Canadian surgeon to diagnose the heart condition known as
aortic coarctation
Coarctation of the aorta (CoA or CoAo), also called aortic narrowing, is a congenital condition whereby the aorta is narrow, usually in the area where the ductus arteriosus (ligamentum arteriosum after regression) inserts. The word ''coarctation' ...
in 1953.
After reading English, French and Italian Literature at the universities of
Bishop's, Oxford, and Glasgow (where he discovered the work of Scottish film director
Bill Douglas
William Gerald Douglas (17 April 1934 – 18 June 1991) was a Scottish film director best known for the trilogy of films about his early life.
Biography
Born in Newcraighall on the outskirts of Edinburgh, he was brought up initially by his m ...
), Pettigrew studied cinema at IDHEC in Paris. At the
Cinémathèque Française
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, he met
Brion Gysin
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He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the ...
and
Steve Lacy and began frequenting their artists' circle. If his work is influenced by Gysin's celebrated
cut-up technique
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, the profound and lasting effect on his life was his friendship with
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
.
In 1983, Pettigrew launched a remake of
''Film'' (film) (1965) starring
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a c ...
, with Beckett as consultant and
Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard (16 September 1924 – 8 November 2016) was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the Nouvelle Vague period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard. Coutard also shot films for New Wa ...
as cameraman. Kinski’s scheduling, however, proved intractable. Beckett next proposed
Jack Lemmon
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for the role but the project was abandoned when Lemmon explained he was incapable of competing with
Buster Keaton
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(who first played the roles of O and E in 1965). With Beckett and Pettigrew in 1984, the actor
David Warrilow
David Warrilow (28 December 1934 – 17 August 1995) was an English actor best known as one of the "finest interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work".Cited in Ackerley, C.J., and Gontarski, Stan, ''The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett'', New Yor ...
initiated ''Take 2'', a tentative sequel to ''Film'', but the project remained unfinished at the playwright's death in 1989. In 1990, Pettigrew settled in
Paris
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to devote himself to filmmaking.
In 1999, he co-founded Portrait et Compagnie with French producer Olivier Gal. He spends a short part of each year on
Lake Memphremagog
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in the
Eastern Townships
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of
Quebec
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.
Work
A recognized authority on
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most i ...
, his portrait of the maestro, ''
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'', won the prestigious ''Rockie Award'' at the 2002
Banff World Television Festival
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, receiving excellent reviews in ''
The New Yorker
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'', ''
The New York Times
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'', ''
Los Angeles Times
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'', ''
Newsweek International
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'', ''
Le Monde
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'', ''
Corriere della Sera
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First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of It ...
'', ''
l'Unità
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'', ''
The Herald'', ''
The Telegraph
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Australia
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'' (London), and newspapers throughout Europe, Brazil, Australia and Japan. Nominated for Best Documentary at the
European Film Awards
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, Europe's equivalent of the
Oscars
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, the film established his reputation as a director of "extraordinarily controlled"
feature
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documentaries. The interview transcripts were published in 2003 as ''
I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon'' with 125 illustrations and a preface by Fellini biographer
Tullio Kezich
Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for ''Corriere della Sera'' and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fell ...
. The Italian director pays particular homage to
Tullio Pinelli
Tullio Pinelli (24 June 1908 – 7 March 2009) was an Italian screenwriter known for his work on the Federico Fellini films ''I Vitelloni'', ''La Strada'', ''La Dolce Vita'' and ''8½''.
Biography
Born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, Pinelli began ...
, his co-scriptwriter on such classics as ''
I Vitelloni
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'', ''
La Strada
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'', and ''
La Dolce Vita
''La Dolce Vita'' (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life"Kezich, 203) is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli and Brunello Rondi) by Federico Fellini. The film stars Marcell ...
''.
Other films include portraits of
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...
,
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosmicomi ...
, and
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
. His ''
Balthus Through the Looking Glass'', a study of the controversial French painter, was filmed in Super 16 over a 12-month period in Switzerland, Italy, France and the Moors of England. Esteemed by
Guy Davenport
Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.
Life
Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...
, it was honored in a cycle of film classics by
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. ...
,
Marcel Carné
Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include '' Port of Shadows'' (1938), ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), '' The Devil's Envoys ...
, and
Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo (; 26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Biography
Vigo was born to Emil ...
at the
Museum Ludwig
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(Cologne, Germany) in September 2007.
In 2010, Pettigrew directed ''MetaMoebius'', a cinematic essay on French graphic designer Moebius aka
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
for the
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
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H ...
and
CinéCinéma Classic. His documentary, ''The Irene Hilda Story'', based on the European
cabaret
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tradition during the Second World War as experienced by French stars Irene and Bernard Hilda,
Micheline Presle
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and
Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador (18 July 1917 – 13 February 2008) was a French Caribbean comedian, singer and cabaret artist.
Biography
Salvador was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native Ca ...
, was broadcast in France and Germany by
ARTE France
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that same year.
A mid-career retrospective of his work in film was held at the Centre des Arts d'
Enghien-les-Bains
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Enghien-les-Bains is famous as a spa resort and a well-to-do suburb of Paris, developed in ...
from 5 October 2011 to 28 March 2012. His informal discussion with
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known ...
(conducted in the fall of 2003 at
Fårö
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Island) on the Swedish director's affinities with Samuel Beckett's work was published in ''L’Âge d’or du cinéma européen'' in 2011.
In 2012, he completed ''Inside Italo'' (''Lo specchio di Calvino''), a feature-length study of
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosmicomi ...
for
ARTE France
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It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plus ...
in co-production with Italy’s
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
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and the
National Film Board of Canada
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. Starring Italian actor
Neri Marcorè
Neri Marcorè (born 31 July 1966) is an Italian actor, voice actor, impressionist, television presenter and singer. He has appeared in 22 films and television shows since 1994. He starred in the film ''Incantato'', which was entered into the 2003 ...
and distinguished literary critic
Pietro Citati
Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic.
He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-ye ...
, the docu-fiction uses in-depth conversations filmed at the writer's Rome penthouse a year before his death in 1985 and rare footage from
RAI
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,
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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, and INA (
Institut national de l'audiovisuel
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Since 200 ...
) television archives. ARTE and SKY ARTE (Italy) broadcast the 52-minute version on 19 December 2012 and 14 October 2013, respectively.
Pettigrew is currently directing the first feature-length documentary on
Carolyn Carlson, the France-based American dancer and choreographer. Begun in January 2012 and continuing into 2021, the film focuses on the creation of several major works by Carlson including ''Synchronicity'' (2012), ''Dialogue with Rothko'' (2013) and ''Woman in a Room'' with
Diana Vishneva
Diana Viktorovna Vishneva (''also trans.'' Vishnyova; russian: Диана Викторовна Вишнёва; born 13 July 1976) is a Russian ballet dancer who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov Ball ...
,
principal dancer
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A principal may be male or female. The position is similar to that of '' soloist''; however, p ...
with the
Mariinsky Ballet
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Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial Russ ...
and the
American Ballet Theatre
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, ''Black Over Red'' (2017) with Marie-Agnès Gillot, star dancer at the
Paris Opéra Ballet
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, as well as her latest choreography titled ''The Tree'' (2021).
In development
In development are two feature films: ''Darkness Visible'' starring
Tim Roth
Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and producer. He began acting on films and television series in the 1980s. He was among a group of prominent British actors of the era, the "Brit Pack (actors), Brit Pack".
He made hi ...
and
Eriq Ebouaney
Eriq Ebouaney (born 3 October 1967) is a French actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film '' Lumumba'', as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's ''Femme Fatale'' and as "Ice" in the 2008 ...
, and ''Beckett'', based on the director's experience working with
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
.
File:Fellini on set6.jpg, Fellini
Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most i ...
on film set (1992)
File:Dpettigrew.jpg, Pettigrew on film set (1992)
File:BalthusFace.jpg, Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his image ...
on film set (1996)
File:Tullio Pinelli by Damian Pettigrew 2002.jpg, Tullio Pinelli
Tullio Pinelli (24 June 1908 – 7 March 2009) was an Italian screenwriter known for his work on the Federico Fellini films ''I Vitelloni'', ''La Strada'', ''La Dolce Vita'' and ''8½''.
Biography
Born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, Pinelli began ...
at his home in Rome (2002)
File:GiraudPettigrew2010.jpg, Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...
at ''La Coupole'' in Paris (2010)
Selected filmography
Writer-Director
* ''Fellini ou l'amour de la vie'' (1993)
* ''Mr Gir et Mike S. Blueberry'' (1999)
* ''L'histoire d'Irène'' / ''The Irene Hilda Story'' (2009)
* ''Fellini : 8½ en six mémos'' / ''Fellini's
8½
' (Italian title: , ) is a 1963 surrealist comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi) by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on Guido Anselmi, played by Ma ...
in 6 Memos'' (2009)
* ''Ionesco : Autour du'' Roi se meurt ''avec
Michel Bouquet
Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for '' Toto the Hero'' in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars fo ...
'' (2009)
* ''MetaMoebius : Giraud-Moebius, métamorphoses'' (2010)
*''The Rome Trilogy'':
**''
Balthus Through the Looking Glass'' / ''Balthus de l'autre côté du miroir'' (1996)
**''
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' / ''Fellini, sono un gran bugiardo'' / ''Fellini, je suis un grand menteur'' (2002)
**''Inside Italo'' / ''Lo specchio di Calvino''
''Dans la peau d'Italo Calvino''(2012)
* ''Carolyn Carlson, Dare to Risk'' (2022)
* ''Fellini Politicus'' (2021)
Producer
*''Ionesco : Conversations autour d'une caméra'' (Ionesco interviews)
*''Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' (Fellini interviews)
*''Inside Italo'' (Calvino interviews)
*''Allain Leprest''
*''Jean-Jacques Annaud'' (Annaud interviews)
* ''Carolyn Carlson''
Screenplays
*''Les Yeux de ma mâitresse'' (2005 - funded by
Centre National de la Cinématographie
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)
*''Inside Italo'' (2012 - funded by
Centre National de la Cinématographie
Center or centre may refer to:
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*Center (geometry), the middle of an object
* Center (algebra), used in various contexts
** Center (group theory)
** Center (ring theory)
* Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricity ...
and
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
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)
*''Darkness Visible'' (2018)
*''The World is a Wildflower'' (2019)
*''Sam and Suzanne'' (2020)
Video art
*''40RO'' (2003)
*''4 Faces 5 Voices'' (2018)
*''Marlène'' (2021)
Selected publications
:
''This bibliography is focused on the published interviews that were filmed, produced and directed by Pettigrew in collaboration with the following artists:''
*
Fellini, Federico & Pettigrew, Damian:
** ''Fellini, je suis un grand menteur''. Paris: L'Arche, 1994 ().
** ''Fellini, eu sou um grande mentiroso''. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1995.
** ''Fellini, Ich bin ein großer Lügner''. Munich: Verlag der Autoren, 1995 ().
** 'Fellini: Creation and the Artist' in ''Projections 4''. London: Faber and Faber, 1995 ().
** 'Fellini et l'entretien avec Damian Pettigrew' in ''Cahiers Jungiens de Psychanalyse''. (Paris, Issue 104, 2002.)
** ''Fellini, sono un gran bugiardo''. Prefazione di
Tullio Kezich
Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for ''Corriere della Sera'' and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fell ...
. Roma: Elleu, 2003 ().
** ''
I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon''. Preface by
Tullio Kezich
Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for ''Corriere della Sera'' and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fell ...
. New York,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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, 2003 ().
** ''Federico Fellini. Sou um grande mentiroso. Uma conversa com Damian Pettigrew''. Lisboa: Fim de Século, 2008.
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The Paris Review
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Interviews - The Art of Fiction, No. 130''. (Issue 124, Fall 1992).
** "Sogno e delirio. Il Calvino segreto" in ''
La Repubblica
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'', 10 September 1995.
** ''Uno scrittore pomeridiano''. Intervista sull'arte della narrativa a cura di
William Weaver
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e Damien Pettigrew con un ricordo di
Pietro Citati
Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic.
He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-ye ...
. Roma: Minimum fax, 2003 ().
Essays on cinema
* « Ascenseur (les objets felliniens) » in ''Fellinicittà'' (ed. J-M. Méjean). Paris: Editions de la Transparence, 2009 ().
* « Trois films, trois sourires : quelques regards sur Bergman » in ''L’Age d’or du cinéma Européen 1950-1970'' (ed. Denitza Bantcheva). Chatou: Editions du Revif, 2011.().
Interviews online
* « Les dernières interrogations de Pierre Emmanuel » in ''Le Monde'' (7 October 1984
Interviewwith
Pierre Emmanuel
Noël Mathieu (3 May 1916, Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 22 September 1984, Paris) better known under his pseudonym Pierre Emmanuel, was a French poet of Christian inspiration.
Biography
He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the A ...
* « Le Méxique et le serpent à plumes »
Interviewwith
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 ...
* "The World Outside the Self" in ''CV/11'', IV, 2 (Spring 1979), 26-3
Interviewwith
Ralph Gustafson
Ralph Barker Gustafson, CM (16 August 1909 – 29 May 1995) was a Canadian poet and professor at Bishop's University.
Biography
He was born in Lime Ridge, near Dudswell, Quebec on August 16, 1909. His mother was British, his father, Carl ...
Awards and festivals
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'' and the official site of ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar''.''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar'' at IRS-RSI
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UNESCO Grand Prize - ''Best Documentary
*1997 for ''Balthus Through the Looking Glass''
Best Photography Prize - Lausanne International Festival of Art Films
*1997 for ''Balthus Through the Looking Glass''
Official Selection - 8th Marseille International Film Festival (Vue sur les docs)
*1997 for ''Balthus Through the Looking Glass''
Official Selection - 56th
Edinburgh International Film Festival
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*2002 for ''Fellini: I'm a Born Liar'' (''selected in over 40 international festivals including Edinburgh, Moscou, Amsterdam, Toronto and Montréal'')
Nomination Prix Arte for Best Documentary -
European Film Awards
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*2002 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar''
Coup de Cœur Award - 13th Marseille International Film Festival (Vue sur les docs)
*2002 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar''
Rockie Award for Best Arts Documentary -
Banff World Television Festival
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*2002 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar''
Homage to Fellini 1993-2003 -
Cannes International Film Festival
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,
Cinémathèque Française
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and
Rimini
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Fellini Foundation
*2003 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar''
Official Selection - 1st
Cairo
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Panorama of European Film
*2004 for ''Fellini: I’m a Born Liar ''
Official Selection - Toronto Jewish Film Festival (''selected in 10 international festivals'')
*2010 for ''The Irene Hilda Story''
Official Selection - 14th
Blue Metropolis
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*2012 for ''Inside Italo''
Italo Calvino - 90th Anniversary 1923-2013 -
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
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The centre is the oldest film school in ...
*2013 for ''Inside Italo''
Member, The Society of Multimedia Authors of France (SCAM), The Society of Authors of France (SGDL), and
ONE Campaign
See also
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Art film
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Video art
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Eastern Townships
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Notes and references
External links
Newsweek InternationalMichael J. Agovino: "Directing the Director"
PopMattersJonathan Kiefer: "Tales Out of School"
The New YorkerDavid Denby: "Monstres sacrés"
The New York TimesA.O. Scott: "Putting Fellini in Front of the Lens"
St Louis Post-DispatchHarper Barnes: "A Work of Art"
RAIlibro.ItStas' Gawronski : "Il testamento artistico di Federico Fellini"
dsonline.it Mario Verdone: "Un eccezionale documento biografico"
IndiewireInterviewed by Wendy Mitchell
Radio National AustraliaInterviewed by Julie Rigg
Radio FranceEntretien avec Caroline Caldier
The Paris ReviewItalo Calvino interviewed by Damien Pettigrew
- Review of ''
I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon''
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Film directors from Quebec
Canadian documentary film directors
Canadian screenwriters in French
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)