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Hervé De Luze
Hervé de Luze (born 1949) is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.Tylski, Alexandre (2004) (in French). de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. de Luze has been director Roman Polanski's principal editor since ''Pirates (1986 film), Pirates'' (1986), including the much honored 2002 film ''The Pianist (2002 film), The Pianist''. de Luze has also edited several films with Alain Resnais, including ''On connaît la chanson'', for which he won a César Award. de Luze was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for ''The Pianist''. de Luze has also won three César Award for Best Editing, César Awards (the "French Academy Award") for ''On connaît la chanson'' (1997), for ''Ne le dis à personne'' (2006), and for ''The Ghost Writer (film), The Ghost Writer'' (2010); he has been nominated for the César for five other films as well. Filmography The listing is based on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital technology. When putting together some sort of video composition, typically, one would need a collection of shots and footages that vary from one another. The act of adjusting the shots someone has already taken, and turning them into something new is known as film editing. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting Shot (filmmaking), shots and combining them into Sequence (filmmaking), sequences which create a finished Film, motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is an extremely important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Kill A Priest
''To Kill a Priest'' is a 1988 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The film tells a story based on the murder, under the Polish Communist regime, of the priest Jerzy Popiełuszko. It stars Christopher Lambert as a fictionalized version of Popiełuszko and Ed Harris as the secret police captain set to assassinate him. Cast * Christopher Lambert as Father Alek *Ed Harris as Stefan * Joss Ackland as Colonel * Tim Roth as Feliks * Timothy Spall as Igor * Pete Postlethwaite as Josef * Cherie Lunghi as Halina * Joanne Whalley as Anna *David Suchet as Bishop * Jerome Flynn as Traffic militiaman * Vincent Grass Discography The CD soundtrack composed and conducted by Georges Delerue is available on the Music Box Records labelwebsite. The main theme, "Crimes of Cain", was written and performed by Joan Baez. Reception Critical response ''To Kill a Priest'' has an approval rating of 67% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Blues (1998 Film)
Baby Blues may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Baby Blues'' (comic strip), created and produced by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott * ''Baby Blues'' (1941 film), an ''Our Gang'' short * ''Baby Blues'' (2008 film), a horror film * ''Baby Blues'' (2012 film), a Polish film * ''Baby Blues'' (American TV series), an adaptation of the comic strip * ''Baby Blues'' (Singaporean TV series), a drama * "Baby Blues" (''Doctors''), a 2003 television episode * "Baby Blues", a song by The Cranberries on the album '' Bury the Hatchet'' * "Baby Blues", a song by Richard Marx on the album '' Paid Vacation'' Other uses * Postpartum blues Postpartum blues, also known as baby blues and maternity blues, is a very common but self-limited condition that begins shortly after childbirth and can present with a variety of symptoms such as mood swings, irritability, and tearfulness. Mother ..., a medical condition See also * Baby blue (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Aubrac (film)
''Lucie Aubrac'' is a 1997 French biopic of the World War II French Resistance member Lucie Aubrac. The film starred Carole Bouquet in the title role and was directed by Claude Berri. The story loosely follows the role of Lucie Aubrac and her husband during the Second World War and their parts in the resistance in Lyon. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Carole Bouquet as Lucie Aubrac * Daniel Auteuil as Raymond * Patrice Chéreau as Max * Eric Boucher as Serge * Jean-Roger Milo as Maurice * Heino Ferch as Barbie * Jean Martin as Paul Lardanchet * Andrzej Seweryn Andrzej Teodor Seweryn (Polish pronunciation: ; born 25 April 1946) is a Polish actor and Theatre director, director. Regarded as one of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France, and Germa ... as Lt. Schlondorff * Alain Maratrat as Lassagne * Pascal Greggory as Hardy * Jean-Louis Richard as M. Henry * Franck d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Pialat
Maurice Pialat (; 31 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor known for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as " realist",Maurice Pialat: A Cinema of Surrender at Rouge though many film criticsTribute to Maurice Pialat at Senses of Cinema acknowledge it does not fit the traditional definition of realism. Pialat' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Garçu
''Le Garçu'' (English: "The Boy") is a 1995 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu. It was Pialat's final work. He was dissatisfied with the film and even planned to re-edit it, but his failing health made that impossible. Plot Gérard, mentally still adolescent, adores Antoine, his four-year-old son with Sophie, his second and much younger wife. On a holiday to Mauritius, she finally can no longer stand his immature behaviour and returns with the child to Paris. Gérard is given a room by his ex-wife and finds himself company for the nights. Taking Sophie and Antoine for a holiday to Sables d'Olonne, they meet up with Jeannot and his partner. The woman pounces on Gérard for a night's fling, but Jeannot is seriously drawn to Sophie and, moving in with her, helps looks after little Antoine. When a hospital in Auvergne rings to say that Gérard's father ("le garçu" in the local dialect) is on his deathbed, Sophie unhesitatingly goes there with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death And The Maiden (1994 Film)
''Death and the Maiden'' is a 1994 mystery drama film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson. It was based on the 1990 play of the same name by Ariel Dorfman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Rafael Yglesias. Plot Paulina Escobar is a housewife married to a prominent lawyer, Gerardo, in an unnamed South American country, which is implied to be Chile. One day, a storm forces Gerardo to ride home with a charming stranger, Dr. Miranda, while the power at his home is cut. Paulina is convinced that Miranda was part of the old regime and that he tortured and raped her for weeks while she was blindfolded. She takes him captive to determine the truth. Despite attempts by both her husband and Miranda to convince her that he is innocent, Paulina is certain that he is guilty and forces her husband to act as Miranda's "attorney" in the "trial" she arranges for him. Miranda conspires with Gerardo to agree to a false confession, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germinal (1993 Film)
''Germinal'' is a 1993 French-Belgian epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Renaud, Miou-Miou and Gérard Depardieu. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. It was the fourth most attended film of the year in France. It won the César Award for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music and Best Production Design. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film, set in the nineteenth century, closely follows the plot of the novel, which is a realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s. Synopsis The film takes place in Northern France in a coal mining town during the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitter Moon
''Bitter Moon'' is a 1992 erotic romantic thriller film co-written and directed by Roman Polanski. It stars Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas. The film's French title, ', is a pun on the French phrase "lune de miel", meaning "honeymoon". It is based on the novel ''Lunes de fiel'' by French author Pascal Bruckner, published in English as '' Evil Angels''. The score was composed by Vangelis. Plot British couple Nigel and Fiona Dobson are on a Mediterranean cruise ship to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful young French woman, Mimi, and that night, Nigel chats briefly with her in the ship's bar after seeing her dancing alone. Later, Nigel meets her much older and disabled American husband, Oscar Benton, who is a failed writer—acerbic, cynical and jaded. Oscar invites Nigel to his cabin, where he tells Nigel in great detail how he and Mimi first met on a bus in Paris and fell passionately in love. Nigel relates all to F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (; born 17 November 1945) is an English film and television film director, director, Film producer, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically-acclaimed films ''The Killing Fields (film), The Killing Fields'' (1984) and ''The Mission (1986 film), The Mission'' (1986), both of which earned him Academy Awards, Academy Award nominations for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director, and the latter winning the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Joffé began his career in television, his early credits including episodes of ''Coronation Street'' and an The Stars Look Down (TV serial), adaptation of ''The Stars Look Down'' for Granada Television, Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series ''Bill Brand (TV series), Bill Brand'' and factual dramas for ''Play for Today''. In the late 1980s, he co-founded the production company Lightmotive with Ben Myron. Early life and education Joffé was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Joy
''City of Joy'' () is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre. It was adapted as City of Joy (1992 film), a film by Roland Joffé in 1992. Calcutta is nicknamed "the City of Joy" after this novel, although the slum was based on an area in its twin city of Howrah. Plot The story revolves around the trials and tribulations of a young Polish priest, Father Stephan Kovalski (a French priest named Paul Lambert in the original French version), the hardships endured by a pulled rickshaw, rickshaw puller, Hasari Pal in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, and in the second half of the book, also the experiences of a young American doctor, Max Loeb. Father Stephan joins a religious order whose vows put them in the most hellish places on earth. He chooses not only to serve the poorest of the poor in Calcutta but also to live with them; starve with them; and, if God wills it, die with them. In the journey of Kovalski's acceptance as the Big Brother for the slum dwellers, he encounters moments of everyda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
