Louis Malle
Biography: Louis Marie Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film "The Silent World" won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony with the award instead being presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards. Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times. Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood, and he produced both French and English language films. His most famous films include the crime film "Elevator to the Gallows" (1958), the World War II drama "Lacombe, Lucien" (1974), the romantic crime film "Atlantic City" (1980), the comedy-drama "My Dinner with Andre" (1981), and the autobiographical film "Au Revoir les Enfants" (1987). Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France. He initially studied political science at Sciences Po before turning to film studies at IDHEC instead. He assisted Robert Bresson on "A Man Escaped" (1956) before making his first feature, "Elevator to the Gallows" (1958), a taut thriller featuring an original score by Miles Davis, which made an international film star of Jeanne Moreau, at the time a leading stage actress of the Comédie-Française. Malle was 24 years old. Malle's "The Lovers" (1958), which also starred Moreau, caused major controversy due to its sexual content, leading to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the legal definition of obscenity. Malle is sometimes associated with the nouvelle vague movement, and while Malle's work does not directly fit in with or correspond to the auteurist theories that apply to the work of Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer and others, and he had nothing whatsoever to do with the Cahiers du cinéma, his films do exemplify many of the characteristics of the movement, such as using natural light and shooting on location, and his film "Zazie dans le Métro" (1960), an adaptation of the Raymond Queneau novel, inspired Truffaut to write an enthusiastic letter to Malle. In 1968 Malle visited India and made a seven-part documentary series "Phantom India" (1969), which was released in cinemas. Concentrating on real India, its rituals and festivities, Malle fell afoul of the Indian government, which disliked his portrayal of the country, in its fascination with the pre-modern, and consequently banned the BBC from filming in India for several years. Malle later claimed his documentary on India was his favorite film. Malle later moved to the United States and continued to direct there. Just as his earlier films such as "The Lovers" helped popularize French films in the United States, "My Dinner with Andre" was at the forefront of the rise of American independent cinema in the 1980s.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 30, 1932
Deathday: November 23, 1995
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La Vie de Bohème
1992-02-27
La Vie de Bohème
Overview: Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-27
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A Very Private Affair
1962-01-31
A Very Private Affair
Overview: After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer protection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-31
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Becoming Cousteau
2021-10-22
Becoming Cousteau
Overview: Adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist: For over four decades, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his explorations under the ocean became synonymous with a love of science and the natural world. As he learned to protect the environment, he brought the whole world with him, sounding alarms more than 50 years ago about the warming seas and our planet’s vulnerability. In BECOMING COUSTEAU, from National Geographic Documentary Films, two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus takes an inside look at Cousteau and his life, his iconic films and inventions, and the experiences that made him the 20th century’s most unique and renowned environmental voice — and the man who inspired generations to protect the Earth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-22
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God's Country
1985-11-27
God's Country
Overview: In 1979, Louis Malle films the thriving lives of a Minnesota farming community, but returns six years later to document its drastic economic decline, offering a poignant look at the impact of political changes.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-27
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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
1966-05-11
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
Overview: A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring interviews and discussions with Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Marguerite Duras and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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Calcutta
1969-04-16
Calcutta
Overview: When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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Place de la République
1974-04-30
Place de la République
Overview: Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-30
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… And the Pursuit of Happiness
1986-06-27
… And the Pursuit of Happiness
Overview: In 1986, Louis Malle examines the immigrant experience in America by interviewing newcomers from various professions nationwide, highlighting their struggles in a multicultural society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-27
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The Road to Bresson
1984-05-13
The Road to Bresson
Overview: A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-05-13
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A Very Curious Girl
1969-12-03
A Very Curious Girl
Overview: Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-03
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019-08-23
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Overview: An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
Genres: Documentary History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993-11-17
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Overview: Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997-07-08
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Overview: Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-08
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Crazeologie
1954-04-18
Crazeologie
Overview: Louis Malle's student film, featuring the title song by Charlie Parker.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-18
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La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
2022-10-26
La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
Overview: Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never fully part of it, cementing his reputation instead with films like Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Zazie dans le Metro (1960), and Murmur of the Heart (1971), among others. In 1978, he made his first English-language picture, the highly controversial Pretty Baby, produced by Paramount Pictures. For the next decade and a half, he continued working in the English language, mostly in the United States, with films as varied as Atlantic City (1980), My Dinner With Andre (1981), Crackers (1983), Alamo Bay (1985), Damage (1992), and Vanya on 42nd Street (1992). What distinguishes these seven Anglophone films from Malle's previous Francophone films? And when Louis Malle arrived to make pictures in America, what did he see? What did America mean to Louis Malle?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-26
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365 Day Project
2007-12-31
365 Day Project
Overview: This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967-01-01
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Overview: Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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My Dinner with Louis
1984-05-06
My Dinner with Louis
Overview: Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV programme "Arena".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-06
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982-10-09
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Overview: A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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L'affaire Matzneff
2020-01-05
L'affaire Matzneff
Overview: About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know who Matzneff was at the time." Vanessa Springora denounces thus, in an interview with the Parisian , the support which benefited the writer Gabriel Matzneff , in the years 1970 and 1980. The author fifties then maintains an affair with the young girl, aged 14 years. A relationship under control that the editor tells in Le Consentement (éd. Grasset), published Thursday. "After having analyzed the work " , the Paris public prosecutor's office announced Friday January 3 the opening of an investigation for "rapes committed on the person of a minor of 15 years".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-05
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Louis Malle, le rebelle
2015-03-30
Louis Malle, le rebelle
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-30
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Hollywood’s Children
1982-02-24
Hollywood’s Children
Overview: A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-24
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The Thief of Paris
1967-02-22
The Thief of Paris
Overview: In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018-04-02
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Overview: An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-02
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On the Trail of the New Wave
2009-03-14
On the Trail of the New Wave
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2009-03-14
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Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
2016-09-02
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
Overview: Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just a clown. He was also a groundbreaking filmmaker whose unquenchable curiosity led him to write, produce, stage and direct many of the films he appeared in, resulting in such adored classics as The Bellboy, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, and The Nutty Professor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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The Lion Roars Again
1975-01-01
The Lion Roars Again
Overview: A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
1985-06-23
Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
Overview: Documentary about the life of explorer Jacques Cousteau.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-23
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