Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 12, 1942
Deathday: March 15, 2019
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1999-05-24
Overview: 30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-24
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2013-10-13
Overview: This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-13
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1978-12-20
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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1984-06-12
Overview: This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins with an interview to Marguerite Duras by Dominique Noguez, an expert in her work; the interview links the film to the two movies whom it's related to: The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein and The Vice-Consul. Several themes are tackled: childhood, autobiographical traces, relationships between differents characters and different films and more. India Song's main actors — Delphine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale, who played Anne-Marie Stretter and the French vice-consul — join the conversation and talk about their roles and their craft. Marguerite Duras then evokes her memories of the shooting with the composer Carlos D'Alessio and her camera operato Bruno Nuytten. The conversations are punctuated by clips of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-12
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1983-06-08
Overview: Fugitive images of the northwestern city of France.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-08
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1984-01-01
Overview: Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject.”
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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1984-04-05
Overview: A song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the beautiful cemetery and then climb the hills which offer an amazing view over the old town crossed by a highway and port.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-05
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1979-06-23
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-23
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2000-02-15
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-02-15
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1986-12-07
Overview: Lire is a cinematographic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large fixed and sound sequence shot of 3 minutes 20 seconds, a writer reading the beginning of his last published book.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-07
Popularity:
2001-09-18
Overview: A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of the artistic community of the last 20th century which attempts to answer these questions: Why film everyone? Why choose cultural personalities? How do the subjects look at their image? How much exhibitionism and narcissism is involved in being filmed?
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-18
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2007-11-01
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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2012-11-03
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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1987-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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1981-01-31
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-31
Popularity:
1984-07-01
Overview: Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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1982-08-27
Overview: Milena Gabanelli sits in her room while listening to one of the last voice recordings of Jean Eustache.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-27
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1978-05-11
Overview: Reel 1 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-11
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1980-10-15
Overview: Reel 8 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-15
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1984-04-12
Overview: Reel 32 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-12
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Original Language: fr
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1979-09-25
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-25
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1984-01-01
Overview: A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Gérard Courant, Berndt Deprez, Bertrand Gadenne, Mythia Kolésar, Christian Lebrat, Stéphane Marti, Pascal Martin, Michel Nedjar, Dominique Noguez, Vivian Ostrovsky, Bernard Roué, Martine Rousset, Alain Sayag, Unglee, and Catherine Zbinden.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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1984-03-02
Overview: Film by Patrice Kirchhofer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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