Jacques Demy
Biography: Jacques Demy (June 5, 1931 – October 27, 1990) was a French director and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave. His films are well known for their sumptuous look, drawing on Hollywood musicals, fairy tales, jazz, and opera.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 05, 1931
Deathday: October 27, 1990
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Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
2021-11-24
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
Overview: From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic work "the places of [his] suffering", "the stations of [his] way of the cross". With his thin body and sunken cheeks, the handsome man with curly hair that he was, the one whose clear gaze radiated from the seaside photos, fought a fierce battle against AIDS. A fight of every moment against the decay of the body, observed and commented with a methodical care in his autobiographical novels, in particular "To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life" (1990) and "The Compassionate Protocol" (1991), and of which he testified on television on the set of "Apostrophes"...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-24
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Hommage à Michel Legrand et Jacques Demy au festival Sœurs Jumelles
2021-08-16
Hommage à Michel Legrand et Jacques Demy au festival Sœurs Jumelles
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-08-16
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The Young Girls Turn 25
1993-05-19
The Young Girls Turn 25
Overview: Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-19
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964-05-19
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Overview: Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-19
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Dead Horizons
1951-01-01
Dead Horizons
Overview: Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbling apartment recalls being left by his girl for another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Ars
1960-12-01
Ars
Overview: With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars once lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand this fighter for communal spirituality and his daily torments of mysticism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Viva Varda!
2023-05-17
Viva Varda!
Overview: A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-17
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Le Bel Indifférent
1958-11-01
Le Bel Indifférent
Overview: An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Cinépanorama: Jacques Demy et Michel Legrand
1964-01-01
Cinépanorama: Jacques Demy et Michel Legrand
Overview: Director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand are interviewed about 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Beaches of Agnès
2008-12-17
The Beaches of Agnès
Overview: Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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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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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018-12-25
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Overview: This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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The 400 Blows
1959-06-03
The 400 Blows
Overview: For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-03
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Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
1977-12-31
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
Overview: A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964-02-19
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Overview: This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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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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Souvenirs and Evocations
2008-12-31
Souvenirs and Evocations
Overview: A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Jacquot
1991-05-15
Jacquot
Overview: Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-15
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The World of Jacques Demy
1995-09-22
The World of Jacques Demy
Overview: Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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The Widows of Noirmoutier
2006-10-03
The Widows of Noirmoutier
Overview: A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'. The installation 'Les veuves de Noirmoutier' (or 'The Widows of Noirmoutier') had various women filmed by Varda, young and old, who spoke about their widowhood and their residence on the island of Noirmoutier. The film is a montage of these meetings, which are both simple and melancholic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-03
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Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2008-05-18
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Overview: Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-18
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Sodankylä Forever
2010-08-05
Sodankylä Forever
Overview: The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010-04-11
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Overview: Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word. If Deneuve’s career covers a half-century of cinema, it also bears witness to the force of a generation that experienced the deepest transformation of mores. This portrait reflects her entirely. The story of a mystery and an adventure.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-11
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Jim Morrison: The End
2021-07-02
Jim Morrison: The End
Overview: Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson. The chronicle of the last months of the life of the poet, singer and charismatic leader of the American band The Doors, one of the most influential in the history of rock.
Genres: Documentary History Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-02
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Paris Belongs to Us
1961-12-13
Paris Belongs to Us
Overview: A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-13
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Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
2002-02-02
Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
Overview: A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
1970-01-01
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
Overview: Writer / director Jacques Demy and actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais are interviewed on the set of 'Le peau d'ane'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Behind the screens : Jacques Demy's Les demoiselles de Rochefort
1966-01-01
Behind the screens : Jacques Demy's Les demoiselles de Rochefort
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Behind the screens : Jacques Demy’s Les demoiselles de Rochefort - Les décors
1966-01-01
Behind the screens : Jacques Demy’s Les demoiselles de Rochefort - Les décors
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Dans les coulisses: le tournage de 'Trois Places pour le 26'
2013-01-01
Dans les coulisses: le tournage de 'Trois Places pour le 26'
Overview: Behind-the scenes documentary on Jacques Demy's 'Trois places pour le 26'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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