Gabriel Matzneff
Biography: Gabriel Matzneff is a French author For his literary works, he received the Mottart and Amic prices from the French Academy , respectively in 1987 and 2009, the Renaudot essay price in 2013, the Cazes prices from the Lipp brewery and the Incorrect Book in 2015. In spite of his pedophile practices described without blatantly in his books, he remained sheltered from any criminal prosecution for a long time and benefited from a large support within the literary world.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 12, 1936
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Droit de Réponse
1981-12-12
Droit de Réponse
Overview: "Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon
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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Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
2015-11-06
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Overview: Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Cinéphiles #01 Gabriel Matzneff
2017-01-31
Cinéphiles #01 Gabriel Matzneff
Overview: The French controversial author Gabriel Matzneff talks about film/cinema and his taste and flavors, without editing or interruptions. Among a lot of favorable experiences Matzneff mention "The Boy with Green Hair" (1948) by Joseph Losey, "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom" (1975) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and directors/auteurs like Marcel Carné and Orson Welles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-31
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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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I Did Not Die
2008-08-15
I Did Not Die
Overview: Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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Cinématon XL
1984-11-11
Cinématon XL
Overview: Reel 40 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-11
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