Claire Denis
Biography: Claire Denis (born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s and of all time. Other acclaimed works include Trouble Every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), White Material (2009), High Life (2018) and Both Sides of the Blade (2022), the last of which won her the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. For her film Stars at Noon (2022), Denis competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Grand Prix, sharing the award with Lukas Dhont's film Close. Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claire Denis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: April 21, 1946
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Silence
2012-03-08
Silence
Overview: Claire Denis visits Bergman's home, browses his collection, and discusses his impact on her work. Part of Trespassing Bergman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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To Have (Or Not)
1995-12-27
To Have (Or Not)
Overview: Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-27
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Mais où et donc Ornicar
1979-02-28
Mais où et donc Ornicar
Overview: They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each other, leave each other, under the eye of their kids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Granny's Funeral
2012-06-19
Granny's Funeral
Overview: A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-19
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Aller au diable
2011-08-04
Aller au diable
Overview: He is an Aluku man, one of the five tribes of Maroons who survives in the forest during 400 years after escaping from the Dutch sugarcane plantations. All the Maroons are issued originally from the West coast of Africa. They were taken as slaves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-04
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Heart of the Festival
2002-04-16
Heart of the Festival
Overview: A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-16
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Claire Denis, les chemins de traverse
2021-12-05
Claire Denis, les chemins de traverse
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-05
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Room 999
2023-10-05
Room 999
Overview: In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Claire Denis : Leçon de cinéma
2017-09-27
Claire Denis : Leçon de cinéma
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-27
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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016-05-12
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Overview: An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-12
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The Breidjing Camp
2015-12-04
The Breidjing Camp
Overview: Claire Denis goes to Eastern Chad to the Breidjing camp, the home of 40,000 refugees from Darfur. With great humility, she tells the stories of these men and women, victims of one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes that this century has seen so far.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-04
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Talking with Ozu
1993-11-27
Talking with Ozu
Overview: A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-27
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Purely Coincidental
2002-05-17
Purely Coincidental
Overview: A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others’ birthday parties, have wives and children and probably mortgages. Romain Goupil’s film appears to be a throwback to the experimental days of cinema verite. Either that or it’s a home movie, shot with a video camera, to an improvised script or no script at all.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Trespassing Bergman
2013-08-28
Trespassing Bergman
Overview: In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016-07-18
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Overview: Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-18
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Claire Denis, The Vagabond
1996-01-01
Claire Denis, The Vagabond
Overview: In an arrestingly filmed interview (with the questions omitted), Denis offers a spirited and insightful discussion of her films and career. She talks about her films, her career, the directors she admires - such as Renoir and Ozu - the writing of Frantz Fanon, and her convictions in regard to light, sound, montage, tracking shots, and the role of dialogue, which is subordinate to image in her films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Le Jour de Noël
1998-03-01
Le Jour de Noël
Overview: Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "jazz" portrait.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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Children of Salò
2002-10-24
Children of Salò
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Venus Beauty Institute
1999-02-03
Venus Beauty Institute
Overview: Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-03
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020-07-16
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Overview: "Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-07-16
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Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
1990-02-24
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
Overview: This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du cinéma”, then of “Liberation”. In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette’s career, his relationships with the other film makers of the new wave, his use of “mise en scene” and his working with actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-24
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Écrans Noirs Film Festival, 2010
2011-04-11
Écrans Noirs Film Festival, 2010
Overview: In this short film, director Claire Denis documents her return to Cameroon for the 2010 premiere of White Material at the Écrans Noirs Film Festival. Included on the Criterion Collection's edition of White Material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-11
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