Noël Godin
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Biography: Noël Godin (born 13 September 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious pie thrower or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with a pie. After bombarding Gates, Godin allegedly said, "My work is done here." Godin insists he is non-violent and is careful to use only what he calls a "tarte classique", filled with whipped cream and perhaps a little chocolate in soft sponge cake. He says his humor can be traced back through Jerry Lewis, Wile E. Coyote, the Marx Brothers and yippies like Abbie Hoffman. Godin is inspired (for instance in his Anthologie de la subversion carabinée (1989)) by the works of the Utopian philosophers Tommaso Campanella (Civitas Solis) and Charles Fourier (La Phalange, Le Phalanstère). His ideal society is one where there is no struggle for power or money and where everybody can live in a state of perfect happiness. He is also an admirer of the anarchist Ravachol without approving his violence, sentiment which inspired him to his pie-attacks. Godin has a particularly colourful way of expressing himself, using terms like "tempêtes patissières" (pastry storm) to describe his pieing. Source: Article "Noël Godin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liège, Belgium
Birthday: September 13, 1945
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Gender: Male
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En Marche vers l'Effondrement !
Overview: Disappointed by leftists politics this last few years, PAP'40 of the Church of the Holy $aint Con$umption decide to run for presidential election of 2022 to fix the country. He meets his electorate and other candidates to spread the word : Work, Obey, Consume !
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-08
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The Political Life of the Belgians
Overview: We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting and after when the results of the elections are published.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-08
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Cream and Punishment
Overview: Noël Godin and his supporters throw a pie with cream into the face of Daniel Toscan du Plantier in the Palace of the Film Festival of Cannes 1996.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Les Vacances de Noël
Overview: Two men, fifty years young, seduce younger women at the Cannes Film Festival and are quite successful as long as there are no youngsters among them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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La société du spectacle et ses commentaires
Overview: Director Jan Bucquoy has a bunch of actors read from the Guy Debord novel which shares the same title. Slowly but surely real life an Debord's reflections upon it start to diffuse.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-01
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The Antics Roadshow
Overview: The Antics Roadshow is a celebration of the pranksters, hoaxers, jokers, activists and stunt merchants who use public space for their own unauthorised ends. This film brings together a wide range of individuals with all sorts of motivations, who have all hijacked the public arena to make a noise, be it for comedic, artistic or political ends, and have all done so using a variety of illicit and eccentric methods, which the audience should probably not try at home.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-13
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The Big Night
Overview: An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-06
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Mad in Belgium
Overview: A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-29
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Mais qui est donc Jean-Pierre Bouyxou?
Overview: Television segment for Canal+, with Noël Godin
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Le sexe enragé
Overview: A bourgeoisie client is transformed into a mouse and cannibalized by a prostitute in flagrante delicto with the camera changing focus in time to her breathing.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-16
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Wallonie 2084
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Grand Prix
Overview: The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 4 - La jouissance des hystériques
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-30
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Satan Bouche un Coin
Overview: The film is a series of images, shown in short takes (anywhere from a few frames to 30 seconds), of more or less fetishistic imagery (something Bouyxou was particularly fond of). After a credit and title sequence written on naked human flesh, the viewer sees the brilliant Molinier standing sanctimoniously in front of a screen. Soon he is joined by a woman, and he fondles her breasts while retaining his signature grin. Molinier seems to almost be the 'ringmaster' of the incidents, with almost every minute episode cutting back to him. His presence is one thing that makes this film remarkable; the same sort of aura that exists in Moliniers famous self-portraits and cut-ups is present here, on screen. (esotika.blogspot.com)
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-05-04
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La vie sexuelle des Belges partie 2 - Camping Cosmos
Overview: On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-06-19
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Dans l’ère du temps
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Original Language: fr
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Painting with Falls
Overview: A journey inside a picture thus offers the opportunity to travel through Belgium at the approach of the 21st century, and also to bring up a host of questions an what the eye sees: what do we see disappearing under our very eye? Why do we look at specific things? What is a point of view?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Grève et pets
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Boudou prend son bain
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-21
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Le journal de Joseph M.
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-02-15
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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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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Tout est calme
Overview: A secret society, somewhere in France, is responsible for the major unsolved murder mysteries throughout history (such as Henri IV, Lincoln, Kennedy, John-Paul I)...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-12
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Cinématon XXII
Overview: Reel 22 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-07
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Easy in Mind
Overview: A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-07-05
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Cinématon n°214 : Noël Godin
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Original Language: fr
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Homo Cinematographicus
Overview: Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, the film offers an unspecified number of statements, talking about memories and a thousand fragments of stories, titles and film scenes, the warp of a gigantic collective Chanson de geste.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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Royal Palace
Overview: Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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Henri
Overview: The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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