Jackie Raynal
Also Known As: Jacqueline Raynal, Jacquie Raynal
Biography: Jacky Raynal is French directress, actress and film editor. She's born in 1940 near Montpellier. The film maker has a diploma in Linguistics. In the early 60's, already a photographer, young Jacky Raynal starts working in the field of cinema. She's assistent film editor for the documentarys of G. Patriss and F. Vienne. After that, she edits the first films of E. Rohmer. In 1965 J. Raynal gets the license of senior film editor for feature films in CNC (National Cinema Center). Now she's working with the film directors of the New Wave. She edits all of the skecthes of Six in Paris, directed by Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Jacky Raynal continues to work in editing till the end of 70's. In 1968, with S. Boissonas and O. Mosset, she's the founder of the Zanzibar group. She works with Philippe Garrel, Serge Bard, Daniel Pommereulle, Alain Jouffroy and Patrick Deval. J. Raynal shoots her first feature film Two Times in Barcelona. In 1972, the movie wins the Grand Prix in the Festival of Hyères/Toulon. At that time she's already living in New York. There, between 1975 and 1992, she's responsible for the programs of Carnegie Hall Cinema and Bleeker Street Cinema. She shows there numerous independent international films. Her job in New York is appreciated by F. Truffaut (he compares it with the French Cinematheque) and awarded twice by the Village Voice in 1981 and 1991. J. Raynal directs New York Story (Grand Prix in Melbourne) and Hotel New York. In the same time, she plays in several movies, organises numerous international cinema festivals, like Colombian Film Festival, Israel Film Festival or Avignon Film Festival. From 1973 to 1986, with Sid Geffen, they're publishing the independent international cinema review 1000 Eyes Magazine. From 2000, Jacky Raynal directs numerous documentarys, like Notes on Jonas Mekas (2000) or Eric Rohmer, the Film Maker (2010). In 2010, Jacky Raynal is rewarded for her work in arts the Légion d'Honneur (Knight in the Order Arts and Letters).
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Poilhes, France
Birthday: October 20, 1940
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Gender: Female
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The black bath
Overview: In a black bath, Jackie Raynal introduce her film Deux Fois to Metrograph in NYC.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-16
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On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan
Overview: Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Acéphale
Overview: An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-07
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Freak Orlando
Overview: FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-06
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The Man Who Envied Women
Overview: A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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A Woman Kills
Overview: Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Eyes Find Eyes
Overview: Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhere to turn but inward, Ernst becomes the perfect portrait of anguish. This film traces the collapse of a man littered with the diversions of sex and sin and the lost ability to tell a true original from a fake.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-08
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Hotel New York
Overview: A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-15
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Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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Bonjour Tristesse
Overview: Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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The Big Departure
Overview: This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes...
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-15
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Two Rémi, Two
Overview: Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice
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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Deux fois
Overview: Twice is a 1968 experimental film by Jackie Raynal. Raynal stars in the film, her first as a director; she had previously worked for several years as a film editor, most notably for films in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series (she was, reportedly, the youngest professional editor in France at the time). The film's title, which literally translates as Twice and is sometimes translated into English as Twice Upon a Time, refers to the occasional repetition of scenes or actions.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Naughty Boys
Overview: An ode to musicals past. Handsome men spend their time in a beautiful manor.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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Welcome to New York
Overview: Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-07
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Trap
Overview: A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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La Collectionneuse
Overview: A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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New York Story
Overview: Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-08
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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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Camembert Martial Extra-doux
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Jupiter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-05
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La Fille oblique
Overview: A storm breaks out in a high mountain village. Thirty-year-old Maude then discovers a mysterious bird, which will inevitably lead her to a witch's abode.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-20
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Felix in Wonderland
Overview: Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-08
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La cigarette
Overview: A young woman's body becomes the medium for the viewer’s projections of the stories and biographies that are imagined about her.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Cinématon XII
Overview: Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Parisian Life
Overview: She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-04-28
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Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
Overview: A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-29
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How to Fold a Green Screen
Overview: Small performance with Jackie Raynal and Marie Losier. Simply set up by Marie in an empty New York gallery, which she packed with props and shooting devices, with the idea to invite friends of her to come and shoot short films together. Good times with Jackie, trying to fold a green screen which in the end was never fold but instead allowed us to create a whole new choregraphy.
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Original Language: en
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L’Homme qui part
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-20
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