Gérard Courant
Also Known As: Gerard Courant
Biography: Gérard Courant is a French filmmaker, writer, actor, poet and independent producer born on December 4, 1951 in Lyon, France. He is the son of the writer and historian René Courant. He is one of the most prolific filmmakers of cinema. He created, directed and produced Cinématon, the longest film in the world (over 200 hours long). In all, he has shot nearly 7,000 filmed portraits and a very large number of other films (more than 1,000) since the mid-1970s. He has also published several books on cinema.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lyon, France
Adult: No
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Primitifs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Les Jours et les Nuits
Overview: I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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Jardins clandestins
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-24
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About Greece
Overview: Gérard Courant films the routes of his voyage in Greece with a Super8 camera. Reflections, waves, ports and landscapes are edited at a dizzying pace; in their midst, portraits appear of a very beautiful woman, along with images of the director who turns the camera on himself, showing his face reddened by the sun.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-07
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Le Passeur immobile
Overview: Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like a life parallel to my other films and film series (Cinema, Group Portrait, Read, etc.). They are also like a letter to the spectators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-14
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Un débat À travers l'univers
Overview: "A Debate Across the Universe" is, on the one hand, the capture of the debate which followed the world premiere screening of my film "Across the Universe", presented as part of the "Ethnology and Cinema" in Grenoble, at the Les Méliès cinema in Saint-Marcellin and, on the other hand, the criticism of this debate and additional information relating to the staging of "Across the Universe".
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-30
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Encore Cinématé !
Overview: Encore Cinématé ! is a fake Cinématon by Gérard Courant, the author and designer of this famous film series. It is not part of the anthology and is therefore out of collection. However, he has all the characteristics of an official Cinématon but the filmmaker, who had just lent himself to the cinematon game a year earlier, on the occasion of the 2000th portrait of his collection, did not want to overload his fetish series with new portraits of him. He preferred not to integrate it while ensuring that this portrait has a real existence, that it is visible and that it is a film in its own right.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-25
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Coude à coude
Overview: Coude à coude is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Carnets that follows Velo Love (July 1 to 3, 1996), in which journalist and screenwriter Alain Riou proposed to the filmmaker to accompany him by bike on the course of the mountain stage of the Tour de France, Chambéry-Les Arcs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-07-05
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Lady Usher's Diary
Overview: Loosely inspired by Edgar Poe. A mixture of darkness, melancholy and evanescence, a disturbing atmosphere surrounds Lady Usher's Diary. This slow and feverish melodrama...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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Litan
Overview: Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does, she encounters stranger and stranger people and events erupting into a frenzy in front of her. Now, she and Jock must elude all of the impediments in their way of reaching safety on the outskirts of town.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-24
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Un film (autoportrait)
Overview: The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films, statements by friends of his and shooting sequences of the film itself, tormented filmmaker Marcel Hanoun has made a heterogeneous and unclassifiable film about the difficulty of filming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Amours décolorées
Overview: Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.
Genres: Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-02
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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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My Conversations on Film
Overview: This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-13
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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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La Neige tremblait sur les arbres
Overview: A Ciné-poem – An impressionist ballad in the early 80’s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-07
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Up and Down
Overview: A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows him to reinvent the possibilities of film gags. La Cabale des oursins is a guided tour to the northern France, transformed into a Geography lesson in the pataphysical style of an Alfred Jarry disciple.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-27
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Overview: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-04
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The Case of the Morituri Divisions
Overview: The story about gladiators against a German background. One of them, Ettore, has become a star of the underworld. He ends up breaking down, caught in a role he can no longer fulfill. His last betrayal is to spill the beans to the press. –São Paulo International Film Festival
Genres: Crime Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-13
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Omelette
Overview: A young man tired of writing and rewriting a screenplay decides to begin a Super 8mm film diary. He films his parents and those close to him and determines to tell the about his homosexuality.
Genres: Comedy Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-14
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Paradise Hotel
Overview: A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-15
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Trying to Describe Oneself
Overview: Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journey, something between documentary and feature film. Finally, a portrait of Boris Lehman from 1989 to 1995, part II of BABEL.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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Le Contrebandier des profondeurs
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-09
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Gérard Courant filme Cinématon
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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Journey to the Center of the World
Overview: Voyage au centre du monde is, following an invitation from the new Belgrade town hall and the government of the Republika Serbska, the film brought back by Gérard Courant from his trip with a group of writers in Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-02
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Hérésie pour Magritte IV
Overview: Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte).
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-04-04
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Le Jour où TF1 m'a cinématonné
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-02
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Le Jour où Antenne 2 m'a cinématonné
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-04-16
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Vivre à Naples Et Mourir
Overview: "On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his work in general. Our meeting took place on the terrace of the Hotel Majestic, in the midst of excitement of the Cannes festival life, a few days after the screening of Nel Regno di Napoli and in the presence of the photographer Jean-Claude Moireau. Vivre à Naples et mourir is the audio capture of that informal meeting that happened on 20 May 1978 and which is, as per director's wish, more like a casual conversation than an interview in the strict sense of the term (a set of questions and answers).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-16
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Genova Genova
Overview: A song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the beautiful cemetery and then climb the hills which offer an amazing view over the old town crossed by a highway and port.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-05
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Cocktail Morlock
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-31
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Chambéry-Les Arcs
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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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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Périssable Paradis
Overview: 15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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Mon tricot (Thanx to Wilma Schoer)
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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Spoonful
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-06
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2000 Cinématons
Overview: A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of the artistic community of the last 20th century which attempts to answer these questions: Why film everyone? Why choose cultural personalities? How do the subjects look at their image? How much exhibitionism and narcissism is involved in being filmed?
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-18
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Alicudi
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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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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Mes films commencent au moment où les autres se terminent (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez I)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-24
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Un cinéaste qui ne tient pas la caméra est comme un peintre qui ne tient pas le pinceau (Conversation avec Teo Hernandez II)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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Teo Hernandez sur Radio Ark en Ciel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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Teo Hernandez à Paris
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-21
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Passions (entretien avec Philippe Garrel I)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-03
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Attention poésie (entretien avec Philippe Garrel II)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-03
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L’Art, c’est se perdre dans les châteaux du rêve (entretien avec Philippe Garrel III)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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L’oeuvre d’art est utile car elle consolide notre liberté (entretien avec Philippe Garrel IV)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Le Cinéma Le Trianon de Verneuil-sur-Avre célèbre Juliet Berto
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-03
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Petite intrusion dans l’univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Le Chemin de Resson : Joseph Morder rend visite à Marcel Hanoun
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-03
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In Memoriam Marcel Hanoun
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-03
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Zouzou à Saint-Denis
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-03
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L'Artifice et le factice
Overview: "L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-19
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Alicudi 1 Bella
Overview: A cinematographic logbook around the mythical island of Alicudi in Sicily.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Une cérémonie secrète
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Joseph Morder filme le défilé du Premier Mai
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Vie
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Nuits transparentes
Overview: Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Lucy en Miroir
Overview: The fortuitous meeting of two women to the identical first name, Lucy, who formerly loved the same man, Jonathan, induced, in this film, of the polysemous variations on the memory, art, and the difficult relationship between creation and emotional life. Dehumanized by an exclusive artistic practice, the man lost his reference marks little by little. "Lucy en miroir" wants to be, also, a shifted and transverse second reading of "The Contempt" ("Le Mépris") of Godard, by a step more plastic than analytical or conclusive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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La Femme en vert
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-19
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L'Été madrilène
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-04-05
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Le chien amoureux
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-15
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Au petit Suisse
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-22
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Le lapin à deux têtes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-08
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Boris Lehman à Toulouse
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-12
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Autour de Vent-Pire
Overview: "Autour de Vent-Pire" is a documentary recounting the shooting of "Vent-Pire", the vampire film that Gérard Courant shot on November 12, 1970 at the Porte du Diable in the Pasques forest in Plombières-lès-Dijon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-30
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Les deux Lucy
Overview: Les Deux Lucy is a short documentary portrait of the shooting of Raphaël Bassan's film Lucy en miroir. It's the opportunity for us to look at one of our contemporary filmmakers and important film critics of what we call in French cinémas differents, meaning a different way of making films. Our making of offers the opportunity to follow, step by step, the making of this short film with scenes shot on the set, and to listen to comments by the filmmaker about his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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Otage
Overview: Inspired by the detention of Jean-Paul Kauffmann and Michel Seurat in Lebanon, hostages and improbable currency for terrorists...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Portraits / Mirrors
Overview: A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Gérard Courant, Berndt Deprez, Bertrand Gadenne, Mythia Kolésar, Christian Lebrat, Stéphane Marti, Pascal Martin, Michel Nedjar, Dominique Noguez, Vivian Ostrovsky, Bernard Roué, Martine Rousset, Alain Sayag, Unglee, and Catherine Zbinden.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Confessions d'un cinéaste
Overview: A film by Vincent Tolédano
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-07
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Certains tombent en amour...
Overview: Six other months of my life (December 1979 – June 1980), from one decade to the next, a trip to Quebec, Brussels, Geneva and many other adventures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-07-07
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Le lapin rose
Overview: Joseph Morder's fifth journal film shot from July to December of 1980.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Le Nouvel Hiver
Overview: Le Nouvel Hiver is a slightly disillusioned reflection on the state of the world (the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the USSR, the Gulf War), the events of which are the thread of this year's Notebooks (1 January 1991 to 31 December 1991). Of course, these Notebooks are far from this sinister current events because life is elsewhere, in creation and in a quest for the absolute. And then, Le Nouvel Hiver takes us into surprising encounters (with Ken Loach, Brigitte Lahaie) and transports us to places I can't live without (the Ardèche in the North).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-12-31
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