Bertrand Tavernier
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Biography: Bertrand Tavernier (25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
Birthday: April 25, 1941
Deathday: March 25, 2021
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Gender: Male
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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
Overview: "It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-14
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The Undeclared War
Overview: Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-19
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Overview: If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-30
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Code Name: Melville
Overview: Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-15
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The World of Jacques Demy
Overview: Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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The Young Girls Turn 25
Overview: Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-19
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Pictures of Europe
Overview: What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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Before Midnight
Overview: Filmmaker Jean Achache shot extensively on the set of ’Round Midnight. This documentary presents that material for the first time, including footage of director Bertrand Tavernier, production designer Alexandre Trauner, and other members of the cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis
Overview: Interview with Bertrand Tavernier, Charles Drazin and Olivier Bouvet about Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The French Minister
Overview: Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Overview: Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-09-21
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Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-08
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Overview: Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Overview: Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing debut. That story and others comprise this portrait of the famed Hollywood icon. His career is explored via an array of film clips, interviews and more.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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The Bakery Girl of Monceau
Overview: Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Daddy Nostalgia
Overview: A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-05
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Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Overview: Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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The Lumière Brothers' First Films
Overview: A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand Tavernier.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-18
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The Cineastes' Exit
Overview: New film created for the 'Lumiere Brothers First Films' collection.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Filmmakers in Action
Overview: What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
Overview: In this documentary, produced by Philippe Quinconneau for StudioCanal, editor Françoise Bonnot, actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, composer Éric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, cinematographer Pierre Lhomme, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier share insights and anecdotes about Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film ARMY OF SHADOWS.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Overview: This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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Gershwin
Overview: Documentary about George Gershwin directed by Alain Resnais with various celebrities speaking on their admiration and affection for Gershwin's music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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The Audacious Adventurer
Overview: Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier is interviewed about his friend director Michael Powell and his stories about the making of BLACK NARCISSUS (1947).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-31
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An American Named Kazan
Overview: Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War II. Actor, theater director, filmmaker, writer, he is the founder of Actor’s Studio, a collaborator of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and a director who discovered Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-10
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M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier
Overview: Bertrand Tavernier talks about Losey's M.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-06
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Overview: Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-09-05
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Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
Overview: Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews, recorded shortly before his death, director Claude Sautet gives us a fascinating lesson in cinema. Through his thirteen films, he tells about his career and his work as a director.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Les secrets de la belle endormie
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-17
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Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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In the Shadow of Hollywood
Overview: In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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My Journey Through French Cinema
Overview: Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-12
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A Sunday in the Country
Overview: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-11
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Michael Powell
Overview: The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews many people who knew or worked with him or were influenced by his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-14
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The Other Side of the Tracks
Overview: The first part of a documentary made by Bertrand and Nils Tavernier, following a letter judged provocative by the Minister of Integration at the time, who spent several months in the Grands Pêchers housing estate in Montreuil, giving voice to its inhabitants. The problems of unemployment, racism, integration and delinquency are addressed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-07
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