Arno
Also Known As: Arnold Hintjens, Arno Tjens
Biography: Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (21 May 1949 – 23 April 2022), better known by his stage name Arno, was a Belgian singer. He was the frontman of TC Matic, one of the best-known Belgian bands of the 1980s. After the band split in 1986 he enjoyed a solo career. Arno sang in a mixture of English, French, Dutch and his native Ostend-Flemish dialect. For TC Matic, a band which achieved moderate artistic success throughout Europe, he wrote or co-wrote all the band's material, much of it together with guitarist and producer Jean-Marie Aerts. After going solo he released more than a dozen albums during a successful career. In 2002 he received the title "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" (Knight in the Arts and Literature) of the French government. A 2004 biography by Gilles Deleux was translated in Dutch as Een lach en een traan ("A Smile and a Tear"). In the Belgian film Camping Cosmos he played the homosexual lifeguard Harry who does not pay attention to Lolo Ferrari who is incarnating a caricature of Pamela Anderson. At the beginning of 2020, Arno postponed his upcoming tour after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Until the end of his life he was performing and recording music. Opex was his last record, recorded while he was very ill. He died from the disease on 23 April 2022, in Brussels, at the age of 72. Source: Article "Arno (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Adult: No
Deathday: April 23, 2022
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Overview: Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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William Cliff, poète
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Petites vacances à Knokke-le-Zoute
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-06
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Yuku and the Himalayan Flower
Overview: Yuku is a young mouse who lives with her family in the cellar of a castle. Her grandmother passes on the family values by telling her timeless folk tales. Injured in a tussle with a cat, the old mouse is bedridden and she tells her children that she will have to leave them to follow the little blind mole into the Earth’s tunnels. In one of her grandmother’s storybooks, Yuku learns that the flower of the Himalayas can bring her eternal light. She leaves on a journey of discovery to find the flower.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-19
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La Maison de la Radio
Overview: Making a film about a radio station doesn’t sound like the most visually compelling of projects. How many takes do you need before the acoustic transition from the opening to the closing of a door is perfect or the reader's voice correctly modulated? Nicolas Philibert has accepted the challenge to portray that which cannot be seen. Shouldering his camera, he spent half a year wandering the endless corridors of Radio France’s ‘round house’ on the banks of the Seine where he filmed people who dedicate themselves utterly and meticulously to their work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-04-03
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Turtle Sitting
Overview: After being laid off from their fish deep-freezing factory, two workers, Esther and André accept a temporary job offer. They are assigned to look after the turtles of a well off couple while they are on vacation. After a couple of days spent in the luxurious villa, Esther and André neglect the house and spend all their time in the garden. They finally take French leave and join a groups of fishermen, by the side of a lazy river.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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Alors voilà,
Overview: A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-22
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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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Komma
Overview: A man assumes the identity of a dead person and convinces a young amnesiac that he is part of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-08-30
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The Injection
Overview: In an indeterminate future where it seems to be raining endlessly a man called Balthazar is waiting at home alone with his dog for a visit from an employee of an organisation called La Piqûre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-27
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Arno - Live in Brussels 2005
Overview: Arno Hintjens is a unique figure. A blend between a playboy and a hobo, a truly cosmopolitan nature and a true rock'n roll heart. Or, as Oor's Music Encyclopedia puts it 'one of the few groundbreaking artists of the European continent by the unique way in which he manages to combine elements of American Blues and funk, French chanson and Belgian barroom-songs into his own personal style'. In this live DVD recorded in Brussels in 2005, he delivers us the best of his songs.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-23
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Arno: Rock'n'Roll Godverdomme
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2024-01-28
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A new old story
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-30
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The Taste of Blueberries
Overview: An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway rest area and their son's tombstone. Having lost the keys to their car, they walk down into the woods together, then apart, to better find themselves and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-08
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M. Eddy & sa tribu
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-30
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