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Agnès Guillemot
Agnès Guillemot, born Agnès Perché (3 December 1931 – 17 December 2005) was a French film editor, known for her collaboration with the Nouvelle Vague directors. She edited sixteen films for Jean-Luc Godard, including ''Contempt'' (1963), '' Bande à part'' (1964) and '' Alphaville'' (1965). She also edited films for Truffaut, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Catherine Breillat and several other women directors, including Nicole Garcia, Catherine Corsini, Francesca Comencini and Paula Delsol. Life Agnès Perché was born on 3 December 1931 in Roubaix, Nord. She married the film director Claude Guillemot. She died on 17 December 2005 in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci .... References 1931 births 2005 deaths French film editors {{film-editor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouvelle Vague
The New Wave (, ), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm. New Wave filmmakers explored new approaches to editing, visual style, and narrative, as well as engagement with the social and political upheavals of the era, often making use of irony or exploring existential themes. The New Wave is often considered one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema. However, contemporary critics have also argued that historians have not sufficiently credited its female co-founder, Agnès Varda, and have criticized the movement's prevailing themes of sexism towards women. The term was first used by a group of French film critics and cinephiles associated with the magazine in the late 1950s and 1960s. These critics rejected the ("Tradition of Quality") of mainstream French cinem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Corsini
Catherine Corsini (born 18 May 1956) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress. Her film '' Replay'' was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2012 film '' Three Worlds'' competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In April 2016, she was announced as the president of the jury for the Caméra d'Or prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Corsini is partners with Elisabeth Perez, who has been a producer on some of her projects. Filmography See also * List of female film and television directors * List of lesbian filmmakers * List of LGBT-related films directed by women This is a list of lesbian, Gay men, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-related films that were directed by women. LGBTQ-themed films directed by women – especially, but not exclusively, lesbian-themed movies – are an important and distinct s ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Corsini, Catherine 1956 births Living people French film di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nord (French Department)
Nord (; officially ; ; , ) is a département in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai. The modern coat of arms was inherited from the County of Flanders. Nord is the country's most populous département. It had a population of 2,608,346 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 59 Nord INSEE It also contains the metropolitan region of Lille (the main city and the prefecture of the départe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roubaix
Roubaix ( , ; ; ; ) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century from its textile industries, with most of the same characteristic features as those of English and American Boomtown, boom towns. This former new town has faced many challenges linked to deindustrialisation such as urban decay, with their related economic and social implications, since its major industries fell into decline by the middle of the 1970s. Located to the northeast of Lille, adjacent to Tourcoing, Roubaix is the of two Cantons of France, cantons and the third largest city in the French Regions of France, region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with nearly 99,000 inhabitants. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Delsol
Paula Delsol, or Paule Delsol, was born on October 6, 1923, in Montagnac, Hérault, France, died on June 12, 2015, at Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine) and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. She was a French feature film director, documentarian, screenwriter, novelist, and also made contributions to French television. Her contributions to the iconic French New Wave are only rarely acknowledged; alongside Agnès Varda, Delsol was one of only two women practitioners in the movement. She was married to Jean Malige. In 1955, Paula Delsol published an autobiographical novel ''Adieu et merci'', inspired by her youth in Haiphong. From 1958, she made short films with her husband Jean Malige, cameraman and chief operator. She shot her first feature film in 1962, ''La Dérive'' - which was not released in theaters until 1964. Due to its themes of female sexual freedom and the over 18 theatrical restriction on the film, it was not a financial success at its time of release. She left Montpellier fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Comencini
Francesca Comencini (; born 19 August 1961) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand (Rome), Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984. Her film ''The Words of My Father, Le parole di mio padre'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, her film ''Un Giorno Speciale'' was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. She was married to French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier. Filmography * ''Pianoforte (film), Pianoforte'' (1984) * ''La lumière du lac'' (1988) * ''Annabelle partagée'' (1991) * ''Elsa Morante (film), Elsa Morante'' (1997) * ''The Words of My Father'' (2001) * ''Un altro mondo è possibile'' (2001) * ''Carlo Giuliani, Boy'' (2002) * ''Firenze, il nostro domani'' (2003) * ''I Like to Work (Mobbing)'' (2004) * ''Visions of Europe (film), Visions of Europe'' (2004) * ''Our ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia (born 22 April 1946) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film '' Charlie Says'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Her film '' Going Away'' was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival The 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 5 and 15, 2013. ''The Fifth Estate (film), The Fifth Estate'' was selected as the opening film and ''Life of Crime (film), Life o .... She was the president of the jury for the Caméra d'Or section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Her eldest son, Frédéric Bélier-Garcia, is a theatre director and writer. From her relationship with Jean Rochefort, she has a second son, the actor Pierre Rochefort. Filmography As actress As filmmaker References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, Nicole 1946 births Living people French women film directors French film act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. During his early career as a film critic for '' Cahiers du Cinéma'', Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality" and championed Hollywood directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks. In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. Godard first received global acclaim for '' Breathless'' (1960), a milestone in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. Life and career Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort. She decided to become a writer and director at the age of twelve after watching Ingmar Bergman's '' Sawdust and Tinsel'', believing she had found her "fictional body" in Harriet Andersson's character, Anna.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine She started her career after studying acting at Yves Furet's "Studio d'Entraînement de l'Acteur" in Paris together with her sister, actress Marie-Hélène Breillat (born 2 June 1947) in 1967. Her novel,'' l'Homme facile'' (''A Man for the Asking''), was published when she was 17. The French government banned it for readers under 18. A film based on the novel was made shortly after the publication of the book, and received an R rating. The producer went bankrupt and the distributor Artedis blocked commercial re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Charles Tacchella
Jean-Charles Tacchella (23 September 1925 – 29 August 2024) was a French screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film '' Cousin Cousine'' (1975), which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which was later remade in the U.S. as '' Cousins'' (1989) starring Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young and William Petersen. Early career Jean-Charles Tacchella was born on 23 September 1925 in Cherbourg, Manche. He had Genoese ancestry. He studied in Marseilles and, just after the liberation of France, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director. He joined ' when he was nineteen, where he worked with Jean Renoir, Becker, and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, , and Alexandre Astruc. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim, Anna Magnani, Vittorio de Sica an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
