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Éva Darlan
Éva Darlan (''née'' Osty; born 3 September 1948) is a French actress, director, producer and writer. Career At the age of 14, she attended acting classes at the Cours Simon and starts at 16 years as an amateur. She took theater studies at the ''École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre'', located Rue Blanche and then immediately starts a theatrical career. In 1978, she had been nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: ''César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle'') is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the ''Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma'' to recognize the outst ..., for ''A Simple Story'' in which she played the role of Anna. Writer * * * * Filmography Theatre Notes and references External links * Interview(in French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Darlan, Eva 1948 births 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Harcourt
Studio Harcourt is a photography studio founded in 1933 by Cosette Harcourt at 11, rue Christophe-Colomb in Paris. In 1934, she joined forces with the Lacroix brothers, press bosses and Robert Ricci, son of Nina Ricci to found the Harcourt studio. It is known in particular for its black-and-white photographs of movie stars and celebrities, but having one's photo taken at Harcourt a few times during one's life was once considered standard by the French upper middle class. The studio is currently located at 6, rue de Lota in the 16th arrondisment of Paris. History Harcourt Studio Photography is the result of the association of the brothers Lacroix and Germaine Hirschfeld (1900–1976) aka Cosette Harcourt, a photographer who had worked in the studio of the brothers Manuel. Initially, the company produced images for the press, at a time when prestigious photo studios like Nadar (photographer), Nadar closed for lack of clients. The change in direction came when Cosette Harcourt s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film ''A Man and a Woman, A Man and A Woman''. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, ''A Man and a Woman'' won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism. Life and career Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to Charlotte () and Simon Lelouch. His father was born to an Algerian Jewish family while his mother was a Conversion to Judaism, convert to Judaism. Lelouch says that his first contact with cinema was very young: "My mother hid me in movie theaters when I was little. We were wan ... [...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] |
Keep Your Right Up
''Keep Your Right Up'' () is a 1987 film, written, directed by, and starring French Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. In boxing, ''Soigne ta droite'' is a trainer's call to "keep your right up". The title is a reference to Jacques Tati's first short film, '' Soigne ton gauche'' (''Keep Your Left Up''). Plot Described by Godard as "a fantasy for actor, camera and tape recorder", this film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdo .... The film is divided into three sections which inter-cross throughout. In each, a group of people search for their proper place on earth. In the first, a group of musicians search for the right sound, the ideal harmony. In the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Rego
Luis Rego (born 30 May 1943) is a Portuguese actor, comedian, writer and director based in France. He was a founding member of music/comedy group Les Charlots which he left after a few years. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rego, Luis French male film actors Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male stage actors French male television actors 1943 births Portuguese emigrants to France Portuguese male comedians Male actors from Lisbon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Pinheiro (director)
José Pinheiro (born 13 June 1945) is a French film director, editor and writer. Filmography Film Editor * ''Jan Palach'' (1969) (Documentary) * ''Macédoine'' (1971) * '' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii'' (1972) (Documentary) * ''Les petites saintes y touchent'' (1974) (Assistant editor) * ''Cher Victor'' (1975) * ''Tchad 2: L'ultimatum'' (1975) (Documentary) * ''Tchad 3'' (1976) (Documentary) * ''Le coeur froid'' (1977) * ''The Police War ''The Police War'' (French: ''La guerre des polices'') is a French police drama film directed by Robin Davis and starring Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich and Marlène Jobert. The French title (literally: "the war of the polices") refers to the riv ...'' (1979) Assistant director * ''La philosophie dans le boudoir'' (1969) Television TV movies * ''Les beaux dimanches'' (1980) * ''La petite absente'' (2000) * ''Le lion'' (2003) * ''Ne meurs pas'' (2003) * ''L'étrangère'' (2007) * ''Mort prématurée'' (2007) * ''Un Vrai Papa Noël'' (2008) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parole De Flic
''Parole de flic'' is a 1985 French crime film directed by José Pinheiro and produced by and starring Alain Delon. It marked Delon's return to action films after a period devoted to more intimate films. ''Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort'' (1988) was the sequel to this film.Der Panther (1985) Filmlexikon, Zweitausendeins.de, retrieved 25 December 2014 Plot Daniel Pratt (Alain Delon) is a former police officer living on an African island. When he learns that his daughter has been murdered in , he returns to France to avenge her, and brutally kills the perpetrators one by one.Cast * |
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their Style (visual arts), visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the En plein air, plein-air Realism (arts), realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping Continuity (fiction), continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964) and ''The Young G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parking (1985 Film)
''Parking'' is a French fantasy and musical film from 1985. It was directed and written by Jacques Demy, starring Francis Huster, Laurent Malet, and Jean Marais. Synopsis The Orpheus myth repeats itself in the 20th century, paying tribute to Jean Cocteau's film classic '' Orphée'' (1950) by having the actor who played Orpheus appear as Hades. Orpheus is a famous pop singer who composes love songs for Eurydice, his wife and sculptor who also designs his album covers; together they live alongside Aristée, his manager, and Calaïs, his sound engineer and lover, in a castle. During one of his concerts, an electrical malfunction briefly kills him and sends him to the Underworld, represented by a metro station and parking garage. Orpheus meets Charon, Hades, and Persephone, who agree to send him back to Earth as long as he doesn't reveal what he sees. Back on Earth, Persephone being sent to spy on Orpheus causes rifts between him and his lovers, as Calaïs admits to being jealous of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud
Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud (born in 1947) is a Tunisian film writer and producer. Biography Mahmoud was born in 1947 in Tunis, Tunisia, to a family of Turkish origin who had settled in Tunisia in 1710. His father was a theologian and amateur artist and writer, which, to an extent, influenced the personality of the young Mahmoud. He studied at the INSAS Belgian school of cinema where he completed his graduation in field of filming. Later, he studied art history, archeology and journalism at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). These multidisciplinary studies gave him a solid training to face the field of cinema. He first tried to make it as a film writer by participating in the writing of two films: ''The Son of Amr's death'' (''Le Fils d'Amr est mort'') of Jean-Jacques Andrien and ''Kfar Kassem'' of Borhane Alaoui. Soon after, Mahmoud made his first feature film ''Crossings'' (''Traversées'') in 1982. His second feature film, released in 1992, ''Chichkhan, Diamond Dust'' (''Chic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Zidi
Claude Zidi (born 25 July 1934) is a French film director and screenwriter noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then a cinematographer, and he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971. He won the César Award for Best Director for '' My New Partner'', for which he was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best .... Filmography as director External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zidi, Claude 1934 births Living people French male screenwriters French screenwriters Film directors from Paris Best Director César Award winners French people of Algerian descent French comedy film directors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banzaï
''Banzaï'' is a 1983 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Coluche. The film was released in France on March 23, 1983. Plot Michel Bernardin works at Planet Assistance, an organisation who helps out Frenchmen who are in trouble in foreign countries. Behind the scenes * The picture was shot in Hong Kong, the United States, Africa and France and has become a cult film. * According to Valérie Mairesse, Coluche suggested her as a replacement for singer actress Karen Cheryl (aka Isabelle Morizet), first cast as his girlfriend, when the latter's agent opposed to her involvement in that production. Cast and roles * Coluche - Michel Bernardin * Valérie Mairesse - Isabelle Parisse * Marthe Villalonga - Madame Bernardin * Éva Darlan - Carole * Zabou Breitman - Sophia * Didier Kaminka - Cousin Paul * Pascal N'Zonzi - Police Chief * François Perrot François Perrot (26 February 1924 – 20 January 2019) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
