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Charlotte Valandrey
Charlotte Valandrey (29 November 1968 – 13 July 2022) was a French actress and author. After early success she was widely tipped for stardom, but her career took a more modest course until the release of her autobiography in 2005. Early life Born Anne-Charlotte Pascal into an affluent family, Valandrey grew up in Brittany in north-western France. From the age of six she lived in the small coastal town of Val-André, from which she took her professional name in 1985. Career Valandrey's debut film was Véra Belmont's 1985 political drama '' Red Kiss'', in which she played Nadia. Her highly acclaimed performance as a young communist in 1950s Paris was rewarded with a César award nomination for " Most Promising Actress" the following year but she eventually lost to Charlotte Gainsbourg. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1986, she appeared in the music video for David Bowie's song "As the World Falls Down" from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France 3
France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info. It is made up of a network of regional television services providing daily news programming and around ten hours of entertainment and cultural programming produced for and about the regions each week. The channel also broadcasts various national programming and national and international news from Paris. The channel was known as France Régions 3 (FR3) until its official replacement by France 3 in September 1992. Prior to the establishment of RFO, now Outre-Mer 1ère, it also broadcast to the various French overseas departments and territories. History La Troisième Chaîne Couleur (1972–1974) On March 22, 1969, the government mentioned a plan to create a third national television channel. Jean-Louis Guillaud, attached to the Office of the President of the Republic, coordinated the preparatory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Mazzucco
Massimo Mazzucco (born 20 July 1954 in Turin) is an Italian filmmaker who has produced documentary films such as ''The New American Century'' and ''Cancer -The Forbidden Cures''. Mazzucco is also the administrator of luogocomune.net, an Italian news site concentrating mostly on the September 11 attacks, September 11 WTC attacks. Filmography Feature films * ''Summertime'' – 1982 :Winner: De Sica Price, Venice Film Festival 1983. :Valencia Film Festival 1983, Sidney Film Festival 1984 * ''Romance (1986 film), Romance'' – 1986 :Walter Chiari, Luca Barbareschi. :Winner: Golden Globe Foreign Press (Italy) :Winner: Pasinetti Prize for Best Actor (W. Chiari) Venice Film Festival 1986. :London Film Festival 1986. Melbourne Film Festival 1986 * ''Hidden Lens'' (''Obiettivo Indiscreto'') – 1992 :Luca Barbareschi, Sam Jenkins, Marc De Jonge. * ''Shadow of a Kiss'' (''L'Ombra Abitata'') – 1994 :Michael York, Charlotte Valandray, Florinda Bolkan. * ''Aaron Gillespie Will Mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Helman
Henri Helman (born 1947) is a French Film director, director and screenwriter. Filmography References External links * 1947 births French male screenwriters French screenwriters Film directors from Paris Living people {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nestor Burma
Nestor may refer to: * Nestor (mythology), King of Pylos in Greek mythology Arts and entertainment * "Nestor" (''Ulysses'' episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'' * Nestor Studios, first-ever motion picture studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles * ''Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey'', a Christmas television program Geography * Nestor, San Diego, a neighborhood of San Diego, California * Mount Nestor (Antarctica), in the Achaean Range of Antarctica * Mount Nestor (Alberta), a mountain in Alberta, Canada People * Nestor (surname), anglicised form of Mac an Adhastair, an Irish family * Nestor (given name), a name of Greek origin, from Greek mythology Science and technology * ''Nestor'' (genus), a genus of parrots * NESTOR Project, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope * NESTOR (encryption), a family of voice encryption devices used by the United States during the Vietnam War era * 659 Nestor, an asteroid S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Astruc
Alexandre Astruc (; 13 July 1923 – 19 May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Biography Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of the ''caméra-stylo'' or "camera-pen" and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens.Alexandre Astruc, "The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo," in ''The New Wave'', ed. Peter Graham, pp. 17-23. Trans. from "Naissance d'une nouvelle avant-garde: la caméra-stylo," ''L'Écran Français'' 144, 30 March 1948. In 1994 he was awarded the René Clair Award for his whole body of film work. Selected filmography ''(s) indicates films also co-scripted by Astruc'' *1949: ''Ulysse ou Les mauvaises rencontres'' also known as ''Aller et retour'', a short film; Astruc also wrote the scenario *1952: '' The Crimson Curtain'' (s) (Le rideau cramoisi) *1952: '' La Putain respectueuse'' *1955: '' Les Mauvai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Granier-Deferre
Denys Granier-Deferre (born 27 December 1949, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French film director. Biography Denys Granier-Deferre is the son of Pierre Granier-Deferre with whom he started cinema as his assistant, notably on his father's movie '' Le Chat'' (1971). He then worked with different French directors before writing and filming his first movie, ''Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt!'', in 1982. Filmography ;As director and writer *1982 : '' Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt!'' *1984 : '' Réveillon chez Bob'' *2010 : ''Pièce montée A ''pièce montée'' (pronounced ; from French, literally "assembled piece" or "mounted piece", plural ''pièces montées'') is a kind of decorative confectionery centerpiece in an architectural or sculptural form used for formal banquets and ...'' References External links * French film directors 1949 births Living people {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Life And Times With Antonin Artaud
My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud (french: En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud) is a 1993 French film, directed by Gérard Mordillat. It is based on Jacques Prevel's 1974 novel of the same name. It follows Prevel's journal of a two-year friendship with Antonin Artaud until his death in 1948 Plot After nine years of being locked up, Antonin Artaud (Sami Frey) is released from the asylum at Rodez, and returns to Paris with his friends. One of his friends, Jacques Prevel (Marc Barbé) is a young poet, and follows Artaud in his wanders between the nursing home at Ivry and Saint Germain-des-Prés, while pursuing the same quest for poetry, drugs, and the absolute. Prevel becomes a disciple, pusher, and companion toward Artaud, whose story he relates in a chronicle that leads up to his death two years later. In post-war Paris where he lives sometimes in misery and suffering, Prevel shares his life between two women, Rolande (Valérie Jeannet) and Jany (Julie Jézéquel), while at the same t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josée Dayan
Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life Dayan grew up in Algiers, Algeria, where her father Albert Dagnant, who came from a Jewish family, worked as a television director; her grandmother was the owner of a cinema. Since 1974 she directed mainly movies for television. In 1979, under her direction, a documentary about Simone de Beauvoir appeared. Her most successful works are the 1998 TV mini-series ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' with Gérard Depardieu in the lead role, and the 2002 mini-series ''Les Misérables'' with Depardieu and John Malkovich. Then there is '' Balzac: A Passionate Life'' (1999) and '' Cet amour-là'' (2001), both with Jeanne Moreau, and '' Raspoutine'' (2011) with Depardieu. A major success was ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Nastassja Kinski Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (; , ; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Potter
Charlotte Sally Potter (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter. She is known for directing ''Orlando'' (1992), which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Early life Potter was born and raised in London. Her mother was a music teacher and her father was an interior designer and a poet. Her younger brother Nic became the bassist for the rock group Van der Graaf Generator. When asked about her background, which influenced her work as a filmmaker, she responds, "I came from an atheist background and an anarchist background, which meant that I grew up in an environment that was full of questions, where nothing could be taken for granted." When asked about what she learned about filmmaking from trying to do it as a seventeen-year-old woman in the UK in the 60s, Potter laughs.You know, most kinds of securities are illusions, and we need to kind of duck and weave as filmmakers, go with the flow, go where the harvest is. ..I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando (film)
''Orlando'' is a 1992 British historical drama, period drama fantasy film loosely based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel ''Orlando: A Biography'', starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. It was written and directed by Sally Potter, who also co-wrote the score with David Motion. Potter chose to film much of the Constantinople portion of the book in the isolated city of Khiva in Uzbekistan and made use of the forest of carved columns in the city's 18th century Djuma Mosque. Critics praised the film and particularly applauded its visual treatment of the settings of Woolf's novel. The film premiered in competition at the 49th Venice International Film Festival, and was re-released in select U.S. cinemas in August 2010. Plot The story begins in the Elizabethan era, shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603. On her deathbed, the queen promises an androgyny, androgynous young nobleman named Orland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys De La Patellière
Denys de La Patellière (8 March 1921 in Nantes, France–21 July 2013) was a French film director and scriptwriter. He also directed Television series. of 92. Filmography as director * 1955 : '' Les Aristocrates'', with Pierre Fresnay * 1956 : '' The Wages of Sin'', with Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jeanne Moreau * 1957 : '' The Ostrich Has Two Eggs'', with Pierre Fresnay * 1957 : ''Retour de manivelle'', with Michèle Morgan, Daniel Gélin, Peter van Eyck, Bernard Blier * 1958 : ''The Possessors'', with Jean Gabin, Jean Desailly, Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Blier * 1959 : '' Rue des prairies'', with Jean Gabin, Marie-José Nat, Claude Brasseur * 1959 : '' Eyes of Love'', with Danielle Darrieux and Jean-Claude Brialy * 1960 : ''Taxi for Tobruk'', with Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Hardy Krüger and Maurice Biraud * 1961 : '' Emile's Boat'', with Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Michel Simon and Pierre Brasseur * 1963 : ''Destination Rome'', with Charles Aznavour, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
