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Vincent Perrot
Vincent Perrot (born 3 August 1965 in Confolens) is a French journalist, radio and television presenter and drag racing driver. Biography Perrot's father was the Mayor of the town and died when Vincent was 11. His mother Marina decided to move the family to Limoges. As a child, Vincent Perrot used to listen to the radio France Bleu Limousin, in which a program about the cinema was broadcast. He wrote every week to the presenter to tell him that he did not agree with his point of view on the films he introduced. The presenter later invited him at his program and it was his beginning of his career at 17 on channel FR3. Career Perrot started being well known in the late 1980s when he replac ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Cannes Film Festival
The 64th Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 to 22 May 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition. American filmmaker Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film '' The Tree of Life''. The festival opened with '' Midnight in Paris'' by Woody Allen, and closed with '' Beloved'' by Christophe Honoré. Mélanie Laurent hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with the third Honorary Award at the opening ceremony of the festival. Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were honoured at the festival. '' Goodbye'' by Rasoulof and Panahi's '' This Is Not a Film'' were screened at the festival. For the first time ever, four female directors were featured in the main competition: Australian filmmaker Julia Leigh, Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and French filmmaker M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (; 9 April 19336 September 2021) was a French actor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward, frequently portraying police officers and criminals in action thriller films. His best known credits include '' Breathless'' (1960), '' That Man from Rio'' (1964), '' Pierrot le Fou'' (1965), '' Borsalino'' (1970), and '' The Professional'' (1981). An undisputed box-office champion like Louis de Funès and Alain Delon of the same period, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million spectators in his 50-year career. Between 1969 and 1982 he played four times in the most popular films of the year in France: '' The Brain'' (1969), '' Fear Over the City'' (1975), ''Animal'' (1977), '' Ace of Aces'' (1982), being surpassed on this point only by Louis de Funès. Belmondo frequently played heroic, brave, and virile characters, which made him popular with a wide audience both in France an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Radio Presenters
French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), a 2008 film * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a type of military jacket or tunic * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French (catheter scale), a unit of measurement * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French Revolution (other) * French River (other), several rivers and other places * Frenching (other) Frenching may refer to: * Frenching (automobile), recessing or moul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 29 – Tampere Ice Stadium, Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France 2
France 2 () is a French free-to-air public television channel. The flagship channel of France Télévisions, it broadcasts generalist programming including news, entertainment (such as dramas, films, and game shows), factual programmes, and sports. It is headquartered alongside its sister networks at France Télévisions' headquarters in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, along the Seine. The channel began test broadcasts on 10 September 1959 and officially launched on 18 April 1964 as RTF Télévision 2, under the control of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF). It was succeeded by the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) in 1964. On 6 January 1975, the ORTF was dissolved and split into multiple independent organisations under government control, with the channel operating as Antenne 2. In 1992, the channel merged with FR3 under the new organisation France Télévision, and was renamed France 2. In 2000, France 2 and France 3 were merged with the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; ; ''Zineddin Lyazid Zidan''; ; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached La Liga club Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and is one of the most successful coaches in the world. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Zidane was a playmaker renowned for his elegance, vision, passing, and ball control. He received many individual accolades as a player, including being named FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003, and winning the 1998 Ballon d'Or. Zidane started his career at AS Cannes, Cannes, before establishing himself as one of the best players in the French Ligue 1 at FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Bordeaux. In 1996, he moved to Italian club Juventus FC, Juventus, where he won several trophies, including two Serie A titles. He moved to Real Madrid for a Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Cardinale
Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale (; born 15 April 1938), known as Claudia Cardinale (), is an Italian actress. Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with Egyptian star Omar Sharif in ''Goha'' (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy, with roles in films such as ''Rocco and His Brothers'' (1960), ''Girl with a Suitcase'' (1961), ''Cartouche (film), Cartouche'' (1962), ''The Leopard (1963 film), The Leopard'' (1963), and Federico Fellini, Fellini's ''8½'' (1963). From 1963, Cardinale appeared in ''The Pink Panther (1963 film), The Pink Panther'' opposite David Niven. She went on to appear in the Hollywood films ''Blindfold (1 ... [...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-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Pierre Marielle (12 April 1932 – 24 April 2019) was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films in which he played very diverse roles, from a banal citizen (''Les Galettes de Pont-Aven''), to a World War II hero (''Les Milles (film), Les Milles''), to a compromised spy ('), to a has-been actor (''Les Grands Ducs''), to his portrayal of Jacques Saunière in ''The Da Vinci Code (film), The Da Vinci Code''. He was well known for his distinctive cavernous voice, which is often imitated by French humorists who considered him to be archetypical of the French gentleman. Early life Marielle was born in 1932 in Paris to an industrialist father and a dressmaker mother. His first acting experiences dated back to his high school years during which he staged some of Anton Chekhov, Chekhov’s plays with his comrades. He initially wanted to study literature but one of his teachers encouraged him to become an actor instead, so that he joined the Conservatoire national supér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor. He has earned a César Awards, César Award and a Canadian Screen Awards, Canadian Screen Award as well as nominations for a European Film Awards, European Film Award and a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award. Cassel first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film ''La Haine (Hate)'' for which he received two César Award nominations. He also garnered attention for Gaspar Noé's film ''Irréversible'' (2002) which he acted in and co-produced. He received the César Award for Best Actor for his role as the criminal Jacques Mesrine in ''Mesrine (2008 film), Mesrine'' (2008). His other César-nominated roles include ''Read My Lips (film), Read My Lips'' (2001), ''Mon Roi'' (2015), ''It's Only the End of the World'' (2016), and ''The Specials (2019 film), The Specials'' (2019). Cassel garnered recognition with English-speaking roles in ''Elizabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-up comedian. In February 1998, his film ''Bernie (1996 film), Bernie'' took the Grand Prize at the 9th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival which was attended by Dupontel. One-man shows Filmography As actor As filmmaker References External links official website * 1964 births Living people People from Saint-Germain-en-Laye Male actors from Île-de-France French people of Breton descent French male film actors French film directors French male screenwriters French screenwriters French humorists French stand-up comedians 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Best Director César Award winners French comedy film directors {{France-screen-actor-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
