26-04-1961
Birthday
Taurus
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
22
Total Films
Also known as (male)
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
Place of Birth
26-04-1961
Birthday
Taurus
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
22
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
Place of Birth
actor
22 Works
producer
15 Works
director
30 Works
writer
7 Works
other
1 Works
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The most transcendent and controversial event since the invention of the seventh art: the disappearance of photographic film. What for many people seems to be simply the result of technological evolution, brings with it paradoxes and contradictions that endanger photographic film heritage and accelerate its deterioration.Year:
2024
Murnau: In the Shadow of Nosferatu
Documentary on the life and work of F.W. Murnau.Year:
2023
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivists, technicians and filmmakers from different parts of the world explain what audiovisual preservation is and why it is necessary. The documentary is a tribute to all these professionals and their important work.Year:
2022
Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences
To honour the 40th anniversary of her death, multiple personalities share their feelings and thoughts about the life and career of the fabulous and bold actress Romy Schneider. Among them, Alain Delon, icon of French cinema and Romy's first great love, reads her the love letter which he wrote her forty years ago, the day after she passed away.Year:
2022
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.Year:
2022
Disneyland Paris : Les Secrets du château
Year:
2022
Walt Disney, l'homme qui voulait changer le monde
All over the world, millions of children have one thing in common with their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents: they have all watched "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs", "Bambi" or "Peter Pan", and discovered Walt Disney's view on nature, family, friendship, courage, wickedness or death. But who was this man who affirmed that in order to achieve something extraordinary, one must begin by dreaming it? Portrait of this creator and entrepreneur, who often put himself on stage, in the course of a journey through the meanders of history and the unconscious.Year:
2021
The Méliès Mystery
A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National Film Center, and the Library of Congress.Year:
2021
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.Year:
2018
La La La
When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the actors and the sound effects, but also by a new element, the music, which, combined with the dance and an unprejudiced imagination, gave rise to a new genre, as important to Hollywood cinema as the western was: the musical. A journey through the history of this genre, from its beginnings to the present day.Year:
2018
Hedy Lamarr: The Invention of a Star
The extraordinary life of Hedy Lamarr, a successful actress and inventor of a pioneer system that is the base of technologies such as Bluetooth, GPS and wi-fi.Year:
2018
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage
Year:
2016
Love Among the Ruins
Love Among the Ruins is a spoof about the miraculous discovery and restoration of a long lost Italian silent film. The film connects a contemporary filmmaker with the genius of the Lumini brothers, two cinematic icons who have been almost overlooked in the history of cinema.Year:
2015
The Cinemagician, Georges Méliès
A look back at the life, style and influences of the famed filmmaker Georges Méliès and an examination of his role in the story of "Hugo."Year:
2012
The Extraordinary Voyage
An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.Year:
2011
Inside the Keystone Project
Documentary short regarding the preservation and restoration of the worldwide remains of the Keystone films.Year:
2010
Paul Merton's Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema
Paul Merton goes in search of the origins of screen comedy in the forgotten world of silent cinema - not in Hollywood, but closer to home in pre-1914 Britain and France. Revealing the unknown stars and lost masterpieces, he brings to life the pioneering techniques and optical inventiveness of the virtuosos who mastered a new art form. With a playful eye and comic sense of timing, Merton combines the role of presenter and director to recreate the weird and wonderful world that is early European cinema in a series of cinematic experiments of his own.Year:
2010
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.Year:
2009
A Charley Chase Biography
Eight-minute documentary on the life and career of comedian Charley Chase.Year:
2004
The Invention of Cinema: Cinema's First Colors
Details the early attempts, what worked, or why it didn't, in the history of adding partial or full colour to films. Includes early film clips to illustrate how most tries appeared to audiences.Year:
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Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
Year:
2001
