Eugène Lourié

Nascimento : 1903-04-08, Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

Morte : 1991-05-26

História

Eugène Lourié (1903 - 26 May 1991) was a French film director, art director, production designer, set designer and screenwriter who was known for his collaborations with Jean Renoir and for his 1950s science fiction movies. Allmovie contributor, Sandra Brennan, has wrote that he was "among the best art directors in French cinema." He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1969 for best visual effects on the film Krakatoa, East of Java. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugène Lourié, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

A Força de um Amor
Dr. Boudreaux
Las Vegas. Jesse Lujack (Richard Gere) rouba um Porsche e vai para Los Angeles, sendo perseguido pela polícia. Após matar um policial, ele procura refúgio na casa de Monica Poiccard (Valérie Kaprisky), sua namorada, e na leitura de revistas em quadrinhos. Retido na cidade sem conseguir cobrar uma dívida, Jesse vê aos poucos o cerco se fechar sem nada poder fazer para escapar. Jesse desestrutura a vida de Monica, forçando-a abandonar a faculdade para fugir com ele para o México, mas uma grande surpresa o aguarda.
Bronco Billy
Art Direction
Ex-vendedor de sapatos compra um circo especializado em números do Velho Oeste e se transforma no caubói Bronco Billy, que faz muito sucesso com as crianças. Mas ele tem uma ajudante muito atrapalhada que provoca grandes confusões.
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
Art Direction
This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up to track down a pair of train robbers, suspects in the shooting of their father.
An Enemy of the People
Production Design
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann, however, makes the inconvenient discovery that the nature around the village is not so unspoiled. In fact, the runoff from the local tanning mill has contaminated the water to a dangerous degree. The town fathers argue that cleaning up the mess would be far too expensive and the publicity would destroy the town's reputation, so therefore news of the pollution should be suppressed. Dr. Stockmann decides to fight to get the word out to the people, but receives as very mixed reaction.
Mansão Macabra
Production Design
Ben e Marian conseguem alugar uma mansão por um valor estranhamente baixo e depois que se mudam para a casa Ben começa a ter explosões de violência, enquanto Marian passa a maior parte do tempo no quarto da velha senhora que tem que cuidar mas que ninguém jamais conheceu. À medida que "acidentes" vão acontecendo a casa parece ficar cada dia mais nova, e seus habitantes não tem como sair.
Time Travelers
Art Direction
When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.
What Are Best Friends For?
Art Direction
A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.
The Eyes of Charles Sand
Art Direction
A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave.
A Morte Está de Férias
Art Direction
Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
What's the Matter with Helen?
Art Direction
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Krakatoa, O Inferno de Java
Production Design
No fim do século 19, no Pacífico, na região conhecida com Índias Ocidentais Holandesas, o navio Batavia Queen, comandado pelo capitão Hanson, está saindo para procurar uma fortuna que está num navio afundado. Mas tem problemas ao levar condenados e depois com a explosão do vulcão Krakatoa, que provoca um Tsunami, uma onda gigantesca e mortal. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Os Bravos Não se Rendem
Art Direction
Uma espetacular produção baseada na tumultuada história do herói que se tornou uma lenda: O general George Armstrong Custer (Robert Shaw). Servindo em uma guerra civil, general Custer é enviado para o oeste para assumir o comando da 7° Cavalaria e destruir uma tribo indígena de sua reserva devido a descoberta de ouro nessas terras. Seguindo o ataque, Custer é chamado de volta para Washington, para testemunhar no congresso onde revela subornos e corrupções que envolvem o president Grant. Este filme investiga a fundo os pensamentos do general Custer e revela as motivações que levaram ao caminho da glória e fracasso.
Bikini Paradise
Art Direction
A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.
Uma Fenda no Mundo
Special Effects
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
Uma Fenda no Mundo
Art Direction
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
O Beijo Amargo
Art Direction
A prostituta Kelly, traumatizada por uma certa experiência feita por psiquiatras, deixa seu passado e encontra consolo na cidade de Grantville. Ela conhece Griff, o capitão da polícia da cidade, com quem passa uma tarde romântica. Kelly encontra um emprego como enfermeira em um hospital para crianças deficientes e o trabalho ajuda-a a encontrar o seu lado sensível no cuidado e ajuda dos seus jovens pacientes. O caminho de Kelly em direção à felicidade é errado, quando ela testemunha um evento chocante, que ameaça não apenas sua felicidade, mas também sua saúde mental.
Sacrifício Sem Glória
Production Design
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings about their upcoming assignment.
Paixões que Alucinam
Art Direction
Um jornalista ambicioso se compromete a resolver um assassinato cometido dentro de um asilo, o que ele considera uma grande chance para conquistar o Prêmio Pulitzer.
Vício Que Mata
Production Design
Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Gorgo
Director
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
The Giant Behemoth
Production Design
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
The Giant Behemoth
Screenplay
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
The Giant Behemoth
Director
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
Fúria de um Condenado
Writer
A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.
The Colossus of New York
Director
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
Três Marujos em Paris
Art Direction
Three sailors on leave head for Paris with one thing on their minds.
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Production Design
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.
O Monstro do Mar
Director
Como resultado de um teste nuclear no Ártico, um carnívoro dinossauro desperta e segue em direção à costa Norte-Americana.
Luzes da Ribalta
Art Direction
Deprimida com a sua carreira de dançarina, Terry tenta se suicidar, mas é salva por Calvero, um homem pobre que era um famoso palhaço. Calvero ajuda Terry e, no processo, também recupera sua autoestima. Quando Terry propõe casamento, Calvero acha que a diferença de idade é grande demais e vai embora para se tornar um palhaço de rua. Terry então começa um relacionamento com um compositor jovem e promissor.
O Rio Sagrado
Production Design
O primeiro filme em cores do diretor Jean Renoir - filmado inteiramente em locação na Índia - é um tour de force visual. Baseado no romance de Rumer Godden, o filme eloquentemente contrasta as dores de crescimento de três jovens mulheres com a imutabilidade do rio Bengal em torno do qual suas vidas diárias se desdobram. Enriquecido pela sutil compreensão e apreciação de Renoir pela Índia e seu povo, O filme explora graciosamente as frágeis conexões entre emoções transitórias e criação eterna. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Wild Weed
Art Direction
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Art Direction
Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expensive sets leftover from the movie Joan of Arc at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and produced for the "Your Show Time" series, the short has been released as a solo feature on many DVDs that chronicle classic Sherlock Holmes films..
A Woman's Vengeance
Art Direction
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
Noite Eterna
Production Design
City police surround a building attempting to capture a suspected murder. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Segredos de Alcova
Production Design
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlaire is not a right choice: the house is firmly controlled by Madame Lanlaire, helped by the strange valet Joseph. Then she tries the neighbour, former officer Mauger. This seems to work. But soon the son of the Lanlaires comes back. He is young, attractive and does not share his mother's antirepublican opinions. So Celestine's beauty attracts Captain Mauger, young Georges Lanlaire, and Joseph. Three men, from three different social classes, with three different conceptions of life. Will Celestine be able to convince Georges of her sincerity?
This Love of Ours
Art Direction
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
Art Direction
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
The French Way
Art Direction
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
Casa do Medo
Art Direction
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
BANCANDO O GRANFINO
Art Direction
Quando dois encanadores (Bud Abbott e Lou Costello), muito atrapalhados, são contratados para um serviço em uma casa de granfinos, eles acabam convidados para uma luxuosa festa a fantasia, por engano. Os dois veem ali a chance de finalmente entrar na alta sociedade, mas vão acabar se envolvendo em grandes confusões.
Esta Terra é Minha
Associate Producer
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Esta Terra é Minha
Production Design
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Cristobal's Gold
Art Direction
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
There's No Tomorrow
Art Direction
Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.
A Regra do Jogo
Production Design
O aviador André Jurieux bateu recordes de vôo, mas só consegue pensar em sua amada Christine, mulher do aristocrata Robert de la Cheyniest. Jurieux consegue com um amigo um convite para a casa de campo em que o casal está dando uma grande festa de caça. Os sorrisos cordiais dos convidados escondem, porém, segredos e sentimentos, e o resultado disso é um assassinato.
A Besta Humana
Production Design
Baseado no romance homônimo de Émile Zola, A Besta Humana é a história de Jacques, um maquinista alcoólatra, que presencia seu chefe e a esposa cometerem um crime. O chefe convence sua mulher a envolver-se com Jacques, para que ele não conte nada às autoridades, mas ela acabará se apaixonando de verdade por ele.
The Lafarge Case
Art Direction
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
L'Alibi
Production Design
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
A Grande Ilusão
Production Design
A Primeira Guerra Mundial em uma época que ela não era conhecida como tal - o filme conta a história de um grupo de soldados franceses presos em um campo de prisioneiros na Alemanha em 1916, de suas análises sobre a guerra e do comportamento humano no meio dela.
A Grande Ilusão
Set Decoration
A Primeira Guerra Mundial em uma época que ela não era conhecida como tal - o filme conta a história de um grupo de soldados franceses presos em um campo de prisioneiros na Alemanha em 1916, de suas análises sobre a guerra e do comportamento humano no meio dela.
Black Eyes
Art Direction
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is butler in a restaurant of rendezvous. She meets a banker who seeks to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter back home. The pure love that her piano teacher gives her will allow the girl to console herself for her disillusions.
Cagliostro
Costume Designer
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
The Chess Player
Costume Design
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Napoleão
Art Direction
Este filme biográfico épico de Napoleão abrange muitas das experiências que moldaram o rápido avanço do líder francês. Desde seus dias de escola até seu voo da Córsega, bem como a Revolução Francesa e o terror, culminando na sua invasão triunfante da Itália em 1797.