Self (archive footage)
Filmmaker Jean Achache shot extensively on the set of ’Round Midnight. This documentary presents that material for the first time, including footage of director Bertrand Tavernier, production designer Alexandre Trauner, and other members of the cast and crew.
Self (archive footage)
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.
Self
Self
Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War II. Actor, theater director, filmmaker, writer, he is the founder of Actor’s Studio, a collaborator of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and a director who discovered Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Self
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Self
Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.
Director
Famous French director Tavernier tells us about his fantastic voyage through the cinema of his country.
Producer
Em março de 1895, os irmãos Louis e Auguste Lumière eternizaram-se na história ao capturarem as primeiras imagens em movimento no aparelho que haviam inventado: o cinematógrafo. Neste documentário são contempladas algumas de suas obras, os primeiros passos dados para o nascimento da sétima arte.
Self
Bertrand Tavernier talks about Losey's M.
Self
Self
Un journaliste TV (voice)
Arthur, um jovem recém-formado, começa a trabalhar para o ambicioso Ministro das Relações Exteriores. Sua função é elaborar os discursos do ministro, mas também terá que lidar com jogos políticos, a vaidade e as loucuras de seu chefe.
Writer
Arthur, um jovem recém-formado, começa a trabalhar para o ambicioso Ministro das Relações Exteriores. Sua função é elaborar os discursos do ministro, mas também terá que lidar com jogos políticos, a vaidade e as loucuras de seu chefe.
Director
Arthur, um jovem recém-formado, começa a trabalhar para o ambicioso Ministro das Relações Exteriores. Sua função é elaborar os discursos do ministro, mas também terá que lidar com jogos políticos, a vaidade e as loucuras de seu chefe.
Self
Screenplay
A França do século 16 está dividida pela guerra entre protestantes e católicos. Apaixonada por seu primo (o duque Henri de Guise) Marie de Mézières é obrigada a se casar com o católico príncipe Philippe de Montpensier, que nunca conheceu. Quando parte para lutar contra os protestantes ao lado do rei Carlos IX, o príncipe a manda para uma estada sob os cuidados do Conde de Chabannes. Mas a paixão antiga encontrará meios de se manifestar.
Director
A França do século 16 está dividida pela guerra entre protestantes e católicos. Apaixonada por seu primo (o duque Henri de Guise) Marie de Mézières é obrigada a se casar com o católico príncipe Philippe de Montpensier, que nunca conheceu. Quando parte para lutar contra os protestantes ao lado do rei Carlos IX, o príncipe a manda para uma estada sob os cuidados do Conde de Chabannes. Mas a paixão antiga encontrará meios de se manifestar.
Self
Director
O detetive Dave Robicheaux precisa investigar uma série de homicídios de prostitutas em uma cidade da Louisiana. Quando um mafioso local, um antigo conhecido do policial, se torna o principal suspeito dos crimes, ele percebe que há muitos outros interesses em jogo.
Himself
Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.
Self
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
Self
Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier is interviewed about his friend director Michael Powell and his stories about the making of BLACK NARCISSUS (1947).
Self
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Screenplay
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.
Director
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.
Interview with Bertrand Tavernier, Charles Drazin and Olivier Bouvet about Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.
Self
Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews, recorded shortly before his death, director Claude Sautet gives us a fascinating lesson in cinema. Through his thirteen films, he tells about his career and his work as a director.
Screenplay
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
Director
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
Self
In this documentary, produced by Philippe Quinconneau for StudioCanal, editor Françoise Bonnot, actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, composer Éric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, cinematographer Pierre Lhomme, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier share insights and anecdotes about Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film ARMY OF SHADOWS.
Director
In December 1997, Bertrand Tavernier supported a group of undocumented migrants in Lyon who went on hunger strike to protest against the double penalty. An agreement was reached, but the strike resumed a few months later, for lack of a real solution. The director then decides to take his camera and to give a long speech to these men and women that nobody wants to listen to.
Co-Producer
Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.
Self - Director
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing debut. That story and others comprise this portrait of the famed Hollywood icon. His career is explored via an array of film clips, interviews and more.
Self
In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film industry.
Writer
Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role in Capitaine Conan, plays Daniel, the head teacher of a nursery school in a town demoralized by unemployment. Daniel is determined against all odds to bring life to the community. When a parent who has come to pick up her children collapses at the school grounds due to alcohol abuse, and social services turns a deaf ear to all pleas for help, Daniel decides to take the law into his own hands. Despite resistance from the townspeople, in the long run his efforts are not fruitless.
Director
Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role in Capitaine Conan, plays Daniel, the head teacher of a nursery school in a town demoralized by unemployment. Daniel is determined against all odds to bring life to the community. When a parent who has come to pick up her children collapses at the school grounds due to alcohol abuse, and social services turns a deaf ear to all pleas for help, Daniel decides to take the law into his own hands. Despite resistance from the townspeople, in the long run his efforts are not fruitless.
Director
The first part of a documentary made by Bertrand and Nils Tavernier, following a letter judged provocative by the Minister of Integration at the time, who spent several months in the Grands Pêchers housing estate in Montreuil, giving voice to its inhabitants. The problems of unemployment, racism, integration and delinquency are addressed.
Self
"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.
Screenplay
The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Director
The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Narrator
A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of-the-century France, narrated by Bertrand Tavernier.
Self
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Writer
Com a ambição de abrir uma boutique no exterior, mas sem meios para isso, Nathalie se encontra em uma situação desesperadora, onde faria qualquer coisa para adquirir o que precisa. Junto com seu namorado, Eric, e seu amigo Bruno, ela inventa um plano onde ela seduz homens sem noção e os acompanha até suas casas, e então deixa que Eric e Bruno as invadam. Mas os três logo encontram problemas depois que um de seus esquemas termina em assassinato.
Director
Com a ambição de abrir uma boutique no exterior, mas sem meios para isso, Nathalie se encontra em uma situação desesperadora, onde faria qualquer coisa para adquirir o que precisa. Junto com seu namorado, Eric, e seu amigo Bruno, ela inventa um plano onde ela seduz homens sem noção e os acompanha até suas casas, e então deixa que Eric e Bruno as invadam. Mas os três logo encontram problemas depois que um de seus esquemas termina em assassinato.
Narrator
New film created for the 'Lumiere Brothers First Films' collection.
Screenplay
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
Director
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
Producer
We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.
Self
Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
Self
Documentary about George Gershwin directed by Alain Resnais with various celebrities speaking on their admiration and affection for Gershwin's music.
Self
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Self
Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.
Screenplay
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
Director
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
Director
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.
Director
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Narrator
Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
Writer
A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.
Director
A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.
Screenplay
Em 1920, na França, Irene procura o marido, desaparecido durante a Guerra. Seus caminhos se cruzam com os do Comandante Dellaplane, chefe do Bureau de Soldados Desaparecidos. O encontro pode representar uma nova chance para ambos.
Director
Em 1920, na França, Irene procura o marido, desaparecido durante a Guerra. Seus caminhos se cruzam com os do Comandante Dellaplane, chefe do Bureau de Soldados Desaparecidos. O encontro pode representar uma nova chance para ambos.
Self
Hôtel Terminus é um documentário realizado em 1988 dirigido por Marcel Ophüls. Com 267 minutos de duração, apresenta a vida completa do crimonoso de guerra nazista Klaus Barbie, agente da Gestapo em Lyon.
Director
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.
Screenplay
Na Paris de 1959, um talentoso e veterano saxofonista deve se apresentar no Blue Note, ao lado de outros músicos americanos. Com problemas de alcoolismo, ele é amparado por um fã parisiense. Além de Dexter Gordon, o filme de Bertrand Tavernier contou com grandes jazzistas: Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock entre outros.
Director
Na Paris de 1959, um talentoso e veterano saxofonista deve se apresentar no Blue Note, ao lado de outros músicos americanos. Com problemas de alcoolismo, ele é amparado por um fã parisiense. Além de Dexter Gordon, o filme de Bertrand Tavernier contou com grandes jazzistas: Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock entre outros.
Director
The two directors meander through rural Mississippi in search of the spirit of local music and society. Highlights the heritage of William Faulkner, the role of Black churches, and gospel and blues music.
Le narrateur
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Producer
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Screenplay
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Director
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Writer
Um patético chefe de polícia, humilhado por todos ao seu redor, de repente quer um novo começo para sua vida - e recorre a meios drásticos para isto.
Director
Um patético chefe de polícia, humilhado por todos ao seu redor, de repente quer um novo começo para sua vida - e recorre a meios drásticos para isto.
Screenplay
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
Director
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
Co-Producer
Uma câmera é implantada no cérebro de Roddy. Em seguida ele é contratado por um produtor de televisão para filmar um documentário sobre Katherine sem que ela saiba. Ela é uma doente terminal. A filmagem será exibida no popular programa de TV, "Death Watch".
Screenplay
Uma câmera é implantada no cérebro de Roddy. Em seguida ele é contratado por um produtor de televisão para filmar um documentário sobre Katherine sem que ela saiba. Ela é uma doente terminal. A filmagem será exibida no popular programa de TV, "Death Watch".
Director
Uma câmera é implantada no cérebro de Roddy. Em seguida ele é contratado por um produtor de televisão para filmar um documentário sobre Katherine sem que ela saiba. Ela é uma doente terminal. A filmagem será exibida no popular programa de TV, "Death Watch".
Screenplay
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
Director
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
Producer
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Writer
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Director
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Screenplay
França, 1719. O rei é Luís XV, bisneto e sucessor de Luís XIV. Sendo menor de idade, a regência é conduzida por seu tio-avô Philippe d'Orleans, o duque de Orleans, notório debochado, cercado por um bando de prostitutas e aproveitadores iludidos. Na Bretanha, o marquês de Pontcallec fomentou um complô para derrubar o duque em favor do rei Filipe V de Espanha, neto de Luís XIV e tio do jovem soberano. Ele espera restaurar sua independência para a Grã-Bretanha - libertando-a de seus deveres de vassalo para o poder parisiense - e para proclamar a república. O abade Dubois, complacente primeiro-ministro do regente e manipulador ambicioso, é responsável por acabar com a conspiração enquanto a usa para satisfazer suas próprias ambições. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Director
França, 1719. O rei é Luís XV, bisneto e sucessor de Luís XIV. Sendo menor de idade, a regência é conduzida por seu tio-avô Philippe d'Orleans, o duque de Orleans, notório debochado, cercado por um bando de prostitutas e aproveitadores iludidos. Na Bretanha, o marquês de Pontcallec fomentou um complô para derrubar o duque em favor do rei Filipe V de Espanha, neto de Luís XIV e tio do jovem soberano. Ele espera restaurar sua independência para a Grã-Bretanha - libertando-a de seus deveres de vassalo para o poder parisiense - e para proclamar a república. O abade Dubois, complacente primeiro-ministro do regente e manipulador ambicioso, é responsável por acabar com a conspiração enquanto a usa para satisfazer suas próprias ambições. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Writer
Michel é um relojoeiro no distrito de Saint-Paul, em Lyons. Vive pacatamente, apenas em companhia de seu filho quase adulto, Bernard. Um dia a polícia aparece afirmando que Bernard matou o proprietário de uma fábrica. A partie disso, Michel começa a descobrir o quão pouco conhece seu próprio filho.
Director
Michel é um relojoeiro no distrito de Saint-Paul, em Lyons. Vive pacatamente, apenas em companhia de seu filho quase adulto, Bernard. Um dia a polícia aparece afirmando que Bernard matou o proprietário de uma fábrica. A partie disso, Michel começa a descobrir o quão pouco conhece seu próprio filho.
Director
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Director
A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.
Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Paris. Um jovem estudante sente-se atraído por uma garota que vê todos os dias na rua, apesar de jamais ter falado com ela. Quando ele enfim toma coragem de se aproximar, a garota desaparece. Durante várias manhãs ele faz plantão no local, na esperança de vê-la novamente. Enquanto espera ele passa a frequentar uma padaria, onde acaba conhecendo uma jovem atendente.
Assistant Director
Situado durante a França ocupada, uma mulher sem fé se apaixona por um jovem padre. Na Segunda Guerra Mundial, a viúva Barny vê os soldados italianos chegando em São Bernardo ocupada enquanto caminhava para seu trabalho. Barny mora com a filha e trabalha corrigindo testes e sente uma grande atração em relação ao seu chefe, Sabine. Quando os alemães chegam, Barny envia sua filha meio judia para morar numa fazenda no interior e descobre que o irmão de Sabine foi preso e enviado para um campo de concentração. O ateu Barny decide batizar sua filha para protegê-la e escolhe o padre Léon Morin para discutir com ele temas relacionados à religião e ao catolicismo e Léon empresta livros a ela. Barny se converte ao catolicismo e se aproxima de Léon, sentindo um desejo não correspondido por ele. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Bertrand Tavernier
