Jacques Demy
Birthday: 1931-06-05
Place of Birth: Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France
Biography: Jacques Demy (June 5, 1931 – October 27, 1990) was a French director and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave. His films are well known for their sumptuous look, drawing on Hollywood musicals, fairy tales, jazz, and opera.
Movies
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for ...
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Hommage à Michel Legrand et Jacques Demy au festival Sœurs Jumelles
In the summer of 2021, the Sœurs Jumelles festival was launched in Rochefort, a place where music an...
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The Young Girls Turn 25
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacqu...
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the succe...
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Dead Horizons
Les Horizons Morts is Jacques Demy's first surviving live-action project. A man alone in his crumbli...
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Ars
With ghostly eyes looking through the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the...
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Viva Varda!
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywo...
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Le Bel Indifférent
An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover....
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The Beaches of Agnès
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F...
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing...
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les P...
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The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...
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Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHE...
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fa...
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of ...
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Souvenirs and Evocations
A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema....
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Jacquot
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pu...
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The World of Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq...
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Some Widows of Noirmoutier
A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'....
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Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"....
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Sodankylä Forever
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arc...
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and...
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Jim Morrison: The End
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
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Paris Belongs to Us
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with...
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Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou....
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Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
Writer / director Jacques Demy and actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais are interviewed on the s...
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Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Six-part documentary on the making of Jacques Demy's 'Le demoiselles de Rochefort'...
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Dans les coulisses: le tournage de 'Trois Places pour le 26'
Behind-the scenes documentary on Jacques Demy's 'Trois places pour le 26'...
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Jacques Demy: The Pink and the Black
Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a sho...
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Mag Bodard, un destin
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005....
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