Which director, Jacques Demy or Jack Clayton, appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut?
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Jacques Demy Jacques Demy (] ; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared in the wake of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their sumptuous visual style. Demy's style drew upon such diverse sources as Classic Hollywood musicals, the documentary realism of his New Wave colleagues, fairy-tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (i.e., characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenaged love, labor rights, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964) and "The Young Girls of Rochefort" (1967).
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Jack Clayton Jack Clayton (1 March 1921 – 26 February 1995) was a British film director and producer, who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.
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Jean-Daniel Pollet Jean-Daniel Pollet (] ; 1936–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge.
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Hitchcock/Truffaut (film) Hitchcock/Truffaut is a 2015 French-American documentary film directed by Kent Jones about François Truffaut's book on Alfred Hitchcock, "Hitchcock/Truffaut", and its impact on cinema.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo (] ; born 9 April 1933) is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His best known credits include "Breathless" (1960) and "That Man from Rio" (1964).
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Jean-Claude Guiguet Jean-Claude Guiguet (] ; 22 November 1948 – 18 September 2005) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed eight films between 1978 and 2005. His film "Les passagers" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
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Lola (1961 film) Lola, is a 1961 romantic drama film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music". Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by Demy's widow, French filmmaker Agnès Varda.
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Carlton + Godard = Cinema Carlton + Godard = Cinema is a 2003 Australian documentary about the Carlton film scene of the 1960s, including the work of such directors as Giorgio Mangiamele, Brian Davies, . It includes excerpts from films such as:
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Georges Benoît Georges Benoît (1883–1942) was a French cinematographer who worked on more than sixty films during his career. During the silent era, he was employed mostly in Hollywood. Later he worked in his native France on films such as Jacques Tourneur's "Departure" (1931). Between 1929 and 1934 he appeared in approximately ten films as an actor.
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Jean Oury Jean Oury (5 March 1924 – 15 May 2014) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was the founder and director of the psychiatric hospital La Borde clinic at Cour-Cheverny, France where he worked until he died . He was a member of the Freudian School of Paris, founded by Jacques Lacan from inception until its dissolution. Along with François Tosquelles and Lucien Bonnafe he was instrumental in the creation of institutional psychotherapy whose therapeutic practices influenced Frantz Fanon, Félix Guattari, and the later Anti-psychiatry movements of the 1960s.
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Alain Resnais Alain Resnais (] ; 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included "Night and Fog" (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
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Julien Gracq Julien Gracq (] ; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007; born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French "département" of Maine-et-Loire) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. He was close to the surrealist movement, in particular its leader André Breton.
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Abel Gance Abel Gance (] ; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: "J'accuse" (1919), "La Roue" (1923), and the monumental "Napoléon" (1927).
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Jacques Villon Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.
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Naked Childhood Naked Childhood (French: L'Enfance nue ) is a 1968 French film. It was the feature-length debut of director Maurice Pialat, and was written by Pialat and Arlette Langmann. François Truffaut was one of the film's producers.
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Zoltán Huszárik Zoltán Huszárik (born József Zoltán Huszárik, May 14, 1931 – October 15, 1981) was an influential Hungarian film director, screenwriter, visual artist and occasional actor, an acclaimed auteur of the European modern art film.
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Détective (1985 film) Détective is a 1985 French crime film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
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Dalmas (film) Dalmas is a 1973 Australian film directed by Bert Deling. One critic wrote that "with Dave Jones’ "Yackety Yack" [the film] constitutes the clearest presence of Godard in Australian cinema."
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Shock Treatment (1973 film) Shock Treatment (French: "Traitement de choc" ) is a 1973 French drama film directed by Alain Jessua. It was released in the UK by distributor Antony Balch as "Doctor in the Nude".
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Georges Méliès Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès ( ; ] ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) and "The Impossible Voyage" (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.
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Dominique Farrugia Dominique Farrugia (born 2 September 1962) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter, producer and humorist. He is a member and founder of the group of comedians "Les Nuls" alongside Alain Chabat and Chantal Lauby.
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Night at the Crossroads Night at the Crossroads (French: La Nuit du carrefour ) is a 1932 film by Jean Renoir based on the novel of the same title (known in English as "Maigret at the Crossroads") by Georges Simenon and starring Renoir's brother Pierre Renoir as Simenon's popular detective, Inspector Maigret.