Are Neil LaBute and Claude Berri both film directors?
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Neil LaBute Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, playwright and actor. He is best-known for a play that he wrote and later turned into a film, "In the Company of Men" (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. He wrote and directed the films "Possession" (2002) (based on the A.S. Byatt novel), "The Shape of Things" (2003) (based on his play of the same name), "The Wicker Man" (2006), "Some Velvet Morning" (2013), and "Dirty Weekend" (2015). He directed the films "Nurse Betty" (2000), "Lakeview Terrace" (2008), and "Death at a Funeral" (2010). LaBute created the TV series "Billy & Billie", writing and directing all of the episodes and is also creator of "Van Helsing". He also directed several episodes for shows such as "Hell on Wheels" and "Billions".
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Claude Berri Claude Berri (] ; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
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Days of Darkness (2007 Canadian film) Days of Darkness (French: L'Âge des ténèbres ), also known as The Age of Ignorance, is a 2007 French Canadian sex comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger and Sylvie Léonard. It is the third part of Arcand's loose trilogy also consisting of "The Decline of the American Empire" (1986) and "The Barbarian Invasions" (2003). The film follows a depressed Quebec bureaucrat, who feeling insignificant, retreats into a fantasy world.
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Laurent Bouhnik Laurent Bouhnik (French pronunciation: lɔʁɑ̃ bunik; born April 7, 1961 in Paris, France) is a French director, writer and actor, known for "Desire" (2011), "L'Invité" (2007), "24 heures de la vie d'une femme"/"24 Hours in the Life of a Woman" (2002), "Zonzon" (1998), "Sélect Hôtel" (1996) and "Troubles ou la Journée d'une Femme Ordinaire" (1994). He began his career in the comic strip and illustration business. From 1988 to 1992, he carried out various technical image and editing jobs within the production company he established. The award-winning "Madeleine" (1999) was the first step in an ambitious project to direct one film per year between 1999–2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. He teaches directing and script-writing at La Fémis (Paris). He has appreared in cameo roles in "Vivante" (2001), "Sur un air d'autoroute" (1999) and "Paddy" (1998).
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Lamiel Lamiel is a 1967 French drama film. It was directed by Jean Aurel and stars Anna Karina, Michel Bouquet, and Jean-Claude Brialy.
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Freak Dance (film) Freak Dance is an American comedy film written and directed by Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade and co-directed by Neil Mahoney. It premiered at the Austin Film Festival on October 21, 2011. The film had a limited theatrical release in May 2012 and made available on video on demand services. The film was released on DVD on July 10, 2012. The film is based on a stage show created by Besser, which originally ran at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles for several years.
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The Shape of Things The Shape of Things is a 2001 play by American author and film director Neil LaBute and a 2003 American romantic drama film. It premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2001 with Paul Rudd as Adam, Rachel Weisz as Evelyn, Gretchen Mol as Jenny, and Fred Weller as Phillip. The play was directed by LaBute himself. According to the author's instructions, it is to be performed without an interval or a curtain call.
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Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier (] ; 8 October 1896, Lille – 29 October 1967, Paris) was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are "La Bandera", "Pépé le Moko", "Panique", "Voici le temps des assassins" and "".
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Claude Berrou Claude Berrou (] ; born September 23, 1951 in Penmarch) is a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, now Telecom-Bretagne. He is the sole inventor of a groundbreaking quasi-optimal error-correcting coding scheme called Turbo codes as evidenced by the sole inventorship credit given on the fundamental patent for turbo codes. The original patent filing for turbo codes issued in the US as US Patent 5,446,747.
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Spark (1998 film) Spark is a 1998 film starring Terrence Howard and Nicole Ari Parker. Garret Williams made his directorial debut with this tale of an urban black couple trapped in a desert town of rednecks after their car breaks down after hitting a dog. Byron (Terrence Howard) and Nina (Nicole Ari Parker) are driving a BMW from Chicago to L.A. to take Nina to school when they experience a back-road breakdown. Teen Mooney (Brendan Sexton III) tows them to a white-trailer-trash town where they're charged $500 for repairs. When the BMW dies again, they stay overnight in a motel, and the situation soon gets grim as Byron starts spending more time with Mooney and his true colors start to show revealing a disturbing town story. The characters in this low-budgeter were first introduced in a 1996 short. "Spark" was shown at 1998 film festivals (Sundance, Berlin).
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Michel Poulette Michel Poulette is a Canadian film and television director, writer and producer. He won the Claude Jutra Award in 1994 for his first feature film, "Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)", which became the first American remake of a Canadian movie: "ED TV" by "Ron Howard".
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Gérard Corbiau Gérard Corbiau (] ; born 19 September 1941) is a Belgian film director.
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Neil McGregor (film director) Neil McGregor is an Australian born film maker living and working in Vancouver, Canada.
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Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (] ; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement "La Nouvelle Vague", or French New Wave.
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La Cité de la peur La Cité de la peur (French: "The City of Fear"), also known as Le film de Les Nuls ("The Les Nuls Movie"), is a 1994 French comedy film written by and starring Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia of the comedy group Les Nuls, and directed by Alain Berbérian in 1994.
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I Ought to Be in Pictures I Ought to Be in Pictures is a comedy-drama play by Neil Simon, his 18th.
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Luc Besson filmography Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and producer. He has contributed to many projects as either writer, director, producer, or a combination of the three.
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Philip D'Antoni Philip D'Antoni (Born February 19, 1929 in New York City, New York), is a film producer and film director, known for the films "Bullitt" (1968), "The French Connection" (1971), and "The Seven-Ups" (1973).
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Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann (] ; born 27 November 1925) is a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film "Shoah" (1985).
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Charlotte Dubreuil Charlotte Dubreuil (born 1940) is a French filmmaker and novelist. After two small acting roles, Dubreuil turned her attention to writing and directing. She has written and directed several French films as well as produced two novels.
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Jean-Claude Lauzon Jean-Claude Lauzon (September 29, 1953 – August 10, 1997) was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film Board of Canada. His two feature-length films, "Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit)", and "Léolo", established him as one of the most important Canadian directors of his time.
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Na Wewe Na Wewe (English: You Too ) is a 2010 Belgian live action short film. The film's runtime is approximately 19 minutes, starring Renaud Rutten and Fabrice Kwizera. It was directed by Ivan Goldschmidt, written by first-timer Jean-Luc Pening, and produced by Goldschmidt, Pening, Dries Phlypo and Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem. The film was shot in the summer of 2009. It is set in Burundi in 1994, during the civil war between Hutus and Tutsis and exposes the absurdity of ethnic conflicts. It's a "compact story about identity that's both tense and darkly funny".