“‘I don’t want to steal images. I am not a thief. My camera is not a surveillance camera, it is more like…not surveillance, but bienveillance.’
Nicolas Philibert was born in 1951 in Nancy (France). After studying philosophy, he turned to film and became an assistant director, notably for René Allio, Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta. In 1978, with Gérard Mordillat, he co-directed his first documentary feature, « His Master’s Voice » (La voix de son maître) in which a dozen bosses of leading industrial groups talk about control, hierarchy and power, gradually sketching out the image of a future world ruled by the financial sector…From 1985 to 1987, Nicolas Philibert shot various mountaineering and sports adventure films for television, then started directing documentary features that would all obtain a theatrical release: « Louvre City » (La Ville Louvre, 1990), « In the Land of the Deaf » (Le Pays des sourds, 1992), « Animals » (Un animal, des animaux, 1995), « Every Little Thing » (La Moindre des choses, 1996), as well as a film essay pitched between documentary and fiction: « Who Knows? » (Qui sait ?, 1998)In 2001, he directed « To Be and to Have » (Etre et avoir), about daily life in a “single class” school in a mountain village in the heart of the Massif Central (France). Screened as part of the Official Selection at the 2002 Cannes Festival, Prix Louis Delluc 2002, the film was a huge success in France and around forty other countries.In his most recent film, « Back to Normandy » (Retour en Normandie, 2007), he returned to the settings of « I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…» by René Allio, the director who allowed him to take his first steps in film. Shot in 2009 at the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, « Nénette » is about a female orang-utan aged 40, in captivity for 37 years. —http://www.nicolasphilibert.fr/
I have finally finished every feature film of Eric Rohmer. Some of his characters I had the privilege to see age over the course of 30 years or so. Some of them I fell in love with. Have you been smitten by any of his representatives of beauty?
Film Database Submission April 2010 about 3 years ago
Konkurs (1963) Milos Forman
aka Audition
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Film Database Submission April 2010 about 3 years ago
Il tempo si e Fermata (1959) Ermanno Olmi
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The Seagull (1970) Yuli Karasik
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Film Database Submission April 2010 about 3 years ago
I Miss Sonia Henie (1971)
Directed by:
Karpo Godina
Tinto Brass
Miloš Forman
Buck Henry
Dušan Makavejev
Paul Morrissey
Frederick Wiseman
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Film Database Submission April 2010 about 3 years ago
Juliette ou La Clef au Songes (1951) Marcel Carne
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Film Database Submission April 2010 about 3 years ago
Bulldog Drummond (1923) Oscar Apfel
[Talkie]
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Worst Film Ever Made by a Great Director about 3 years ago
Vulgarity is the rule. Never the exception.
I’d love to see Ermanno Olmi’s worst films.
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Film Database Submission April 2010 about 3 years ago
Une Salle Histoire (1977) Jean Eustache
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Film Database Submission April 2010 about 3 years ago
Rendez-Vous de Juillet (1949) Jacques Becker
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Les Portes de la Nuit (1946) Marcel Carne
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Le père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966) Jean Eustache
starring Jean-Pierre Leaud
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Festival (1967) Murray Lerner
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Summer Lovers (1982) Randal Kleiser
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Primate (1974) Frederick Wiseman
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FILM DATABASE SUBMISSION MAY 2010 about 3 years ago
Le Pays des Sourds (1992) Nicolas Philibert
La Moindre Des Choses (1997) Nicolas Philibert
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The Auteurs Film & Cast Member Database about 3 years ago
Nicolas Philibert – Director
“‘I don’t want to steal images. I am not a thief. My camera is not a surveillance camera, it is more like…not surveillance, but bienveillance.’
Nicolas Philibert was born in 1951 in Nancy (France). After studying philosophy, he turned to film and became an assistant director, notably for René Allio, Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta. In 1978, with Gérard Mordillat, he co-directed his first documentary feature, « His Master’s Voice » (La voix de son maître) in which a dozen bosses of leading industrial groups talk about control, hierarchy and power, gradually sketching out the image of a future world ruled by the financial sector…From 1985 to 1987, Nicolas Philibert shot various mountaineering and sports adventure films for television, then started directing documentary features that would all obtain a theatrical release: « Louvre City » (La Ville Louvre, 1990), « In the Land of the Deaf » (Le Pays des sourds, 1992), « Animals » (Un animal, des animaux, 1995), « Every Little Thing » (La Moindre des choses, 1996), as well as a film essay pitched between documentary and fiction: « Who Knows? » (Qui sait ?, 1998)In 2001, he directed « To Be and to Have » (Etre et avoir), about daily life in a “single class” school in a mountain village in the heart of the Massif Central (France). Screened as part of the Official Selection at the 2002 Cannes Festival, Prix Louis Delluc 2002, the film was a huge success in France and around forty other countries.In his most recent film, « Back to Normandy » (Retour en Normandie, 2007), he returned to the settings of « I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…» by René Allio, the director who allowed him to take his first steps in film. Shot in 2009 at the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, « Nénette » is about a female orang-utan aged 40, in captivity for 37 years. —http://www.nicolasphilibert.fr/
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FILM DATABASE SUBMISSION JUNE 2010 about 3 years ago
Racetrack (1985) Frederick Wiseman
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FILM DATABASE SUBMISSION JUNE 2010 about 3 years ago
Deaf (1986) Frederick Wiseman
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Film Database Submission August 2010 almost 3 years ago
Eric Rohmer
Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
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Which Rohmer Character Would You Most Like to be Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend? over 2 years ago
I have finally finished every feature film of Eric Rohmer. Some of his characters I had the privilege to see age over the course of 30 years or so. Some of them I fell in love with. Have you been smitten by any of his representatives of beauty?
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Which Rohmer Character Would You Most Like to be Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend? over 2 years ago
From Rendezvous a Paris, the second of the four episodes, I want her for myself, forever.
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The Auteurs Film & Cast Member Database almost 2 years ago
Louis Lumière
by Eric Rohmer
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