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#18 Ozu in 6 films

Yasujiro Ozu [1903-1963) is today the most famous Japanese filmmaker in the world. Of the same generation as Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, he filmed from the 1920s to the 1960s, working to invent his own style and his own grammar.

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#17 Mike DeLeon

Born in 1947 in Manila, Mike De Leon is a child of the ball: his father is the producer Manuel De Leon and his grandmother, Narcisa De Leon, the founder of LVN Pictures, a legendary Filipino studio.

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#16 Jeanne Moreau

JEANNE MOREAU Filmmaker In three films: Lumière , L'Adolescente , Lilian Gish We no longer present Jeanne Moreau, famous actress, on the stage as on screen, naturally gifted for a rich range of artistic expression including the song, loved and admired around the world. But do we know that she has also wrote and directed three films between 1975 and 1983? In her first fiction, Lumière (1976), she evokes the world of cinema, as seen from the inside, by focusing on four actress friends (one of whom is played by herself) who meet and share what 'they live professionally and emotionally. With L'Adolescente (1979), she follows 12-year-old Marie, who loses part of her carelessness at the time of the perilous...

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#15 Bela Tarr

BELA TARR "The Metamorphoses of a Visionary" About four films: The Family Nest , The Outsider , Damnation , Sátántangó Béla Tarr's filmography, made up of ten feature films and a handful of short films, fascinates moviegoers around the world. From the Family Nest (1977) at the Cheval de Turin (2011), the filmmaker's career is as striking for its political and philosophical coherence as for the marked evolution of his style.   This book looks back on this journey based on four films ( The Family Nest , The Outsider , Damnation , Sátántangó ), starting from the documentary-inspired urban camera sessions that Tarr made at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, to the fables metaphysics that he conceived...

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#14 The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

THE ADVENTURES OF ANTOINE DOINEL The saga in 5 films by François Truffaut by Antoine de Baecque Book offered in the December 2021 Monthly Pack , in the François Truffaut Christmas Pack or with the UHD or Blu-ray Box Without doubt he is one of the most famous characters in world cinema. "Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel,...", as in this sequence where Jean-Pierre Léaud repeats his name until he becomes dazed, comes back five times: born at 13 during the filming of Quatre Cents Coups (1958), he returned at 17 in Antoine et Colette (1962), grew up and married at 23 in Stolen Kisses (1968), became a father and argued with his wife, Christine, at...

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