Jean-Claude Carrière
notum enim: Writing
dies natalis: 1931-09-17
Locus Natus: Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France
Et ut: Jean-Claude François Carrière, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean Claude Carriere
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of...
release : 2001.11.09popularis : 2.232
Fifty Years Later
Agnès Vincent-Deray, the widow of director Jacques Deray, made this short documentary on the production of LA PISCINE in 2019, on the occasion...
release : 2019.12.31popularis : 0.875
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips,...
release : 1983.10.26popularis : 3.135
Certified Copy
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
release : 2010.05.18popularis : 10.039
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by...
release : 2000.08.01popularis : 1.59
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.
release : 2008.01.01popularis : 2.597
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
release : 2017.05.05popularis : 4.134
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he appear in public. How did he become a legendary...
release : 2021.10.21popularis : 2.261
Carrière, 250 Meters
A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term...
release : 2011.01.01popularis : 3.327
Speaking of Buñuel
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou,...
release : 2000.06.09popularis : 2.366
Buñuel in Hollywood
This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through...
release : 2000.02.22popularis : 1.437
The Night and the Moment
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He...
release : 1995.07.05popularis : 2.249
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to...
release : 1979.03.14popularis : 1.607
Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
Milan Kundera's rambling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though greatly admired, was thought by Hollywood studio executives to be...
release : 2006.02.07popularis : 1.796
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
release : 2022.09.21popularis : 2.215
Gala
Tour of the life of Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova Gala from Kazan Russia, where she was born, to Davos, where she met Paul Éluard, and continues...
release : 2003.07.04popularis : 0.944
The Wedding Ring
A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden
release : 1971.01.15popularis : 3.872
Surprise Sock
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their...
release : 1978.06.14popularis : 1.015
The Associate
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his...
release : 1979.08.22popularis : 4.594
And the blue sky
An intimate documentary shedding light on the life of veteran Iranian actor, Ezzatollah Entezami.
release : 2010.02.07popularis : 0.913
The Secret Book
The search for the Secret Book of the Bogomils brings Guy Chevalier (Thierry Fremont) to Macedonia. There, he is haunted by the spirit of the Gardian...
release : 2006.12.01popularis : 1.002
Vive les femmes !
The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
release : 1984.03.07popularis : 4.708
The Arbitrariness of Desire
a doc on Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.83
A Little Sun in Cold Water
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his...
release : 1971.10.29popularis : 2.068
The Mystery of the King of Kinema
In 1914, Max Linder (1883-1925) was a great star of silent cinema, the King of Cinema. But then World War I broke out, in which Max participated, and...
release : 2014.01.27popularis : 1.887
Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.
release : 2011.01.01popularis : 1.578
Borsalino City
The history of the birth of an icon, the Borsalino hat. From the factory where it was conceived in a small Italian town, to the glamorous world of...
release : 2016.04.13popularis : 1.194
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one that I prefer." "As inexplicable as the...
release : 2015.03.09popularis : 1.668
Avida
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to...
release : 2006.09.13popularis : 3.347
The Garden of Torment
The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.
release : 1976.10.05popularis : 2.849
Madame De...
The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family...
release : 2001.10.01popularis : 1.015
Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job...
release : 1964.03.04popularis : 10.976
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Bunuel’s close friends and collaborators.
release : 2005.11.14popularis : 0.633
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Featuring previously unissued photographs and video archives as well as interviews of his friends and partners in crime, this documentary tells how...
release : 2017.01.19popularis : 1.351
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence...
release : 2013.06.13popularis : 0.606
The Game of Solitaire
A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death. All the evidence points to a young...
release : 1976.11.24popularis : 0.822
The Associate
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his...
release : 1979.08.22popularis : 4.594
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Why did Milos Forman have to make certain films the way he did? Where does his inner strength come from? What is the story of his life?
release : 2009.10.08popularis : 2.312
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy,...
release : 2018.07.12popularis : 2.157
L'Amour nu
An educated woman ,with good prospects falls in love with an oceanographer .But breast cancer strikes : will she remain a true woman ,in spite of a...
release : 1981.10.07popularis : 1.38
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than...
release : 2018.10.22popularis : 2.902
Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
Based on unpublished interviews with the family, Jean-Claude Carrière, his writer and biographer, family archives, mini-fictions that...
release : 2018.03.10popularis : 3.505
The Collection
Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish...
release : 2018.10.13popularis : 0.752
Un Ange dans les marécages
Documentary about Diary of a Chambermaid
release : 2006.01.01popularis : 0.687
Photo-souvenir
This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with...
release : 1978.12.31popularis : 1.735
Professor Goudet's Lessons
Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour...
release : 2013.04.06popularis : 1.489
Rituals
Documentary about Buñuel's Tristana.
release : 2007.01.22popularis : 1.628
The Milky Way
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of...
release : 1969.02.28popularis : 7.543
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
release : 2019.12.01popularis : 1.571
The Suitor
Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels...
release : 1962.11.12popularis : 5.097
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
release : 2013.02.03popularis : 3.092
Une promenade parmi les ombres
Analysis and interview with the screenwriter of Luis Buñuel's movie 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'.
release : 2005.11.14popularis : 0.588