Cinema has been lengthy linked to France, courting again to 1895, whilst Louis and Auguste Lumière screened their works, the 1st public viewing of movies wherever. Early silent pioneers Georges Méliès, Alice man Blaché and others within the footsteps of the Lumière brothers and the culture of vital filmmaking persisted in the course of the twentieth century and past. In Encyclopedia of French movie Directors, Philippe Rège identifies each French director who has made not less than one characteristic movie in view that 1895. From undisputed masters to imprecise one-timers, approximately 3,000 administrators are pointed out right here, together with at the least two hundred filmmakers no longer pointed out in comparable books released in France.
Each director's access incorporates a short biographical precis, together with dates and areas of delivery and demise; info at the individual's schooling education; and different pertinent info, similar to genuine names (when the filmmaker makes use of a pseudonym). The entries additionally offer entire filmographies, together with credit for characteristic movies, shorts, documentaries, and tv paintings. probably the most very important names within the background of movie are available during this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age—Jean Renoir and René Clair—to French New Wave artists reminiscent of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
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