Tag: France

Michel Piccoli

(1925–2020) Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli Filmography as Actor: French Cancan 1955 Director: Jean Renoir Starring: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul     Le Mépris 1963 Director: Jean-Luc Godard Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli     Belle de Jour 1967 Director: Luis Buñuel Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel…

Jean Sorel

(1934) Jean Bernard de Chieusses de Combaud de Roquebrune Filmography as Actor: Belle de Jour 1967 Director: Luis Buñuel Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel     The Day of the Jackal 1973 Director: Fred Zinnemann Starring: Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale   Born September…

Belle de Jour (1967)

Director: Luis Buñuel Producer: Henri Baum, Robert Hakim, Raymond Hakim Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière Based on: Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel Genre: Drama Country: France | Italia Language: French Release date: 1967 Running time: 101 minutes Catherine Deneuve…

Le Bateaux de pêche (1865)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Bateaux de pêche (The Fishing Boat) 1865 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this work during an intensely productive visit to Trouville with James McNeill Whistler from…

La Femme à la vague (1868)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme à la vague (The Woman in the Waves) 1868 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1864 and 1868 Courbet undertook a series of paintings of the female nude.…

Chiens de chasse et lièvre mort (1857)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Chiens de chasse et lièvre mort (Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare) 1857 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 148.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Set in a forest, two hunting dogs face off as they await…

Après la chasse (c.1859)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Après la chasse (After the Hunt) c.1859 Oil on canvas, 236.2 x 186.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style, scale, and composition, this work strongly resembles Courbet’s first hunting scene, The Quarry, a great…

Femme au perroquet (1866)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Femme au perroquet (Woman with a Parrot) 1866 Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 195.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this painting was shown in the Salon of 1866, some critics censured Courbet‘s “lack of…

La Trombe (1870)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Trombe (Marine: The Waterspout) 1870 Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet first witnessed a waterspout at Trouville, a village on the Channel Coast, in 1865 or 1866. This…

Maurice Jarre

(1924–2009) Maurice-Alexis Jarre Works: • Doctor Zhivago (1965) • Dr. Zhivago: ‘Lara’s Theme’ • Jesus of Nazareth (1977) Filmography as Composer: Doctor Zhivago 1965 Director: David Lean Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie     Isadora 1968 Director: Karel Reisz Starring:…