Bertrand Tavernier
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster 'Baby Feet' Balboni. Layers of corruption and long-dead secrets reawaken grudges and a lethal alliance.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1122
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character that was nominated for an Oscar, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
Français
Description
Monsieur Ladmiral, an aging impressionist painter, spends his usual Sunday afternoon visit with his family ruminating over life's small pleasures and inevitable disappointments until his daughter Irene arrives. Irene, a whirlwind of activity for whom life itself is an art, has a magical reviving effect on her father and the world suddenly takes on the beautiful hues and feelings of an Impressionist masterpiece.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a human whirlwind and a man confident in France's importance on the world stage. In this hilarious send-up of diplomacy and international politics, he takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and the opportunistic Chinese while his hapless speech writer endures the eccentricities of his megalomaniacal boss and his sycophantic entourage.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Marie de Mezieres is deeply in love with her dashing cousin Henri de Guise. However, due to her father's political ambitions, she is forced into a marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, who she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman. It isn't long before she is exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Français
Description
After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life.
10) 'Round midnight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Bud Powell and Francis Paudras.
12) Capitaine Conan
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Français
Description
Conan, a dedicated career soldier, serves the band of fifty French irregulars under his command in the Great War. After the signing of the 1919 Armistice, Conan lays down his arms but his troops continue to fight.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
15) Death watch
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set in a future civilization where television does virtually anything to get high ratings, a director implants a video camera in the brain of a man he hires to shoot a documentary about a dying woman without her knowledge.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the nation's movie studios continued to operate. Jean Devaivre is an assistant director for Continental Pictures, a studio which has recently been taken over by the Germans and is headed by Dr. Greven. With a wife and son to support, Devaivre feels he has little choice but to continue with his work. Screenwriter Jean Aurenche, a man who lives for wine, women and song, refuses to work for Greven,...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Bertrand Tavernier's follow-up to his César-nominated three-and-a-half hour tour through French cinema, "My journey through French cinema" (2017). In this new series, the acclaimed director presents eight hours of new material, guiding us through a roster of filmmakers both influential and forgotten, exploring how his country's cinema was shaped by the German occupation and changed again through the New Wave, spotlighting little-known female filmmakers,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Monsieur Ladmiral is a widowed painter in his twilight years who welcomes his bourgeois son Gonzague and free-spirited daughter Irene and their families to his home for a lazy afternoon lunch. Over the course of the day buried resentments come to the surface. The passage of time has left no family member unscathed. Set in the 1910s in France.