Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon 6th, and died onMarch 25, 2021in Sainte-Maxime ( Var ). Son of the writer and resistance fighter from Lyon, René Tavernier, he was first an assistant director, press officer (notably for Stanley Kubrick ) and critic before moving on to directing with The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, his first critical success, which led to a long collaboration with the actor Philippe Noiret ( Let the Party Begin..., The Judge and the Assassin, Coup de torchon, Life and Nothing But, The Daughter of d'Artagnan ). Eclectic, he tackled several cinematographic genres, from the dramatic comedy ( A Sunday in the Country, Daddy Nostalgia ) to the war film ( Captain Conan ) through the historical film ( Pass, The Princess of Montpensier) or the thriller ( L.627, The Bait ). Several of his films have won awards, in France and abroad (including Autour de minuit which won an Oscar and was nominated for a Golden Globe ). He was president of the Lumière Institute from 1982, the year the Institute was created, until his death [ 2 ] . He is the father of director and actor Nils Tavernier and novelist Tiffany Tavernier producer.
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- 2024 · Lumière! The Adventure Continues as Self
- 2020 · Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Les secrets de la belle endormie as Self
- 2019 · Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta as Sé stesso
- 2019 · An American Named Kazan as Self
- 2018 · Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure as Self
- 2017 · Journeys Through French Cinema as Self
- 2016 · My Journey Through French Cinema as Self
- 2016 · M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier as Self
- 2016 · Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires as Self
- 2015 · Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran as Self
- 2013 · The French Minister as Un journaliste TV (voice)
- 2012 · In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin as Self
- 2011 · Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu » as Self (cinéaste)
- 2010 · Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma as Self
- 2010 · RKO, A Story made in Hollywood as Himself
- 2010 · Code Name: Melville as Self
- 2008 · Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes as Self
- 2006 · Filmmakers in Action as Self
- 2005 · Michael Powell as
- 2004 · The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis as
- 2003 · Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic as Self
- 2002 · Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows as Self
- 2002 · L'Invité as Self
- 2000 · Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self - Director
- 2000 · In the Shadow of Hollywood as Self
- 1997 · The Other Side of the Tracks as Lui-même
- 1997 · Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz as Self
- 1996 · The Lumière Brothers' First Films as Narrator
- 1996 · Télévision (histoires secrètes) as Self (archive footage)
- 1995 · The World of Jacques Demy as Self
- 1995 · The Cineastes' Exit as Narrator
- 1993 · Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Self
- 1993 · Gershwin as Self
- 1993 · The Young Girls Turn 25 as Self
- 1993 · François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits as Self
- 1992 · The Undeclared War as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Daddy Nostalgia as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1990 · Pictures of Europe as Self
- 1988 · Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie as Self
- 1986 · Before Midnight as Self (archive footage)
- 1984 · A Sunday in the Country as Le narrateur
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1974 · Don't Touch the White Woman! as Un homme du pouvoir (uncredited)
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1963 · The Bakery Girl of Monceau as Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)