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DAVID
BELLOS
David Bellos was born in Essex and
educated at Oxford. He taught French
at the universities of Edinburgh,
Southampton and Manchester before
moving to the USA in 1997, where he
is now Professor of French and
Comparative Literature at Princeton
University, where he also directs the
Program in Translation and Intercultural
Communication.
He has written widely on nineteenthcentury
French literature and is also the
translator of Georges Perec, Ismail
Kadare and Fred Vargas, among others.
On seeing a re-run of Playtime
in 1995, he was so overwhelmed by the
film's beauty that he decided to find
out more about the man who could
make such an extraordinary thing.
The result was a biography, Jacques Tati.
His Life and Art (Harvill, 1999), which
serves as the basis for Michael House’s
new documentary, The Magnificent Tati.
David Bellos’s life of the French diplomat
and novelist Romain Gary will appear
in 2011.
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MICHAEL HOUSE
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Late guest: Director Michael House
will be present with Tati biographer
David Bellos to introduce the world
premiere of The Magnificent
Tati as part of the French Film Festival UK
at Filmhouse, Edinburgh, on Thursday
26 Nov at 6.15pm and at Glasgow Film
Theatre on Friday 27 Nov at 6.00pm
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LIONEL
BAIER
Lionel Baier comes from a Swiss family of Polish
extraction. From 1992 onwards, he programmed
and co-managed the Rex Movie Theatre in Aubonne
(Switzerland).
Between 1995 and 1999, he studied at the Faculty of
Arts at Lausanne University. Since 2002 Lionel Baier
has been in charge of the cinema section at ECAL
(University of Art and Design, Lausanne). His first
two fiction features, Stupid Boy and Stealth, were
internationally distributed in several European
countries as well as in the USA, and were also shown
at countless festivals around the world. They were
warmly received both by the critics and the public.
Another Man is Baier’s third fiction feature. He
recalls: “I remember seeing Truffaut’s The Mississipi
Mermaid one evening in the summer of ’88. I was 12
years old. And that night, my parents’ old Phillips TV
set really suited my yearnings. It was all there: a
double life, masquerade, enigma, car, snow, violence
and, above all, the bodies of Catherine Deneuve and
Jean-Paul Belmondo. The tense virility of a man shot
to convey boyish bashfulness, alongside a woman
with an upright self-assuredness. All of which
seemed to meet my own budding desire.
“That desire is what led me to direct Robin Harsch
and Natacha Koutchoumov in Another Man.”
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KEITH
READER
Professor of Modern French Studies at the
University of Glasgow with a speciality in
cinema, modern fiction, sado-masochism,
the Fifth Republic in literature and film,
Keith Reader works on various aspects of
(primarily but not solely) 20th century
French culture.
In the area of film he has published a
monograph on Robert Bresson (Manchester
University Press, 2000) and has in press one
on Jean Renoir’s La règle du jeu (due from
I B Tauris later this year). He has recently
finished an article on Resnais’s L’année
dernière à Marienbad as sado-masochistic
text – an approach that incorporates his
interest in critical theory (in this case the
work of Deleuze) and in gender studies.
The latter approach largely underpins his
monograph, co-authored with Rachel
Edwards, on The Papin Sisters (Oxford
University Press, 2001). He has a particular
interest in the work of Jean Eustache.
His current project builds on a developing
interest in the area of cultural topography,
by way of a cultural history of the
Bastille/Faubourg Saint-Antoine area
of Paris.
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PIERRE
MARCEL
This 29-year-old professional sailor,
born and raised on the coast of Brittany,
in St. Malo was still a teenager when
sailing legend Eric Tabarly died and he
never met his subject.
He started shooting film as an
amateur and made a short film for
the Eric Tabarly Association about a
season aboard Pen Duick I, from its
commissioning in the yard to sailing in
several regattas. It eventually earned
him the assignment from producer
Jacques Perrin who gave him six weeks
to edit the full-length Tabarly film.
Tabarly was notoriously shy before the
cameras and a man of few words, but
Marcel soon had in hand some 400
hours of Tabarly footage and more than
60 hours of audio.
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JEROME
GAME
Jérôme Game is an academic and a poet,
currently in post as associate professor
of philosophy and film studies at AUP
(The American University in Paris).
His research interests focus on a
theoretical and critical examination
of modern culture (cinema, literature,
visual arts) around a philosophical
reworking of subjectivity and time.
He has recently edited volumes on
text/image relations in 20th century
French culture, on the work of
philosopher Jacques Rancière and
a volume on cinematographic
representation of the body.
He is currently finishing a study of
contemporary French literature
around Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy.
He has lectured extensively on the
cinema of Jean Eustache, and his
publication projects include a book
on Eustache’s cinema.
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