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Thu, Jun 21, 2007
It is the first of the series. As an international composer, Gabriel Yared has written the original score of numerous films, including "Betty Blue" by Jean-Jacques Beineix, "Camille Claudel" by Bruno Nuytten, "The Lover" by Jean-Jacques Annaud, "The English Patient", "Cold Mountain", "The Talented Mister Ripley" and "Breaking & Entering" by Anthony Minghella. "In the Tracks of Gabriel Yared" brings the audience into the creative process of his film scores through interviews with collaborative personalities like Jean-Hugues Anglade and Jean-Jacques Annaud, from the very personal beginning to the movie theatre projectors.
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Mon, Oct 15, 2007
The second documentary of this collection is dedicated to Maurice Jarre. 60 years of successful career, 200 themes music, 70 years of theater. From the most beautiful hours of Popular National Theatre to the Academy Awards of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, Maurice Jarre is a film legend. He lives between Switzerland and Los Angeles where he invites the audience to a private interview in the heart of his creative universe. In front of his piano, facing a magnificent landscape which surrounds him, he tells the audience about his life made of music, uplifting them into the deepest of his memories.
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Mon, Jun 7, 2010
This film aims to revive the memory of Georges Delerue, great composer from the French School, who was driven by the music. He dedicated the major part of his art and of his work to the film score. He was the author of more than 200 film scores. Very few composers expressed themselves like him through very different genders. Georges Delerue composed for the cinema new wave, (Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard), (Jules and Jim, Day for Night by Francois Truffaut) but also for the popular cinema of Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio) and Gerard Oury (The Sucker). He also worked on compositions for television and radio, then for Hollywood with for instance Oliver Stone (Platoon).