Tavernier, Bertrand 1941-

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Tavernier, Bertrand 1941-

PERSONAL

Born April 25, 1941, in Lyon, France; son of Rene (a writer and publicist) and Genevieve (maiden name, Dumond) Tavernier; married, wife's name Colo (a screenwriter; also known as Claudine O'Hagan), February 16 1965 (divorced, 1980); children: Nils (an actor), Tiffany (a writer). Education: Attended Sorbonne, University of Paris; also studied law.

Addresses:

Office—Little Bear, 7-9 rue Arthur Groussier, 75010 Paris, France. Agent—Sam Cohn, International Creative Management, 10250 Constellation Way, 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Career:

Director, producer, and writer. Assistant to film director Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961; press agent for film producer Georges de Beauregard; freelance press agent, 1965-1972; Lumiere Institute, president; Little Bear, Paris, principal and producer.

Member:

French Directors Guild (past president), Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (vice president).

Awards, Honors:

Prix Louis Delluc and Nugo Award, Chicago Film Festival, both 1973, OCIC Award, Silver Berlin Bear, and nomination for Golden Berlin Bear, all Berlin International Film Festival, 1974, for L'Horloger de Saint-Paul; Cesar Awards (with Jean Aurenche), best director and best screenplay, and Cesar Award nomination, best film, all Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema, and Critics Award, best film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, all 1976, for Que la fete commence …; Cesar Award (with Aurenche), best screenplay, and Cesar Award nominations, best director and best film, all 1977, for Le Juge et l'assassin; nomination for Golden Berlin Bear, Prix Unifrance, and Golden Asteroide, all 1980, and Cesar Award nomination (with David Rayfiel), best original script, 1981, all for La Mort en direct; nomination for Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival, 1980, for Une semaine de vacances; Academy Award nomination, best foreign film, 1981, Cesar Award nominations, best director, best film, and best screenplay (with Aurenche), 1982, and Critics Award, best film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, 1982, all for Coup de torchon; Cannes Film Festival Award, best director, and nomination for Golden Palm, both 1984, Boston Society of Film Critics Award, best director, Film Award (with Alain Sarde), best foreign language film, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cesar Award (with Colo Tavernier), best screenplay adaptation, Cesar Award nominations, best director and best film, New York Film Critics Circle Award, best foreign film, and National Board of Review Award, best foreign film, all 1985, and Mainichi Film Concours Award, best foreign language film, 1986, all for Un Dimanche a la campagne; Silver Ribbon, best director of a foreign film, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1987, and Bodil Award, best European Film, Bodil Festival, 1988, all for 'Round Midnight; Special Prize of the Jury, European Film Awards, and Tokyo International Film Festival Award, best artistic contribution, both 1989, Film Award, best film not in the English language, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Cesar Award nominations, best director, best film, and best screenplay (with Jean Cosmos), all 1990, for La Vie et rien d'autre; Golden Palm nomination, Cannes Film Festival, 1990, for Daddy Nostalgie; special mention, Bergamo Film Meeting, 1992, for La Guerre sans nom; Cesar Award nominations, best director, best film, and best screenplay (with Michel Alexandre), all 1992, for L.627; Golden Berlin Bear and nomination for Golden Kikito, best Latin film, Gramado Film Festival, both 1995, for L'Appat; FIPRESCI Award, Solidarity Award, and nomination for Golden Seashell, all San Sebastian International Film Festival, 1996, Cesar Award, best director, and Cesar Award nominations, best film and best original screenplay (with Cosmos), Best European Film Award and People's Choice Award, both Denver International Film Festival, and Critics Award, best film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, all 1997, all for Capitaine Conan; Crystal Iris Award, Brussels International Film Festival, 1998; FIPRESCI Award, honorable mention for speciality of the topic, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and nomination for Golden Berlin Bear, all Berlin International Film Festival, Audience Award, San Sebastian International Film Festival, and Ecumenical Film Award, Norwegian International Film Festival, all 1999, and Fotogramas de Plata Award and Sant Jordi Award, both best foreign film, 2000, all for Ca commence aujourd'hui; Lifetime Achievement Award, Istanbul International Film Festival, 2001; nomination for Golden Berlin Bear, and Jury Awards, best director, best film, and best screenplay (with Cosmos), Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, all 2002, for Laissez-passer; Audience Award, San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2005, for Holy Lola.

CREDITS

Film Director:

"Baiser de Judas" in Les Baisers (also known as I Baci and Una Voglia matta di donna), Rome-Paris Films/Flora Films, 1963.

"Une Chance explosive" in La Chance et l'amour (also known as Chance at Love and L'Amore e la chance), Rome-Paris Films/ROTOR Film, 1964.

Assistant director, Maciste, gladiatore di Sparta (also known as The Terror of Rome against the Son of Hercules and Maciste, gladiateur de Sparte), 1964.

Assistant director, Una Questione d'onore (also known as A Question of Honour), 1965.

L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (also known as The Clockmaker, The Clockmaker of St. Paul, and The Watchmaker of St. Paul), Lira Films, 1972.

Que la fete commence … (also known as Let Joy Reign Supreme), Fildebroc, 1975.

Le Juge et l'assassin (also known as The Judge and the Assassin), Lira Films, 1976.

Des Enfants gates (also known as Spoiled Children), Gaumont/Sara/Films 66/Little Bear, 1977.

(And coproducer) La Mort en direct (also known as Deathwatch, Death Watch-Der Gekaufte Tod, Death in Full View, Der Gekaufte Tod, and The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe), Selta/Sara/Little Bear/FR-3/Gaumont, 1979.

(And producer) Une Semaine de vacances (also known as A Week's Brief Vacation, A Week's Holiday, and A Week's Vacation,), Sara Films/Little Bear Productions, 1980.

Coup de torchon (also known as Clean Slate and Clean Up), Films de la Tour/Little Bear Productions, 1981.

Philippe Soupault (also known as Philippe Soupault et le surrealisme), 1982.

(And producer, both with Robert Parrish) Mississippi Blues (also known as October Country and Pays d'octobre), Corinth Films, 1983.

Cine citron, 1983.

La 8eme generation, 1983.

(And producer) Un Dimanche a la campagne (also known as A Sunday in the Country), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1984.

'Round Midnight (also known as Autour de minuit), Warner Bros., 1986.

La Passion Beatrice (also known as Beatrice, The Passion of Beatrice, and Quarto comandamento), Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1987.

La Vie et rien d'autre (also known as Life and Nothing But), Orion, 1989.

Daddy Nostalgie (also known as Daddy Nostalgia and These Foolish Things), Avenue Entertainment, 1990.

50 Ans de cinema Americaine, 1991.

La Guerre sans nom (also known as The Undeclared War), 1991.

"Pour Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar" segment, Contre l'oubli (also known as Against Oblivion, Lest We Forget, and Ecrire contre l'oubli), 1992.

L.627, Kino International, 1992.

La Fille de d'Artagnan (also known as D'Artagnan's Daughter, The Daughter of D'Artagnan, and Revenge of the Musketeers), Miramax, 1994.

L'Appat (also known as The Bait, Fresh Bait, and Live Bait), 1995.

(And producer) Capitaine Conan (also known as Captain Conan), Bac Films, 1996.

De l'autre cote du periph (also known as The Other Side of the Tracks), 1998.

Ca commence aujourd'hui (also known as It All Starts Today), Independent Artists, 1999.

Spotlights on a Massacre: 10 Films Against 100 Million Antipersonnel Land Mines, 1999.

Histoires de vies brisees: les "double peine" de Lyon (documentary), Pierre Grise Distribution, 2001.

Laissez-passer (also known as Safe Conduct and Salvocunducto), subtitled version, Empire Pictures, 2002.

Holy Lola, TFM Distribution, 2004.

Film Producer:

La Question (also known as The Question), 1976.

Rue du pied de Grue, 1979.

La Trace (also known as The Trace), 1983.

Veillees d'armes (also known as The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime, The Troubles weve seen—Die Geschichte der Kriegsberichterstattung, and Veillees d'armes: Histoire du journalisme en temps de guerre), 1994.

Co-executive producer, Fred, 1997.

Coproducer, Pas d'histoires! (animated; also known as Don't Make Trouble!), Gebeka Films, 2001.

Film Appearances:

(Uncredited) La Boulangere de Monceau (also known as The Baker of Monceau, The Baker's Girl of Monceau, and The Girl at the Monceau Bakery), 1963.

Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, His Life and Times, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1988.

Infant of Paradise: Alexadre Trauner and the Development of Film Production Design, 1993.

Francois Truffaut: Portraits voles (also known as Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits), 1993.

Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (also known as The Young Girls Turn 25), 1993.

L'Univers de Jacques Demy (also known as The Universe of Jacques Demy and The World of Jacques Demy), 1995.

Narrator, Lumiere: The First Picture Show (documentary), Kino Video, 1996.

Narrator, The Lumiere Brothers' First Films, 1996.

In the Shadow of Hollywood (documentary; also known as A l'ombre d'Hollywood), National Film Board of Canada, 2000.

Himself, Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible (documentary; also known as Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic and Claude Sautet oder die unsichtbare magie), Les Grands Films Classiques, 2003.

Himself, L'homme au cigare (documentary), Rattlesnake Pictures, 2003.

Himself, Cineastes an accio (documentary; also known as Cineastas en accion), Kilimanjaro Productions, 2005.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Lyon, le regard interieur (also known as Lyon, Inside Out), 1988.

Un Film sur Bertrand Tavernier, 1996.

Cannes … les 400 coups, 1997.

Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz, Bravo, 1997.

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows, PBS, 2000.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

American Cinema, PBS, 1995.

Interviewee, "Michael Powell," Artworks Scotland, 2005.

Magacine, 2005.

Himself, L'hebdo cinema, 2006.

Television Appearances; Other:

Dialogue pour un portrait: Philippe Noiret, 1981.

Le petit Mitchell illustre, 1981.

Gilles Grangier, 50 ans de cinema, 1990.

Jean Renoir: Part One—From La Belle Epoque to World War II, 1993.

Jean Renoir: Part Two—Hollywood and Beyond, 1993.

The Making of an Englishman, 1995.

Philippe le bienheureux, 1996.

Quand le chat sourit, 1997.

Positif, une revue, 2003.

Jacques Deray: Le cinema … ma vie, 2005.

Member of audience, Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe, 2005.

(In archive footage) Ceremonia de clausura, 2005.

Television Director:

Lyon, le regard interieur (special; also known as Lyon, Inside Out), 1988.

La Lettre (movie), 1997.

Les enfants de Thies, 2001.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Compositeurs/realisateurs, dialogue impossible?, 2002.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

"Baiser de Judas" in Les Baisers (also known as I Baci and Una Voglia matta di donna), Rome-Paris Films/Flora Films, 1963.

"Une Chance explosive" in La Chance et l'amour (also known as Chance at Love and L'Amore e la chance), Rome-Paris Films/ROTOR Film, 1964.

Entre las redes (also known as Mexican Slayride, Coplan ouvre le feu a Mexico, Coplan III, and Moresque: obiettivo allucinante), 1966.

Capitaine Singrid (also known as Captain Singrid, Capitao Singrid, and I mercenari muoiono all'alba), 1967.

(With Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost) L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (also known as The Clockmaker, The Clockmaker of St. Paul, and The Watchmaker of St. Paul; based on novel L'Horloger d'Everton by Georges Simenon), Lira Films, 1972, Joseph Green Pictures, 1976.

(With Aurenche) Que la fete commence … (also known as Let Joy Reign Supreme), Fildebroc, 1975, Specialty Films, 1977.

(With Aurenche) Le Juge et l'assassin, Lira Films, 1976, released as The Judge and the Assassin, Libra Films, 1982.

(With Charlotte Dubreuil and Christine Pascal) Des Enfants gates (also known as Spoiled Children), Gaumont/Sara/Films 66/Little Bear, 1977, Corinth, 1981.

(With David Rayfiel) La Mort en direct (also known as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, Death in Full View, Deathwatch, Death Watch-Der Gekaufte Tod, and Der Gekaufte Tod; based on story "The Unsleeping Eye" by David Compton), Selta/Sara/Little Bear/FR-3/Gaumont, 1979, Quartet Films, 1982.

(With Colo Tavernier and Marie-Francoise Hans) Une Semaine de vacances (also known as A Week's Brief Vacation, A Week's Holiday, and A Week's Vacation), Sara Films/Little Bear Productions, 1980, Biograph International, 1982.

(With Aurenche) Coup de torchon (also known as Clean Slate and Clean Up; based on novel Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson), Films de la Tour/Little Bear Productions, 1981, Biograph International/Quartet Films/Frank Moreno Co., 1982.

La Trace (also known as The Trace), 1983.

Mississippi Blues (also known as October Country and Pays d'octobre), Odessa/Little Bear Productions, 1983.

La 8eme generation, 1983.

(With Colo Tavernier) Un Dimanche a la campagne (also known as A Sunday in the Country; based on novel Monsieur Ladmiral va bientot mourir by Bost), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1984.

(With Rayfiel) 'Round Midnight (also known as Autour de minuit), Warner Bros., 1986.

(With Laurent Heynemann and Phillippe Boucher) Les Mois d'avril sont meurtriers (also known as April Is a Deadly Month), Sara Films/CDF, 1986.

(With Cosmos) La Vie et rien d'autre (also known as Life and Nothing But), Orion, 1989.

(Dialogue) Daddy Nostalgie (also known as Daddy Nostalgia and These Foolish Things), Avenue Entertainment, 1990.

Der Gruene Berg, 1990.

La Guerre sans nom (also known as The Undeclared War), 1991, published (with Patrick Rotman) as La Guerre sans nom: Les appeles d'Algerie, 1954-1962, Editions du Seuil, 1992.

(With Michel Alexandre) L.627, Kino International, 1992.

La Fille de d'Artagnan (also known as D'Artagnan's Daughter, The Daughter of D'Artagnan, and Revenge of the Musketeers), Miramax, 1994.

(With C. Tavernier O'Hagan) L'Appat (also known as The Bait, Live Bait, and Fresh Bait), 1995.

(With Cosmos) Capitaine Conan (also known as Captain Conan), Bac Films, 1996.

(With Dominique Sampiero and daughter Tiffany Tavernier) Ca commence aujourd'hui (also known as It All Starts Today), Independent Artists, 1999.

Il avait dans le coeur des jardins introuvables, 2000.

(With Jose Giovanni) Mon pere, il m'a sauve la vie (also known as My Father Saved my Life), Bac Films, 2001.

(With Cosmos) Laissez-passer (also known as Safe Conduct and Salvocunducto), subtitled version, Empire Pictures, 2002.

Holy Lola, TFM Distribution, 2004.

Television Specials:

Lyon, le regard interieur (also known as Lyon, Inside Out), 1988.

Other:

(With Jean-Pierre Coursodon) Trente ans de cinema Americaine (nonfiction book; title means Thirty Years of American Cinema), Editions C.I.B., 1970.

(Compiler) Amis americains: Retretiens avec les grands auteurs d'Hollywood, Institut Lumiere, 1993.

50 Years of American Cinema (book), 1995.

Also contributed to periodicals, including Cahiers du cinema and Positif.