Bertrand Tavernier
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
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
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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]
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...
4) Le corbeau
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A mysterious writer of poison pen letters plagues a French town, exposing the suspicion and rancor seeting beneath a calm surface. Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Le Corbeau was attacked from all sides and banned after the Liberation.
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
In Tavernier's 1973 filmmaking debut, a tranquil man of Lyons has his life shattered when he learns that his son is wanted for murder. As he stuggles to emerge from his self-willed solitude and create real communication with his son, the police and media add to his burden.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Set in the 16th century, 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.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
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,...
14) Coup de torchon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
15) 'Round midnight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1122
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
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 Classics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The clockmaker of St. Paul is the debut feature of legendary director Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the country, Journeys through French cinema). It stars Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso) as the unassuming title character, a man who begins to reexamine his life when his son is wanted for murder. Asked for help by the police inspector (Jean Rochefort, Man on the Train), he realizes how little he knew about his son, and begins to seek out the truth...