Bertrand Tavernier

Interviews

Lynn A. Higgins, T. Jefferson Kline, Lynn A. Higgins, T. Jefferson Kline

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781496840875, 9781496807687
• eBook ISBN: 9781496807694
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Bertrand Tavernier (1941–2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he directed twenty-two feature films in an eclectic range of genres from intimate family portrait to historical drama and neo-Western. Beginning with his debut feature—L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974), which won the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize—Tavernier showed himself to be a public intellectual. Like his films, he was deeply engaged with the pressing issues facing France and the world: the consequences of war, colonialism and its continuing aftermath, the price of heroism, and the power of art. A voracious cinephile, he was immensely knowledgeable about world cinema and American film in particular. Tavernier's roots were in Lyon, the birthplace of the cinema. He founded and presided over the Institut Lumière, which hosts retrospectives and an annual film festival in the factory where the Lumière brothers made the first films.

In this collection, containing numerous interviews translated from French and available in English for the first time, he discusses the arc of his career following in the lineage of the Lumière brothers, in that his goal, like theirs, is to "show the world to the world."

It is no surprise, then, that an interview with Tavernier is a treat. Beginning with discussions of his own films, the interviews in this volume cover a vast range of topics. At the core are his thoughts about the ways cinema can inspire the imagination and contribute to the broadest possible public conversation.

Index

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Adams, Gerald Drayson

Aldrich, Robert; Attack!; The Dirty Dozen; The Twilight’s Last Gleaming; Ulzana’s Raid;

Alexandre, Michel

Allan, John

Allegret, Yves

Allio, René; La Vieille dame indigne (The Shameless Old Lady)

Altman, Robert; Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmie Dean; Nashville; Tanner ’88

Alton, John; Painting with Light

Annaud, Jean-Jacques; The Name of the Rose

Anouilh, Jean

Arnold, Jack; The Incredible Shrinking Man

Arafat, Yasser

Aragon, Louis

Arestrup, Niels

Armstrong, Louis

Astruc, Alexandre

Auberge, Maurice

Audé, Françoise

Audiberti

Audran, Stéphane

Aujard, Patrick

Aumont, Michel

Aurenche, Jean; La Suite a l’écran

Autant-Lara, Claude; Diable au corps; Douce (Love Story); En cas de malheur (Love Is My Profession); La Traversée de Paris (Four Bags Full)

Aymé, Marcel

Azéma, Sabine

Bach, J. S.

Baldwin, James

Balzac, Honoré de; Une Ténébreuse affaire (A Shady Affair)

Barthes, Roland

Bartok, Bela

Basie, Count

Bauer, Harry

Baum, Ralph

Baye, Nathalie

Beauregard, Georges de

Bechet, Sidney

Becker, Jacques; Antoine et Antoinette; Casque d’Or; Edouard et Caroline; Le Trou; Touchez pas au grisbi

Beltrami, Marco

Benayoun, Robert

Béraud, Luc

Bergman, Ingmar; Wild Strawberries

Bergman, Ingrid

Berman, Pando

Bernard, Raymond; Les Croix de Bois (Wooden Crosses)

Berri, Claude; La Chance et l’amour; Les Baisers

Berry, John

Berry, Richard

Bertucelli, Jean-Louis; Ramparts of Clay; Stress

Besnehard, Dominique

Besson, Faustin

Bieberman, Herbert; Salt of the Earth

Birken, Jane

Blain, Christophe

Blanke, Henry

Bloody Mama

Blum-Byrnes Accords

Boetticher, Bud

Bogarde, Dirk

Bogart, Humphrey

Boisset, Yves; R.A.S.

Bonnard, Arlette

Bonnel, René

Bonnie and Clyde

Boorman, John; Deliverance; The Heretic; Leo the Last; Zardoz

Borelli, Ilaria; Retour à la vie (Return to Life)

Borzage, Frank

Bost, Pierre; Monsieur Ladmiral va bientôt mourir

Boswell, Meredith

Bourvil, André

Boustani, Gabriel

Bouvier, Joseph

Brady, Matthew

Brando, Marlon

Brazzi, Rossano

Brecht, Berthold

Bresson, Robert

Brian, Mary

Broca, Michèle de

Brown, Clarence

Brown, Clifford

Brownlow, Kevin

Brunet, Sophie

Brunner, John; The Squares of the City; Stand on Zanzibar

Buñuel, Luis

Burch, Noel

Burke, James Lee

Burns, Ken

Burton, Richard

Byas, Don

Byrd, Donald

Cagney, James

Cahiers du cinema

Caillebotte, Gustave

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Calloway, Cab

Camus, Albert

Capra, Frank; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Carné, Marcel; Daybreak

Caron, Pierre; Pension Jonas

Carrière, Eugène

Carter, Ron

Cather, Willa; My Antonia

Cenci, Béatrice

Centre N’t’l de la Cinématographie

Certeau, M...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Filmography
• Conversation with Bertrand Tavernier
• Conversation with Bertrand Tavernier
• Blending the Personal with the Political: An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
• A Conversation with Bertrand Tavernier
• A Conversation with Bertrand Tavernier
• Conversation with Bertrand Tavernier
• Painting Pictures: An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
• A Conversation with Bertrand Tavernier on ’Round Midnight
• All the Colors: Bertrand Tavernier Talks about ’Round Midnight
• John Ford and the Red-Skins: An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
• Journey into Light
• A Conversation with Bertrand Tavernier on L’Appât
• Filming a Forgotten War: An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
• An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
• The Spirit of Resistance: An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
• An Interview with Bertrand Tavernier on Documentary Filmmaking
• Interview with Bertrand Tavernier: I Believed in Robicheaux’s Visions
• Tavernier: A Biological Film: On La Princesse de Montpensier
• Interview with Bertrand Tavernier on Death Watch
• Interview with Bertrand Tavernier
• Additional Resources
• Index