Alexandre Astruc
{{Short description|French film critic and film director}}
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Alexandre Astruc ({{IPA|fr|astʁyk|lang}}; 13{{nbsp}}July 1923{{snd}}19{{nbsp}}May 2016) was a French film critic and film director.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/23/alexandre-astruc-obituary|title=Alexandre Astruc obituary|author=Ronald Bergan|work=The Guardian|date=23 May 2016 }}
Biography
Before becoming a film director, he was a journalist, novelist and film critic.Martin, Marcel (1971) France. London: A. Zwemmer; p. 11 His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of the caméra-stylo or "camera-pen" and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens.Alexandre Astruc, "The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo," in The New Wave, ed. Peter Graham, pp. 17-23. Trans. from "Naissance d'une nouvelle avant-garde: la caméra-stylo," L'Écran Français 144, 30 March 1948.{{Cite web |url=http://www.newwavefilm.com/about/camera-stylo-astruc.shtml |title=The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo |last=Astruc |first=Alexandre |date=1948 |website=New Wave Film |access-date=2018-03-02}}
In 1994, he was awarded the René Clair Award for his whole body of film work.
Selected filmography
(s) indicates films also co-scripted by Astruc
- 1949: Ulysse ou Les mauvaises rencontres also known as Aller et retour, a short film; Astruc also wrote the scenario
- 1952: The Crimson Curtain (s) (Le rideau cramoisi)
- 1952: The Respectful Prostitute
- 1955: Les Mauvaises rencontres (s)
- 1957: Amour de poche
- 1958: Une vie (s)
- 1960: La Proie pour l'ombre (s)
- 1962: {{Interlanguage link multi|L'Éducation sentimentale (film)|fr|3=L'Éducation sentimentale (film, 1962)|lt=L'Éducation sentimentale}}
- 1964: The Pit and the Pendulum (Le Puits et le Pendule)
- 1966: {{Interlanguage link multi|La Longue Marche|fr|3=La Longue Marche (film)|lt=La Longue Marche}} (s)
- 1968: {{Interlanguage link multi|Flammes sur l'Adriatique|fr}} (s)
- 1976: Sartre par lui même
- 1993: Albert Savarus
Publications
- 1945: Les Vacances, Gallimard
- 1975: Ciel de cendres, Le Sagittaire
- 1975: La tête la première, Olivier Orban
- 1977: Le Serpent jaune, Gallimard
- 1979: Quand la chouette s'envole, Gallimard
- 1982: Le Permissionnaire, Éditions de la Table ronde, Paris
- 1989: Le roman de Descartes, Éditions Balland
- 1992: Du stylo à la caméra et de la caméra au stylo: Écrits (1942–1984), Éditions de l'Archipel
- 1993: L'autre versant de la colline, Écriture
- 1994: Évariste Galois, Groupe Flammarion
- 1997: Le Siècle à venir, Éditions Trédaniel
- 2015: Le plaisir en toutes choses (with Noël Simsolo), Éditions Neige/Écriture
References
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=Bibliography=
- Raymond Bellour, Alexandre Astruc, Paris, Seghers, Collection Cinéma d'aujourd'hui, 1963.
- Philippe François, « Alexandre Astruc », in Patrick Cabanel and André Encrevé (dir.), Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours, tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015, (p. 105) {{ISBN|978-2846211901}}
External links
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- [http://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/alexandre-astruc.shtml Alexandre Astruc on NewWaveFilm.com]
- {{IMDb name|0040150}}
- [http://www.focorevistadecinema.com.br/FOCO4/index.htm Foco - Revista de Cinema, special edition devoted to Alexandre Astruc]
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Category:French film directors
Category:French male screenwriters
Category:20th-century French novelists
Category:20th-century French male writers