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    Jean Vigo (French: [vigo]; 26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work...
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  • The Prix Jean Vigo is an award in the French cinema given annually since 1951 to a French film director, in homage to Jean Vigo. Since 1960, the award...
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    L'Atalante (category Films directed by Jean Vigo)
    Passing Barge"), is a 1934 French film written and directed by Jean Vigo, and starring Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo and Michel Simon. After the difficult release...
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  • Zero for Conduct (category Films directed by Jean Vigo)
    by Jean Vigo. It was first shown on 7 April 1933 and was subsequently banned in France until November 1945. The film draws extensively on Vigo's boarding...
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  • travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film. The 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys was inspired...
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    began her career as a child actress in the 1997 film Vigo: Passion for Life, a film about Jean Vigo. Her father directed her in the role of Emma Southey...
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  • psychological drama and unique filmic structure. The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1974. An alienated young student (Jacques Spiesser) wanders the streets...
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  • filmmakers were Pierre Chenal, Jean Vigo, Julien Duvivier, Marcel Carné, and, perhaps the movement's most significant director, Jean Renoir. Renoir made a wide...
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  • awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003. Jean-Paul Civeyrac is professor at the French school, La Fémis, and graduated from the Jean Moulin University Lyon...
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    student at Cambridge, he discovered the works of French anarchist director Jean Vigo. This, along with his interest in the early punk scene in London in 1976...
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    importance was recognised immediately, and in January 1960 Godard won the Jean Vigo Prize, awarded "to encourage an auteur of the future". One reviewer mentioned...
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    Goldsmiths College and briefly at New York University. Influenced by Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, and Andy Warhol, McQueen...
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  • economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004) 1905 – Jean Vigo, French director and screenwriter (d. 1934) 1907 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek...
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  • Kaufman turned to cinematography,[citation needed] collaborating with Jean Vigo and Dimitri Kirsanoff. During World War II, he served in the French Army...
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    1977) is a French film director, most noted as a recipient of the Prix Jean Vigo in 2018 for his film Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur). The older...
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    personal signature visible from film to film. They praised movies by Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo, and made then-radical cases for the artistic distinction and...
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    Special Jury Award at the Gijón International Film Festival, won the Prix Jean Vigo, won the Jury Prize and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes...
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    Short film; cinematographer 1994 Tous à la manif Yes Yes Short film Prix Jean Vigo 1995 Jeux de plage Yes Yes Short film 1997 Les Sanguinaires Yes Yes Telefilm...
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    final film at the age of 85. He played also the main character in two Jean Vigo movies, L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite. Later, he worked also with Alain...
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  • first edition, it paid tribute to Jean Vigo with the screening of his complete work, and the presence of Luce Vigo, daughter of the French director and...
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  • Schneider Prix Patrick Dewaere (formerly Prix Jean Gabin) Prix Jacques Prévert du Scénario Prix Jean Vigo Prix Suzanne Bianchetti René Clair Award Personnel...
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    and Jackie Daniel Barenboim Elizabeth Álvaro de la Quadra Vigo: A Passion for Life Jean Vigo 1999 Sunshine Gustave Sonnenschein Titus Bassianus 2000 Zero...
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  • Eugène Bonaventure Jean-Baptiste Vigo (known as Miguel Almereyda; 5 January 1883 – 14 August 1917) was a French journalist and activist against militarism...
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  • Varda, and Jean-Paul Civeyrac. He directed several short movies as A la Hache with Valérie Crunchant, Les filles de mon pays (Prix Jean Vigo 2000)... Yves...
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  • À propos de Nice (category Films directed by Jean Vigo)
    À propos de Nice is a 1930 silent short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo and photographed by Boris Kaufman. The film depicts life in Nice, France...
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  • Vigo, South African former rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s Íñigo Méndez de Vigo (born 1956), Spanish politician Jean Vigo...
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  • Breathless (1960 film) (category Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard)
    immediately. In January 1960 – prior to the film's release – Godard won the Jean Vigo Prize, awarded 'to encourage an auteur of the future' ... Breathless opened...
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  • philosophy and his admiration of films by, among others, Robert Bresson, Jean Vigo, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Sergei Parajanov, and Ingmar...
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  • in funding from Eurimages. The film is a co-production between Italy's Jean Vigo Italia, Eagle Pictures, B-Roll, Panoramic Film, and Rai Cinema, along...
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    Kowalski 1987 Mona et moi (1989), directed by Patrick Grandperret, Prix Jean Vigo 1990 Born To Lose – The Last Rock'n'Roll Movie (1999), directed by Lech...
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