Alexandre Astruc

Born: 1923-07-13

Alexandre Auguste Astruc (13 July 1923 – 19 May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. 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. In 1994 he was awarded the René Clair Award for his whole body of film work.


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A Girl in a Pocket

as Premier employé des objets trouvés
Released: 1957-11-06

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his...

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Rendezvous in July

as (uncredited)
Released: 1949-12-06

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

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Charlotte

as L'éditeur Guy
Released: 1974-11-26

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman....

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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

as Self
Released: 1993-05-14

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow...

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Paris Waltz

as Ludovic Halévy (uncredited)
Released: 1950-05-05

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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Apostrophes

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-10

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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