André Delvaux

André, Baron Delvaux was a Belgian film director and widely regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Born March 21, 1926, in Heverlee, he died October 4, 2002, in Valencia, Spain.

Select Filmography

* 1989 "1001 films"
* 1988 "L'Oeuvre au noir" (after Marguerite Yourcenar's book).
* 1985 "BABEL OPERA, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
* 1983 "Benvenuta" (with Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Françoise Fabian and Mathieu Carrière) (after Suzanne Lilar's book "La Confession Anonyme")
* 1980 "To Woody Allen, from Europe with love"
* 1979 "Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf" ("Femme entre chien et loup")
* 1975 "Met Dieric Bouts" (Avec Dieric Bouts)
* 1973 "Belle"
* 1971 "Rendez-vous à Bray" (after Julien Gracq's novel, "Le roi Cophetua")
* 1969 "Interprètes"
* 1968 "Un soir un train" (with Yves Montand, Anouk Aimée, François Beukelaers) (after Johan Daisne's book "De trein der traagheid")
* 1966 "Derrière l'écran" ("Achter het scherm")
* 1965 "De Man die zijn haar kort liet knippen" ("L'homme au crâne rasé") after Johan Daisne's book
* 1964 "Cinéma polonais"
* 1962 "Le Temps des écoliers"
* 1962 "Jean Rouch"
* 1962 "Fellini"
* 1960 "Yves boit du lait"
* 1959 "La planète fauve"
* 1959 "Two summer days"
* 1958 "Cinéma, bonjour!"
* 1956 "Nous étions treize"
* 1953 "Forges"

Select Bibliography

*Colville, G.M.M. 2006. Between surrealism and magic realism: the early feature films of André Delvaux. "Yale French Studies" 109: 115-128.
*Mosley, P. 1994. From Book to Film: André Delvaux's alchemy of the image. "The French Review" 67: 813-823.
*Nysenhole, A. (Ed.). 1985. "André Delvaux ou les visages de l'imaginaire". Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 295 pp.

External links

* [http://www.fgov.be/eportal/application?languageParameter=nl&pageid=contentPage&docId=18500 from Belgian Federal portal: cineast]
* [http://www.filmref.com/notes/archives/andre_delvaux/ The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=87448 New York Times André Delvaux filmography]
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/87448/Andr-Delvaux New York T André Delvaux biography]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20021007/ai_n12663603 Obituary in the Independent]
* [http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=5&subid=105&art_id=83334 article on André Delvaux in la Libre Belgique]
* [http://www.belgium.be/eportal/application?languageParameter=fr&pageid=contentPage&docId=18500 article in Le Soir]
* [http://www.iif.hu:8080/articles/profiles/delvaux.en.html Dream is a second life]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217974/ André Delvaux on imdb]
* [http://www.cinespikfrench.com/delvaux-f.htm interview]