- Claude Fournier (filmmaker)
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Claude Fournier Born July 23, 1931
Waterloo, CanadaOccupation Film director
Cinematographer
ScreenwriterYears active 1958 - 2005 Claude Fournier (born July 23, 1931 in Waterloo, Quebec)[1] is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer.[2] He is one of the forerunners of the Cinema of Quebec. He is the twin brother of Guy Fournier.[3]
Claude Fournier worked for Radio-Canada and the National Film Board of Canada before he founded his own film producing company, Rose Films.[4] His 1988 TV series Les Tisserands du pouvoir (The Mills of Power) won him a Gémeaux Award for best direction of a television drama and a Genie Award for Best Screenplay.[5]
Deux femmes en or (Two Women in Gold)[6] was a quite popular and high grossing sex comedy.[7][8]
Contents
Filmography
Features
- Deux femmes en or (1970)
- Les chats bottés (1971)
- Alien Thunder (1974)
- La pomme, la queue...et les pepins (1974)
- Je suis loin de toi mignonne (1976)
- Hot Dogs (aka Cops and Other Lovers, 1980)
- Bonheur d'occasion (aka The Tin Flute, 1983)
- Page trois: un ordinateur au coeur (1985)
- J'en suis! (1997)
- The Book of Eve (2003)
- Je n'aime que toi (2004)
Documentaries
- Télésphore Légaré, garde-pêche (Short film, 1959)
- Alfred Desrochers, poète (Short film, 1960)
- La France sur un caillou (Short film Co-Directed with Gilles Groulx, 1961)
- La lutte (Short film Co-Directed with Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière and Claude Jutra, 1961)
- Midwestern Floods (Short film, 1962)
- Nehru (Short film, 1962)
- Vingt ans express (Series of 7 shorts, 1963–1964)
- Nomades de l'ouest (Short film, 1963)
- Calgary Stampede (Short film, 1965)
- Deux femmes (Short film, 1965)
- Columbium (Short film, 1966)
- Londres (Short film, 1966)
- On sait où entrer Tony, mais c'est les notes (Short film, 1966)
- Québec an 2000 (Short film Co-Directed with Aimée Danis, 1966)
- Sebring, La cinquième heure (Short film, 1966)
- Ti-Jean (Short film, 1966)
- Tony Roman (Short film, 1966)
- Du général au particulier (Short film, 1967)
- Canada Today (Short film of Expo 67, 1967)
- La greffe cardiaque (Short film, 1969)
- La greffe cardiaque, symposium de Montréal (Short film, 1969)
- Coeurs neufs (Short film aka Hearts, 1969)
- Le dossier Nelligan (1969)
- ...Et Dieu créa l'été (Short film Co-Directed with Marie-José Raymond, 1974)
- Aliments, gentils aliments (Short film Co-Directed with Marie-José Raymond, 1975)
Television
- The Newcomers (TV miniseries aka Les arrivants, 1977)
- The New Avengers (TV series, 1977)
- Tales of the Klondike (TV miniseries aka The Scorn of Women, 1981)
- Les tisserands du pouvoir (TV miniseries, 1987) (Later released theatrically in 2 parts)
- Golden Fiddles (TV miniseries, 1990)
- Juliette Pomerleau (TV miniseries, 1999)
- Félix Leclerc: Les esprits du fleuve (TV miniseries, 2005)
References
- ^ Essential guide to Canadian film By Wyndham Wise. http://books.google.com/books?id=m4Y_OgckDmIC&pg=PA81&dq=%22Deux+femmes+en+or%22#v=onepage&q=%22Deux%20femmes%20en%20or%22&f=false.
- ^ "The Montreal Gazette - Jul 8, 1978". http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nIY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=7aEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1718,1661557&dq=claude-fournier&hl=en.
- ^ "Claude Fournier - À force de vivre". http://www.lestudio1.com/ClaudeFournier2009.html.
- ^ "Canadian Film Encyclopedia - Claude Fournier". http://www.tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/claude-fournier.
- ^ "NFB Artisans - Claude Fournier". http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/portraits/claude_fournier/.
- ^ Guide to the cinema(s) of Canada By Peter Rist. http://books.google.com/books?id=7uKs4fKOotUC&pg=PA56&dq=%22Deux+femmes+en+or%22#v=onepage&q=%22Deux%20femmes%20en%20or%22&f=false.
- ^ Denys Arcand's Le déclin de l'empire américain and Les invasions barbares By André Loiselle. http://books.google.com/books?id=A8ZgmLwB4N0C&pg=PA26&dq=%22Deux+femmes+en+or%22#v=onepage&q=%22Deux%20femmes%20en%20or%22&f=false.
- ^ "The Financial Post - Oct 31, 1970". http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FGw_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=P1QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1168,1155997&dq=deux-femmes-en-or&hl=en.
External links
Categories:- 1931 births
- Canadian film directors
- Canadian screenwriters
- Quebec film directors
- Living people
- People from Montérégie
- Canadian cinematographers
- French Quebecers
- National Film Board of Canada people
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