François Reichenbach

Directing·Jul 3, 1921·Paris, France

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François Arnold Reichenbach (3 July 1921 – 2 February 1993) was a French film director, cinematographer producer and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 aEarly life François Reichenbach was born in 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His father Bernard Reichenbach was a successful businessman and his mother Germaine Angèle Sarah Monteux had a passion for music, which she passed on to young François. His maternal grandfather Gaston Monteux was a wealthy industrialist: he was one of the first to buy paintings by Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Soutine, Utrillo and Modigliani. In his memoirs François Reichenbach says: "At the age of five I was terrified by all the faces in the paintings. And I became a forger. I added mustaches and hairs to the nudes of Modigliani. This hoax takes on another dimension when you know that I made a film with Orson Welles about the forger Elmyr de Hory in 1973. He is the nephew of the industrialist and manuscript and book collector Jacques Guérin and the cousin of the film producer Pierre Braunberger, who encouraged him to make films. During the Second World War, François Reichenbach went to Geneva. Although he was born in France, he also has Swiss nationality because his paternal grandfather, Arnold Reichenbach, is a rich Swiss industrialist working in the embroidery industry in St. Gallen. He studied music at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, where he met the film director Gérard Oury. After the Liberation, he wrote songs, notably for Édith Piaf and Marie Dubas. Then, remembering the huge collection of paintings of his childhood, he left for the United States with an emigrant card to sell paintings. He started in New York as an advisor to American museums for the purchase of works of art in Europe, then he sold master paintings. He spent several years in the United States. On his deathbed, François Reichenbach confided to Danièle Thompson his wish to be buried in Limoges where he had spent his vacations in his youth. Faced with the protests of the screenwriter, arguing that it would be inconvenient to visit him, the filmmaker replied "Those who love me will take the train". This quote inspired Danièle Thompson to write the title of the film Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (Those who love me will take the train) by Patrice Chéreau, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charles Berling and Vincent Perez. François Reichenbach died on February 2, 1993, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a posh neighbourhood near the capital. He is buried in the Louyat cemetery in Limoges. This pioneer of the New Wave through the importance of his cinematographic work makes this man, with a free and respectful look at others, a privileged witness of his time. He always has a camera loaded on the back seat of his car to film immediately just in case, because he likes to "film everything that moves ". The famous magazine Cahiers du cinéma wrote: "François Reichenbach was born with a camera in his eye". ... Source: Article "François Reichenbach" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Film	Credit
MMichel Legrand1992 · Director	Director
Le Japon insolite1983 · Director	Director
Houston, Texas1981 · Director	Director
VViolence et Beaute1981 · Director	Director
Tant qu'il y aura des enfants il y aura des clowns1980 · Director	Director
Sex O’Clock USA1976 · Director	Director
L’Indiscret1974 · François Reichenbach, Director, Screenplay	François Reichenbach, Director, Screenplay
Do You Hear the Dogs Barking?1974 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
F for Fake1973 · Director of Photography, Writer, Director	Director of Photography, Writer, Director
The Right of the Maddest1973 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
J'ai tout donné1972 · Director	Director
Medicine Ball Caravan1971 · Director	Director
YYehudi Menuhin, chemin de lumière1970 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life1969 · Director	Director
Decameron '691969 · Director	Director
Images, rythmes et percussions1969 · Director	Director
Mexico Mexico1968 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
13 Days in France1968 · Director	Director
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon1968 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Spécial Bardot1968 · Director	Director
Portrait: Orson Welles1968 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
VVoyage de Brigitte Bardot aux USA1966 · Director	Director
LLe Carnaval de la Nouvelle-Orléans1965 · Director	Director
Village Sweetness1964 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Lovers of the France1964 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
LLomelin1964 · Director	Director
DDunoyer de Ségonzac1964 · Director	Director
Le Paris des mannequins1963 · Director	Director
LL'Amérique lunaire1963 · Director	Director
The Little Café1963 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
In Memory of Rock1963 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Illuminations1963 · Director	Director
The Winner1961 · Director	Director
America as Seen by a Frenchman1960 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
LL'américain se détend1958 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Marines1957 · Director	Director
AAu pays de Porgy and Bess1957 · Director	Director
LL'été Indien1957 · Director	Director
IImpressions de New York1956 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography	Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Houston Texas1956 · Director	Director
LLe grand sud1956 · Director	Director
Visages de Paris1955 · Director	Director
Last Spring1954 · Director	Director
Nus Masculins1954 · Director	Director