Labarthe, André S.

(December 18, 1931, Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France - )

   His meeting with André Bazin in the mid-1950s al­lowed him to become a film critic for Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He founded a review, L'Ecran, and ap­peared in films (1960 A Bout de Souffle / UK: By a Tether / UK and USA: Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard; 1962 Vivre sa Vie: Film en Douze Tableaux / Vivre sa Vie / UK: It's My Life / USA: My Life to Live, Jean-Luc Godard; Ro.Go.Pa.G / Rogopag / UK and USA: Let's Have a Brainwash, segment "Il nuovo mondo", Jean-Luc Godard, Italy / France; 1964 Noviciat, short, Noël Burch; 1969 L'Amour fou, Jacques Rivette; 1978 Va voir Maman, Papa travaille / UK and USA: Your Turn, My Turn, François Leterrier; 1991 Allemagne 90 Neuf Zéro / USA: Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, Jean-Luc Godard; 1999 Le Mariage de Fanny, short, Olivier L. Brunet; 2002 Novo, Jean-Pierre Limosin, France / Switzerland / Spain; 2006 Bottom, short, Giovanni Sportiello; 2008 Monsieur Morimoto, Nicola Sornaga) and TV movies (1976 Peut-être en Automne, Jeannette Hubert; 1978 Brigade des Mineurs, episode "Le Mal du Pays", Jean Chapot; La Passion, Raoul Sangla; 1982 La Déchirure, Franck Apprederis; 1983 L'Ile bleue, Jean-Claude Giudicelli; 1986 Série noire, episode "Adieu la Vie", Maurice Dugowson; 1991 Salut les Coquins, Marcel Zemour), wrote com­mentaries (1963 Cuixart, permanencia del barroco, documentary, short, Jean-André Fieschi, Spain) and TV screenplays (1978 Mamma Rosa ou La Farce du Destin, TV miniseries, Raoul Sangla; 1982 Contes modernes: A propos du Travail, segment "Allô Macha", Claude Ventura), but remained known mostly as a TV director and producer (1964-1972 Cinéastes de notre Temps, documentary, thirty-six episodes; 1972 Vive le Cinéma; 1990-2003 Cinéma de notre Temps, documentary, sixteen episodes).

 Filmography

1968 ◘ Les Deux Marseillaises (documentary; co-director with Jean-Louis Comolli)

1970 ◘ Rauschenberg, Fragment d'un Portrait (documentary)

        ◘ Impressions, Soleil levant (documentary)

1985 ◘ Kandinsky entr'aperçu (documentary; medium-length)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sode "La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même"; co-director with Robert Valey; also producer)

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sode "Roger Leenhardt ou le dernier Human­iste"; also producer)

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sodes "Marcel Pagnol ou Le Cinéma tel qu'on le parle", "Entre Chien et Loup", "John Ford", co-director with Hubert Knapp; "Raoul Walsh ou Le bon vieux Temps", co-director with Hubert Knapp; also producer)

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sodes "D'un Silence l'autre—Josef von Stern-berg", "Samuel Fuller: Independant Filmmaker", "Le Dinosaure et le Bébé", "Dialogue en Huit Parties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard"; also producer)

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sodes "Jerry Lewis Part I", "John Cassavetes", co-director with Hubert Knapp; "Pierre Per­rault—L'Action parlée", co-director with Jean-Louis Comolli; also producer)

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; episodes "King Vidor", "Conversation avec George Cukor", co-director with Hubert Knapp; also producer)

        ◘ Les Egoutiers de Saint-Denis

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; episode "Rome brûle—Portrait de Shirley Clarke"; also producer)

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sodes "Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait en Neuf Poses", "Busby Berkeley", co-director with Hubert Knapp; "Jerry Lewis Part II", "Claude Autant-Lara—L'Oreille du Diable"; also producer)

        ◘ Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sode "Norman McLaren"; also producer)

        ◘ Tapies (documentary; episode "Fuller à Table")

        ◘ Enfants Coureur du Temps

        ◘ Djiido

        ◘ Tout ça pour Mandela

        ◘ L'Homme qui a vu l'Homme qui a vu l'Ours (also screenwriter)

        ◘ Cinéma Cinémas (documentary; episodes "Le Choc des Images", "Le Poids des Mots")

1988 ◘ Sylvie Guillem at Work (documentary)

        ◘ Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episode "Nanni Moretti"; also executive producer)

        ◘ Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episodes "Claude Chabrol, l'Entomologiste", "The Scors­ese Machine"; also executive producer)

1994 ◘ Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; epi­sode "Eric Rohmer—Preuves à l'Appui", co-director with Eric Rohmer; also executive producer)

        ◘ Roy Liechtenstein: Un Point c'est tout (documentary; also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Un Siècle d'Ecrivains (documentary; episode "Georges Bataille—A Perte de Vue"; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episode "Georges Franju—Le Visionnaire"; also ex­ecutive producer)

        ◘ Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episode "David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the World Be Flesh"; also screenwriter, producer)

        ◘ Un Siècle d'Ecrivains (documentary; episode "Artaud Cité Atrocité"; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episode "Le Loup et l'Agneau—Ford et Hitchcock"; also producer)

2003 ◘ Maigret Simenon, le Discours de la Méthode (documentary; short)