Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

vakia; Mon Oncle Benjamin / Mio zio Beniamino / UK:
The Adventures of Uncle Benjamin / USA: My Uncle
Benjamin, also co-adapter, co-dialogist, Edouard Molinaro,
France / Italy; 1970 La Liberté en Croupe, Edouard
Molinaro; 1971 Les Aveux les plus doux / Ricatto
di un commissario di polizia a un giovane indiziato di
reato, also co-adapter, co-dialogist, Edouard Molinaro,
France / Italy) and TV (1978 Il était une Fois un Musicien,
episodes “Monsieur Saint-Saens,” Claude Chabrol,
“Monsieur Strauss,” Edouard Molinaro).
Filmography
1959 Simenon (short; also screenwriter)
1964 Les Baisers / I baci / Una voglia matta di donna
(episode “Baiser du Soir”; also screenwriter;
dialogist; France / Italy)
HAZANAVICIUS, MICHEL
He was hired by the French TV channel Canal Plus
in 1988 and started writing sketches for the comedy
team Les Nuls. He co-wrote several movies (1996
Delphine: 1, Yvan 0, Dominique Farrugia, also actor;
1998 Le Clone, Fabio Conversi; 2004 Tuez les tous!
Rwanda, Histoire d’un Génocide sans Importance / USA:
Rwanda: History of a Genocide, Raphaël Glucksmann,
David Hazan, Pierre Mezerette; Les Dalton / Los
Daltons Contre Lucky Luke, Philippe Haïm, France /
Germany / Spain) and made a few fi lm appearances
(1994 La Cité de la Peur, une Comédie familiale, Alain
Berbérian; 2001 Ma Femme est une Actrice / USA: My
Wife Is an Actress, Yvan Attal).
Filmography
1997 Echec au Capital (short)
1999 Mes Amis (also screenwriter)
2006 OSS 117: Le Caire Nid d’Espions / USA: OSS
117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
2009 OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus / USA: OSS 117:
Lost in Rio (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1992 Derrick contre Superman (short; co-director
with Dominique Mezerette)
Ca détourne (co-director with Denis Lambert,
Dominique Mezerette)
1993 Le Grand Détournement / La Classe américaine
(co-director with Denis Lambert, Dominique
Mezerette; also co-screenwriter, voice)
1994– C’est pas le vingt Heures (TV show; co-director
1996 with Lovisone)
HEADLINE, DOUG • 499
1996 Les Films qui sortent le Lendemain au Cinéma
(TV series)
HEADLINE, DOUG (Tristan Jean Manchette / October
30, 1962, France–)
The son of novelist and screenwriter Jean-Patrick
Manchette (1942–1995), he started working in 1980
for such counterculture magazines as Métal Hurlant
(original French version of Heavy Metal), Actuel, and
The Face. In 1982, with future director Christophe
Gans, he created the fi lm monthly Starfi x and acted
as his fi rst editor in chief. Throughout the 1980s and
1990s, while pursuing his TV career, he held several
editorial jobs in major French publishing houses,
wrote books for teenagers, and translated crime
novels by the likes of Elmore Leonard and Donald
Westlake. He authored books on James Stewart
(Editions Henry Veyrier, 1991) and John Cassavetes
(Editions Ramsay, 1999).
Filmography
1999 Le Jour des Corbeaux (short; also screenwriter,
co-editor)
2002 Brocéliande (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1992 Blue Trane (uncredited; documentary; codirector
with Dominique Cazenave, Philippe
Koechlin)
1993 Anything for John (documentary; co-director
with Dominique Cazenave; also co-screenwriter,
co-producer)
1995 Chien-Loup—Portrait de Cyril Collard (documentary;
co-director with Dominique Cazenave;
also co-screenwriter)
Mademoiselle Moreau (documentary; codirector
with Dominique Cazenave; also coscreenwriter)
1996 Claude Chabrol—Une Partie de Plaisir (documentary;
co-director with Dominique Cazenave;
also co-screenwriter)
Bernard Blier (documentary; co-director with
Dominique Cazenave; also co-screenwriter)
Lino: Un Portrait de Lino Ventura (documentary;
co-director with Dominique Cazenave; also
co-screenwriter)
1997 Les Deniers du Culte / Hollywood Rated “R”
(documentary; co-director with Dominique
Cazenave; also co-screenwriter, co-editor)