Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Un Après-Midi avec les Moteurs (short)
1981 Les Uns et les Autres / UK: Within Memory /
USA: Bolero (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, delegate producer)
Il a besoin (short)
1983 Edith et Marcel / USA: Edith and Marcel (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, producer)
1984 Viva la Vie! (also screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist,
cameraman, producer)
1985 Partir, revenir (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, producer)
1986 Un Homme et une Femme: 20 Ans déjà (also
screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, producer)
1987 Attention Bandits! (also screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist, producer)
1988 Itinéraire d’un Enfant gâté / Der Löwe (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, co-producer;
France / West Germany)
1990 Il y a des Jours . . . et des Lunes (also screenwriter,
co-dialogist, delegate producer)
1992 La Belle Histoire (also screenwriter, co-dialogist,
co-producer)
1993 Tout ça . . . pour ça! (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, cinematographer)
1995 Les Misérables du XXè Siècle (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer, cameraman)
Lumière et compagnie / Lumiere y compania
(co-director only; France / Denmark / Spain
/ Sweden)
1996 Hommes et Femmes: Mode d’Emploi (also
screenwriter, co-dialogist, producer)
1998 Hasards ou Coïncidences / UK: Chance or Coincidence
(also screenwriter, co-dialogist, coproducer;
France / Canada)
2000 Une pour toutes (also screenwriter, dialogist,
producer, actor)
2002 And Now, Ladies and Gentlemen (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, coproducer,
cameraman; France / UK)
11’09”01—September 11 / 11’09”01—September
11: Onze Minutes, neuf secondes, une
Image (French segment; UK / France / USA /
Egypt / Japan / Mexico / Iran)
2004 Le Genre humain—1ère partie: Les Parisiens
(also co-screenwriter, adapter, co-dialogist,
producer, actor as himself)
2005 Le Courage d’aimer (also screenwriter, adapter,
co-dialogist, producer, actor as himself)
LEMAÎTRE, MAURICE • 625
2007 Chacun son Cinéma ou Ce Petit Coup au Cœur
quand la lumière s’éteint et que le fi lm commence
(shorts; segment “Cinéma de Boulevard”)
Roman de Gare / US festival: Crossed Tracks
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
producer)
Television Filmography
1983 Les Uns et les Autres (5 52'; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, delegate producer)
LEMAÎTRE, MAURICE (Maurice Bismuth / April
23, 1926, Paris, France–)
He prepared at L’Ecole des Arts et Métiers and L’Ecole
des Travaux Publics. After taking part in the liberation
of France, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. In
1949, he became a member of the libertarian movement
and began a career as a journalist. The following
year, he joined the avant-garde lettrist group and created
two reviews, one political (Front de la Jeunesse)
and the other literary and pictorial (Ur). A poet,
novelist, plastician, photographer, and experimental
fi lmmaker, he appeared as an actor or as himself in
several movies (1951 Traité de Bave et d’Eternité / USA:
Venom and Eternity, also assistant director, Isidore
Isou; 1970 La Vampire nue / UK: The Naked Vampire /
USA: The Nude Vampire, Jean Rollin; 2004 Le Fantôme
d’Henri Langlois / UK: Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the
Cinematheque / USA: Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the
Cinematheque, documentary, Jacques Renard; 2007 La
Nuit des Horloges / La Nuit transfi gurée, Jean Rollin) and
wrote the dialogue of Jean Rollin’s La Rose de Fer / UK
and USA: The Iron Rose (1973). Having graduated with a
PhD in literature, he taught painting and experimental
cinema at the Sorbonne. He created and managed a
psychological advising institute.
Filmography
1951 Le Film est déjà commencé? (also screenwriter)
1962 Un Soir au Cinéma & Pour faire un Film
1963 Invitation
1965 Au-delà du Déclic
1965– Six Films infi nitésimaux et supertemporels (six
1975 shorts: “Moteur!,” “Le Film de Demain,”
“Votre Film,” “Un Film à faire,” “Un Programme
d’Avant-Garde,” “Qu’attendez-vous
d’un Film?”)