Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

64 • BASNIER, ALAIN
Emotional Arithmetic (also executive producer;
Canada)
Grand Star / La Compagnie des Glaces (twentysix
episodes; also screenwriter of the sixth
episode; Canada / France)
2008 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Canada)
15 / Love (episodes “The Princess and the
Clown,” “Midnight Snack Club,” “The French
Deception,” “Reckoning”; Canada / France)
The Last Templar (TV miniseries)
BASNIER, ALAIN (1949, France–)
A former assistant cameraman (1972 Les Soleils de
l’Île de Pâques / Os Sois da Ilha de Pascoa, Pierre Kast,
France / Brazil; 1973 La Bonne Année / Una donna e
una canaglia / USA: Happy New Year, Claude Lelouch,
France / Italy) and occasional actor (1974 Mariage, uncredited,
Claude Lelouch; 1976 Le Bon et les Méchants
/ USA: The Good and the Bad, Claude Lelouch), he
directed a comedy starring Les Charlots.
Filmography
1979 Les Charlots en Délire (also co-screenwriter)
BASSI, RINALDO (December 12, 1940, Asnières,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
After studying general mathematics, he was trained
as an electronic manufacturing engineer and graduated
from ENRA in 1961. Then he served as assistant
director (1959 Gli ultimi giorni di pompéi / Les Derniers
Jours de Pompéi / Los ultimas dias de Pompeya / Die letzten
Tagen von Pompeji / USA: The Last Days of Pompeii,
Mario Bonnard, Sergio Leone, Italy / France / Spain /
West Germany; 1961 Morgan il pirata / Morgan le Pirate
/ USA: Morgan, the Pirate, André de Toth, Primo Zeglio,
Italy / France; Barraba / Barrabas, Richard Fleischer,
Italy / USA; 1962 The Longest Day, Ken Annakin, Andrew
Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Elmo
Williams, Darryl F. Zanuck, USA; 1964 The Train / Le
Train / Il treno, John Frankenheimer, USA / France /
Italy; The Fall of Roman Empire, Anthony Mann, USA;
1966 Paris brûle-t-il? / Is Paris Burning?, René Clément,
France / USA; 1969 Les Chemins de Katmandou / Katmandu
/ UK: The Road to Katmandu / USA: The Pleasure
Pit / Dirty Dolls in Kathmandu, France / Italy) and second
unit director on fi lms (1971 Kill / Kill: Matar / Kill! /
USA: Kill! Kill! Kill!, Romain Gary, France / Spain / Italy /
West Germany) and TV (1966 Les Corsaires / Corsaires
et Flibustiers, 13 26', Claude Barma; Les Globe-Trotters,
39 30', Claude Boissol, Jack Pinoteau; L’Île au Trésor /
Die Schatzinsell, USA and Canada: Treasure Island, 13
26', Jacques Bourdon, Wolfgang Liebeneiner, France /
West Germany; 1968 Les Secrets de la Mer Rouge, 13
26', Claude Guillemot, Pierre Lary; 1969 Les Aventures
de Tom Sawyer / Tom Sawyers und Huckleberry Finns
Abenteuer / Aventurile lui Tom Sawer, 4 90', France /
West Germany / Romania). He also was artistic director
and coordinator of the three crews of La Légende
de Bas de Cuir / Der Lederstrumpferzählungen / Vinatorul
de cerbi, 13 26', Jean Dréville, Pierre Gaspard-Huit,
Sergiu Nicolaescu, France / West Germany / Romania
(1970) and worked as an assistant to stage director
Jean-Laurent Cochet for Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker
(1968). He directed many commercials and several
TV reports for ABC before running movie theaters
in Paris (Kinoparama, Arlequin, Broadway Cinérama),
Brussels (Variétés Cinérama), Lyon (Cinérama Congrès),
Marseille (Cinérama), and London (Cinerama).
He created a fi lm release company (Eagle Company
International) in Paris and a production society in Los
Angeles (B and G Productions). Having returned to
France in 1991, he wrote articles in such reviews as La
Revue du Son, L.E.D., Electronique parfait, Prestige Audio
Vidéo, and Son Magazine. In 2000, he founded an audio,
video, and hi-fi laboratory, the Laboratoire Bassi.
Filmography
1969 Un Merveilleux Parfum d’Oseille / USA: All My
Murders . . . (also co-adapter)
1974 Pourvu qu’on ait l’Ivresse / I piaceri della contessa
Gamiani (as Reynald Bassi, also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist; France / Italy)
Television Filmography
1969 Minouche (13 26'; co-director with Maurice
Fasquel)
1976 Rock Around the Jazz (documentary; twelvehour
TV series; USA)
1992 Goal (39 26'; co-director with Nicolas
Cahen, Roger Kahane, Christiane Léhérissey,
Christiane Spiero)
BASTIA, JEAN (Jean Simoni / February 15, 1919,
Bastia, Corsica, France–)
An assistant director (1946 On ne meurt pas comme
ça, Jean Boyer; 1947 Quartier chinois, René Sti; 1948
Mademoiselle s’amuse, Jean Boyer; 1949 Gigi, Jacqueline
Audry; 1950 Nous irons à Paris / USA: We Will All
Go to Paris, Jean Boyer; Le Rosier de Madame Husson
/ USA: The Prize, Jean Boyer; 1951 Garou-Garou, le