Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

252 • CORBIAU, GÉRARD
1989 Charles Sterling, un Chasseur dans la Nuit
médiévale (documentary; medium-length)
1991 Faire du Chemin avec . . . René Char (documentary;
short)
1992 Les Frères des Frères (documentary)
1993 Au Louvre avec les Maîtres (documentary;
medium-length)
1995 Public House for the 80s (documentary; codirector
with Stan Neumann)
1996 L’Arbre, le Livre et l’Architecte (documentary;
short; also screenwriter, cinematographer)
2000 L’Ecole de Siza (documentary; also screenwriter,
cinematographer)
2003 Racines (documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
producer)
Television Filmography
2001 Baukunst / Architectures (23 28' documentary;
also producer; episodes “Nemausus
1—Sozialer Wohnungsbau der 80er Jahre,”
“Die Architekturfakultät Porto”; France /
Germany)
Baunkunst / Architectures (also producer; episode
“Das jüdische Museum in Berlin”; France
/ Germany)
CORBIAU, GÉRARD (September 19, 1941, Brussels,
Belgium–)
He made his debut as an editor (1969 La Grande Barrière
de Corail / Het Groot Barrièrerif, Michel de Mévius,
Pierre Dubuisson, Pierre Levie, Belgium) and directed
many TV programs on music and dance. Other credit
(as assistant director): 1972 L’Amoureuse / Verliefd
(Christian Mesnil, Belgium).
Filmography
1989 Le Maître de Musique / USA: The Music Teacher
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; Belgium /
France; shot in 1987)
1991 L’Année de l’Eveil / UK and USA: The Year of
Awakening (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Belgium)
1994 Farinelli / Farinelli voce regina (also co-screenwriter;
France / Italy / Belgium)
1997 Amour noir (short; also screenwriter)
1999 Versailles, la Visite (documentary; also coscreenwriter)
2000 Le Roi danse / Der König tanzt / Canada: The
King Dances (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist;
France / Germany / Belgium)
Television Filmography
1982 Chronique d’une Passion (documentary; Belgium)
2003 Saint-Germain ou La Négociation
CORDIER, ANTONY (February 17, 1971, Tours,
Indre-et-Loire, France–)
Having trained as a fi lm editor at the Fémis, he edited
a couple of shorts (1997 Nageurs, Alain-Paul Mallard;
1999 L’Origine de la Tendresse, Alain-Paul Mallard). His
fi rst feature fi lm received the Louis Delluc Prize in
2005. He appeared as himself in Evidences (documentary,
short, Alain-Paul Mallard, 2002).
Filmography
2000 La Vie commune (short; also screenwriter)
Beau comme un Camion (short; documentary;
also screenwriter, cinematographer, editor)
2005 Douches froides (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CORDIER, STANY (1913, France–)
He started out as fi rst assistant director to Jean
Dréville (1943 Les Roquevillard, Tornavara; 1945 Les
Cadets de l’Océan, shot in 1942). After trying his luck
as a director, he went over into production and successively
worked as producer (1959 Détournement
de Mineures / USA: The Price of Flesh, Walter Kapps),
production supervisor (1962 La Croix des Vivants /
Het Kruis der levenden / USA: Cross of the Living, Yvan
Govar, with the collaboration of Robert Mazoyer,
France / Belgium, shot in 1960–1961), and production
manager (1968 Un Epais Manteau de Sang / USA: Flesh
and Fantasy / The Subject Is Sex, José Benazeraf).
Filmography
1956 Maigret dirige l’Enquête (shot in 1954)
1957 Paris Music-Hall (also co-screenwriter)
1961 La Barque sur l’Océan (unreleased)
CORNEAU, ALAIN (August 7, 1943, Meung-sur-
Loire, Loiret, France–)
The son of a veterinarian and movie buff father with
whom he saw dozens of American movies (mostly
westerns and fi lms noirs), he was an amateur jazz
drummer before settling in Paris to study cinema at
the IDHEC. Having graduated in 1966, he moved to
New York, where he vainly tried to shoot a documentary
on free jazz. Having returned to France, he
landed a job of trainee assistant director (1967 Un