Biography
Janine Bazin (née Kirsch; 29 January 1923 – 31 May 2003) was a French film and television producer of the French New Wave movement. Alongside André S. Labarthe, she was the co-producer of an hour-long series of programmes called Cineastes de Notre Temps (English: Filmmakers of Our Time), which was broadcast from 1964 to 1974. From 1980, Bazin was co-producer of the series Cinema De Notre Temps and established the Entrevues Belfort Film Festival. The Janine Bazin Award for Best Performance was named after her. On 29 January 1923, Bazin was born Janine Kirsch in Paris. At the age of 25, she became secretary of the film department of the Work and Culture, aiming to attract cinema, concert and theatre goers at an association established at the time of the Liberation of Paris. In 1948, while working at the Work and Culture, Bazin met the French Communist Party member André Bazin, whom she married in May 1949. They had one child. The couple were instrumental in the career development of François Truffaut, the future film director who had a troubled childhood and who was released from house arrest with intervention from the Bazin's after Truffaut twice deserted during his military service in the French Army.Following the death of her husband in 1958, she made contact with the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française's Pierre Schaeffer-directed research department in January 1962 with the idea of a series of programmes focused on cinema and long interviews of young filmmakers forming part of the French New Wave. The hour-long series of programmes known as Cineastes de Notre Temps (English: Filmmakers of Our Time) was first broadcast in 1964 and concluded in 1974 when it was axed by the French network Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française with Bazin co-producing with André S. Labarthe. After that, Truffaut helped Bazin when she had lost her money.She went on to co-produce the series Cinema De Notre Temps with Labarthe beginning in 1980. From this came a collaboration on the 2000 film One Day In The Life Of Andrei Arsenevich, Chantal Akerman's self-portrait, a film about Andrei Tarkovsky by Chris Marker and other projects concerning John Cassavetes, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Éric Rohmer. That same year, Bazin established the Entrevues Belfort Film Festival, an international film festival which promotes young filmmakers' works and conducts retrospectives to celebrate older individuals. With the mayor Jean-Pierre Chevènement's support, she turned it into its current form of an annual competition in 1986. Bazin stood down as festival delegate in 2001, being replaced by Bernard Bénoliel. She portrayed herself in the 1993 documentary film François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits. Bazin died at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Hospital, in the Paris suburb of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, located in Val-de-Marne, on 31 May 2003.
Filmography
all 90
Movies 89
Writer 85
self 3
TV Shows 1
Producer 1
Aurore Collective (2020)
My Name is Elia Kazan (2018)
La parallèle Mocky (2018)
Kurosawa, au dos des images (2018)
Mathieu Amalric, L'art et la matière (2018)
Por la libertad (2017)
No Return Rafi Pitts (2016)
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)
Un, parfois deux (2016)
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (2015)
Adolfo Arrietta, (cadré - décadré) (2015)
Michel Gondry (Courir après) (2013)
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013)
Catherine Breillat: The First Time (2013)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Erich von Stroheim (2012)
Otto Preminger and the Dangerous Woman/Portrait d’Otto Preminger (2012)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo (2012)
Diourka, à prendre ou à laisser (2012)
Celluloid and Marble (2011)
Le système Moullet (2011)
Portrait de mon père, Jacques Baratier (2009)
The Home Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers (2006)
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (2003)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2003)
Aki Kaurismäki (2001)
HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1999)
David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh (1999)
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...) (1999)
The Unpredictable Takeshi Kitano (1999)
Georges Franju - Le visionnaire (1998)
Citizen Ken Loach (1997)
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997)
Alain Cavalier - Sept chapitres, cinq jours, 2 pièces-cuisine (1996)
Boetticher Rides Again (1995)
Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker (1995)
André Téchiné, après la Nouvelle Vague... (1995)
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams (1994)
Nanni Moretti (1994)
Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui (1994)
Oliveira, l'architecte (1993)
Chahine & Co (1993)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé (1993)
Claude Chabrol, l'entomologiste (1993)
no (1990)
Jacques Rivette, the Watchman (1990)
The Scorsese Machine (1990)
Cinéma, de notre temps (1989)
David Lynch: Don't Look at Me (1989)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
Let's Talk Cinema, Henri Langlois' anti-courses (1976)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Norman McLaren: Né en 1914 (1972)
Claude Autant-Lara - L'oreille du diable (1972)
Jerry Lewis - 2ème partie (1971)
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses (1971)
Busby Berkeley (1971)
Vivre et filmer en Hongrie (1971)
Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke (1970)
François Truffaut, dix ans dix films (1970)
Introduction à la Méthode de F. W. Murnau (1970)
Le jeune cinéma hongrois : Miklos Jancso (1969)
René Clair (1969)
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1969)
Conversation avec George Cukor (1969)
King Vidor (1969)
Jean Renoir le patron: La règle et l'exception (1969)
Pierre Perrault - L'action parlée (1968)
Bleu comme une orange (1968)
Tours (Festival de) (1968)
Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another (1967)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Jacques Becker (1967)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Samuel Fuller, Independent Filmmaker (1967)
Alexandre Astruc, l'ascendant taureau (1967)
The Dinosaur and the Baby (1967)
Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967)
Jean Renoir le patron: La recherche du relatif (1967)
Pasolini l'Enragé (1966)
Raoul Walsh ou Le bon vieux temps (1966)
Et pourtant ils tournent (1966)
Entre chien et loup, John Ford (1966)
Marcel Pagnol ou Le cinéma tel qu'on le parle (1966)
Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit (1965)
Roger Leenhardt ou Le dernier humaniste (1965)
Max Ophuls ou Le Plaisir de tourner (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard ou Le cinéma au défi (1965)
Bresson: Without a Trace (1965)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Sacha Guitry (1965)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Carl Th. Dreyer (1965)
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Luis Buñuel (1964)
Jean Renoir parle de son art (1961)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1923-01-29
Deathday2003-05-31 (80 years old)
Birth NameJanine Madeleine Marguerite Kirsch
Birth Place11th arrondissement of Paris, France
RelationshipsAndré Bazin (1949-01-01 - 1958-11-11)
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsJanine Kirsch
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