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Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the…
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entertainment · French film director (1931–1990) · screenwriter · dialogue writer · lyricist · film producer · actor · director · film director · also Jacques Demy, Demy
Born 5 June 1931 · Died 27 October 1990 · Q312258
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2018· 1 entry
Chicago Reader: This Week on Filmstruck: Jacques Demy
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2014· 4 entries
IndieWire: The Essential Jacques Demy: The Director’s Candy-Colored Films Get The Criterion Treatment
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IndieWire: The Criterion Collection Announces July Titles, Six Jacques Demy Films Included
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Irish Examiner: A tribute to legend of French cinema Jacques Demy
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The Criterion Collection released a boxed set of Demy's "essential" work, with hours of supplements, essays, and restored image and sound
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “L’Intégrale / The Complete Edition”.
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Le Cinéma en chanté”.
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2008· 2 entries
Originally, it was reported that he died of cancer, but in 2008 Varda revealed that Demy died of HIV/AIDS.
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Varda revealed that Demy died of HIV/AIDS
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2003· 1 entry
Moviefone: The World of Jacques Demy - Where to Watch
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1993· 1 entry
Varda paid homage to her husband in Jacquot de Nantes, Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993), and L’Univers de Jacques Demy (1995).
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1990· 2 entries
Died 1990-10-27.
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Demy died on October 27, 1990, at the age of 59.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Trois places pour le 26”.
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1972· 1 entry
They had a son together, Mathieu Demy (born 1972), and Demy also adopted Varda's daughter, Rosalie Varda (born 1958), whom she had with Antoine Bourseiller in a previous relationship.
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1968· 1 entry
After Columbia Pictures gave Demy a lucrative offer to shoot his first film in America, he and his wife, film director Agnès Varda, moved to Los Angeles briefly
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Palme d'Or for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1963).
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1961· 1 entry
With Anouk Aimée playing the eponymous cabaret singer
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1958· 2 entries
Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda met at a short film festival in Tours
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In 1958, Jacques Demy and Agnès Varda met at a short film festival in Tours.
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-06-05.
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