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Barbet Schroeder
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Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors of the French New Wave such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer.
Schroeder started his career producing such films as The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962), Six in Paris (1965), and Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974). He then transitioned into directing films such as More (1969), La Vallée (1972) and Barfly (1987), the last of which was nominated for the Palme d'Or. He also gained recognition for directing the documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978). He directed what he labeled, "The Trilogy of Evil", which inc…
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Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors of the French New Wave such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer. Schroeder started his career producing such films as The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962), Six in Paris (1965), and Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974). He then transitioned into directing films such as More (1969), La Vallée (1972) and Barfly (1987), the last of which was nominated for the Palme d'Or. He also gained recognition for directing the documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978). He directed what he labeled, "The Trilogy of Evil", which includes the films, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974), Terror's Advocate (2007) and The Venerable W. (2016). He directed the drama Reversal of Fortune (1990) and earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director. He then directed many big budget Hollywood films, often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female (1992), Kiss of Death (1995), Desperate Measures (1998) and Murder by Numbers (2002). He also acted in Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbet Schroeder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Barbet Schroeder's Filmography
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The Family
as Self
The Venerable W.
as Narrateur (voice)
Jean Douchet, Restless Child
as Self
What Are You Up To, Barbet Schroeder?
as Voice
Rouge
as Le médecin
Portrait of the Artist
as Le médecin
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Self - Director
Electra, for Instance
as The pedagogue
Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer
as Self
Making More
as Himself
Comme un chien
The Darjeeling Limited
as The Mechanic
Terror's Advocate
as Narrator (voice)
The Duchess of Langeais
as Duc de Grandlieu
Moral Tales, Filmic Issues: A Conversation between Barbet Schroeder and Eric Rohmer
as Himself
Paris Je T'aime
as Monsieur Henny (Porte de Choisy)
Only the Night
as Dr. Idelman
Don't Do That!
as un client du restaurant
Bukowski: Born Into This
as Self
Mars Attacks!
as French President
Beverly Hills Cop III
as Man in Porsche
Queen Margot
as Advisor #2
The Golden Boat
as Mean Passer-by
Out 1
as Gian-Reto
The Charles Bukowski Tapes
as Himself
Cheaters
as Un Joueur (uncredited)
Short Memory
as Un invité au dîner
L.A.X.
as Narrator
Roberte
as Vittorio
Cinématon
as N°651
Céline and Julie Go Boating
as Olivier
La Paloma
as Bishop (uncredited)
Out 1: Spectre
as Gian-Reto
Fun and Games for Everyone
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
Six in Paris
as Jean-Pierre (segment "Gare du Nord")
Gare du Nord
The Carabineers
as Car Salesman
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
as Young Man / Narrator