Jean-Jacques Beineix

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...Werner Fassbinder - were making the biggest impression on most people. However there was also a French director, Jean-Jacques Beineix, whose name was being mentioned in the same breath as those others, primarily as a result of his first...

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BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA | Oscar-nominated French director Jean-Jacques Beineix has some advice for younger filmmakers hungry for industry accolades - be careful what you wish for. "Being nominated for any award is an honor," said the...

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...last day of the nine-day festival. The festival always names two films as winners. The jury, chaired by French director Jean-Jacques Beineix, said it enjoyed Korki's "realistic, unexpected and poetic, almost surrealistic, vision to depict...

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...Byung-hun, who recently made his Hollywood debut in "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," as well as Italian horror expert Dario Argento and French director Jean-Jacques Beineix. The Frenchman is chairing the jury of the main competition at Pusan.

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...to first- and second-time Asian filmmakers. Head of this year's New Currents jury is Oscar-nominated French director Jean-Jacques Beineix ("Betty Blue") -- who has spearheaded a controversial industry drive in support of Roman Polanski...

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...shown its face." Meanwhile, a large group of French actors and cinematographers including Fanny Ardant, Pierre Jolivet, Jean-Jacques Beineix and Bertrand Tavernier have signed an angry petition calling for Polanski's "immediate...

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In 1986, Jean-Jacques Beineix's "Betty Blue" caused a sensation with its rapturously romantic look at what the French calll'amour fou (mad love). Nominated for the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, it won the Boston...

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'' When this very Gallic tale of l'amour fou was first released in 1986, moviegoers had just about given up on Jean-Jacques Beineix. The director's 1981 debut, "Diva,'' had announced the arrival of France's latest cinematic whiz kid, but his...

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...night screenings at the Nuart. And last but not least, Cinema Libre will be releasing several of Beineix's films on DVD this year. "I am more than thrilled with the tributes," says Beineix, sitting inside the empty Nuart. "I never had a...

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