Jackie Raynal

A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.

A series of disconnected, minimalist vignettes often featuring Raynal herself, deliberately repeating actions and dialogue to challenge traditional storytelling. The film explicitly seeks to deconstruct cinematic meaning and the conventional portrayal of women in film, serving as a radical, self-aware diary film.

A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.

An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

After debuting in 1983 with Casta Diva, Eric de Kuyper immediately made Naughty Boys in 1984, a film that he himself described as “a sad musical comedy” in which he pays homage to the old musicals and comedies. The film is set in an unspecified time, somewhere between both World Wars in a large English country house. Six gentlemen in dinner jackets try to maintain the atmosphere of a party that has just ended. Naughty Boys was the second film De Kuyper made with friends and students, but here for the first time they were joined by a “professional” actress, Linda Polan.

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout.

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.

This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.

The man who leaves prepares his departure.

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Marc'O, Philippe Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jackie Raynal and others retrace the life and work of actor, filmmaker, painter and writer Pierre Clémenti.

Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhere to turn but inward, Ernst becomes the perfect portrait of anguish. This film traces the collapse of a man littered with the diversions of sex and sin and the lost ability to tell a true original from a fake.

Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head.

Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur.

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Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera.

A series of disconnected, minimalist vignettes often featuring Raynal herself, deliberately repeating actions and dialogue to challenge traditional storytelling. The film explicitly seeks to deconstruct cinematic meaning and the conventional portrayal of women in film, serving as a radical, self-aware diary film.

A series of disconnected, minimalist vignettes often featuring Raynal herself, deliberately repeating actions and dialogue to challenge traditional storytelling. The film explicitly seeks to deconstruct cinematic meaning and the conventional portrayal of women in film, serving as a radical, self-aware diary film.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.

For many, the name Lazard is synonymous with the banking dynasty that pioneered the modern investment bank with the invention of mergers and acquisitions. Jackie Raynal sets out one summer for the mountains of Haute-Savoie to meet Simon Lazard, one of the heirs of the group. Lazard, at the age of 100, wants to set down part of his story — the Occupation, his lands, and his pro-European views.

directed by Jackie Reynal, from 2003 Autour de Jacques Baratier, directed in 2002 by Jackie Raynal, is a 24-minute documentary portrait that offers a sensitive look at the man and the filmmaker. It stands as a valuable complement to other films about him, helping us understand Baratier’s playful, poetic, and rebellious approach to cinema.

The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.

Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur.

Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur.

On the terrace of his regular café haunt in Paris' 14th arrondissement, Jean Rouch regales Noël Simsolo and Jackie Raynal with stories from the life of a self-described "amateur filmmaker".

She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing.

In a black bath, Jackie Raynal introduce her film Deux Fois to Metrograph in NYC.

When she was working as cutter for films like La Carrière de Suzanne, La Collectionneuse and La Boulangère de Monceau, Jackie Raynal was most fascinated by how Rohmer handled sound. Unusual in times of digital access to every sound bit, the director insisted on using the original sound from exact the same place and time where the scene has been shot. So every bird, every gust of wind and every tree got it’s specific sound.

“My purpose in filming NOTES ON JONAS was not to make a portrait per se. As a film editor, I was mainly curious to know about his editing technique. When I tried to get an interview, Jonas played his accordion, his tuba, his harmonica… He even organized a jam session in the basement of AFA. I wondered: ‘Is Jonas too shy to let himself be interviewed by a woman?’ Enlisting a cameraman to shoot the film instead of me did the trick. Jonas invited us to his loft on Broadway and to his editing room. How happy I was to be watching as he gave me a long master class.” –Jackie Raynal

A documentary by Jackie Raynal about the artistic movement Zanzibar.

A tribute to Raynal’s parents, who were Resistance fighters and communists in the South of France during World War II. The interviews with those who worked together to save the persecuted are unmistakably moving, at once intimate and sprawling.

Jackie Raynal plays director in a film in the process of being filmed. With great humor, she takes on the role of a filmmaker fighting to adapt a curious story: that of a 19th century countess who is raped by a bear. In periodic voiceover, she ironizes over the foibles of the nightmarish shoot - the fights with the actors, problems with the script and a failing budget - building a satire of the film-world and its vanity.