
Writing
Serge July
Born 1942-12-27 · Paris, France
Serge July (born 27 December 1942) is a French journalist, founder of the daily Libération, and a prominent figure in French politics from the 1970s through the 1990s. In recent times, he has been active in French organizations working in support of journalists taken hostage in Syria. In 1978, he published an article criticizing the television series Holocaust, invited Pierre Guillaume, negationist founder of the bookstore, La Vieille Taupe and supports the freedom of speech of Robert Faurisson. On July 4, 1983, he was condemned by the 17th chamber of the Paris judicial tribunal, following the complaint of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), of having published in a "Courrier readers" of July 31, 1982, an anti-Semitic letter, accused of defamation, incitement to hatred and racial violence. Source: Article "Serge July" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Acting credits
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Il était une fois... « La Haine »
2012
NRThis film attempts to reveal the reasons behind the death of Pierre Goldman and the identities of his murderers. Reviewing each of the unexplained elements surrounding the murder, the director questions friends and witnesses, travels to Venezuela, Guadeloupe, and Poland and uncovers certain rare archives. In so doing, he illuminates the many shadow zones of an unusual personality, symbol of a generation who thought to change to world. 30 years later, will this film disentangle the complex web of an unsolved mystery?
L'Assassinat de Pierre Goldman
2005
6.5Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess."
Once Upon a Time... 'Tess'
2007
NRInspired by a book by Serge July, Le Dictionnaire amoureux du journalisme (A Lover's Dictionary of Journalism) is a declaration of love for freedom of the press, which underpins all other freedoms. This immersion with journalists at the heart of the stories they have covered brings to life often deeply moving investigations. Above all, it explains what a journalist is, what drives them, and what we owe them.
Dictionnaire amoureux du journalisme
2024
After having written "Pendant les affaires, les affaires continuent", Denis Robert, journalist at "Liberation" for twelve years, does it again, but this time with a film made with Philippe Harel which is an extension of his book. Subject: business and the people who deal with it, bosses, big and small, judges, lawyers, politicians and fake billers.
Journal intime des affaires en cours
1998
Behind the camera
6.5In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.
Il était une fois... « Mommy »
2017
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Il était une fois... « Le père Noël est une ordure »
2011
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Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
2011
6.3At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young people, his collages have adorned the galleries of the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, the Pantheon, the National Assembly ever since … From New York to Shanghai, and the Israeli-Palestinian wall to the US-Mexico border, he has stuck or exhibited giant photos on the walls of dozens of countries and associated hundreds of thousands of unknown artists with his projects. With the active collaboration of the artist himself, the documentary “# JR” tells the extraordinary adventure of this art activist whose spectacular interventions are all clear expressions of humanism, pacifism or remembrance relayed by his very strong involvement in social networks. For JR, art can help change the world.
#JR
2018
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Il était une fois... « Marius et Jeannette »
2014
NRThe making of Pialat's masterpiece.
Il était une fois... À nos amours
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il était une fois... « King Kong »
2010
6.0Documentary on Oliver Stone's Wall Street.
Once upon a time on Wall Street
2017
Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears' "The Queen" dramatizes the brief but intense conflict between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Elizabeth II in 1997, following the death of Princess Diana. The documentary underlines the film's boldness. By taking the living royal family as its subject, it breaks a taboo in British cinema and reveals a deeply human queen. Blending freedom of tone with documentary rigor, it offers a lesson in how fiction can serve historical truth.
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
2017
8.0Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2008
NRThirty-eighth documentary in the "Un film et son époque" series. It retraces the genesis, shooting and unexpected success of "Rosetta", a film by Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Palme d'Or winner in 1999, "Rosetta" recounts the daily struggle of a young girl, played by Emilie Dequenne, who lives in a caravan with her alcoholic and depressive mother, struggling from one odd job to the next. All she wants is a normal life.
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
2015
8.0Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.
Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother
2012
NRThe final part of a family trilogy by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz. It follows Viviane Amsalem's grueling legal marathon to obtain a divorce.
Il était une fois... « Le procès de Viviane Amsalem »
2016
NROnce upon a time in 1962, « Lawrence of Arabia », a film by David Lean. Inspired by the life of T.E Lawrence, the film tells the epic story of the British officer who led, between 1916 and 1918, the rebellion of the Bedouin tribes against the Ottoman Empire. When the film is released at the very beginning of the 1960’s, Great-Britain and France are painfully withdrawing from their colonies, as Arab nationalism is experiencing a renaissance around the world. Five years after the French and British humiliating Suez expedition the film remains the proud, nostalgic counterpoint of political events of the 1950's when a British officer was encouraging Arab nationalism.
Once Upon a Time... Lawrence of Arabia
2008
NRDocumentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
8.5A behind the scenes look at Bernardo Bertolucci’s classic film about the dark side of the sexual revolution: Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
2004
8.5A behind the scenes look at Bernardo Bertolucci’s classic film about the dark side of the sexual revolution: Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.
Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il était une fois… « La Reine Margot »
2013
6.0A documentary about the making of Lost in Translation.
Once Upon a Time... Lost in Translation
2015
6.0A documentary about the making of Le Havre
Il était une fois... Le Havre
2014
No synopsis available yet.
Hommage à Gérard Fromanger
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim »
2008
Documentary about the making of James Gray's 1994 film LITTLE ODESSA
Once Upon a Time...Little Odessa
2014
NRA documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
2013
