Pierre-William Glenn

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Pierre-William Glenn

Born 1943-10-31 · Paris, France

Pierre-William Glenn (31 October 1943 – 24 September 2024) was a French cinematographer and film director. He contributed to more than seventy films from 1968 to 2024, including Day for Night and Street of No Return. Glenn died on 24 September 2024, at the age of 80. At age 21, he enrolled at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Source: Article "Pierre-William Glenn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Acting credits

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché poster
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The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

2018

The Watchmaker of St. Paul poster
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Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond poster
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A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

2016

L'impossible Monsieur Papa poster
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No synopsis available yet.

L'impossible Monsieur Papa

1995

Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes poster
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Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.

Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes

2008

The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited poster
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In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s most significant locations. THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS features new contributions from actors Bulle Ogier, Michael Lonsdale and Hermine Karagheuz, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, assistant director Jean-François Stévenin and producer Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff, but also rare archival interviews with actors Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Michel Delahaye and, most prominently, illuminating statements by director Jacques Rivette himself from two different archival interviews.

The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited

2016

Trotsky poster
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Story of the life of an extraordinary man, who with Lenin, was the symbol of the Revolution of 1917.

Trotsky

1967

Behind the camera

Les enragés poster
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Marc and Laurent, two worrying misfits, break into a large isolated property in the middle of the countryside. Marc discovers with amazement that the place belongs to his idol, the movie star Jessica Melrose, of whom he is crazy. After a strange night, in the morning, Jessica meets the two "explorers" who will make her live a day of waking nightmare .

Les enragés

1985

Terminus poster
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An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a terminus. The lead truck, created by a boy genius, is driven by a woman. When the computer guidance system fails, she ends up in uncharted territories and encounters leather-clad hoods who torture her. Meanwhile, a mysterious doctor seems to have another plan in mind.

Terminus

1987

Le Cheval de fer poster
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Hailwood, Agostini, Sheene

Le Cheval de fer

1975

Le Cheval de fer poster
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Hailwood, Agostini, Sheene

Le Cheval de fer

1975

Cleo's Real Itinerary Through Paris poster
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In this short film from 2005, Pierre-William Glenn, shooting from the back of a motorcycle, retraces the steps Cléo takes through Paris in CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7.

Cleo's Real Itinerary Through Paris

2005

23h58 poster
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This "heist" film tells the story of a robbery in a stadium during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle race. Throughout the film are constant references to other movies in the genre. A policeman investigating the robbery is surprised to discover that the heist bears striking resemblance to the robbery depicted in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film, The Killing. The robbery itself was perpetrated by Bernard, an ex-racer who dedicates the theft to a dead peer. He enlists the help of Thierry and several others to steal 6 million francs from the gate. He and his gang then hideout in the stadium until the race is over. Things are working against Bernard though. Two martial-arts experts try to cut in on the action. A gang member's girlfriend squeals to the cops, and an Arab assistant is killed.

23h58

1993

23h58 poster
7.0

This "heist" film tells the story of a robbery in a stadium during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle race. Throughout the film are constant references to other movies in the genre. A policeman investigating the robbery is surprised to discover that the heist bears striking resemblance to the robbery depicted in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film, The Killing. The robbery itself was perpetrated by Bernard, an ex-racer who dedicates the theft to a dead peer. He enlists the help of Thierry and several others to steal 6 million francs from the gate. He and his gang then hideout in the stadium until the race is over. Things are working against Bernard though. Two martial-arts experts try to cut in on the action. A gang member's girlfriend squeals to the cops, and an Arab assistant is killed.

23h58

1993

23h58 poster
7.0

This "heist" film tells the story of a robbery in a stadium during the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle race. Throughout the film are constant references to other movies in the genre. A policeman investigating the robbery is surprised to discover that the heist bears striking resemblance to the robbery depicted in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film, The Killing. The robbery itself was perpetrated by Bernard, an ex-racer who dedicates the theft to a dead peer. He enlists the help of Thierry and several others to steal 6 million francs from the gate. He and his gang then hideout in the stadium until the race is over. Things are working against Bernard though. Two martial-arts experts try to cut in on the action. A gang member's girlfriend squeals to the cops, and an Arab assistant is killed.

23h58

1993

Les Silences de Johnny poster
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A personal and moving portrait of actor Johnny Hallyday.

Les Silences de Johnny

2019

Portrait de groupe avec enfants et motocyclettes poster
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The lives, hopes, and stories of a group of young motorcycle racers aged 8 to 14.

Portrait de groupe avec enfants et motocyclettes

2009

The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe poster
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A creative interpretation of Poe’s internal demons in time and in space, then and now.

The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe

2010

The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe poster
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A creative interpretation of Poe’s internal demons in time and in space, then and now.

The Sad and Lonely Death of Edgar Allan Poe

2010