Gilles Jacob
June 22, 1930 · 96 years old
Gilles Jacob (born 22 June 1930) is a French film critic and essayist, who served as president of the Cannes Film Festival between 2001 and 2014. Born in Paris, the son of an entrepreneur, Jacob studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, having Claude Chabrol as a schoolmate. At 17 years old he co-founde…
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To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · 1h 40m · Movie · 6.7 6k
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
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Mr. X, a Vision of Leos Carax
2014 · 1h 11m · Movie · 6.7 317
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is c...