François Porcile

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François Porcile (born December 14, 1944 in Paris ) is a French filmmaker , writer , journalist , musicologist and music producer , he was also musical advisor for films by François Truffaut .

life and work

Since François Porcile, born in Paris in 1944, did not want to choose between his two passions - cinema and music - he expressed his interests in a wide variety of professional ways. As a director , film historian , writer , publicist and documentary filmmaker .

His first book was published in 1965, with the significant title. Defense du court métrage français . A nonfiction book and document in defense of French short films. French cinema in the 1960s was revitalized by a plethora of short films made by many young idealistic filmmakers.

Numerous other books and articles about music followed in 40 years, especially about the music of film and cinema.

Porcile is also the author of many classical works on old French masters such as Maurice Ravel or certain musical epochs. He wrote books such as "La Belle époque de la musique française: Le Temps de Maurice Ravel (1871-1940)" (Fayard, 1999), "Les Conflits de la musique française, 1940-1965" (Fayard, 2001) involved in the biography of Maurice Ohana in collaboration with Edith Canat de Chizy (Fayard, 2005), dedicated a chapter in the book: "L'harmonie des peuples: Les écoles musicales nationales aux XIXe et XXe siècles" (Fayard, 2006) or took a position for the Musee Des Beaux-Arts D'orleans in the book "Images De La Musique Francaise De Piano (1871-1940)" (2008)

In the mid-1970s, Porcile worked as a music advisor on four films by the French director François Truffaut , when the task was to carefully adapt the music of the composer Maurice Jaubert and adapt it to the needs of Truffaut's films. This was done with a sense of proportion and sensitivity under the direction of Patrice Mestral . As a musicologist and close confidante of Truffaut, he was involved in The Story of Adèle H. , Pocket Money , The Man Who Loved Women and The Green Room .

As a competent author and panel speaker, François Porcile is also a frequent and welcome guest, moderator and laudator at the film music seminar in Ghent. Also in 1993 in the line-up: François Porcile, the musicologist Jeannie Gayle Pool and the following international composers: David Raksin , Philippe Sarde , Stanley Myers , Pino Donaggio , Frédéric Devreese , Cong Su , Wolfgang Thiel, Nikolaus Glowna , Loek Dikker , and Dirk Brossé . The Flanders International Film Festival Ghent (Dutch: Internationaal Film Festival van Vlaanderen - Gent) was celebrated for the first time in 1974. It takes place in October every year. The film festival is famous for its focus on film music, with the World Soundtrack Awards as its highlight.

As a long-time connoisseur and companion of the film music scene, he is known to many international composers and is personal friend of many. For a special film music session, he took the first steps to introduce some great French composers explicitly for the film: Maurice Jarre , Georges Delerue , Michel Legrand and Antoine Duhamel .

François Porcile lives and works in Paris.

Publications

Books

  • Defense du court métrage français. Éditions du Cerf, Paris 1965, ISBN 2-7535-0061-4
  • 1969: Presence de la musique à l'écran. Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 1969.
  • Maurice Jaubert: Musicien populaire ou maudit? Les Editeurs Français Reunis, 1971, OCLC 775015565 .
  • with Alain Garel: CinémAction - La musique à l'écran. (= CinémAction. 62). Télérama, Corlet 1992, ISBN 2-85480-376-0 , p. 216.
  • with Alain Lacombe: Les Musiques du cinéma français. Bordas, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-04-019792-3 .
  • La belle époque de la musique française: le temps de Maurice Ravel (1871–1940). Fayard, Paris, 1999, ISBN 2-213-60322-7 .
  • Les Conflits de la musique française, 1940-1965. Fayard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-213-60926-8 .
  • Edith de Chizy: Entre nécessité et liberté. Editions Cig'art, 2008, ISBN 978-2-85894-019-6 (+ 1 DVD)
  • Images De La Musique Francaise De Piano (1871-1940). Musee Des Beaux-Arts D'orleans, 2008, ISBN 978-2-910173-31-9 .

Author participation

  • with Ange Dominique Bouzet, Ghislain Cloquet and Marie-Paule Marchi (eds.): Film Francais: L'hebdomadaire des Professionels du Cinema - SPECIAL CANNES. (No. 1626 - 21/5/76), Cannes Film Festival, Le Film Francais, Paris 1976.
  • with Michel Chion , François Porcile, Michel Sineux, Arnaud Petit, Paul Salmona, Jean-Marc Proust, Alfred Caron: Figures du compositeur - De Gesualdo à Pierre Schaeffer - Le compositeur vu par le cinéma et la télévision (1905–1995). Paris éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux RMN, 1996, ISBN 2-7118-3434-4 .
  • with Edith Canat de Chizy: Maurice Ohana. Fayard, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-213-62437-2 .
  • with Bernard Fournier, André Lischke and Didier Van Moere: L'harmonie des peuples: Les écoles musicales nationales aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Fayard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-213-63137-9 . (François Porcile only one chapter)

Filmography

As a director

  • 1987: La Clémence de Titus (1987) (TV)
  • 1985: Entre chats et loups (1985) (TV)
  • 1985: Un compositeur pour le cinéma: Maurice Jaubert (1985).
  • 1981: Robert Doisneau, badaud de Paris, pêcheur d'images (1981) (TV)
  • 1981: André Derain, thèmes et variations (1981).

As a screenwriter

  • 1985: Le monde désert (1985) (TV) (adaptation)
  • 1985: Entre chats et loups (1985) (TV)
  • 1983: Testimony from the Green Hell ( Lettres du bagne ) (1983) (TV)
  • 1981: Robert Doisneau, badaud de Paris, pêcheur d'images (1981) (TV)
  • 1981: André Derain, thèmes et variations (1981).

As a music advisor

Discography

  • 2007: French Choral Music 3, Netherlands Chamber Choir,
  • Musiques De Films & De Scene
  • 2008: Tati Sonorama! (2 × CD, Compilation, Limited Edition), (François Porcile) , Record Label: Naïve, Catalog No: K1648

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Porcile. In: Antoine De Baecque, Serge Toubiana: Truffaut: A Biography. Biography & Autobiography, Letter from François Truffaut to François Porcile, May 8, 1978, archives of Les Films du Carrosse. 2000, ISBN 0-520-22524-4 , p. 423.
  2. ^ The Flanders International Film Festival Ghent
  3. ^ François Porcile. In: Le Magazine du court métrage.
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  7. Tati Sonorama! (2 × CD, Compilation, Limited Edition), (François Porcile) , Record Label: Naïve, Catalog No: K1648 at Discogs