Alexandre Astruc

Born: 1923-07-13, Paris, France

Died: 2016-05-19

Biography

Alexandre Auguste Astruc (13 July 1923 – 19 May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion of the caméra-stylo or "camera-pen" and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens. In 1994 he was awarded the René Clair Award for his whole body of film work.

Filmography

• Sartre par lui-même (1976)
• Évariste Galois (1965)
• Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)
• Les mauvaises rencontres (1955)
• Le Rideau cramoisi (1953)
• La Jeune Fille assassinée (1974)
• Le Puits et le Pendule (1964)
• La Longue Marche (1966)
• Flammes sur l'Adriatique (1968)
• La Proie pour l'ombre (1961)
• Arsène Lupin joue et perd (1980)
• Éducation sentimentale (1962)
• Amour de poche (1957)
• La Valse de Paris (1950)
• Albert Savarus (1993)
• Introduction à la Méthode de F. W. Murnau (1970)
• Les Crimes de l'amour (1953)
• Le Chevalier Dupin: La lettre volée (1974)