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His encyclopedic book 30 ans de cinéma Américain (written with Jean-Pierre Coursodon and updated in 1991 to encompass 50 years of movies) has long been considered a reference on Hollywood film in France, and his massive 2008 volume Amis américains featured interviews with such legendary directors as John Ford, John Huston and Elia Kazan and the more recent auteurs Quentin Tarantino and Alexander Payne.Ī native of Lyon, where he presided over the Institut Lumière film foundation along with Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux, Tavernier was a lifelong cinephile whose final film, the illuminating documentary A Journey Through French Cinema (2016), explored the history of Gallic movies by focusing on less-championed auteurs including Jacques Becker, Claude Sautet and Hollywood blacklist victim John Berry.
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A five-time César Award winner (two prizes for directing, three for screenwriting), he was accomplished in a wide variety of genres and epochs, from gritty crime movies (1992’s L.627, 1995’s Fresh Bait) to ambitious war flicks (1996’s Captain Conan) to intimate historical dramas (1976’s The Judge and the Assassin, 2010’s The Princess of Montpensier) and music films (1983’s Mississippi Blues, 1986’s ‘Round Midnight), highlighting his love of American jazz and blues artists.Īlongside his directing projects, Tavernier was an avid film writer and critic, with his reviews appearing in Cahiers du cinéma, Positif and Cinéma.