Martin Scorsese Remembers Bertrand Tavernier, “He Was So Passionate That He Could Exhaust You”

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Thierry Frémaux I met Bertrand Tavernier in Lyon in 1982 at the Chateau Lumiere when he came to announce that he was going to become the first president of the Institut Lumière.He had just come off “Coup de Torchon” and his prestige was at its peak. As I was working for Positif magazine, I took the opportunity to question Bertrand about his love for films and his long relationship with the magazine.

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Martin Scorsese once said. "That's it.

The last time I saw Bertrand Tavernier, who died yesterday in Paris at 79, was at the Cannes Film Festival nearly two years ago after the world premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It was after 1 a.m.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe news of beloved and revered French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier’s death has struck a chord in France and around the world with a flurry of cinephiles, filmmakers, critics, industry figures and talents remembering him on social media on Thursday.Aside from his prolific career as filmmaker, Tavernier (“Round Midnight,” “Coup de Torchon,” “A Sunday in the Country”), was also a driving force behind the Institut Lumiere and its annual heritage film

Bertrand Tavernier, the filmmaker, cineaste and critic who emerged in the wake of the French New Wave with such classics asThe Clockmaker of St. Paul,A Sunday in the Countryand'Round Midnight, died Thursday.

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PARIS -- French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed acclaimed movies such “A Sunday in the Country,” “Captain Conan” and “The Judge and the Assassin,” has died, according to his family. He was 79.Tavernier's wife and children said he Thursday that he died in Sainte-Maxime, located in France's southerly Var region.

La Croix that he died in Sainte-Maxime in the Var region of southeastern France.Also Read: George Segal, Venerated 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'The Goldbergs' Actor, Dies at 87Inspired by filmmakers like Jean Vigo, Jean Renoir and John Ford, Tavernier began his career in the ’60s in France, writing for the PEN club and aspiring to become a filmmaker like many of his French New Wave peers.

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterBertrand Tavernier, the prolific French filmmaker noted for films such as “Coup de Torchon” (1981), “A Sunday in the Country” (1984) and “Round Midnight” (1986), has died. He was 79.The director’s death was confirmed on Thursday by France’s Institut Lumière — for which he served as president — and Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux.

French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, known for such award winning works as A Sunday In The Country, Round Midnight, Capitaine Conan, It All Starts Today and Life And Nothing But, has died at the age of 79. The news was confirmed by France’s Lumière Institute in Lyon of which Tavernier was president.

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