Eugène Green
Eugène Green (born 28 June 1947) is an American-born French filmmaker and dramatist. He is notable as an educator, training a generation of young actors in the revival of French baroque theatre technique and declamation.
Also recorded as Eugene Green
Eugène Green
- Name
- Eugène Green
- Born
- 28 June 1947
- Birthplace
- New York City, US
- Occupation
- Filmmaker, dramatist, writer
- Nationality
- France · United States
- Fields
- theatre · cinematography · literary activity · literature
- Education
- Lafayette High School
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters · Grand prix catholique de littérature
- Languages
- French · English
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Eugène Green appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a director (born 28 June 1947).
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Eugène Green was born on 28 June 1947.
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Biography
Eugène Green studied at Lafayette High School. The recorded working language is French and English. The field of work recorded is theatre, cinematography and literary activity. Distinctions recorded are Officer of Arts and Letters and Grand prix catholique de littérature.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Eugène Green • Born — 28 June 1947 • Birthplace — New York City, US • Occupation — Filmmaker, dramatist, writer
Stage director
Stage director
various presentations of baroque theatre including: • Jean Racine: Mithridate at the chapel of the Sorbonne 1999. • Pierre Corneille: La Suivante 1634 (Avignon, 1993; Paris, 1996), Le Cid (Avignon, Paris, 1995), La Place royale ou l'amoureux extravagant (Avignon, Marseille, Paris, 1996). Opera • Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux (National Theatre, Prague, 1999).
Actor
Actor
• 2006: Les Amitiés maléfiques:fr:Emmanuel Bourdieu • Fragments sur la grâce; Vincent Dieutre.
Own plays
Own plays
• Julien le pauvre • La Parole dans le jardin • 1995: Le Rêve dans le petit fer à cheval • La Pastorale du jardin du Luxembourg • La Vieille Charité
Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
• 2001: La parole baroque • 2004: Le présent de la parole. Les lieux communs. • 2009: Poétique du cinématographe • 2010: La religieuse portugaise • 2011: La communauté universelle • 2015: L'Ami du chevalier de Pas, portrait subjectif de Fernando Pessoa
Fiction
Fiction
• 2003: La rue des Canettes: Cinq contes • 2008: La Reconstruction • 2009: La Bataille de Roncevaux • 2012: Les Atticistes • 2014: Un conte du Graal • 2015: L'inconstance des démons
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1947
Eugène Green born at New York City.
Films
• 2001: Toutes les nuits; Alexis Loret, Christelle Prot, Adrien Michaux • 2002: Le nom du feu (short); Christelle Prot et Alexis Loret • 2003: Le Monde vivant; Christelle Prot, Adrien Michaux, Alexis Loret, Laurène Cheilan, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet, seen at the 2004 edition of Bafici • 2004: Le Pont des Arts; Natacha Régnier, Denis Podalydès, Adrien Michaux, Olivier Gourmet • 2006: Les signes (short); Christelle Prot, Mathieu Amalric, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet • 2007: Correspondances (short); Delphine Hecquet, François Rivière, Christelle Prot • 2009: La Religieuse portugaise; Leonor Baldaque, Adrien Michaux • 2014: La Sapienza; Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot, Ludovico Succio, Arianna Nastro • 2015: Faire la parole (documentary) • 2016: Le Fils de Joseph • 2017: En attendant les barbares • 2020: Atarrabi et Mikelats
Spoken word recordings
• 1999: La Conversation: poems of Théophile de Viau with Vincent Dumestre performing works by Robert de Visée on the theorbo • 2001: La Parole baroque, CD accompanying book. Declamation of Jean de La Fontaine, Le chêne et le roseau; Torquato Tasso, La mort de Clorinda (La Gerusalemme liberata); Théophile de Viau, La Mort de Pyrame; William Shakespeare, The Death of Kings (Richard II), To be or not to be (Hamlet); Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Qu'est-ce que notre être (excerpt from Sermon sur la mort); Jean Racine, Je ne croiray point? (excerpt from Mithridate). • 2002: baroque declamation of Sermon sur la mort by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont. • 2003: Présences: Essai sur la nature du cinéma (spoken word) • 2007: baroque declamation of Charles Perrault, six tales from Contes de ma mère l'Oye, Alpha 922.
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- 1.Buenos Aires 10 Festival International De Cine Independente - Page 143 "Eugène Green was born in New York in 1947. His film The Living World (2003) was seen at the 2004 edition of Bafici."
- 2.Nuit blanche 2001- Numéros 85 à 88 - Page 51 "Eugène Green est un écrivain, cinéaste et metteur en scène d'origine américaine installé en France depuis de nombreuses années."
- 3.Art press 2001- Volumes 274 à 281; Volume 283 - Page 45 "The writer and poet Eugène Green is to Baroque theater what a Nikolaus Harnoncourt or a William Christie is to Baroque music. His research into the ..."
- 4.Revue d'histoire du théâtre -Société d'histoire du théâtre (Paris, France) - 2006 Volume 58 - Page 67 "Brigitte Prost: Votre recherche, qui s'inscrit dans les traces de celle d'Eugène Green, est donc bien celle d'une «parole éloquente », c'est-à- dire d'une prononciation qui différerait totalement de celle usitée dans la conversation courante au ..."
- 5.Les inrockuptibles 2004- Numéros 466 à 474 - Page 42 "Mais Eugène Green est surtout allergique aux vertueux et aux bien-pensants. A l'occasion de son troisième film, rencontre avec un homme pour qui le sens de la vie est à chercher dans l'art. libre penseur LE PONT DES ARTS D'EUGÈNE GREEN..."
- 6.René Prédal Le cinéma français depuis 2000: un renouvellement incessant 2008- Page 100 "Eugène Green est un Chevalier Blanc, un Nanni Moretti qui aurait adopté l'esprit de Saint François d'Assise, une Gelsomina à moustaches gauloises, en tout cas un cinéaste que nous verrions bien rejoindre le club très fermé des ..."
- 7.Cahiers du cinéma 2009- Numéros 647 à 651 - Page 58 "Le bonheur de découvrir un nouveau long métrage d'Eugène Green est, cinq ans après Le Pont des Arts, à la mesure de l'attente suscitée. Film-rencontre, La Religieuse portugaise évoque la découverte de Lisbonne par une jeune actrice ..."
- 8.Anderson, John. In 'La Sapienza,' Eugene Green's New Film, a Man Works on His Artistic Soul. The New York Times. 13 March 2015.
- 9.Eugène Green La bataille de Roncevaux 2009: roman - Page 336 "... du rapport que le personnage entretient avec sa langue. Eugène Green poursuit ici sa réflexion sur la parole, sur l'identité européenne, et sur la place de la spiritualité dans le monde contemporain. Eugène Green est cinéaste et écrivain."
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