Creator for cinema and television, music-hall lovers and song, he had written for Jean Guidoni and Juliette. He died on December 20, 2021, at the age of 90.
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Plural man, creator for cinema and television, lovers of music hall and song, Pierre Philippe died on December 20, 2021, at 90 years old.
Even fascinated by all forms of shows, Pierre Philippe, immediately completed his high school, is committed to 17 years in painting and theater decoration while haunting cinemas. A passion that will fuel his imagination and creation while the production and realization of “patrimonial” documentaries.
Soon his debut in journalism allow him to satisfy his passion by collaborating in 1956 at the film magazine, created two years earlier by Pierre Billard. While the hatching of the new wave is announced, Pierre Philippe defends the productions of terror and science fiction, often mowed, that most of his confreres neglect or despise. It thus defines a sort of “cinema bis”, label in itself which allows it to affirm a singularity that it illustrates by passing itself to the realization. To celebrate the figure of the vampire, incarnation in his eyes unfairly hated from the vice in what he has more attractive. After a short film The Happy Lady (1966), a Midi-midnight feature film (1969) under the stunning sun of the Provençal scrub, where Pierre Philippe Brasse with malice the references of tales, gender literature and facts. Miscellaneous.
Realistic, sumptuous and raw writing
His creed: blur the tracks and saturate emotions. In “the cantonade” (1972), the release remained unpublished for the ORTF, where he mixes the words of Victorian Sardou, Brecht, Molière Rostand or Claudel, he gives an exalted tribute to all forms of theater. Yet it is on television that it is actively working on an imaginative cultural proposal, including Hélène Martin (1928-2021), close to the poets he loves – Why Jean Genet – she put in music the convicted person dead.
He is friendship with Daisy de Galard (1929-2007), creator of the monthly show “Dim Dam Dom” and he signs his first documentaries on the memory of cinema. 60 years ago … Judex (1977), Celebration of Arthur Berneses Hero that Louis Feuillade carried on the screen with the help of the novelist marks the beginning of his collaboration with La Gaumont. In 1986, signing a documentary for the 90-year-olds of the World Pioneer of Film Companies, Philippe strives with meticulous care in the valorization of the catalog of the firm, including the first restoration of Atalante, Jean Vigo (1934), whose rights would fall into the public domain (1990).
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