IEC
#1: Courtesy of Arthur Cloquet
#2: [Right] with dir Louis Malle [1973]
ÉTIENNE BECKER
Born: 1 May 1936, Paris, France, as Étienne Louis Becker, son of dir Jacques Becker [1906-1960].
Died: 11 December 1995, Paris, France.
Career: Started in the photo lab of the newspaper France Dimanche. Entered film industry as c.asst with doph Ghislain Cloquet. Became c.op.
Ph commercials dir by Jean Becker, Sarah Moon, a.o.
His brother Jean [1933-] is a film dir; his sister Sophie was a script girl and was married to doph Ghislain Cloquet.
Awards: 'César' Award nom [1976] for 'Le vieux fusil'; 'César' Award nom [1977] for 'Le jouet'.
| FILMS & TELEVISION | |
|---|---|
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1962 |
Le joli mai [Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme] b&w; 2-part doc: 'Prière sur la tour Eiffel' (56m) & 'Le retour de Fantômas' (101m); cph: Denys Clerval, Pierre Lhomme & Pierre Willemin |
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1962 |
Petite ville [Mario Ruspoli] 6-part (x 25m) doc tv-series/b&w ('Marvejols en Lozère', 'Le 14 juillet', 'La vie quotidienne', 'Le cirque', '15 août' & 'Les vacances'; cph: Pierre Lhomme; filmed July-August; for RTF-tv (aired in July 1967) |
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1963 |
Le dernier verre [Mario Ruspoli] ?; doc/22m; cph: Denys Clerval; filmed November |
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1963 |
In vino veritas [Mario Ruspoli] ?; doc/80m; cph: Denys Clerval; shown on tv in 1964 |
|
1964 |
Cassius le grand [William Klein] b&w; doc/42m; 1st fight Cassius Clay/Sonny Liston filmed in February in Miami Beach, USA |
|
1964 |
Paris vu par.../Six in Paris [1. Jean Douchet ('Saint-Germain-des-Prés'), 2. Jean Rouch ('Gare du Nord'), 3. Jean-Daniel Pollet ('Rue Saint-Denis'), 4. Éric Rohmer ('Place de l'Étoile'), 5. Jean-Luc Godard ('Montparnasse et Levallois') & 6. Claude Chabrol ('La Muette')] 16mm-35bu/c; 6 seg; ph seg #2 (16m) & cph seg #4 (15m); other ph: Nestor Almendros (seg #1, cph seg #4 & addph seg #5), Alain Levent (seg #3 & cph seg #4), Albert Maysles (seg #5 & cph seg #6) & Jean Rabier (cph seg #6) |
|
1965 |
Segestre [Mario Ruspoli] c; short/11m |
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1965 |
Rotterdam-Europoort [Joris Ivens] c; dram doc/20m; cph: Eduard van der Enden |
|
1966 |
Cassius le grand/Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee [William Klein] b&w; doc/94m; cph: William Klein & Michel Parbot (USA); comp of 3 doc's: 'Cassius le grand' (see 1964), 'La grande hernie' (filmed in November 1964 in Boston, USA, where Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali had to undergo surgery for a hernia) & 'Le grand homme' (2nd fight Muhammad Ali/Sonny Liston filmed in May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine, USA) |
|
1966 |
Le désordre à vingt ans/Disorder Is 20 Years Old [Jacques Baratier] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/70m; follows his short doc 'Désordre' (1947; ph: André Bac) |
|
1966 |
Voilà l'ordre [Jacques Baratier] 16mm/b&w; doc/46m |
|
1966 |
La rencontre [Mario Ruspoli] ?; comm doc/60m; filmed November; for Laboratoires Sandoz |
|
1966 |
Le vif mariage [Mario Ruspoli] 16mm/?; comm doc/20m; for Laboratoires Sandoz |
|
1967 |
L'étrangère/Sin with a Stranger [Sergio Gobbi] c |
|
1968 |
Calcutta/Inde 68 [Louis Malle] 16mm (Éclair 16 & Beaulieu)/c; doc/105m; uncred cph: Louis Malle |
|
1968 |
L'Inde fantôme - réflexions sur un voyage/Phantom India [Louis Malle] 7-part doc tv-series/16mm (Éclair & Beaulieu): Descente vers le sud', 'Madras', 'La religion', 'La tentation du rêve', 'Les castes', 'Les étrangers en Inde' & 'Bombay'); uncred cph: Louis Malle |
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1968 |
Les saintes chéries [ep #14-26 dir by Jean Becker] 39-part tv-series/16mm, 1965 (b&w), 1968 (c) & 1970 (c); 2nd season, 1968 |
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1968 |
One More Time [Daniel Pommereulle] 16mm/c; short/8m |
|
1968 |
Peau de satin [Daniel Moosmann] ?; short/22m |
|
1968 |
Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes/Joe Caligula [José Bénazéraf] b&w |
|
1968 |
L'amour fou [Jacques Rivette] 16mm+35mm-to-35mm/b&w-c; 252m; 16mm ph; 35mm ph: Alain Levent; + small part |
|
1969 |
Three [James Salter] c |
|
1969 |
OSS 117 prend des vacances [Pierre Kalfon] c |
With actress Marlène Jobert - "Dernier domicile connu"
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1969 |
Dernier domicile connu [José Giovanni] c |
|
1970 |
La maison [Gérard Brach] c |
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1971 |
Le bateau sur l'herbe/The Boat on the Grass [Gérard Brach] c |
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1971 |
L'homme au cerveau greffé/Man with the Transplanted Brain [Jacques Doniol-Valcroze] c |
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1971 |
La fin d'un jeu [Renaud Walter] c; short/17m |
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1972 |
Humain, trop humain/Human, Too Human/A Human Condition [Louis Malle] 16mm/c; doc/75m |
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1972 |
Place de la République [Louis Malle] 16mm/c; doc/94m; cph: Jacques Dorot |
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1972 |
Aimez-vous les uns les autres... mais pas trop/Les enragés [Daniel Moosmann] c |
|
1973 |
Touche pas à la femme blanche/Don't Touch the White Woman! [Marco Ferreri] c |
|
1973 |
La gueule de l'emploi [Jacques Rouland] c |
|
1974 |
Le secret/The Secret [Robert Enrico] c |
|
1974 |
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest 1964-1974 [William Klein] b&w-c; doc/123m; cph: William Klein, Patrice Wyers (USA), Michel Parbot (USA) & Richard Suzuki (Zaïre); comp of 3 doc's (see 1966) + color footage of the Muhammad Ali/George Foreman fight in Zaïre (filmed October) |
|
1974 |
Le bougnoul/The Ay-Rab [Daniel Moosmann] c |
|
1975 |
Le vieux fusil/The Old Gun/Vengeance One by One [Robert Enrico] c |
|
1975 |
Police Python 357/The Case Against Ferro [Alain Corneau] c |
|
1975 |
La spirale/The Spiral [Armand Matellart, Valérie Mayoux & Jacqueline Meppiel] b&w-c; doc/145m; co-addph; ph: A. Matellart, V. Mayoux & J. Meppiel; coopérateur technique: Chris Marker, Silvio Tendler & Pierre Flament |
|
1976 |
Coup de foudre [Robert Enrico] unfinished |
|
1976 |
Plus vite que le soleil [Robert Enrico] c; comm doc/12m; for Aéroport de Paris |
|
1976 |
Le jouet/The Toy [Francis Veber] p/c |
|
1977 |
Le fond de l'air est rouge/A Grin Without a Cat [Chris Marker] b&w-c; doc/240m; cph: Pierre Lhomme, P.W. ( Pierre-William) Glenn, Willy Kurant, Jean Boffety, a.o.; Originally released in France on 23 November 1977 with a running time of 240m. It was released with the subtitle 'Scènes de la Troisième Guerre mondiale (1967-1977)'. It was re-edited by Marker in 1993 and scaled down to two parts of 90m each, the first titled 'Les mains fragiles/The Fragile Hands' and the second 'Les mains coupées/The Severed Hands' |
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1977 |
La belle emmerdeuse/On peut le dire sans se fâcher/One Can Say It Without Getting Angry [Roger Coggio] c |
|
1977 |
Utopia [Iradj Azimi] c; filmed 1977-78 |
|
1978 |
Sous-sol [Patrick Poubel] ?; short/11m |
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1978 |
Vas-y maman/Take It From the Top [Nicole de Buron] c |
|
1978 |
Les chiens/The Dogs [Alain Jessua] c |
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1979 |
C'est encore loin l'Amérique? [Roger Coggio] c |
|
1980 |
Je vous aime/I Love You All [Claude Berri] c |
|
1981 |
Une étrange affaire/Strange Affair [Pierre Granier-Deferre] c |
|
1981 |
Le rat [Elisabeth Huppert] c; short/16m |
|
1982 |
Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt!!!/Bassecour [Denys Granier-Deferre] c |
|
1982 |
L'été meurtrier/One Deadly Summer [Jean Becker] p/c |
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1983 |
L'ami de Vincent/A Friend of Vincent [Pierre Granier-Deferre] c |
|
1984 |
Les fausses confidences [Daniel Moosmann] c |
|
1987 |
Gustave [Régine Chopinot] c; ballet film/7m |
|
1991 |
Mississippi One [Sarah Moon] b&w |
|
1994 |
Élisa [Jean Becker] scope/c; 2uc: Arthur Cloquet |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
|---|---|
|
1949 |
Rendez-vous de juillet [Jacques Becker] small part; ph: Claude Renoir |
|
1961 |
La belle Américaine [Robert Dhéry] co-c.asst; ph: Ghislain Cloquet |
|
1961 |
Un nommé La Rocca/A Man Named Rocca [Jean Becker] co-c.asst; ph: Ghislain Cloquet |
|
1962 |
Le poulet/The Chicken [Claude Berri; short] ?; ph: Ghislain Cloquet |
|
1962 |
Méthode I/Method I [Mario Ruspoli; doc] asst dir; ph: Pierre Lhomme |
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1962 |
La jetée/The Pier [Chris Marker; short] small part; ph: Jean Chiabaut & Chris Marker |
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1963 |
Le feu follet/The Fire Within/A Time to Live and a Time to Die [Louis Malle] co-c.op; ph: Ghislain Cloquet |
|
1966 |
Chappaqua [Conrad Rooks] co-camera; ph: Robert Frank |
