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Philippe Arthuys is a French musician and director born in Paris on November 22, 1928 and died on January 6, 2010 in Toulouse. He is the son of the politician and resistance fighter Jacques Arthuys, and father of the actress Sophie Arthuys, the director Bertrand Arthuys and the composer Christophe Arthuys.
It was within the GRMC, with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, that Philippe Arthuys became familiar with musique concrete. The basic principle of musique concrete consists of working the sound material directly on the recording medium, from diligent listening to the recorded elements, in accordance with the idea, which Schaeffer formulated in 1948, "that there exists another path than notation to access music.” At this period, musique concrete seems essentially intended to renew dramatic music. Arthuys' temperament adapts well to this tendency, he especially seeks the relationship of music with poetry or image, in works illustrating texts by Kipling (The Crab Who Played With The Sea, 1955) or 'Apollinaire (Le Voyeur, for a film by Henri Gruel, 1956). The liberation of spirit and technique thus found influenced the film scores he composed for Jacques Rivette (Paris nous belongs, 1961) and Jean-Luc Godard (Les Carabiniers, 1963). The collaboration between Maurice Béjart and Pierre Henry intensified, and Philippe Arthuys specialized in composing film scores, which exasperated Pierre Schaeffer. Noting that they devoted themselves more to composition than to research, he ended up forcing them to resign from the Group. It will be the end of the avant-garde of musique concrete, and the birth of GRM that we still know today.
Philippe Arthuys defends the idea that musical treatment must be understood beyond its function of reinforcing the story. According to him, the musical must remain “outside the film”: “The new procedures claim a higher degree of abstraction, a greater complexity. In reaction, in struggle with the images, its action aiming to exhibit, even to determine the filmic structure, the musical enters into its relationship of heterogeneity with the visual discourse. He then wrote numerous film scores, among others: Les Camisards (1970) and Rude Journee Pour La Reine (1973) by René Allio, Le Vent Des Aurès (1966), Chronique Des Années De Draise (Palme d'or at the Festival from Cannes in 1975), Wind of Sand (1982) and the Last Image (1986) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. Arthuys will also compose music for theater, circus and dance. In particular, he wrote the music for Voilà L'Homme (1956), a ballet by Maurice Béjart based on an argument by Jacques Prévert.
Alongside his career as a composer, he is moving towards directing. He worked as an assistant director on Vanina Vanini by Roberto Rossellini then directed numerous films, notably directing Françoise Prévost in La Cage De Verre (co-director: Jean-Louis Levi-Alvarès, 1965), about the Jewish holocaust; Jean Vilar in Des Christs Par Milliers (1969), on the violence of the world; Jean Négroni in Noces De Sève (1979), anti-nuclear parable.
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18 March 1960
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell.
04 April 1982
Seen right through the sandstorms that rack the lives of a tribe living on a desert oasis, is a subtle and not-so-subtle mistreatment of the female members of the tribe - tribal chiefs have the right to be the first to deflower virgins, and single or widowed mothers must walk a narrow line of behavior restrictions that do not apply to their male counterparts.
05 September 1969
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's.
22 December 1960
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
01 January 1982
An arranged marriage as seen through the eyes of an unhappy young Algerian woman.
31 July 1960
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
02 January 1973
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak.
02 June 1986
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village.
14 January 1995
An idle teenager with a bad attitude kidnaps a neighbor's baby.
22 February 1972
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.
01 January 1963
The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.
07 October 1959
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
26 November 1975
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this "Red All Saints' Day" of November 1, 1954.
02 January 1974
In 1957, the Battle of Algiers intensifies. Hassan, a peaceful resident of the Casbah, is mistakenly identified as a dangerous "terrorist leader," earning him the nickname "Hassan Terro.
01 January 1959
Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him.
01 January 1966
A kind old lady is not all that she seems to be, and gets more than she bargained for when she rents out a room to a handsome young student.
02 December 1979
An anti-nuclear parable, the film tells the story of villagers who each year traditionally hold "sap weddings", thus paying homage to the forest.
01 January 1964
A story of "La Pasta", a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival.
02 February 1961
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples.
31 May 1963
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life.
13 December 1961
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
28 January 1998
The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when their rival families discover their secret love.
14 September 1970
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army.
08 June 1967
The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation.
09 May 1959
Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
02 January 1982
"Rupture is a look at a complex and little-known period in the recent history of Algeria, that of the thirties, a time when a political conscience was beginning to assert itself.
17 November 1965
A study of conscience set against the trial of Eichmann in Israel.
01 January 1968
For their film “Vrijheren van het Woud” (Lords of the Forest) uit 1958, Heinz Sielmann and Henry Brandt had collected over 6 kilometers of film footage.
21 March 1969
When a museum depicting the violence man inflicts on himself opens, a doctor, a woman and a museum official go through the building before the grand opening.
