Jean Vigo


Jean Vigo
8.8 Listal rating

Stats

Born: 26 April 1905 Died: 5 October 1934

Country of origin: France


Lists

151 votes
Listal's 100 best Directors (The Results) (100 items)
list by propelas
Published 2 years, 2 months ago
123 comments
104 votes
Directors:The Filmography of... (207 items)
list by propelas
Published 2 years, 3 months ago
20 comments
35 votes
The top-60 directors (60 items)
list by The Wolf
Published 4 years, 2 months ago
10 comments
32 votes
A Death For Every Year (107 items)
list by Severin Severin
Published 9 months, 2 weeks ago
8 comments
24 votes
They died too soon (104 items)
list by jeffpsychedelic
Published 1 year, 10 months ago
4 comments

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Director (3), French (3), 1905 (1), France (1), Anarchist (1), Male (1), Producer (1), Editor (1), Writer (1), Born 1905 (1), Died 1934 (1), Died Aged 29 (1), Died Too Young (1)

Movies written by

1. L'Atalante (1934)
Rating:
8.5
170 Watched
Rating:
7.9
88 Watched
Rating:
7.8
52 Watched
4. Taris (1931)
Rating:
6.2
43 Watched







Movies directed by

1. L'Atalante (1934)
Rating:
8.5
170 Watched
Rating:
7.9
88 Watched
Rating:
7.8
52 Watched
4. Taris (1931)
Rating:
6.2
43 Watched







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Mr. Saturn added this to a list 4 months ago
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Acting up: 10 film directors played on screen (10 person items)

"James Frain "


The Silent Era added this to a list 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Silent Film Directors (146 person items)
LittleRedCorvette added this to a list 5 months ago
In Memoriam (406 person items)
Severin Severin added this to a list 9 months, 2 weeks ago
A Death For Every Year (107 person items)

" Tuberculosis."


Mr. Saturn added this to a list 11 months, 4 weeks ago
Favorite Filmmakers (53 person items)

" What was Vigo’s secret? Probably he lived more intensely than most of us. Filmmaking is awkward because of the disjointed nature of the work. You shoot five to fifteen seconds and then stop for an hour. On the film set there is seldom the opportunity for the concentrated intensity a writer like Henry Miller might have enjoyed at his desk. By the time he had written twenty pages, a kind of fever possessed him, carried him away; it could be tremendous, even sublime. Vigo seems to have worked co"


Mr. Saturn added this to a list 11 months, 4 weeks ago
GLBT Artists (73 person items)
Mr. Saturn added this to a list 1 year ago
Andrei Tarkovsky's Favorite Directors (12 person items)

" L'Atalante isn't in his top 10. I remember Vigo with tenderness and thankfulness, who, in my opinion, is the father of modern French cinema.An excessively frank and image-laden mis-en-scène with its subtext open for all to see is part of a broader phenomenon when a shot is subordinated to the requirements of literary discourse or obvious imagery. In one of the most ageless films L'Atalante by Jean Vigo there is an episode where the newlyweds, a girl and a young sailor, walk from the church to"


Rath added this to a list 1 year, 1 month ago
Influentials (63 person items)
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SpG added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago
SP's Favourite Directors (102 person items)
♥ мáя¢ια ♥ added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago
T A U R U S ♉ (24 person items)

"April 26, 1905"


Gabrilele added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago
Directors (405 person items)
jeffpsychedelic added this to a list 1 year, 10 months ago
They died too soon (104 person items)

"1905-1934 "


propelas added this to a list 2 years, 2 months ago
Listal's 100 best Directors (The Results) (100 person items)

"Total points:10 Gerru(1) Rath(9)"


propelas added this to a list 2 years, 3 months ago
Directors:The Filmography of... (207 person items)

"The filmography of Jean Vigo by Rath"


The Wolf added this to a list 2 years, 9 months ago
The top-60 directors (60 person items)

"Masterpiece: L'Atalante"


Rath added this to a list 2 years, 9 months ago
Top twenty directors (20 person items)

"L'Atalante (1934)"