JT
Jean-Charles Tacchella
Writer, Director, Actor, Additional Credits
Born September 23, 1925Died August 29, 2024 (98 years)
Jean-Charles Tacchella (born 23 September 1925) is a French screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Cousin Cousine (1975), which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which was later (1989) remade in a US version starring Ted Danson and titled Cousins.
Jean-Charles Tacchella studied in Marseilles and, just after the Liberation, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director. He joined L'écran Français when he was nineteen where he worked with Renoir, Becker and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, Roger Thérond and Alexandre Astruc. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim, Anna Magnani, Vittorio de Sica and created the monthly “Ciné Digest” with Henri Colpi. In 1948, Tacchella, along with Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Astruc, Claude Mauriac, René Clément and Pierre Kast, established Objectif 49, an avant-garde film club whose president was Jean Cocteau. Objectif 49 became the birthplace of the New Wave.
Jean-Charles Tacchella has since directed eleven features, many of which have had successful international careers and been awarded prestigious prizes. They include Voyage to Grand Tartarie (1974), Cousin cousine (1975, nominated for the Oscars Césars, Silver Shell for Best Director at the 1976 San Sebastian International Film Festival), Le Pays bleu (1977), It's a Long Time I've Loved You (1979, Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival), Croque la vie (1981), Staircase C (1985, Prix de l'Académie française, Grand Prix at the Uppsala Film Festival), Travelling avant (1987, Best Male Newcomer for Thierry Frémont – Golden Tulip for Best Director at the Istanbul Film Festival), Gallant Ladies (Best Director, Digne Film Festival 1990), The Man of My Life (1992), Seven Sundays (1995).
Tacchella is described as being "a smooth technician, Tacchella's camera work is fluid and precise". And his movie Traveling avant (1987), roughly equivalent to the American film term "Tracking Shot", is described as "a semi-autobiographical paean to his youth as a cinema fanatic and cine-club enthusiast in post-war Paris".
Tacchella was President of the Cinémathèque Française from 2000–2003.
Source: Article "Jean-Charles Tacchella" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Jean-Charles Tacchella studied in Marseilles and, just after the Liberation, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director. He joined L'écran Français when he was nineteen where he worked with Renoir, Becker and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, actors, films and met André Bazin, Nino Frank, Roger Leenhardt, Roger Thérond and Alexandre Astruc. He became friends with Erich Von Stroheim, Anna Magnani, Vittorio de Sica and created the monthly “Ciné Digest” with Henri Colpi. In 1948, Tacchella, along with Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Astruc, Claude Mauriac, René Clément and Pierre Kast, established Objectif 49, an avant-garde film club whose president was Jean Cocteau. Objectif 49 became the birthplace of the New Wave.
Jean-Charles Tacchella has since directed eleven features, many of which have had successful international careers and been awarded prestigious prizes. They include Voyage to Grand Tartarie (1974), Cousin cousine (1975, nominated for the Oscars Césars, Silver Shell for Best Director at the 1976 San Sebastian International Film Festival), Le Pays bleu (1977), It's a Long Time I've Loved You (1979, Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival), Croque la vie (1981), Staircase C (1985, Prix de l'Académie française, Grand Prix at the Uppsala Film Festival), Travelling avant (1987, Best Male Newcomer for Thierry Frémont – Golden Tulip for Best Director at the Istanbul Film Festival), Gallant Ladies (Best Director, Digne Film Festival 1990), The Man of My Life (1992), Seven Sundays (1995).
Tacchella is described as being "a smooth technician, Tacchella's camera work is fluid and precise". And his movie Traveling avant (1987), roughly equivalent to the American film term "Tracking Shot", is described as "a semi-autobiographical paean to his youth as a cinema fanatic and cine-club enthusiast in post-war Paris".
Tacchella was President of the Cinémathèque Française from 2000–2003.
Source: Article "Jean-Charles Tacchella" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Jean-Charles Tacchella Filmography
| 1999 | |
| 1994 | |
| 1992 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1985 | |
| 1981 | Croque la vie · as Screenplay |
| 1979 | Silver Anniversary · as Screenplay |
| 1977 | |
| 1975 | Cousin, Cousine · as Screenplay |
| 1974 | |
| 1971 | |
| 1966 | |
| 1961 | |
| 1960 | The Itchy Palm · as Screenplay |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | |
| 1956 | |
| 1955 |
| 1999 | |
| 1994 | |
| 1992 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1985 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1979 | |
| 1977 | |
| 1975 | |
| 1974 |
| 2019 | Bazin ou l'art d'aimer · as Self |
| 2013 | |
| 2012 | Cinephiles of Our Time (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | Sodankylä Forever (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | |
| 2000 | In the Shadow of Hollywood · as Self |
| 1975 | Sunday meetings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1970 | Happy He Who Like Ulysses · as Motorist / Man At The Arenas Of Arles (uncredited) |
| 1960 | The Itchy Palm · as Second Priest (uncredited) |
| 2009 | The Age Of Maupassant. Novels and stories of the XIX century (TV Series) · as Written By |
| 2007 | Chez Maupassant (TV Series) · as Scenario, Adaptation And Dialogue |
| 1989 | Cousins · as Original Story |
| 1967 | Spionage - Die Arbeit der Geheimdienste (TV Series) · as Co-Writer |
| 1964 | Le gros coup · as Adaptation |
| 1962 | Crime Does Not Pay · as Scenario Writer |
| 1959 | Time Bomb · as Story |
| 1958 | The Law Is the Law · as Story |
| 1953 | Children of Love · as Collaboration |
| 1950 | Tomorrow Is Too Late · as Additional Writing |