Jackie Raynal

Jackie Raynal

Born: October 20, 1940
in Poilhes, France
Jacky Raynal is French directress, actress and film editor. She's born in 1940 near Montpellier. The film maker has a diploma in Linguistics. In the early 60's, already a photographer, young Jacky Raynal starts working in the field of cinema. She's assistent film editor for the documentarys of G. Patriss and F. Vienne. After that, she edits the first films of E. Rohmer. In 1965 J. Raynal gets the license of senior film editor for feature films in CNC (National Cinema Center). Now she's working with the film directors of the New Wave. She edits all of the skecthes of Six in Paris, directed by Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Jacky Raynal continues to work in editing till the end of 70's.

In 1968, with S. Boissonas and O. Mosset, she's the founder of the Zanzibar group. She works with Philippe Garrel, Serge Bard, Daniel Pommereulle, Alain Jouffroy and Patrick Deval. J. Raynal shoots her first feature film Two Times in Barcelona. In 1972, the movie wins the Grand Prix in the Festival of Hyères/Toulon. At that time she's already living in New York. There, between 1975 and 1992, she's responsible for the programs of Carnegie Hall Cinema and Bleeker Street Cinema. She shows there numerous independent international films. Her job in New York is appreciated by F. Truffaut (he compares it with the French Cinematheque) and awarded twice by the Village Voice in 1981 and 1991.

J. Raynal directs New York Story (Grand Prix in Melbourne) and Hotel New York. In the same time, she plays in several movies, organises numerous international cinema festivals, like Colombian Film Festival, Israel Film Festival or Avignon Film Festival. From 1973 to 1986, with Sid Geffen, they're publishing the independent international cinema review 1000 Eyes Magazine.

From 2000, Jacky Raynal directs numerous documentarys, like Notes on Jonas Mekas (2000) or Eric Rohmer, the Film Maker (2010).

In 2010, Jacky Raynal is rewarded for her work in arts the Légion d'Honneur (Knight in the Order Arts and Letters).

Movies for Jackie Raynal...

The black bath
Title: The black bath
Character: Herself
Released: October 16, 2021
Type: Movie
In a black bath, Jackie Raynal introduce her film Deux Fois to Metrograph in NYC.
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La Fille oblique
Title: La Fille oblique
Released: June 20, 2020
Type: Movie
A storm breaks out in a high mountain village. Thirty-year-old Maude then discovers a mysterious bird, which will inevitably lead her to a witch's abode.
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Parisian Life
Title: Parisian Life
Released: April 28, 2020
Type: Movie
She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing.
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Felix in Wonderland
Title: Felix in Wonderland
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head.
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Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
Title: Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
Released: May 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.
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Two Rémi, Two
Title: Two Rémi, Two
Character: Esther Pardon
Released: August 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?
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On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan
Title: On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan.
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Welcome to New York
Title: Welcome to New York
Character: Dinner Guest
Released: August 7, 2014
Type: Movie
George Devereaux, a prominent French politician, lives a life of debauchery, until he is arrested in New York for sexually assaulting a hotel maid.
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Eyes Find Eyes
Title: Eyes Find Eyes
Released: June 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhere to turn but inward, Ernst becomes the perfect portrait of anguish. This film traces the collapse of a man littered with the diversions of sex and sin and the lost ability to tell a true original from a fake.
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La cigarette
Title: La cigarette
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
A young woman's body becomes the medium for the viewer’s projections of the stories and biographies that are imagined about her.
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Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice
Title: Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice
Character: Self
Released: May 24, 1999
Type: Movie
30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera.
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The Man Who Envied Women
Title: The Man Who Envied Women
Character: French Intellectual
Released: August 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.
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Naughty Boys
Title: Naughty Boys
Character: Femme Fatale
Released: September 7, 1984
Type: Movie
An ode to musicals past. Handsome men spend their time in a beautiful manor.
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Hotel New York
Title: Hotel New York
Character: Loulou
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.
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Cinématon XII
Title: Cinématon XII
Character: N°110
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Freak Orlando
Title: Freak Orlando
Character: Siamesischr Zwiling Leni un Bunny
Released: November 6, 1981
Type: Movie
FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
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Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
Title: Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
Released: April 9, 1981
Type: Movie
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New York Story
Title: New York Story
Character: Loulou
Released: December 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°110 / N°2929
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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The Big Departure
Title: The Big Departure
Character: Sterling Hayden's Wife
Released: November 15, 1972
Type: Movie
This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man into a bizarre fantasy universe presented in negative exposure that reverses color values (black is white and vice versa) and written words. The cat man steals a car and then picks up a young girl he promises to take to “Heaven.” Heaven turns out to be a country chateau inhabited by several more animal mask wearing weirdoes...
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Jupiter
Title: Jupiter
Character: Hippie
Released: March 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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Trap
Title: Trap
Character: La femme torturée
Released: March 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.
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Camembert Martial Extra-doux
Title: Camembert Martial Extra-doux
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Deux fois
Title: Deux fois
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Twice is a 1968 experimental film by Jackie Raynal. Raynal stars in the film, her first as a director; she had previously worked for several years as a film editor, most notably for films in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series (she was, reportedly, the youngest professional editor in France at the time). The film's title, which literally translates as Twice and is sometimes translated into English as Twice Upon a Time, refers to the occasional repetition of scenes or actions.
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Acéphale
Title: Acéphale
Released: October 7, 1968
Type: Movie
An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness.
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A Woman Kills
Title: A Woman Kills
Character: Angèle
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?
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La Collectionneuse
Title: La Collectionneuse
Released: March 2, 1967
Type: Movie
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
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How to Fold a Green Screen
Title: How to Fold a Green Screen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Small performance with Jackie Raynal and Marie Losier. Simply set up by Marie in an empty New York gallery, which she packed with props and shooting devices, with the idea to invite friends of her to come and shoot short films together. Good times with Jackie, trying to fold a green screen which in the end was never fold but instead allowed us to create a whole new choregraphy.