Roland Lethem

Roland Lethem

Born: January 5, 1942
in Etterbeek, Belgium

Movies for Roland Lethem...

Jardins clandestins
Title: Jardins clandestins
Released: August 24, 2012
Type: Movie
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
Title: 2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Le journal de Joseph M.
Title: Le journal de Joseph M.
Character: Génie Morlock
Released: February 15, 2000
Type: Movie
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Cinéma
Title: Cinéma
Released: December 12, 1997
Type: Movie
An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened.
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Jean-Gina B.
Title: Jean-Gina B.
Character: apostle
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
This film is based on the true story of Jean Bella, who served as an officer in the Belgian Marine while being convinced, from an early age, that he was in fact a woman. Director Jean-Pol Ferbus follows Jean Bella and makes him talk about his life, psychological and spiritual experiences and reveals the true poet who remained undisclosed for most of this person's life. The film ultimately isn't about transexuality but about loneliness one can experience when he/she feels very deeply that she/he belongs to the two sexes and this in a deep, almost religious, fashion, to such an extent that sexuality itself is being erased from one's life. Jean-Gina Bella is a woman in the body of a man who bravely lived a life on the sea, eventually fighting the elements, talking to God when lost on the immense solitary ocean. This testimony is a very touching and poetic one.
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Cinématon XVII
Title: Cinématon XVII
Character: N°161
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Cocktail Morlock
Title: Cocktail Morlock
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 1981
Type: Movie
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Beef Cattle
Title: Beef Cattle
Character: vagrant
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the director, whom he hopes to follow later. In a routine examination in the hospital, however, he finds out that he has cancer and his days are counted. The upheaval that he suffers as a result, however, does not take long, his decision is certain: he will use the short time to clean up some bad guys. What else can he do now?
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°161
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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Grève et pets
Title: Grève et pets
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
Title: In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx
Character: Man in orgy
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The last film prohibited by Francisco Franco. Jean-Marie Buchet plays the role of a collector of used tampons in this avant-garde comedy-adventure film.
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Super huître
Title: Super huître
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Le Vice et la Vertu
Title: Le Vice et la Vertu
Character: Man
Released: September 7, 1973
Type: Movie
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Sprookje, of l'homme-objet
Title: Sprookje, of l'homme-objet
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Gerda Diddens' "Sprookje, of l'homme-objet" and "Découpage" form a very funny double metaphor about cinema and machismo.
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Le sexe enragé
Title: Le sexe enragé
Character: L'homme dans le lit
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A bourgeoisie client is transformed into a mouse and cannibalized by a prostitute in flagrante delicto with the camera changing focus in time to her breathing.
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Cold Head
Title: Cold Head
Character: Man in orgy
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Shots of a car speeding down the road are intercut with kinky sex flashes (a woman with a whip rides a guy, for instance). Then the car crashes into a tree, the male driver (Christian Chaix) is decapitated and the bloody, injured female (Marie-Paule Mailleux) scoops up his head and returns to her home. There, she cleans herself and the head off, prepares dinner for herself and the head, buys the head a Ken Doll to keep it company, puts the head on a mannequin's body and then has a series of strange hallucinations, which include having sex with her bloodied lover, dancing in a room by herself with a spotlight, etc. Things culminate in her having sex with the head and then throwing it into the trash bin.
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Les souffrances d'un oeuf meurtri
Title: Les souffrances d'un oeuf meurtri
Released: December 27, 1967
Type: Movie
A surrealist saga in four parts: 1.) The credit sequence in which title cards show successively larger foetuses pulsating on the screen until the baby is born and cries. 2.) Etoile-directly referring to Cocteau, Lethem shows an adolescent sucking a starfish and then giving birth to a smaller starfish. A statement of inadequacy. To give birth involves an emasculation and a loss of vitality. 3.) Corps-two images of a man on a couch groping for each other, watched by a mysterious peeping Tom. As the two superimposed images come together, the heavy breathing subsides…the statement that the birth of desire is a self – realisation. 4.) Hymen – The decaying body of a girl is shot through green filters, and the final image reveals her vagina crawling with maggots and overlain with a crucifix. A representation of Catholicism preventing the free expression of desire.
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Lili au lit
Title: Lili au lit
Character: The father
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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La Double Insomnie
Title: La Double Insomnie
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Roland Lethem's first short film.