Robert Benayoun
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"Like their peers in literary and art theory, the Cahiers editors began to write texts pitched at a new level of elliptical abstraction. (Positif's most virulent polemicist, Robert Benayoun, dubbed the converted Cahiers crew "les enfants du paradigme.)"--Making Meaning (1989) by David Bordwell |
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Robert Benayoun (12 December 1926 in Kenitra, Morocco – 20 October 1996, Paris) was a French film critic and author, and one-time member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival of 1980. He wrote books on Tex Avery, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Alain Resnais.
He wrote screenplays for and directed three films. Benayoun was one of comedian Jerry Lewis's greatest supporters and directed a film about him called Bonjour Mr. Lewis. He also directed the 1975 film Serious as Pleasure.
Filmography
- 1968 : réalisateur, scénariste et acteur de Paris n'existe pas
- 1968 : acteur pour Erotissimo où il joue Mario
- 1975 : réalisateur et scénariste de Sérieux comme le plaisir
Bibliography
- L’Anthologie du non-sens, J. J. Pauvert, 1957
- L'Érotique du surréalisme, J. J. Pauvert, 1965
- Bonjour monsieur Lewis, P. Losfeld, 1972
- Le Nonsense, Balland, 1977.
- Le Dessin animé après Walt Disney
- John Huston, Seghers, 1966
- Les Frères Marx, Seghers, 1980
- Alain Resnais, arpenteur de l'imaginaire, Stock, 1980
- Le Regard de Buster Keaton, Herscher, 1982
- Les Dingues du nonsense de Lewis Caroll à Woody Allen, Seuil, 1986
- Le Mystère Tex Avery, Seuil, 1988
- Le Rire des surréalistes, La Bougie du Sapeur, 1988
- Petites pièces pouvant servir à approcher (même à comprendre) sinon à expliquer dans son ensemble le surréalisme, L'Ecart absolu, 2001
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Andréa Ferréol, Benayoun, Buster Keaton, Francis Masse, Francis Perrin (actor), Gloria Feman Orenstein, Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Claude Vannier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jerry Lewis, Life Is a Bed of Roses, List of Moroccan people, Manifesto of the 121, Maurice Bénichou, Michel Berger, Serious as Pleasure, Stavisky, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
