Henri Colpi
Director
26
Movies
4
TV Shows
Henri Colpi (French: [kɔlpi]; 15 July 1921 – 14 January 2006) was a French film editor and film director.
Colpi graduated from the IDHEC in 1947. During 1950 to 1960, he edited films for such notable French New Wave directors as Agnès Varda and Georges Franju.
Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, which is well known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel. Une aussi longue absence was written by Marguerite Duras, featured Alida Valli in a major role, and included music by Georges Delerue. It also won the Louis Delluc Prize in 1960. His second feature Codine was also screening in competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, where Colpi won the prize for Best Screenplay.
Colpi is also noted as a film editor with about 20 credits, including Alain Resnais' films Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961). He edited André Antoine's forgotten film L'Hirondelle et la Mésange (The Swallow and the Titmouse) to a 79-minute feature that premiered in 1984. Antoine initially shot six hours of footage.
In addition to directing, editing, acting, sound recording, and a variety of functions in the post-War years, he was featured in a French television series, L'Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (The History of French Cinema By Those Who Made It) in 1974, and he continued to work into the 1990s.
Behind the Camera
Nuit et Brouillard
Sound Recordist
Bilitis
Editor, Technical Advisor
L'Année dernière à Marienbad
Editor
El sacrificio
Thanks
Hiroshima mon amour
Editor
Les Fruits de la passion
Editor
L'Île Mystérieuse
Director
Un rey en Nueva York
Assistant Editor
Thibaud ou les Croisades
Director
La isla misteriosa
Director, Escritor
Du côté de la côte
Editor
Une aussi longue absence
Director
Noële aux quatre vents
Director
Le Mystère Picasso
Editor
Fortune
Director
Détruire, dit-elle
Editor
Monsieur Tête
Editor
Heureux qui comme Ulysse
Director, Escritor
Le Grand Frère
Editor
La Première Nuit
Editor
Mona, l'étoile sans nom
Director, Guionista
Codin
Director, Editor, Guionista
Les hommes de la baleine
Editor
Le sphinx
Editor
La mer et les jours
Editor
Bilocation
Editor
Rafael Kubelik A Portrait
Director