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	Jean Vigo
		Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 - October 5, 1934) was a French film director.
		The son of the famous French anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo (also known as Miguel Almereyda), much of his early life was spent on the run with his parents.
		The film draws extensively on Vigo's boarding school experiences to depict a repressive and institutionalised educational establishment in which surreal acts of rebellion occur.
	www.jahsonic.com /JeanVigo.html (303 words)

	Jean Vigo Page from the Anti-Authoritarian Encyclopedia: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners; Labor, Radical, Poets, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jean Vigo led a poor & wretched childhood, made particularly difficult with his fathers frequent stays in prison because of his activism.
		Jean Vigo was only 12 years old & already afflicted with the tuberculosis which would take his short life.
		Jean Vigo was a member of the Association of Revolutionary Writers & Artists from 1932, & was involved with the libertarians (particularly Jeanne Humbert, who was his "godmother").
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/VigoJean.htm (952 words)

	Jean Vigo
		Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 - October 5, 1934) was a French film director.
		The son of the famous French anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo[?] (also known as Miguel Almereyda]], much of his early life was spent on the run with his parents.
		His father was found dead in mysterious circumstances after capture in a prison cell in 1917 and Vigo was subsequently sent to boarding school under an assumed name, Jean Sales, to conceal his identity.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jean_Vigo.html (168 words)

	Jean Vigo Summary
		Vigo was well versed in his father's work and legend, but the facts of Almereyda's death had always been glossed over, especially his mother's role in the legal drama that occurred afterward.
		Vigo's anarchist politics and his sense of satire are both strong elements of the film, which contrasts the wealthy and the poor in the city of Nice.
		Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 – October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
	www.bookrags.com /Jean_Vigo (2178 words)

	Jean Vigo
		As bold in its formal experimentation as it is in its gleefully morbid fascination with ugliness, the grotesque humour of its portraits of the holidaymakers that swarm over the Promenade des Anglais (sometimes suggestively intercut with shots of animals!) is brutally undercut by images of distressing poverty.
		Jean Vigo's first masterpiece was banned in France until 1945.
		Vigo stands apart from any cinematic tradition, a political and artistic rebel who lived and worked in poverty on the margins of the film industry.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/vigo.html (2425 words)

	Jean Vigo: L'Atalante \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		Jean Vigo made only four films before he died of tuberculosis in 1934, aged just 29.
		But think of Renoir and of Bunuel, put the two together and you have Jean Vigo - the son of a militant anarchist who took the name Miguel Almereyda because it contained all the letters of ''merde'' (shit) and was almost certainly murdered in prison.
		Vigo was not afraid of going beyond realism while still insisting on the grittiness of ordinary life.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,36066,00.html (739 words)

	L'Atalante / Le Chaland qui passe / Jean Vigo / 1934 / film review
		It was the final film of the young director Jean Vigo, who, a T.B. sufferer, died of septicemia shortly after the film was released, at the age of 29.
		Jean's makeshift and untidy life must indeed prove a shock to a peasant girl with that bugaboo of French life, bourgeois aspirations.
		Jean promises Juliette a night on the town in the city she has dreamt of experiencing.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_L_Atalante_rev.html (1601 words)

	Jean Vigo / director / realisateur / films / biography
		Born in Paris in 1905, Jean Vigo was the son of a political anarchist who was arrested by the French authorities and died in prison in 1919.
		Vigo’s mother tried to keep his father’s past from him, going so far as to change the family name.
		Leaving the asylum, Vigo had a profound passion to make films, and he was greatly influenced by his father’s secret history when he found this out.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_jvigo.html (323 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film & Media \| 2005 \| Centenary of Jean Vigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although Vigo made only four films before his untimely death at age twenty-nine, all of them are masterpieces informed by his social engagement and unerring artistic flair and ambition.
		This celebration of Vigo’s independent spirit is also the occasion to announce a MoMA exhibition in 2006 of selected winners of the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo, awarded annually since 1951 by a jury of French film professionals headed by the filmmaker’s daughter, Luce Vigo.
		Vigo’s anarchic style of filmmaking and approach to his subject provoked a scandal at the film’s premiere, and it was subsequently banned.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2005/jean_vigo.html (366 words)

	L'Atalante
		Jean Vigo's L'Atalante, like Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, is the only full-length feature its director ever made.
		Jean (Jean Dasté, familiar from Renoir's Grand Illusion and, later, Costa-Gavras's Z) is the skipper on a barge.
		Jean and Juliette seem not to matter, though she is far more nonplussed when she discovers that her new husband hasn't done laundry in over a year, and that the dozens of cats onboard the ship freely bear new litters in the kitchen, on her bedsheets.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /atalante.html (568 words)

	Jean Vigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His epitaph is the kind that inspires romantic canonization: Born to a militant anarchist, Vigo was orphaned as a child after his father's death in jail; fought and lost a long battle with tuberculosis; and went unappreciated during his lifetime.
		Shot by Vigo collaborator Boris Kaufman (who would later win an Oscar for cinematography for On the Waterfront), Apropos de Nice is distinguished by what have come to be the filmmaker's hallmarks: formal experimentation, an affinity for the carnivalesque, a sense of play, a profound sensitivity for people and their environment.
		Vigo drew on his years at a boarding school for this chronicle of a children's revolt against their mean headmasters.
	xixax.com /index.php?topic=8375.0 (1233 words)

	Documentary Films .NET » Blog Archive » Punto de Vista introduces the Jean Vigo prize
		This is the first prize in Spain associated with the memory of the director of L´Atalante, but in France, the Prix Jean Vigo is closely related to some of the best filmmaking of the last 50 years.
		The Prix Jean Vigo was created in France in 1951 as a means of promoting young filmmakers with the greatest prospects.
		With all this evocations, it is an honour for Punto de Vista that, as of 2007, the festival shall be an accredited platform dedicated to the memory of Vigo, rewarding the most audacious, directors of non-fiction.
	www.documentaryfilms.net /index.php/punto-de-vista-introduces-the-jean-vigo-prize (586 words)

	Jean Vigo - Film as director:
		Salès-Gomès, P.E., "Le Mort de Jean Vigo," in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), August/September 1955.
		Jean Vigo's À propos de Nice, his first film, is his contribution to the French surrealist movement.
		They are only puppets, or fans, or gramophones piled in a heap in the room of Père Jules, Jean's old assistant, but Juliette has spent her entire life in a small town, and for her, these trinkets represent the mysteries of faraway places.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Ve-Y/Vigo-Jean.html (1366 words)

	Wikinfo \| Jean Vigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 in Paris, France - October 5, 1934 in Paris, France) was a French film director.
		Bporn Jean Bonaventure de Vigo, the son of the famous French anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo (also known as Miguel Almereyda), much of his early life was spent on the run with his parents.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Jean_Vigo (257 words)

	JEAN VIGO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Despite his meager output, Vigo has become one of the most influential French filmmakers of the century, even if it was an honor he would never live to see.
		During Jean's young adulthood, his father, Eugène Bonaventure de Vigo (aka Miguel Almereyda), a left-wing political activist, was accused by the French government of collaborating with Germany in a scheme to end WWI, and he was put on trial as a traitor.
		In these films, Vigo strove to create a new, immediate style that was later to achieve full expression in the open cinema of Welles and Renoir and retooled into the French New Wave essays of Jean-Luc Godard.
	student.mscc.huji.ac.il /~forensic/subs/vigo.htm (638 words)

	Jean Vigo Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the time of their release, the films now considered Vigo's three masterpieces, "A propos de Nice" (1929), "Zero de conduite" (1933) and "L'Atalante" (1934), were largely vilified by the critics, ignored by the public, recut and butchered by producers and exhibitors.
		With "A propos de Nice," "Zero de conduite" and "L'Atalante," Vigo consolidated the formalistic expressiveness of the silent French avant-garde, the open naturalism of the American silent cinema of von Stroheim and Chaplin, and the blasting immediacy of Dziga Vertov's Kino Pravda newsreel.
		But the bright promise of Vigo in pursuit of a new film style was suddenly crushed when, on October 5, 1934, a few days after the opening of "L'Atalante," Jean Vigo succumbed to rheumatic septicameia.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/196659 (956 words)

	complete jean vigo - review at videovista
		Jean Vigo was born in 1905 and didn't live to see his 30th birthday.
		But what Vigo did achieve in his short filmmaking career, despite lack of funding, often primitive technology (this was less than a decade after sound had been introduced), is a compelling mix of lyricism, sometimes bordering on surrealism, anarchic humour, and - especially in L'Atalante - an aching romanticism.
		Vigo's films work primarily on a visual level (A Propos de Nice is silent with a music track and the sound recording on the other three films is decidedly primitive).
	www.videovista.net /reviews/dec04/jeanvigo.html (900 words)

	Jean Vigo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Jean Vigo (París, 26 de abril de 1905 - París, 5 de octubre de 1934) fue un director de cine francés.
		En 1930, Vigo crea en Niza un cine-club llamado "Les Amis du Cinéma", donde programa, entre otras muchas, películas soviéticas.
		Jean Vigo falleció en París de tuberculosis, y fue enterrado en el cementerio de Bagneux, en la capital francesa.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Vigo (550 words)

	jeanvigo
		To mark the centenary of the birth of Jean Vigo (1905—1934), we present the auteur’s complete works over the course of a single evening.
		Although Vigo made only four films before his untimely death at age twenty-nine, all are masterpieces—poetic, anarchic, violent, dream-like—and among the seminal works of the French cinema.
		This technically complex work made with the champion swimmer Jean Taris emphasizes body movement and was called an “aquatic ballet” by Vigo ’s contemporary, Jean Cocteau.
	www.ihousephilly.org /jeanvigo.htm (250 words)

	Jean Vigo - Moviefone
		As the son of notorious French anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo (aka Miguel Almereyda), young Jean Vigo and his family were obliged to stay on...
		Vigo was married and had a daughter in...
		Jean Vigo - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Jean Vigo Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/jean-vigo/115432/main (105 words)

	“Jean Vigo” by Michael Temple
		Jean Vigo’s structure is decidedly programmatic, verging on a Barry Saltian statistical analysis during discussions of Zéro de conduite (1933) and L’Atalante (1934).
		Many have argued that Vigo is a Surrealist au fond – the mystifying shots of Juliette (Dita Parlo) licking a block of ice in L’Atalante, which were temporarily included in certain versions of the film, have probably done nothing to discourage this reading (6).
		Vigo has just as frequently been understood as the first martyr to cinema, a role that has encouraged prodigious hagiography and such misguided homage as Lindsay Anderson’s If… (1968).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/06/41/jean-vigo-michael-temple.html (1112 words)

	TSPDT - Jean Vigo
		"Vigo was one of cinema's finest poets, able to transcend mundane reality with his unique blend of lyricism, wit, sensuality and surrealism.
		Because of the vagaries of film exhibition and censorship, Vigo was little known while he was making films.
		He received nowhere near the acclaim given to his contemporaries Jean Renoir and René Clair.
	www.theyshootpictures.com /vigojean.htm (395 words)

	“Jean Vigo” by Michael Temple
		Jean Vigo’s structure is decidedly programmatic, verging on a Barry Saltian statistical analysis during discussions of Zéro de conduite (1933) and L’Atalante (1934).
		Many have argued that Vigo is a Surrealist au fond – the mystifying shots of Juliette (Dita Parlo) licking a block of ice in L’Atalante, which were temporarily included in certain versions of the film, have probably done nothing to discourage this reading (6).
		Vigo has just as frequently been understood as the first martyr to cinema, a role that has encouraged prodigious hagiography and such misguided homage as Lindsay Anderson’s If… (1968).
	sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/06/41/jean-vigo-michael-temple.html (1112 words)

	Vigo (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jean Vigo was an immense talent born ahead of his time.
		They lived fuller lives than most of us ever will, experienced truer love than most of us will ever be fortunate enough to have, and realized more of their dreams and goals than most of us could ever hope to.
		And, Jean did all of this in a life that lasted only 29 years.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0118801 (417 words)

	Amazon.com: L' Atalante: DVD: Jean Vigo,Michel Simon,Dita Parlo,Jean Dasté,Gilles Margaritis,Louis Lefebvre,Maurice ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Plot Synopsis: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live on his ship, on board of which are, besides the two of them, only a cabin boy and the strange old second mate Pere Jules.
		Jean Vigo's innovative style transforms a simple and engaging plot of a young woman's stormy initiation into married life on a river barge, into a kaleidoscope of dazzling digressions and offbeat characterizations complete with tour-de-force scenes that still seem fresh and startling.
		The perfomer's obsessive 'love' contrasted with the ultimately more enduring love and passion of the young couple, who, after the shameful scene of the husband, Jean, deciding to leave her stranded in port after her fling with the other man played out with him coming to his senses to return for her.
	www.amazon.com /L-Atalante-Jean-Vigo/dp/B00008OSD5 (2673 words)

	The Complete Jean Vigo - Channel 4 Film feature
		Taris Vigo's short, witty documentary about champion swimmer Jean Taris.
		French director Jean Vigo's body of work was relatively small, but despite this he made a remarkable impact on filmmakers and fans alike.
		Of particular interest is the Gaumont documentary 'Filmmakers Of Our Time: Jean Vigo', which gives a detailed account of the director's riveting history as well as a rounded view of his cinematic output.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/feature.jsp?id=139085 (308 words)

	Jean Vigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jean Vigo had a bad health since he was a child.
		Jean Vigo is the father of film critic Luce Vigo.
		Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Jean Vigo
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0897118 (253 words)

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