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	Pitof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pitof is the pseudonym of a French film director and visual effects director whose real name is Jean-Christophe Comar.
		Most of his work has been in such French language films as La Cité des enfants perdus and Astérix et Obélix contre César, but he has also worked on The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc and as the Visual Effects Supervisor on Alien: Resurrection.
		Although Berry and Catwoman screenwriter John Rogers attended the ceremony in good humor to accept their awards for Worst Actress and Worst Screenplay, Pitof did not make an appearance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitof (193 words)

	AOL Canada \| Entertainment \| Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born Jean-Christophe Comar, Pitof began his career in 1979 working as an assistant director and editor on films and commercials in his native France.
		In 1997, Pitof took on the role of both visual arts director and second unit director for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection and consequently won second prize for visual effects at Imagina that year.
		Pitof made his feature film directing debut with Vidocq (2001), a French-language period piece starring Gérard Depardieu that was the first major release to be shot entirely on the Sony-Panavision digital video format that George Lucas had developed.
	www.tribute.ca /aol/movieinfo/DIRECTOR.asp?id=8172 (234 words)

	Fantasy Filmfest
		While Pitof may now be one of the most respected visual effects editors on the Paris post-production scene, it is a career, he admits, without remarkable beginnings.
		Pitof's transition to become the director of the world's first fully digital feature film, ahead of Hollywood giants George Lucas and James Cameron, is an important milestone in his career.
		Pitof's intention, in fact, was to remove the logistical and creative distinctions between the production and post-production phases of film-making.
	www.fantasyfilmfest.com /fantasy/filme2002/Vidocq.html (1470 words)

	CAT WOMAN
		Pitof takes all of the superficialities of comic book conversions and compiles them into one grotesque amalgamation of dumbness bound to insult even those whose shoe size exceeds their IQ.
		"Pitof" rushes through his source obligations with careless haste, anxious to dress his busty actress in leather as quickly as possible.
		The manner in which Pitof shoots and edits his action sequences is appalling – it’s like some sort of crackpot crossbreed of MTV ethos and bondage innuendo.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/catwoman.htm (819 words)

	Pitof @ Filmbug
		A pioneer of digital imaging in France, Pitof made his debut in visual effects in 1986 while working on commercial, video and films for recognized directors such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Bertrand Travernier and Luc Besson.
		Pitof went on to direct trailers, most notably A Tribute to Jessie Owens and Carol Lewis, for which he won the Gold Podium medal at MIFED in 1996 and the Gold Teapot medal at Imagina in 1996.
		In 1997, Pitof took on the role of second unit director for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection, and consequently won second prize for visual effects at Imagina that year.
	www.filmbug.com /db/344314 (341 words)

	Catwoman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pitof is known for his visual effects work on such projects as "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc," "Asterix & Obelix vs. Caesar" and "Alien: Resurrection." Last year, he made his directorial debut on the French action/crime thriller "Vidocq," starring Gerard Depardieu.
		While she is a vulnerable woman, her alter ego, Catwoman, is superconfident and must battle against the town's evil mayor and his business associate.
		Pitof, whose birth name is Jean-Christophe Comar, is repped by Endeavor.
	www.countingdown.com /movies/15513?item_id=666292&print=1 (146 words)

	Vidocq review
		Pitof, a former film editor, became a special effects supervisor on several French blockbusters such as The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Luc Besson's The Messenger.
		With the great depth of field, Pitof uses and abuses (especially at the beginning: Vidocq is dead, Vidocq is dead).
		Moreover, Pitof is more concerned with the visual aspect of his movie rather than characters and plot development.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/vidocq.html (824 words)

	DVD Times - Vidocq
		Vidocq is the debut film of French special effects wizard Pitof, better known for his work as technical effects supervisor on Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Alien Resurrection and Asterix and Obelix.
		Pitof’s direction is not the most brilliant or imaginative and shows Orson Welles influences amongst others.
		Presented in non-anamorphic widescreen, this is a music-video, directed by Pitof using scenes and sets from the film.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5052 (1981 words)

	Vidocq - Lightsfade review
		Pitof is much more playful and constantly pushes this new medium to see what he can do with it.
		Like Christophe Gans' (“Brotherhood of the Wolf”, 2001) Pitof is unable to resist adding a little French sauce to the proceedings; in the time-honoured tradition of adult European cinema there is a smattering of nudity, some gratuitous cleavage shots and some socially irresponsible throat slashing.
		In fairness to Pitof many of the films from which he has borrowed have themselves borrowed much of their fight choreography from Hong Kong action cinema.
	www.lightsfade.com /reviews/vidocq.htm (1507 words)

	Catwoman (2004)
		Pitof comes from a visual effects background in his native France where he has acted as supervisor on films such as Delicatessen (1991), Les Visiteurs (1993), The City of Lost Children (1995),
		And then there are some of Pitof's scenes that would have just looked naff no matter how they were directed - the impromptu basketball game, the encounter with a rocker neighbour, Halle's whip-wielding antics on the dancefloor.
		There really seems no limit on the silliness that Pitof is prepared to put her through or what she is prepared to lower herself to do - be it licking out tins of tuna, kicking in doors and facing down bad boy rockers, cracking a whip on a nightclub dancefloor or sniffing catnip.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/catwoman.htm (1359 words)

	Apple - Creative - Vidocq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Firstly, this means that the film was shot with a digital camera; in addition to the mobility advantage, Pitof, the director, used “capture mode” to preserve the actors’ freshness and spontaneity.
		Pitof acts as director, special effects guru, editor and composer.
		Reflecting Pitof’s concern for managing the movie as a whole and maintaining artistic continuity, the production design budget was nearly the same as for Vatel (French Academy Award for Best Art Direction).
	www.apple.com /za/creative/desktopmovies/vidocq (492 words)

	Sci-Fi Wire - A News Service of the Sci-Fi Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Director Pitof, who is helming the upcoming Catwoman movie, told French magazine Allocine that the Halle Berry movie will have little to do with previous incarnations of the DC Comics character, according to a translation posted on the Superhero Hype Web site.
		Pitof added, "There will be no direct link with Batman, nor will there be Batman-esque imagery, and it won't be set in Gotham City.
		Pitof said that the movie is still in development.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/email.cgi?story=2003-04/16/09.00.film (190 words)

	Planet-X -=- Catwoman
		Now after that PITOF is supposed to have a visual presentation featuring early edited footage for Wb, They will then make their decision on whether they care for his "Vision" or not.
		CHUD spoke with "Catwoman" screenwriter John Rogers on the recent report that helmer Pitof is in talks to direct.
		French visual-effects director Pitof (aka Jean-Christophe Comar) is in talks to make his English-language debut as a feature-film director on Warner Brothers' upcoming Catwoman movie, starring Ashley Judd, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
	www.x-human.net /catwoman_2004.shtml (2522 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Catwoman'
		Pitof was the second-unit director on Alien: Resurrection and is a visual-effects technician known in France for his commercials.
		In an action scene where a carnival Ferris wheel breaks down, you can barely tell where the wheel is. The first revelation of Patience's catlike agility is brutally crosscut with the other half of a telephone conversation Patience is having with her best friend (Alex Borstein).
		Pitof, uncomfortable with the repose part, treats the romance dispassionately.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.21.04/catwoman-0430.html (645 words)

	Movie Review \| Vidocq (2001) Gérard Depardieu, Ines Sastre
		The film moves very fast (that is to say, the film never lingers for longer than a few seconds), and director Pitof and his two cinematographers seem to have used digital cameras to capture the action in lieu of traditional film cameras.
		Pitof has elected to film the movie as if he's a speed freak — and alas, we have to see what this speed freak sees.
		Pitof seems intent on covering the film in total darkness, relying too much on natural lighting, which means dark rooms are just that, dark.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/vidocq.htm (914 words)

	IGN: Catwoman's French Kiss
		Pitof made his feature film directing debut on the recently released Vidocq, a French period piece starring Gérard Depardieu.
		Pitof advised The London Sunday Observer last September that shooting the first all-digital feature film "is the first step towards the cinema of the future.
		Pitof cut his teeth on numerous commercials and videos, and later served as the digital effects supervisor on such genre films as The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, The Visitors, and Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/355/355514p1.html (498 words)

	Mad Mission: Rants and Raves from a Cineaste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The snapping, whiz-bang wizardry of Pitof’s Catwoman is the kind of woefully underwhelming pop cinema that gives detractors of the new American action cinema fuel for their ever-growing fires.
		Pitof’s Catwoman is an exercise in futile escapist revisionism, taking a well-established character of print, broadcast and film (Michele Pfeiffer remains the feline anti-hero’s finest incarnation) and channeling her into a sexless, bootstrap and leather runway model with a whip.
		Pitof's compositions, all show and no Go, have a certain lack of geography that belie his experience at crafting cohesive action set pieces.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /personal/catwoman.html (266 words)

	Moviehole.net - Their litter-box is full
		Last week news surfaced that the film - set to star Halle Berry and be directed by Pitof — was dead in the water, and although that report was later found to be fallacious, there is some fretfulness bordering the production.
		According to IGN FilmForce, an insider on the film says the feeling is that the film is a ‘ticking time bomb’.
		Pitof had brought onboard several other French crew members, including his production designer and cinematographer.
	www.moviehole.net /news/1994.html (457 words)

	Director Pitof - MoviesOnline
		Led by Col Nicholson, a stereotypical British officer, the prisoners score a moral victory over the Japanese by not only building the bridge, but running the whole show....
		Below is a complete list of all of the Pitof movies in our database.
		Pitof is french and his real name is Jean-Christophe Comar.
	www.moviesonline.ca /director14.htm (665 words)

	The Superhero Hype! Boards - Akira, Pitof [merged-3] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Akira: Katsuhiro Otomo said to Telerama that PITOF is to direct the live action Akira.
		This is from Dark Horizons, Akira: Katsuhiro Otomo said to Telerama that PITOF is to direct the live action Akira.
		I am not saying Pitof is a good director, but what I am saying is that it's too early to tell.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/printthread.php?t=141808&pp=40 (1848 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Pitof Directing AKIRA?
		09-27-2004 02:36 PM Pitof is still a better visualist than Steve Norrington, who was previously supposed to helm it.
		Its also very unlikely that this film will make that much money at all unless there are big names attached to it and they turn it into something completely different, which is what I expect.
		Whether Pitof directs this or not it doesn't really matter.
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=71712 (812 words)

	Catwoman movie review
		And director Pitof does in fact lend this picture its glossy and mysterious allure in a unique manner that’s inescapable to ignore.
		As mentioned previously, Pitof helms a movie that looks good on the outside but there's much to be desired as far as the pedestrian direction is concerned.
		But Pitof, a French editor/filmmaker with a sturdy background in graphic design and former director in commercials/ads, fortifies his movie with the liveliness of snappy images and drowns his neglected narrative in rousing tunes that would make any music video sulk with envy.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/04_oct/news1004_6.shtml (1877 words)

	VFX HQ: ALIEN RESURRECTION
		With Pitof's broken English, and Jenuet's education of English while directing on set, language barriers were tackled both on first unit shooting as well as visual effects duties.
		Shea said, "It was really tough for Duboi's artists, because the majority of them are very young, like in their 20s, they're all Parisian, and for many of them, it was their first time in the United States.
		Henry elaborated on this point, "The director was a stranger in a strange land, which led to the involvement of his old friend Pitof, someone from his past that he could rely on.
	www.vfxhq.com /1997/alien4-how2.html (739 words)

	Pitof @ Celebrity-News.Net - Download News & Gossip - Movie, Music Celebrities, Fashion, Shop
		Hilariously one-named director Pitof's 2004 "Catwoman" is not one of them.
		Since Parisian director Pitof's $85-million flop with "Catwoman" last year, Leterrier has taken over as France's most Hollywood-friendly import — even if the...
		Christian Bale stars in "Batman Begins." After two campy and poorly written Joel Schumacher sequels (a Batsuit with nipples?) and French director Pitof's purr-fectly stupid spinoff "Catwoman," the Batman franchise has returned to its dark, moody, action-adventure roots.
	celebrity-news.net /pitof.html (312 words)

	Vidocq review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pitof who has recently picked up the helm for the upcoming film Catwoman, spent most of his time in the visual effects side.
		Pitof has taken this well known France detective and brought him into the next stage.
		That's no joke, she was the highlight of this film...well for me. See seemed to flow across the screen eluminating her beauty without effort.
	www.cinema-nocturna.com /vidocq_review.htm (626 words)

	Apple (UK and Ireland) - Creative - Desktop Movies - Vidocq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Firstly, it means that the film was shot with a digital camera from start to finish; which, in addition to giving Pitof, the director, the advantage of mobility, allowed him to use “capture mode” to preserve the actors’ freshness and spontaneity.
		Secondly, it means that all the post-production work was done digitally, including the re-touching of the background and the adjustment of lighting and colour.
		Because there was no commercially available tool dedicated to special effects, Pitof drew up specifications with a rigorous film-production logic.
	www.apple.com /uk/creative/desktopmovies/vidocq (550 words)

	Pitof - Uncyclopedia
		Originally wanted to call himself "Piss of", but his agent, who secretly didn't know how to write, wrote pitof.
		Because Pitof noticed it too late, and he was crap on money, he sticked with it.
		His idol is Jerry Lewis, he considers Lewis' film The Nutty Professor the best film ever made.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Pitof (81 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Catwoman -- Pitof - DVD - Subtitled / Full Frame / Dubbed
		Comic-book movies depend on visuals for a great deal of their effect, and this one is more stylish than most.
		Chalk that up to director Pitof, who combines the best cinematographic techniques with state-of-the-art computer imagery to give Catwoman a sheen unlike practically any film you've ever seen.
		Pitof maintains a delicate balance between high adventure and high camp: Whenever the movie seems poised to tumble into the abyss of absurdity, he reaches out and pulls it back just in time.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=12569694385&userid=D36tLN5AfT&frm=0 (859 words)

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