Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Biography
Jean-Jacques Pauvert (8 April 1926 – 27 September 2014) was a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the Story of O (1954) and the first edition of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon (1959). Pauvert was born in Paris. In addition to his other publications, he published the first French edition of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience in 1968. He died, aged 88, in Toulon. Source: Article "Jean-Jacques Pauvert" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes • as Self
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Wrong Man at the Sex-shop
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Self
A tortuous journey, in the company of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, around the figure of the enigmatic and visionary French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933).
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Self
A Wild Honest Man