Known for Sound
Jacques Maumont (29 September 1924 – 13 April 2006) was a French sound editor who won at the 35th Academy Awards in the category of Best Special Effects. He won for his work on the film The Longest Day, for which he shared his win with Robert MacDonald. He worked on 140 films during his career. Source: Article "Jacques Maumont" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born
September 24, 1924
Died
April 13, 2006 (age 81)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Filmography
64 films


Confidentially Yours
1983 · 1h 50m
country: France
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.


The Roaring Forties
1982 · 2h 12m
country: Germany
Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his original good intentions by a low-life press agent who convinces him it would be well worth his while to win the race by illegal maneuvering. As he sets off, flashbacks tell how he came to be on the sailboat; later he has long monologues -- several of them, and in-between he occasionally battles to stay afloat on an uncooperative sea.


The Woman Next Door
1981 · 1h 46m
country: France
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.


Every Man for Himself
1980 · 1h 27m
country: Austria
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.


I... for Icarus
1979 · 2h 9m
country: France
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.


The Adolescent
1979 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.


Out of It
1978 · 1h 40m
country: France
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.


Providence
1977 · 1h 50m
country: France
On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.


The Body of My Enemy
1976 · 2h
country: France
A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.


Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
1973 · 1h 35m
country: France
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.


Cannabis
1970 · 1h 35m
country: France
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...


My Night at Maud's
1969 · 1h 50m
country: France
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.


Uncle Yanco
1967 · 18m
country: France
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life. The meeting is a very happy one.


Made in U.S.A
1967 · 1h 25m
country: France
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.


Evening Classes
1967 · 30m
country: France
Tati plays a comedy teacher and explains the basic rules of comedy to some rather slow-witted students, illustrating his points with demonstrations.


The Married Woman
1964 · 1h 35m
country: France
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.


The Carabineers
1963 · 1h 20m
country: France
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.


Le Petit Soldat
1963 · 1h 27m
country: France
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.


The Longest Day
1962 · 2h 58m
country: United States
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"


A Story of Water
1961 · 12m
country: France
A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.


Breathless
1960 · 1h 30m
country: France
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.


All the Boys Are Called Patrick
1959 · 21m
country: France
A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.


Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
1958 · 13m
country: France
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; while the man is trying his best to get her back in his life, then in the next sentence he says he hates her.