Director - filmography

Immortel (ad vitam) (2004)

Tykho moon (1996)

Bunker palace hotel (1989)

Enki Bilal was born in 1951 in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, and moved to Paris 9 years later. At age 14 he met René Goscinny (illustrator of "Asterix") and famous French comix scripter Jean-Michel Charlier, who praised his drawings and encouraged him to try comics. His first story, the utopian "Le Bol Maudit", was published 1972 in Pilote. In 1975 he started a long-running collaboration with Pierre Christin with "La Croisière de les Oubliés". The following year the pair produced "Le Vaisseau de Pierre", followed by "La Ville qui n'Existait pas", "Les Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir", "Exterminateur 17", and "Partie de Chasse", a story examining the moral effect of Communism and its collapse. "Cœur Sanglant et Autres Faits Divers" appeared in 1988.

In 1980 Bilal began his "Nikopol Trilogy" with "La Foire aux Immortels", the first story which he both wrote and drew. It was very successful in France and Bilal was acclaimed one of the most interesting contemporary authors. The sequel, "La Femme Piège", appeared in 1986 and the series concluded in 1992 with "Froid Equateur". A new story, "Le Sommeil du Monstre", appeared in 1999.

In 1983 Bilal created designs for the film, "La Vie est un Novel", directed by French director and comix aficionado Alain Resnais. In 1989 Bilal himself directed the filming of his story "La Foire aux immortels". He has also worked on the films "Bunker Palace Hôtel" and "Tykho Moon".

Enki Bilal has illustrated many other series and book covers.

written by Andy Etris

Immortel

Plot Outline: New York 2095. In a strange pyramid floating in the sky, the gods of ancient Egypt are judging Horus. In the city, a young women with blue hair and tears is arrested, but she has a secret power, even to herself...

Trivia: Was one of several films around the world that were the first to use an entirely "digital backlot" (i.e. the actors were all shot in front of blue- and green-screens with all the backgrounds added in post-production, a technique which has been used for TV, video and video game production for many years).

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"La marche de l'empereur" reste en lice pour l'Oscar du meilleur documentaire, a annoncé mardi l'Académie des arts et des sciences du cinéma à Hollywood (Californie, ouest) dans un communiqué.

Le film de Luc Jacquet sur la vie des manchots empereur dans l'Antarctique fait partie des 15 demi-finalistes choisis par l'Académie parmi 82 candidats. Les noms des cinq finalistes nommés pour l'Oscar seront connus le 31 janvier prochain, comme pour les 24 autres catégories de récompenses.

Parmi les autres films toujours en compétition figurent "Enron: the smartest guys in the room" sur la faillite du géant américain de l'énergie en 2001 et "Murderball" racontant la marche vers la gloire de sportifs paraplégiques, déjà lauréat du prix du meilleur documentaire au festival de Sundance.

D'autres documentaires abordant des sujet de société américains, comme "Mad hot ballroom", l'histoire d'enfants d'écoles de New York apprenant à danser, ou "After innocence" sur la réinsertion de prisonniers blanchis par l'ADN après des années d'incarcération, ont également été sélectionnés.

"La marche de l'empereur" est devenu le plus gros succès français de tous les temps sur le marché nord-américain, où il a recueilli plus de 76 millions de dollars de recettes depuis fin juin.

C'est un autre film, "Joyeux Noël" de Christian Carion, qui a été choisi par la France pour concourir à l'Oscar du meilleur film étranger.

La 78e cérémonie des Oscars se déroulera le 5 mars 2006 au théâtre Kodak de Hollywood, au nord-ouest de Los Angeles.

Le Monde.

The march of the penguins / la marche de l'empreur

a great documentary, an extrem shooting, a life story...

The march of the penguins takes place in the iced-sea, relating the travel of birds colonies walking trough it for days to birthchild in a save place...waiting for spring...

The pictures are amazing! and the story related is surprising...

The only thing, element wich is regreted : the voices!

why ? It's ok the first time you see it to better understand what's going on, but then, it's just stupid... sound like a disney picture, where animals have human attributes, feelings and philosophy... a regular, deep and good voice over, narrator would be a undred time better...to inform, giving elements of the different marchs... but with actors, playing frozen birds...we just can imagine the christmas commercial issue of the film... only check the US trailer...i just laugh (the french one is different...and did had a true heavy "kid traget")

anyway...you can put the voices off, to enjoy fully nature' show !