Collin, Philippe

(November 19, 1931, Paris, France - )

   After graduating from the IDHEC in 1953, he started out as a trainee assistant director to Léonide Moguy (1953 Les Enfants de l'Amour / USA: Children of Love) before serving as assistant to such filmmakers as Eric Rohmer (1962 Le Signe du Lion / UK and USA: The Sign of Leo, shot in 1959) and Louis Malle (1960 Zazie dans le Métro / Zazie nel metrô, France / Italy; 1962 Vie privée / Vita privata / UK and USA: A Very Private Affair, France / Italy; 1963 Le Feu follet / UK: A Time to Love and a Time to Die / Will o' the Wisp / USA: The Fire Within, France / Italy). He directed about 200 reports for TV programs (Les Ecrans de la ville, Ciné 3, L'Invité du Dimanche, L'Homme en Question, Ciné-Regards, Désir des Arts, Les Arts). From 1974 to 2001, he was film critic for weekly magazine Elle and a radio program (from 1985 to 2001). Other credits (as actor): 1980 Le Borgne (Raul Ruiz); La Banquière (Francis Girod); 1987 Jeux d'Artifices (Virginie Thévenet); 1989 Penti-mento (Tonie Marshall).

 Filmography

1977 ◘ Ciné-Follies (compilation film; also screenwriter)

1980 ◘ Le Fils puni (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot in 1978)

1996 ◘ Les Derniers Jours d'Emmanuel Kant (also co-screenwriter; shot in 1993)

2005 ◘ Aux Abois

 Television Filmography

1967 ◘ Marcel Duchamp (documentary)

1968 ◘ Naissance de l'Esprit Dada 1913 (documentary)

        ◘ Dada à Zurich (documentary)

        ◘ Dada à Berlin 1917 (documentary)

        ◘ Dada à Paris 1919 (documentary)

        ◘ Mort de Dada 1921 (documentary)

1970 ◘ Dim Dam Dom (documentary; short; episode "Portrait de Delphine Seyrig")

        ◘ Dim Dam Dom (documentary; short; episode "Colette revue et relue")

        ◘ Lacques Higelin, Portrait francophone (documentary; short)

1972 ◘ Giorgio de Chirico (documentary)

        ◘ L'Hymne national (documentary; short)

1975 ◘ Le Style 1925 (documentary)

1980 ◘ Lassages (documentary)

        ◘ Laris perdu (documentary)

        ◘ Regards entendus: Hogarth et Lichtenberg (doc­umentary; short)

        ◘ Regards entendus: Les Quatre Moments du Jour (documentary)

1987 ◘ Geneviève de Brabant (documentary; short)

1990 ◘ Richard Krautheimer (documentary)

        ◘ Reflexions faites: Ernest Gombritch (documentary)

        ◘ Reflexions faites: Carlo Ginzburg (documentary)

        ◘ Reflexions faites: Jacques Derrida (documentary)

        ◘ Reflexions faites: Claude Lévi-Strauss (documentary)

        ◘ Reflexions faites: Pierre Bourdieu (documentary)

        ◘ La Forme et le Lieu, Dani Karavan (documentary)

        ◘ Roger Stéphane, un Portrait Souvenir (documentary)

        ◘ Les Variations Gershwin (documentary)

2001 ◘ Marcel Duchamp en Vingt-Six Minutes (documentary; short)

2006 ◘ Profession Crooner (documentary)