Jackie Raynal

Known for DirectingBorn 1940-10-20 (age 85)Poilhes, France

Jacky Raynal is French directress, actress and film editor. She's born in 1940 near Montpellier. The film maker has a diploma in Linguistics. In the early 60's, already a photographer, young Jacky Raynal starts working in the field of cinema. She's assistent film editor for the documentarys of G. Patriss and F. Vienne. After that, she edits the first films of E. Rohmer. In 1965 J. Raynal gets the license of senior film editor for feature films in CNC (National Cinema Center). Now she's working with the film directors of the New Wave. She edits all of the skecthes of Six in Paris, directed by Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Jacky Raynal continues to work in editing till the end of 70's. In 1968, with S. Boissonas and O. Mosset, she's the founder of the Zanzibar group. She works with Philippe Garrel, Serge Bard, Daniel Pommereulle, Alain Jouffroy and Patrick Deval. J. Raynal shoots her first feature film Two Times in Barcelona. In 1972, the movie wins the Grand Prix in the Festival of Hyères/Toulon. At that time she's already living in New York. There, between 1975 and 1992, she's responsible for the programs of Carnegie Hall Cinema and Bleeker Street Cinema. She shows there numerous independent international films. Her job in New York is appreciated by F. Truffaut (he compares it with the French Cinematheque) and awarded twice by the Village Voice in 1981 and 1991. J. Raynal directs New York Story (Grand Prix in Melbourne) and Hotel New York. In the same time, she plays in several movies, organises numerous international cinema festivals, like Colombian Film Festival, Israel Film Festival or Avignon Film Festival. From 1973 to 1986, with Sid Geffen, they're publishing the independent international cinema review 1000 Eyes Magazine. From 2000, Jacky Raynal directs numerous documentarys, like Notes on Jonas Mekas (2000) or Eric Rohmer, the Film Maker (2010). In 2010, Jacky Raynal is rewarded for her work in arts the Légion d'Honneur (Knight in the Order Arts and Letters).Read more

Movies & web series

Jupiter

Concentration

Notes on Jonas Mekas

New York Story

Cinétracts

Destroy Yourselves

Hotel New York

Acéphale

Bizet Carmen

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Cover Girls

La Collectionneuse

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

Six in Paris

Bonjour Tristesse

La Fille oblique

Felix in Wonderland

Nadja in Paris

Suzanne’s Career

The Big Departure

The Man Who Envied Women

Freak Orlando

Two Rémi, Two

Méditerranée

Welcome to New York

A Modern Coed

The Rehearsal

Saturday Night at the Baths

Cinématon

Trap

Deux fois

A Woman Kills

Heraclitus the Dark

Naughty Boys

Eyes Find Eyes

The black bath

Parisian Life

L'homme qui part

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas

On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan

Pierre Clémenti, l'absolue liberté

La cigarette

My Last Interview with Eric Rohmer

Gougnette

Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice

Zanzibar

La nuit de l'ours

Portrait de Jean Rouch