Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard (16 September 1924 – 8 November 2016) was a French cinematographer. He is best known for his connection with the Nouvelle Vague period and particularly for his work with director Jean-Luc Godard. Coutard also shot films for New Wave director François Truffaut as well as Jacques Demy, a contemporary frequently associated with the movement. He shot over 75 films during a career that lasted nearly half a century. Coutard originally planned to study chemistry, but switched to photography because of the cost of tuition. In 1945, Coutard was sent to participate in the French Indochina War; he lived in Vietnam for the next 11 years, working as a war photographer, eventually becoming a freelancer for Paris Match and Look. In 1956, he was approached to shoot a film by Pierre Schoendoerffer, La Passe du Diable. Coutard had never used a movie camera before, and reportedly agreed to the job because of a misunderstanding (he believed he was being hired to shoot production stills of the film). Coutard's first work collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard was Godard's first feature, À bout de souffle, shot in 1959. He was reportedly "imposed" on Godard by producer Georges de Beauregard; the director had already settled on a different cinematographer. Coutard photographed nearly all of Godard's work in the Nouvelle Vague era (1959 - 1967), with the exception of Masculin, féminin; their last work during this period was Week-end (1967), which marked the end of Godard's work as a 'mainstream' filmmaker. The two did not work together again until Passion; their final collaboration was Godard's next feature, Prénom Carmen. ... Source: Article "Raoul Coutard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Contempt
(Cameraman)
La Chinoise
(Self - Cinematographer (uncredited))
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
(Self)
Godard, Love and Poetry
(Self)
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
(Self)
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
(Self)
The Bamboo Incident
(Angry French man (uncredited))
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
(Self)
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
(Self)
Z
(English Surgeon (uncredited))
The Hideout
Il était une fois... « Jules et Jim »
(Self (chef opérateur))
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
(Self)
The Outskirts of Alphaville
Jean Seberg: American Actress
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Antoine and Colette
(Director of Photography)
Contempt
(Director of Photography)
Breathless
(Director of Photography)
Jules and Jim
(Director of Photography)
La Chinoise
(Director of Photography)
Vivre Sa Vie
(Director of Photography)
The Soft Skin
(Director of Photography)
Shoot the Piano Player
(Director of Photography)
Z
(Director of Photography)
The Bride Wore Black
(Director of Photography)
Pierrot le Fou
(Director of Photography)
The Bitch
(Director of Photography)
The Most Gentle Confessions
(Director of Photography)
The Defector
(Director of Photography)
Weekend
(Director of Photography)
Band of Outsiders
(Director of Photography)
Alphaville
(Director of Photography)
A Pain in the Ass
(Director of Photography)
Thick Skinned
(Director of Photography)
The Phantom Heart
(Director of Photography)
Operation Leopard
(Director)
Happiness Is No Joke
(Director of Photography)
Drummer-Crab
(Director of Photography)
Island Fishermen
(Cinematography)
The Bamboo Incident
(Director)
Salt on the Skin
(Director of Photography)
Ramuntcho
(Cinematography)
S.A.S. San Salvador
(Director)
The Sailor from Gibraltar
(Cinematography)
Le Grand Escroc
(Director of Photography)
The Hostage Gang
(Director of Photography)
The Confession
(Director of Photography)
First Name: Carmen
(Director of Photography)
Le Défilé du 14 Juillet 1977
(Writer)
Le Défilé du 14 Juillet 1977
(Director)
The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora
(Cinematography)
The Devil's Pass
(Cinematography)
The Devil's Pass
(Director of Photography)
Wild Innocence
(Director of Photography)
The Married Woman
(Director of Photography)
Horizon
(Cinematography)
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
(Director of Photography)
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
(Director of Photography)
The Carabineers
(Director of Photography)
Le Petit Soldat
(Director of Photography)
A Woman Is a Woman
(Director of Photography)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
(Director of Photography)
Burning Beds
(Director of Photography)
Five Leaf Clover
(Director of Photography)
La Liberté en croupe
(Director of Photography)
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
(Director of Photography)
Godard's Passion
(Director of Photography)
Chronicle of a Summer
(Director of Photography)
The 317th Platoon
(Director of Photography)
Embassy
(Director of Photography)
The Southern Star
(Director of Photography)
Male Companion
(Director of Photography)
And Satan Calls the Turns
(Camera Operator)
Blanc de Chine
(Director of Photography)
Une nuit en Lorraine
(Director)
The Army Game
(Director of Photography)
Lola
(Director of Photography)
Petit Jour
(Director of Photography)
Love at Twenty
(Director of Photography)
Made in U.S.A
(Director of Photography)
Like a Pot of Strawberries
(Director of Photography)
The Birth of Love
(Director of Photography)
Max My Love
(Director of Photography)
Scruggs
(Director of Photography)
Dangerous Moves
(Director of Photography)
Il gèle en enfer
(Director of Photography)
Rocky Road to Dublin
(Director of Photography)
Portuguese Vacation
(Cinematography)
Like Two Drops of Water
(Cinematography)
The Doll
(Cinematography)