Luc
Moullet
Luc Moullet began writing for Cahiers du cinéma aged eighteen, when François Truffaut accepted an article he had written on Edgar G. Ulmer for publication. In the late fifties and early sixties, he contributed major articles on filmmakers such as Samuel Fuller, Kenji Mizoguchi and Jean-Luc Godard, and compiled several bio-filmographies for the magazine. It was on Godard’s advice that Georges de Beauregard produced Moullet’s first short film, Un steak trop cuit, in 1960. He went on to make his first feature, Brigitte et Brigitte, in 1966, and by 1975 was declared by Jean-Marie Straub ‘the most important filmmaker of the French post-Godard generation’. In total, Moullet has directed ten features and over two dozen shorts, across the genres of comedy, adventure, western, period drama, social documentary and travelogue. In addition to directing, he has produced films for Marguerite Duras and Jean Eustache, and has taught cinema at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and La Fémis. He is the author of monographs on Fritz Lang, Cecil B. DeMille, and King Vidor’s film The Fountainhead, and in 2021 he published an autobiography, Mémoires d’une savonnette indocile.