Pierre Lescure

Pierre Lescure (born July 2, 1945), is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002. Since 2015 he has been the president of the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of François Lescure, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi. He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris. He started his career at the radio station RTL, where he was reporter and news anchor from 1965 to 1968, and moved to RMC from 1968 to 1972. He started working in television as a news anchor of the evening news program of the French public network Antenne 2. In 1981, he created the TV music show Les Enfants du rock. He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election, and has led a mission about Culture and Media in his government. He became president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.

Works

Beau geste

Beau geste

Release Date2023-01-22

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Self - Host

Episode Count[ 85 ]

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

Release Date1994-03-09

Charactersd Pierre Lescure

Vote Count1295

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.

Release Date2005-04-13

Charactersd le commissaire Richard

Vote Count76

Ladies' Choice

As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?

Release Date1982-11-03

Charactersd Bruno Estier

Vote Count43

A Day at the Museum

Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.

Release Date2008-11-19

Charactersd Christian

Vote Count42

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.

Release Date2002-05-20

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Gainsbourg and His Girls

Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Régine, France Gall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou... An intimate portrait of the man who could not live without them.

Release Date2010-01-18

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Vote Count4

Vivement dimanche

Release Date1998-09-20

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

Stars 90

Release Date1990-09-03

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Quelle époque !

Release Date2022-09-24

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Jibé et Lucien en coulisses

Jibé et Lucien en coulisses

Release Date2024-09-02

Charactersd Self

Episode Count8

C à vous

Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

Release Date2009-09-07

Charactersd Self - Panelist

Episode Count167

Vote Count3

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Release Date2022-12-21

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

Nulle part ailleurs

Release Date1987-08-31

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

La Guerre des télés

Release Date2007-06-14

Charactersd Self

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

On n'est pas couché

On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists.

Release Date2006-09-16

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped today's television. To explain from the break up of the French broadcasting service ORTF, in 1974, to the creation of Arte, via the birth of Canal+, the life and death of La Cinq and the privatization of TF1 — the succession of political, economic and cultural decisions that have shaped what is known as the “PAF” (French Audiovisual Landscape).

Release Date1996-04-20

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Cannes Festival

Cannes Festival

Release Date2022-05-17

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Lescure : Tôt ou tard

Lescure : Tôt ou tard

Release Date2010-11-07

Charactersd Self - Host

Episode Count1

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.

Release Date2022-01-07

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count4

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

Release Date2018-11-21

Charactersd Self

Vote Count5

Les Guignols, les 10 premières années

A four-hour journey through the first ten years of Les Guignols. Cult sequences, historic sketches, reference expressions... offer sixty or so “Guignolized” personalities the opportunity to analyze the phenomenon or react to their puppets. Their impressions, shared with Gilles Verlant, punctuate the Night. All those who have made Les Guignols what they are today - Alain De Greef, the historical authors, puppet creator Alain Duverne, etc. - take the opportunity to reveal a few of their secrets.

Release Date1999-02-19

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès

Dark suit, white shirt, earpiece and wooden plate ..., his style remains anchored in the collective memory. Favorite host́ of the French during the 2000s, ideal son-in-law successful producer, his rank of star and flayed́ alive have caused him to burn his wings and lose his feet. This documentary evening recounts the breathless life journey and the twists and turns of Jean-Luc Delarue's career. Telling Jean-Luc Delarue is to tell several lives, the ambivalence of the character publicly strong, powerful and ambitious, but ultra-sensitive and tortured in the intimacy.

Release Date2022-08-24

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

La télé de Valérie Lemercier

Release Date2017-11-23

Charactersd Self

Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires

Release Date2016-03-14

Charactersd Self

La folie des années 90

Release Date2010-03-01

Charactersd Self

La télé des Nuls

Release Date2019-11-02

Charactersd Self

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.

Release Date2023-05-17

Charactersd Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+

Vote Count1

Les Enfants Du Rock

Les Enfants Du Rock

Release Date1982-01-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Sex Machine

Sex Machine

Release Date1983-04-21

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

The Monster

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

Release Date1994-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count615

Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces

Release Date2003-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Le temps d'une histoire

Release Date2020-03-21

DepartmentCrew

JobPresenter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Van Gogh

After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for art.

Release Date1991-10-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count110

Humanité

In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.

Release Date1999-09-10

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Vote Count104

Pierre & Lescure

Journalist, columnist, creator of the show Children of Rock, boss of Universal Studios, founder and president of Canal +, president of the Cannes film festival … Pierre Lescure has multiplied helmets throughout its existence. It is on this rich life that the latter agreed to return to the documentary Pierre & Lescure directed by his former colleague, Maxime Switek

Release Date2020-12-27

Vote Count1

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