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

Jibé et Lucien en coulisses

Release Date:2024-09-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:8

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 Date:2023-05-17

Character:Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+

Vote Count:1

Beau geste

Release Date:2023-01-22

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Character:Self - Host

Episode Count:[ 69 ]

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Release Date:2022-12-21

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Quelle époque !

Release Date:2022-09-24

Character:Self - Guest

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

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 Date:2022-08-24

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

Cannes Festival

Release Date:2022-05-17

Character:Self - Guest

Episode Count:1

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 Date:2022-01-07

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:4

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 Date:2020-12-27

Vote Count:1

Le temps d'une histoire

Release Date:2020-03-21

Department:Crew

Job:Presenter

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

La télé des Nuls

Release Date:2019-11-02

Character:Self

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

Release Date:2018-11-21

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

La télé de Valérie Lemercier

Release Date:2017-11-23

Character:Self

Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires

Release Date:2016-03-14

Character:Self

Lescure : Tôt ou tard

Release Date:2010-11-07

Character:Self - Host

Episode Count:1

La folie des années 90

Release Date:2010-03-01

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 Date:2010-01-18

Character:Self - Narrator

Vote Count:4

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 Date:2009-09-07

Character:Self - Panelist

Episode Count:167

Vote Count:3

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 Date:2008-11-19

Character:Christian

Vote Count:42

La Guerre des télés

Release Date:2007-06-14

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

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

Release Date:2005-04-13

Character:le commissaire Richard

Vote Count:74

Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces

Release Date:2003-10-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

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 Date:2002-05-20

Character:Narrator (voice)

Humanité

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

Release Date:1999-09-10

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:104

Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols

Release Date:1999-02-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Vivement dimanche

Release Date:1998-09-20

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:7

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 Date:1996-04-20

Character:Self (archive footage)

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

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 Date:1994-10-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:611

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 Date:1994-03-09

Character:Pierre Lescure

Vote Count:1255

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 Date:1991-10-30

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:102

Stars 90

Release Date:1990-09-03

Character:self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Les Guignols de l'info

Release Date:1988-08-29

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:17

Nulle part ailleurs

Release Date:1987-08-31

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

Sex Machine

Release Date:1983-04-21

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

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 Date:1982-11-03

Character:Bruno Estier

Vote Count:40

Les Enfants Du Rock

Release Date:1982-01-07

Department:Creator

Job:Creator