Jean-Claude Labrecque
Known for: Directing
Born: June 19, 1938
Died: May 31, 2019
Place of birth: Québec City, Québec, Canada
Jean-Claude Labrecque, CM CQ (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada. Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l’eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le Chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game). He turned to directing in 1965 with 60 Cycles, about a long-distance bike race on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, which has been described as a virtual encyclopedia of camera techniques. It won 22 international awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production company, although he continued to freelance with the Board.
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Filmography
72 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
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Doc humanité
2018
9.0
Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire
2017NR
Chronique de la nuit de la poésie 1980
2017
9.0
Remembering Maria Chapdelaine
2015
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Chronique de la nuit de la poésie 1970
2015
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The Private Life of Cinema
2011
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From Office to Box-Office
2009
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Félix
2009
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Forever Québec
2008
6.6
Summit Circle
2007
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Rebels with a Camera
2006
6.2
Novena
20056.8
À hauteur d'homme
20037.3
Le RIN
2002
4.8
Marriages
2001
6.7
The Woman Who Drinks
2001NR
Le chemin du Roy
1997
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Heritage Minutes: Paul-Émile Borduas
1995
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Heritage Minutes: Pauline Vanier
1995
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Heritage Minutes: Hart & Papineau
1995
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The Emperor's New Clothes
199510.0
André Mathieu, musicien
1993NR
La nuit de la poésie, 15 mars 1991
1993
4.3
Amoureux fou
1991
7.3
Heritage Minutes
19919.0
L'histoire des trois
19907.0
Le frère André
1987
7.0
Cinéma, cinéma
1985
10.0
Les années de rêves
1984
9.0
Marie Uguay
19828.0
La Nuit de la poésie 28 mars 1980
1980
9.0
The Coffin Affair
1980
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26 Times in a Row
1978
5.1
Games of the XXI Olympiad
19779.0
Michèle Lalonde
1977
8.0
Québec fête juin '75
1976NR
On s'pratique... c'est pour les Olympiques
1976
7.0
Les vautours
1975
6.6
Les beaux dimanches
1974
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Claude Gauvreau - Poète
1974
7.0
The Heavenly Bodies
1973
6.0
The Conquest
1973
6.6
The Wise Guys
1972
4.3
The Apprentice
1971
7.8
Those Damned Savages
1971
8.0
La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970
1971
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Une balle de gin
1971
6.8
Canada the Land
1971NR
Charles Gagnon
1970
7.5
Essai à la mille
1970
5.4
The Ernie Game
19688.0
A Great Big Thing
1968
3.3
From Mother to Daughter
19689.0
La vie
1968
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The Invention of the Adolescent
1968
6.0
Between Sweet and Salt Water
1967
6.5
The Times That Are
1967
10.0
La visite du Général De Gaulle au Québec
1967NR
The Summer We Moved to Elm Street
1967
6.5
Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail
1966
7.3
60 Cycles
1965
6.4
The Merry World of Leopold Z
1965
10.0
No Vacation for Idols
1965
6.3
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
1965
7.5
Jusqu'au cou
1964
6.2
The Cat in the Bag
1964
9.0
Francoise (There Was One Evening ... There Was One Morning)
1964
9.0
Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun
1964
7.0
The Big Swim
19649.0
Such a Simple Game
1964NR
Walls of Memory
1964
5.8
Take It All
19639.0
De Montréal à Manicouagan
196310.0
The Big Swim
1963