Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

"She saw the future through the camera lens"

2018

1h 43m

7.2(39 votes)

Documentary

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Overview

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

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83 members

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Jodie Foster

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Richard Abel

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Marc Abraham

Self

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Stephanie Allain

Self

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Gillian Armstrong

Self

Camera

John Bailey

Self

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Cari Beauchamp

Self

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Lake Bell

Self

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Peter Billingsley

Self

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James Bobin

Self

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Serge Bromberg

Self

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Kevin Brownlow

Self

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Jon M. Chu

Self

Writing

Diablo Cody

Self

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Bobby Cohen

Self

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Howard Cohen

Self

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Susan Constantine

Self

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Julie Corman

Self

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Robert Dassanowsky

Self

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Julie Delpy

Self

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Geena Davis

Self

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Peter Decherney

Self

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Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Self

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Bryony Dixon

Self

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Frederik Du Chau

Self

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Ava DuVernay

Self

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Dino Everett

Self

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Peter Farrelly

Self

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Elsie Fisher

Self

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Anne Fletcher

Self

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Anne Fontaine

Self

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Jean-Michel Frodon

Self

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Jane Gaines

Self

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Janeane Garofalo

Self

Camera

Pierre-William Glenn

Self

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Maxine Haleff

Self

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Catherine Hardwicke

Self

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Rob Haworth

Self

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Michel Hazanavicius

Self

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Cheryl Hines

Self

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Jan-Christopher Horak

Self

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Neil Hunt

Self

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Gale Anne Hurd

Self

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Patty Jenkins

Self

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Ben Kingsley

Self

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Wayne Kramer

Self

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Roland-François Lack

Self

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Marquise Lepage

Self

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Kevin Macdonald

Self

Art

Anastasia Masaro

Self

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Alison McMahan

Self

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Tom Meyers

Self

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Walter Murch

Self

Costume & Make-Up

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Self

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Chloe Page-Relo

Self

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Tatiana Page-Relo

Self

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Вадим Перельман

Self

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Pierre Rissient

Self

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Julie Anne Robinson

Self

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Mark Romanek

Self

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Andy Samberg

Self

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Marjane Satrapi

Self

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Cathy Schulman

Self

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Vanessa Schwartz

Self

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Floria Sigismondi

Self

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Joan Simon

Self

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Anthony Slide

Self

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Cecile Starr

Self

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Valerie Steele

Self

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Visual Effects

Mark Stetson

Self

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Kevin Stitt

Self

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Drake Stutesman

Self

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Julie Taymor

Self

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Anand Tucker

Self

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Agnès Varda

Self

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Marc Wanamaker

Self

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Loretta Weinberg

Self

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Alan Williams

Self

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Evan Rachel Wood

Self

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Simone Guy

Self (archive footage)

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Alice Guy-Blaché

Self (archive footage)

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Bessie Love

Self (archive footage)

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Howard Cohen

Self

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