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Jean-Pierre Jeunet: "I think of a film as being like a toy train."

He has a small but perfectly formed body of work (seven films in total) although Jean-Pierre Jeunet is best known to most as the director of [fiilm id=8803]Amelie/film]. There was also a sortie to Hollywood for Alien: Resurrection. More recently he offered up the satirical comedy about weapons merchants Micmacs.

Jeunet was born in Roanne in the Loire valley. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his long-time collaborator and co-director. Their first live action film was The Bunker Of The Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. He also directed numerous advertisements and music videos.

Jeunet and Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a black comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic world,...

In recent years France has been among the front-runners in pushing the boundaries of modern horror. With such offerings as Frontier(s), Inside and High Tension, French filmmakers have been making us seriously squirm. It is with this reminder of the quality of their filmmaking that we at Dread Central bring you an announcement of the film list from the 17th Annual L'Etrange Festival, France's biggest horror film festival.

With over 70 films being screened and more than 17,000 attendees expected to descend on Paris, Le'Etrange Festival

Below we have the Complete listing of the festival's events:

From the Press Release

L’Étrange Festival – a unique event bringing filmgoers a fascinating roster of provocative and eye-opening films – is thrilled to announce the line-up for its 17th edition, September 2 – 11, 2011 in Paris, France.

The 2011 line-up continues the tradition of highlighting emerging talent, paying homage to independent-minded filmmakers and featuring a truly diverse program that includes cutting-edge works,...

Before The City of Lost Children, before Delicatessen, long before Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro would become international darlings, all the way back in 1981, the duo would make their live action directorial debut with The Bunker of the Last Gunshots. They had already collaborated on a pair of animated shorts by this point but Bunker was their first foray into the 'real' world and already their distinct style was fully on display. Running at 25 minutes, the start, seemingly post-apocalyptic film has been a hard one for fans to track down but the entire thing is now online and available for viewing. Take a look below.

Jeunet and Caro's Delicatessen was a sensation in its day and a faded outrage now. It was as if the staff of Vogue had tried to do a David Lynch film

Like it or not, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a claim to be the dominant director in French cinema of the last 20 years. There are ­contenders for that title – Claire Denis, Jacques Audiard, Gaspar Noé, Laurent Cantet – but no one has had Jeunet's success in terms of box-office revenue, victories at the Césars, and even his penetration of the English-speaking movie scene. Born in 1953 (he was only six when the new wave broke), Jeunet is emphatically of the next ­generation, quite old-fashioned as a stylist and a storyteller, yet open to the jazzy world of comic books, video games and universal sci-fi apocalyptia that has done so much to colour modern cinema. And whereas, the collective spirit of the new wave...

<img src="http://www.quietearth.us/img/b/bunkerpl.jpg" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="2" class="pictureborder" /><font class="rt">Year:</font> 1981 <br /> <font class="rt">Directors:</font> Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet<br /> <font class="rt">Writers:</font> Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet/Gilles Adrien<br /> <font class="rt">IMDB:</font> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129805/">link</a><br /> <font class="rt">Amazon:</font> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeunet-Caro-Collection-Jean-Claude-Dreyfus/dp/B0019GJ40Q/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1221841693&sr=8-2">link</a><br /> <font class="rt">Review by:</font> agentorange<br /> <font class="rt">Rating:</font> 9 out of 10<br /> <br /> Successful creative partnerships like the one that was forged between French auteurs Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet way back in 1974, are extremely rare in the film world but, when they do come along, they can yield some pretty amazing cinema. Of course, since partnering on The City of Lost Children, the gallic wonder twins have left the comforts of their shared creative womb and gone onto pursue their own projects (Jeunet tackling Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, and Caro the recently released scifi flick <a href="http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/05/02/SFL-08--Review-of-Marc-Caros-stunning-scifi-flick-Dante-01">Dante 01</a>). Recently, the good people at Optimum Releasing have put out a new collection called The Jeunet/Caro Collection which brings together their crucial tag-teams and allows us to looking back at their awe inspiring achievements. Of course, like most of you,...