Linda Tahir-Meriau

Directing

Biography

Linda Tahir Meriau is a French-Algerian author, doctoral candidate in film history, and filmmaker. In 2001, she partnered with Christophe Champclaux to create Rose Night, a company specializing in producing programs dedicated to the great classics of film history. Broadcast on Ciné Cinéma and MCE, their documentaries are included as bonus features on Blu-ray and DVD releases of such prestigious films as George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Richard Fleischer's Compulsion, and others. Holding a master's degree in film studies focusing on color in Alfred Hitchcock's work, Linda Tahir-Meriau teaches film economics and directing at Paris VIII University. She hosts the monthly magazine program Ciné Vintage on the MCE channel. Since 2001, she has worked in partnership with Christophe Champclaux at Rose Night, producing documentaries about cinema broadcast on television channels in some twenty countries, and subsequently included as bonus features on Blu-ray and DVD releases of classic films by Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann, John Sturges, Henry Hathaway, Richard Brooks, Richard Fleischer... and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock! In 2007, she directed the documentary *The Territories of the Western* in the United States and Spain, which aired the following year on Ciné Cinéma. In 2014, she directed *A Crime and Two Masters*, a 52-minute documentary focusing on Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Fleischer's handling of the Leopold and Loeb case, included on the Blu-ray of Fleischer's film *Compulsion*. In 2015, she directed a portrait of Humphrey Bogart and is currently working on a documentary about Gene Tierney.

Known For

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This portrait from the "Algerian Filmmakers" collection, created by Linda Tahir-Meriau, focuses on Mohamed Chouikh, born in 1943 in Mostaganem, an Algerian actor and director. In 1965, he starred in one of the first major Algerian films, "L'Aube des Damnés" (The Dawn of the Damned) by René Vautier and Ahmed Rachedi. In 1966, he appeared in "Le Vent des Aurès" (The Wind of the Aurès) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. The film won the Best First Feature Award at Cannes. Until 1970, Mohamed Chouikh devoted himself primarily to his acting career in theater and film. It was Michel Drach's film, "Elise Ou La Vraie Vie" (Elise, or Real Life), based on the novel by Claire Etcherelli, that brought him to the attention of French audiences. In the 1970s, he became a director for Algerian television. In 1989, he directed "The Citadel", which was selected for more than 70 international festivals and won around twenty awards.