Raoul Ruiz, 'Four Hrs in Lisbon' Director, Dies

PARIS -- Chilean-born, France-dwelling director Raoul Ruiz died Friday in Paris following a lengthy, worldwide-acclaimed career.Related Subjects•Obituaries The 70-year-old filmmaker most lately won the 2010 exclusive French film award the Louis Delluc Prize for Four Hrs in Lisbon. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Born in 1941 in Chile, Ruiz gone to live in France in 1973 to flee the dictatorship and subsequently made a large number of films including Geneologies of the Crime starring Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli, Le Temps Retrouve with different Marcel Proust novel of the identical title and Dias p Campo. The director have been working hard finishing editing his last film about his childhood in Chile and already planning another project in Portugal in regards to a Napoleonic fight starring Melvil Poupaud, based on his producer Francois Margolin. Ruiz died of the lung infection. Related Subjects Worldwide Obituaries