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- Her image as the cool and mysterious blonde notwithstanding, Catherine has freed herself from it by choosing her roles instinctively and working with her favorite directors to embrace her passion for cinema in a wide range of projects.
- Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. For the first time ever, this documentary provides a counter-shot through interviews and previously unseen archives materials.
- The film is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. Through his words, gaze and work, the film tells the story of a life of cinema; that of a man who will always demand a lot of himself and his art, to the point of merging with it.
- William Karel meets Fanny Ardant on the set of "The Woman Next Door" by François Truffaut. He was the director's photographer at the time. Fanny and François then have a romantic relationship. On "Finally, Sunday!", Truffaut is struck down by devastating cancer and dies a few months later. Fanny is devastated. This love story will determine her whole life. Since then, she has traced a very personal furrow totally marked by their history. Towards the freedom they both cherished. It is therefore from this love story and unpublished images filmed by William Karel that the director wishes to tell Fanny Ardant.
- Episode: (2023)1994–Podcast Episode
- 2012–TV Episode
- Jean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. Having just turned 91, he has made more than 140 films. We hate him as much as we worship him. Where does his aura come from? From legendary films of course, but also from Godard himself.
- A legend of the Hollywood Golden Age, Gregory Peck (1916-2003) enjoyed an exemplary career, working under the direction of some of the world's greatest filmmakers: Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Raoul Walsh, Vincente Minnelli... Portrait of an actor with irresistible charm and strong political commitments.
- In 1959, an unforgettable boy did "the four hundred tricks" in front of the camera of a beginner named François Truffaut and splashed with his success, popular and Cannes, the filmography of a nascent band of intrepid. Claude Chabrol's "Le Beau Serge", Jean-Luc Godard's "A bout de souffle", Jacques Rivette's "Paris nous appartient", Eric Rohmer's "Le Signe du lion", Jacques Rozier's "Adieu Philippine", Agnès Varda's "Cléo de 5 à 7"...: This wave, quickly named "New Wave" - an expression invented by Françoise Giroud in an article dedicated to youth - is the work of apprentice directors who, for many, have swallowed kilometers of film at Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque française and sharpened their judgment in the columns of Cahiers du cinéma.
- Documentary that retraces the life and intimacy of the French actress, with archive footage and excerpts from her interviews.
- An eccentric, disconcerting film-maker, brilliant inventor of new styles. In the shadows of the New Wave, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) left an indelible mark on European cinema. "On Connaît la Chanson", "L'Année Dernière à Marienbad", "Hiroshima Mon Amour"... A look back at the career of a discreet nonconformist.
- A hopeless man with just a few weeks to live is hit with a surprise.
- It was the world's largest, most beautiful and fastest cruise ship. Built in Saint Nazaire in 1932, the "Normandie" was the pride of France. But it took only a few hours, amidst the chaos of World War Two, for this dream of grandeur to lie broken in New York harbour.
- 2022– 1h 6m6.9 (9)TV EpisodeFollows the story of Gérard Philipe built exclusively on archive footage, on celebration of his 100th birthday anniversary.
- 1986–TV Episode
- Episode: (2022)2018–TV Episode
- 2018–TV Episode
- A documentary showcasing the epic and at times controversial career of masterful director Alfred Hitchcock.
- Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret - This is the story of a bunch of friends. Comedian buddies. Actors who dreamed of the Conservatory and the National Theater of Paris. The theater was their ideal, cinema will be their paradise. Their friend Jean-Paul Belmondo, the relaxed Parisian, who failed the entrance exam, will make sparks fly. Rochefort, Marielle and Noiret, the three provincials, will climb the steps of recognition one by one. From the little cabarets on the Left Bank to the TV shows of the Buttes-Chaumont pioneers. From the second roles to the first and from the B movies to the classics.
- In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury to achieve it. With "L'Enfance nue", his first feature film at the age of 43, the filmmaker immediately made his mark, this "art of making things authentic", according to Chabrol. But throughout an unclassifiable filmography in the form of an autobiography, from a break-up to his fatherhood in wonder, through the agony of his mother, the filmmaker does not get rid of the feeling of being misunderstood, despite international recognition.
- 2008– 55m6.7 (26)TV EpisodeBorn in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.
- 2018–TV Episode
- 2018–TV Episode
- If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- Alfred Hitchcock is known as a giant of movie making, a facetious master of suspense, obsessed with blond heroines in peril, with the reputation of being tyrannical towards his actors. But who knows the real Hitchcock? During his last public appearance, "Hitch" paid tribute to the wife, mother, co-writer, editor and partner of a lifetime that was Alma Reville Hitchcock. The two Hitchcock were inseparable, engineering the unquestionable masterpieces together. Their genuine collaboration never stopped from the day they met until the end of their lives. It's in light of this fusional relationship that this film will revisit and shed fresh light on the legend.
- Episode:(2019)
Bernard Bastide lit Chroniques d'Arts-Spectacles 1954-1958 de François Truffaut (éditions Gallimard)
1986–TV Episode - The broadcaster uses archive from the period to look at the ideas that fuelled, and legacy of, the protests of May 1968 in France that became one of the defining moments of that extremely turbulent year.
- A documentary examining the career of a French actress who was free before women's liberation, who shattered the conventions of the rigid society of her time, and who appeared in 150 films and 50 stage plays.
- An angry man seeks revenge against the restaurant owner who wronged him. But once he sets his plan in motion, a beautiful young woman - visiting his town on vacation - makes him rethink his plans.
- A documentary on Steven Spielberg, filmmaker. Includes interviews with relatives, film critics, peers and people who have worked with him.
- 2017–201852m8.9 (19)TV EpisodeMore Tavernier's favorites : Sacha Guitry ,Marcel Pagnol ,Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson;plus a tribute to composer Jean-Jacques Grunenwald.
- 2017–201852m9.5 (15)TV EpisodeFour legends : Renoir, Carné ,Becker,Gabin,and more.
- 2017–201852m9.8 (13)TV EpisodeMusic scores ,B movies, Nouvelle Vague and Tavernier's mentor, Jean-Pierre Melville.
- 2010–TV Episode
- Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
- A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema's most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity.
- As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. Journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies man and prolific father. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.
- Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
- Playboy, then successful young actor, then producer of hit movie "Bonnie and Clyde", then Oscar winning director of "Reds", then wannabe candidate to the Presidential elections, Warren Beatty, the man who wanted it all.
- A son's wise-cracking relationship with his mother turns rocky when she elects to receive hospice care.
- This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.
- 2010–TV Episode
- Second-generation filmmaker Marcel Ophüls chronicles his extraordinary life.
- The story of an eccentric anarchist and his unique way of grieving a family tragedy.
- 2012–TV Episode
- Adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's "The Skin of Sorrow" or "The Wild Ass's Skin" (1831), said to be the last novel read by Sigmund Freud before his death. While reading it, he would have said: "This is the only book I needed".
- The Story of Film examines cinema in the period of 1953-1957. It looks at the growth of movie-making around the world and examines how sex and melodrama dominated the period. It looks at the work of directors in Egypt (Youssef Chahine), India (Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray), China (Xie Jin), Japan (Akira Kurosawa), Brazil (Nelson Pereira dos Santos), and Mexico (Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel). In the United States, films like All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Johnny Guitar (1954) examine repressed sexuality. It also looks at the work of Kenneth Anger, Delbert Mann, Elia Kazan, and Nicholas Ray. It then turns to four classic films by four masters of American cinema Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958), John Ford's The Searchers (1956), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo (1959). Finally, it goes to Britain to look at the work of directors David Leen and Lindsay Anderson.
- The Story of Film examines European cinema in the period of 1957-1964. It first looks at the works of influential directors Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Jacques Tati, and Federico Fellini. It examines the French New Wave Movement including the work of Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard). It then looks at New Wave filmmakers in Italy (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Luchino Visconti, and Michelangelo Antonioni). Finally, it looks at the New Wave directors in Spain (Marco Ferreri, Luis Buñuel) and Sweden (Vilgot Sjöman).
- Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, their careers, their friendship and their impact on the French New Wave of the 1960s.
- In Cannes, from the top of the stairs of the Palais du Festival, Gilles Jacob has seen the film world come to him for more than 30 years. To the impassioned spectator of the whole world's cinema. Gilles Jacob owes his position as the president of the world's greatest film festival above all to his love of the cinema, which he has always cultivated just as one cultivates one's garden. The hazards of life have also added another string to his bow: the management skills which have enabled him to determine the trajectory - in the extremely fragile balance between cinema as an art and as an industry - of a Festival which brings together the greatest directors of the 7th Art, alongside the largest film market in the world. His story will be reconstituted through a stroll taken by Gilles Jacob along the Croisette in Cannes before the 2009 festival. Punctuated by film clips, we will find the key scenes of his life, his meetings with stars (such as Sharon Stone, Clint Eastwood) and film directors of yesterday (Fellini, Truffaut) and today (Tarentino, Almodovar, Jane Campion, Lars Von Trier). We will relive his most moving moments (for example when the 29 directors awarded the Palme d'Or gathered together for the fiftieth anniversary of the Festival). For Gilles Jacob is also a visionary, and believes in the future of the 7th Art. He continues to prove it today, in each moment of his life.
- A talented new scriptwriter in'50s, influenced by classical music and film noir preparing to finish his masterpiece. But someone has a different view on how this story ends.
- A relationship between a man and a woman discloses during the course of the film.
- This film aims to revive the memory of Georges Delerue, great composer from the French School, who was driven by the music. He dedicated the major part of his art and of his work to the film score. He was the author of more than 200 film scores. Very few composers expressed themselves like him through very different genders. Georges Delerue composed for the cinema new wave, (Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard), (Jules and Jim, Day for Night by Francois Truffaut) but also for the popular cinema of Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio) and Gerard Oury (The Sucker). He also worked on compositions for television and radio, then for Hollywood with for instance Oliver Stone (Platoon).
- A 100 year history of the development of movie marketing, reflecting technical improvements, audience taste and cultural sensibilities.
- A review of former McGill University Professor Norman Cornett's unorthodox approach to teaching, including the lack of studying, students choosing their own names and stream-of-consciousness writing exercises.
- The documentary wanders in Antoine Doinel's (Jean-Pierre Léaud) footsteps in Cannes France and in Sodankylä Finland interviewing people and searching for the spirit of the new wave of cinema, 50 years after. Milos Forman, Stig Björkman, Peter von Bagh, Dome Karukoski, Andrei Konchalovsky and a bunch of other filmmakers, critics and film buffs talk about the new wave of cinema and the impact it had on them. This multilingual documentary was made in 2009 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the French new wave in general and 400 Blows especially. 400 Blows' main character Antoine Doinel is present throughout the journey as a cardboard figure.
- A documentary charting the trajectory of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
- From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.
- A young woman struggles for sexual freedom in this dark comedy inspired by the French New Wave of the 1960's.
- Covers how Alfred Hitchcock became the idol of the French New Wave author-filmmakers.