From the Cinéastes de notre temps series, Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma au défi exposes Godard’s life through his words and films, featuring interviews with him, as well as his father and sister, Anna Karina, Macha Méril, Louis Aragon, and others. First aired 15 July 1965 on ORTF’s second channel.Read More »
Like ADOPTION, this 1964 short film by Márta Mészáros explores the themes of broken family bonds; it also offers insight into the origins of the director’s career.
A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can’t escape an unbearable ennui. Like Mészáros’s ADOPTION, this early short film explores the themes of broken family bonds; it also offers insight into the origins of the director’s career.Read More »
Each documentary deals with a filmmaker, even a cinema school (the New Wave …), or a particular issue related to cinema (Critic and cinema …). The choice of directors, as well as the issues addressed, are very impressed by the vision of the Cahiers du Cinéma, of which André S. Labarthe is one of the former editors, Janine Bazin being the wife of André Bazin, founder of the magazine.Read More »
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A thorough analysis of the social- politics of Mexico, within the historical context of the Mexican Revolution reality. Includes footage of the 1910s, interviews with farmers, politicians, intellectuals, middle class, trade and unionists.Read More »
Here are the two documentaries about Jerry Lewis from the collection Cinéastes de notre temps. The first part (1968) is directed by André Labarthe, and the second part (1971) by Robert Benayoun.Read More »
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It’s a docudrama with a poetic writing and non-linear narrative. Specifically, it’s an “etnofiction”: it portrays the typical characters of Terra Fria, the Northeast of Portugal, showing secular habits in a majestic rural ambience. It’s one of the works that representes the New Cinema (Novo Cinema) Portuguese movement, and one of the first Portuguese docudramas.Read More »
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Claire Denis’ first-rate video documentary (1990) about filmmaker Jacques Rivette, produced for French television, has many things to recommend it. The main interviewer is the great critic Serge Daney, who, two years before his death, converses with Rivette while relaxing in a cafe and strolling around Paris (Denis interjects a few questions toward the end); since both men were former editors of Cahiers du Cinema, not to mention groundbreaking and highly articulate critics, they have a lot to discuss apart from Rivette’s filmmaking. Clips from many of Rivette’s major films are included, as are interviews with some of Rivette’s actors, such as Bulle Ogier and Jean-Francois Stevenin. Best of all, the film beautifully captures Rivette the man, as both solitary cinephile and exploratory filmmaker. — Jonathan RosenbaumRead More »
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Klaus Barbie, also known as the butcher of Lyon was implicated in 4,000 deaths and the deportation of 7,000 Jews from occupied France, before he inexplicably vanished. This Oscar winning documentary, from visionary director Marcel Ophuls, traces the 40-year hunt for Barbie, initiated by the same governments that would later hide him and protect his family.Read More »
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Since the 7th century AD, Sado has been called the “island of exile”. Unwelcomed people by the shogunate were exiled and put to forced labour in the mines. Their spirits, trapped in the depths of the earth, will never see the sky again.Read More »