Rebecca Brite’s review from IMDB :
How has this gem slipped under IMDb users’ radar all these years, especially after winning a César for best documentary short subject? It is slow, succinct and absolutely riveting. With his photojournalist’s eye, and simple but inspired camera work, Depardon plunges us into both the sounds and silences of a day and a night in the city. Further description would be superfluous; what the film doesn’t do is as important as what it does. Kudos to distributor Marin Karmitz for resurrecting it.

	
New York, NY.mkv

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Runtime: 	9mn 16s
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https://nitro.download/view/000DF821B027A15/New_York,_NY.srt

Language(s):Speechless
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon – New York, N.Y. (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
Sandrine Bonnaire plays a European researcher who is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. They have no clear reason for holding her hostage, and after a considerable period of time (and an escape attempt by their captive), they simply let her go. The story is based on a similar situation that the director Raymond Depardon covered when he was a reporter.

La captive du désert.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 37mn
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https://nitro.download/view/B1CB9069FB8E8EF/La_captive_du_desert.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon – La captive du désert (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In 1986, the Cinémathèque française celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Throughout the year, filmmakers and personalities from the world of cinema (from Bette Davis to Wim Wenders, from Elia Kazan to Nagisa Ōshima, from Claude Chabrol to Werner Schroeter…) took turns in the legendary hall of the Palais de Chaillot to show and talk about their films.
In 2023, twelve of these filmed interviews were rediscovered in the form of rushes on Betacam cassettes. Historic and never-before-seen, they will be presented on HENRI over the course of the 2023-2024 season.
A little ahead of the 1986 celebrations, it was Jean-Luc Godard himself who inaugurated the formula, on November 27, 1985, on the occasion of the publication of Alain Bergala’s book Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard: 80 minutes of discussions filmed shoulder-to-shoulder by Raymond Depardon, never before seen, to be discovered from now on on on HENRI.

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After offering spectators a projection/comparison of extracts from 17 films (each time, the first 5 minutes of their second reel) entitled “Une histoire A/B du cinéma” (A/B history of cinema), Jean-Luc Godard becomes a film historian, reflecting live and in public on his future Histoire(s) du cinéma (History(s) of cinema), which will not be considered complete until 1998.

Edited from Betacam cassette rushes recovered in 2023 and digitized by the Cinémathèque française. Thanks to François Manceaux and Michel David.

Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française.mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon – Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Director (Luc Delahaye) with his casting assistant (Sylvie Peyre) are in search of a new face – an actress for the head role in his next movie. A series of interviews with young actresses and ordinary french woman, seen on Gare Saint-Lazire, follows.

Paris.1998.Raymond.Depardon.DVDRip.X264.AAC-SOOO.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 31mn
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon – Paris (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel in Djibouti because she seems to have some problems. Gradually he falls in love with her. They embark on a trip to the towns in the desert and, on the way, they learn more about each other. The man never appears on screen, so the camera becomes his point of view.

A French drama romance is the highest sense, this film opens on a sad note with the only real character that we see and really focus on in the film, the woman; we are told that she has just been made homeless by her lover who has abandoned her by not showing up to a hotel rendezvous they had plan. Instead, she finds a strange man in the hotel room that her lover said he would meet her in; the man, who we never see, invites her in. Once inside, he begins using his camera to document her every mood and move. So they are on the road together, the camera still rolling. After the inevitable sexual encounter, the m,an plunges into despair, he has lost his ideal. Eventually the woman gets tired of his filming antics and denounces him, calling all manner of names to disparage his “performance” both as a film maker and as a sexual partner.

Une femme en Afrique aka Empty Quarter.avi

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Runtime:	1h 23mn
Size:	973 MiB
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https://nitro.download/view/281797EBC4F3C6C/Une_femme_en_Afrique_aka_Empty_Quarter.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon – Une femme en Afrique (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Paris, summer 1982. The day to day life of a police station in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. Day and night a reporter follows small groups of uniformed police officers who patrol the neighbourhood in their vans, intervene at the slightest radio call, prepare reports or question defendants at the central station.

Shot alone by Depardon, Faits divers (News Items) is a live report, without a commentary, on the day to day activities of police officers in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. By observing the police officers, Depardon’s camera reveals the hidden side of Paris. The Paris of everyday assaults, poverty and distress. In a way, he opened a cycle of films on those who had been forgotten by everyone and began to give them a voice as he explained: “The shooting was laborious, but in this film, I was able to record the words of individuals who never have access to the media […] Is Paris a difficult city to live in? Or a city where you get help? There is probably a French-style violence, and the police officers are poorly prepared social workers.”

Raymond Depardon - Faits divers (1983).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/E8F24464C12900A/Raymond_Depardon_-_Faits_divers_(1983).srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon – Faits divers AKA News Items (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Traveling alone, internationally acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing France with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation of an extraordinary travel journal. Depardon revisited important places from his past as a reporter: Chad, Venice and Cannes. Previously unseen footage from his archive has also been added to create an intimate, compelling and revelatory ‘Journal de France’ – a unique portrait of a country and its landscapes.

4.07GB | 1h 41m | 1920×960 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E689F5E0ED91B23/Journal.de.France.2012.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Raymond Depardon & Claudine Nougaret – Journal de France (2012) first appeared on Cinema of the World.