Pour tourner "Playtime", sur le terrain vague de Gravelle entièrement nivelé, une ville entière a jailli de terre. Cette ville a vécu quatre ans, le temps d'un tournage, puis a été détruite.
Documentary about the life and career of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Documentary analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1949 film "Jour de fete". Goudet tracks the evolution of Tati’s comedy stylings, from their origins in the short films where he first appeared through his ambitious feature productions.
Documentary about the Parisian locations for the film by Louis Malle.
A documentary about the making of Jean Renoir's film The River (1951)
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1942 film.
A short documentary about Remy Julienne.
The Man Who Saved Ben-Hur explores the filmmakers relationship with his 89-year old second cousin, Johnny Alarimo, at the end of his life. A charismatic loner, Johnny spent a dazzling career behind the scenes in show business without never forming any lasting relationships. Destine to die that way, the film is a subtle dance between a subject who wants to control his legacy, and a filmmaker/family-member who simply wants to know him.
About the making of 'The Land of The Enlightened' (2016).
A peculiar homage to the things that go wrong, this film is purportedly about rugby. The self-explanatory title for this jumpy “documentary” is less concerned with the filmed subject (the game, the field, the players) than a comic editing style and the complete acknowledgement given to the technical aspect of gathering and manipulating raw footage.
The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos.
Documentary about the making of the 1967 Czech film "Marketa Lazarova".
In this new program, choreographer Twyla Tharp remembers her collaboration with Milos Forman on Hair and explains how the entire project was put together.
Episode of the French television series "Cinéma Cinémas" which documents the discovery of the negatives that led to the completion of the color version of Jacques Tati’s 1949 film "Jour de fête".
Eva Ebner is a Berliner who gives the appearance of being rather eccentric. She knows the film business inside out – regardless of whether she’s work- ing behind the camera as an assistant director or in front of it as an actor. Her name is closely associated with a series of now-legendary adaptations of Edgar Wallace’s crime novels which were made in Germany during the 1960s. Upcoming young directors from local film schools have also profited from Ms. Ebner’s unbroken enthusiasm and passion for film. However, this eighty-year-old has a more than broken relationship to the events of her childhood and youth in Gdansk – a time when her life was characterised by an anti-Semitic step-mother and the dangers posed by the Nazi regime. This film portrait does not eschew any of the long dark shadows of that era, nor does it sidestep any friction between portrayer and his subject. (Lothar Lambert)
Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci is interviewed on the British television series about his film "The Last Emperor."
A documentary about the making of the Lone Wolf and Cub film series.
Documentary about the making of the film Salò by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Six sketches, featuring off-screen human voices and on-screen chimpanzees in men's clothing, illustrating six aspects of movie making: script writing, using a camera, working in a darkroom, editing, art and animation, and shooting a scene with special attention to sound. The screen goes black between each sketch. The narration is straightforward with the chimps providing comic, contradicting subtexts.
Marcel Carné tourne Les Enfants du Paradis en 1945. Portrait d'un film : réalisé pendant l'occupation, Marcel Carné fait traîner le montage pour qu'il soit le premier film projeté à la Libération. Depuis, Les Enfants du Paradis a été déclaré "meilleur film français de tous les temps" par tous les jurys. C'est également un triomphe mondial.