Cinema
Claude Miller, Movie Lover
Portrait of filmmaker Claude Miller (Garde à Vue, Deadly Circuit, An Impudent Girl...).
Obsessed with the cinema from an early age, a film-buff turned filmmaker, he crafted his own style of "popular cinéma d'auteur", trusting in the viewer’s sensitivity and imagination.
Suggesting a lot, while showi...
Trintignant the Italian
The French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant looks back over his Italian film career, his long partnership with Cinecittà and the wonderful lightness that marked this golden age of Italian cinema.
The documentary pays homage to the actor’s Italian period, through his work with Bernardo Bertolucci, Vittor...
China and Reality
Portrait of the new Chinese cinema.
Going backwards through time and constructed like a puzzle, this documentary is an exploration of the future of China through the works of four of the greatest Chinese filmmakers today, Wang Bing, Zhangke Jia, Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan.
These filmmakers, who b...
Final Cut in Pakistan
Pakistan is the birthplace for a popular, violent and colorful cinema unknown in western countries. Extremely prolix during 50 years, it's declining for 15 years.
Today, isn't the announced end of the cinema industry a way to let us know a change in this country back to the past, a strong obscura...
In the spirit of…
Documentary series in 10 x 26 minute episodes focusing on ten French filmmakers of our time.
An exploration of an often unknown world: the imagination of the great names of new French cinema. This series gives the floor to the generation that has been making films for fifteen years and managed to fi...
Micheline Presle, an explorer of the cinema
French actress and post-war movie legend Micheline Presle tells us how she went straight from the imaginary world of childhood to that of the cinema.
Making her debut at the age of 15 with Georg Pabst, then Abel Gance, she is part of the history of world cinema. The famous novel by Raymond Radiguet,...
NY Indies, the other american cinema
The film traces the independent movement from Robert Downey Sr., to the new comers, all producing films with low budgets, such as directors (Tom Di Cillo, Amos Kollek), producers (Gill Holland, Lemore Syvan, Avram Ludwig), cinematographers (Ellen Kuras), wardrobe designers (Ruth Carter)… as well as ...
The mystery of Atom Egoyan
This film attempts to discover the creative process of the filmmaker Atom Egoyan and shed some light on the most enigmatic and singular aspect of his work: his writing.
The documentary looks back at his 13 feature films, but also his very first unpublished essays, which most certainly formed the bas...
The Work of the Poster Artist: Signed Landi
The poster as an object was born at the same time as the cinema, and as the cinema became an industry, producers and distributors appropriated it and placed it under their control.
Providing us with our first view of a film, the poster advertises it outside a theatre and tries, with varying degrees ...
The animals are movie stars too !
Animals in movies seem to act naturally just like comedians. But this is the contrary. To make animals act is unnatural and the way to obtain it is sometimes close to magic practiced by some specialized animal trainers. Pierre Cadéac is one of the most popular in the trainers' closed world. He opens...
