Cinema
Lanners de LIÈGE, known as Bouli
Portrait of the Belgian actor and director Bouli Lanners, whose films are about rambling, the passing landscape, the unforeseen, unexpected wanderings and his roadside encounters.
We filmed Bouli Lanners, in such a way as to fall into step with him, keeping pace with his movements, his rhythm, his b...
CINEMA OF OUR TIME: Mathieu Amalric
As part of « Cinema of our time », a series of portraits and conversations conducted by André S. Labarthe.
Mathieu Amalric is directing « Barbara », a movie dedicated to the iconic French singer, and staring the incredible Jeanne Balibar. In the company of André S. Labarthe and Quentin Mervel, he ...
MY NAME IS ELIA KAZAN
1972: Kazan presents his latest film at Cannes, The Visitors. André S. Labarthe and Annette Michelson decide to follow him to the USA… 2017: Labarthe decides to make a movie with these unedited interviews. In his final masterpiece Labarthe is helped by his wife Danielle Anezin, ending a 60-year-long...
CINEMA OF OUR TIME : Jean-Pierre Mocky
As part of « Cinema of our time », a series of portraits and conversations conducted by André S. Labarthe.
Jean-Pierre Mocky : French actor, producer, director.
Profile : A certain fondness for touchy topics (politics, religion, corruption, child trafficking, pharmaceutical lobbies...)
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Delepine / Kervern: Open Exhausts
Documentary about the filmmaking duo Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern.
Filmmakers Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who came to us from Groland, (a popular French TV show on Canal +), create works of poetry often inspired by outsider art and surrealism.
"Each of our films tells the same story...
Tod Browning, The Game of Illusions
A portrait of the "Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema", the director of the mythical Freaks and the first Dracula “talkie” with Bela Lugosi, through his films, which were thought lost and recently found.
Although the director's two best-known films are talkies (FREAKS and DRACULA), Tod Browning was main...
CINEMA OF OUR TIME: No RETURN : RAFI PITTS
As part of « Cinema of our time », a series of portraits and conversations conducted by André S. Labarthe.
On the set of its last feature film “Soy Nero”, we observe Rafi Pitts working: directing, managing his team with kindness and sensitivity, taking decisions of production. This documentary dra...
MAMOULIAN LOST AND FOUND
1965. We ring the doorbell of the Beverley Hills house where a forgotten filmmaker seems to spend his time reminiscing. His name is Rouben Mamoulian. He hasn't been making films for five years, but the cinema has not stopped inhabiting him. This american director and producer directed the first thre...
Jacques Tourneur, the Medium : Filming the Invisible
There’s a mystery surrounding Jacques Tourneur. Where does this belief in the invisible world and the supernatural come from in a director so firmly anchored in reality?
When Jacques Tourneur said in an interview that many people live in fear and don’t know it who could have imagined that, despite h...