Movies

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow....

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and...

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.

In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury...

In 1962, François Truffaut visited the Mar del Plata Film Festival to present his competition in the brand-new Jules and Jim. At that stage of...

A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality....

A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac

The French director is interviewed in this documentary showing the newly celebrated filmmaker discussing his influences and beginnings along with...

Originally commissioned by Truffaut as part of a series of short films based on Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, it would be a...

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred...

A timid young man searches for a room through newspaper ads and encounters a young woman caring for a baby. When a confident man arrives, the two...

A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died. In this film Dreyer tells about the style in...