La Nouvelle Vague, remède ou poison?
Five years after the explosion of the French New Wave onto French and international screens, doubts about the true impact of the movement have emerged. Producers Labarthe and Bazin assemble an intriguing round-table made up of Cinématheque Française director Henri Langlois, and filmmakers Alexandre Astruc, Pierre Kast, and Agnès Varda to discuss the past, present and future of the movement.
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Jean Vigo

Wed, Oct 14, 1964
A number of surviving collaborators on two of Jean Vigo's films. "Zero For Conduct" and " L'Atalante," are interviewed about the making of these works and their historical context.
7.2 /10
Sacha Guitry

Wed, May 19, 1965
Collaborators of the late playwright, actor, and film director, as well as several scholars, are interviewed about the lasting importance of Guitry's work, which is illustrated by clips.
6.8 /10
Bresson ni vu ni connu
As befits the austerity of this director, for his first ever on camera interview, it is just Bresson and the filmmaker, with pronouncements on the difference between "le cinematographe" and "le Cinema, " and much information about the man's tastes in other arts such as painting, photography and music.
7.4 /10
Erich von Stroheim
By the time the French tv series on great directors began,Stroheim was deceased so couldn't be part of a regular interview format.Nevertheless the filmmaker tries to unravel the enigmatic personality and separate the man from the myth.
7.2 /10
Le celluloïd et le marbre
"Celluloid and Marble" is based on Éric Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma" discussing film in relation to the other arts, maintaining that, in an age of cultural self-consciousness, cinema was "the last refuge of poetry" - the only contemporary art form from which metaphor could still spring naturally and spontaneously.
6.6 /10
John Ford, entre chien et loup
John Ford is interviewed,sitting on a bed in his Hollywood home, with a cigar and a drink,by two journalists,and deflects a number of the questions about his life and films with a cranky humor,even occasionally trying to converse with the French interviewer in French.
8 /10
Pasolini l'enragé
"Wild Man Pasolini" intellectualizes in this TV portrait about not just film but also: politics, art, poetry, and philosophy.
6.2 /10
Raoul Walsh ou le bon vieux temps
Just retired from directing, Walsh recounts "the good old days" working with Griffith, his beginnings at Warners and his adventures with Bogart, Cooper, Flynn and Gable.
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D'un silence l'autre
In an hour's chat with two French interviewers, Sternberg laments the failure of critics and the public to truly understand his work.
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John Cassavetes
The director is interviewed at his house in Hollywood in 1965 during the filming of "Faces," and then three years later in Paris after the movie has finally been finished and is awaiting distribution.
7.8 /10
Conversation avec George Cukor
Seated by a swimming pool, the legendary Hollywood director discusses his influences and his work with performers in an interview for French television.
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Though it focused on the titans of old Hollywood in its early days, this series made time for an occasional portrait of the New American Cinema such as this one of maverick female auteur Shirley Clarke.
6.7 /10
Busby Berkeley

Thu, Jun 03, 1971
In an hour long interview for French television, the famed Hollywood choreographer and director discusses the technical challenges of his unique musical sequences.
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