The Scorsese Machine
Scorsese is filmed in his office, and at home with his parents, allowing him to speak whenever he feels like it rather than responding to conventional interview questions.
7.5 /10
Oliveira l'architecte
The Portuguese director Paulo Rocha pays tribute to a mentor, Manoel De Oliveira, in this hour long TV documentary portrait.
6.6 /10
Shohei Imamura, le libre penseur
Documentary about the director Shohei Imamura. This intimate portrayal arrives to calm us. In good health and enjoying life, Imamura gets drunk methodically in a bar worthy of "An Autumn Afternoon". Then, in the hands of the professional of an hairdresser, he tells his short experience as a director of pornographic films. We salivate with extracts of unknown and invisible films. We find out he his preparing a new film. It sums up the global project of Imamura perfectly: write the counter-history of Japan, from the point of view of the whores and bandits.
6.7 /10
Georges Franju, le visionnaire
By bringing together six interviews given by Georges Franju (1912-1987) between 1964 and 1987 - a period of time that covers a significant part of the filmmaker's career - André S. Labarthe shares the difficulty of composing such a document to approach the man and his filmography. Especially since the film mixes the varied framework of the different interviews and some film extracts.
6.8 /10
Philippe Garrel, artiste
A biographical movie on film director Philippe Garrel, based on a live interview during which his ideas and relationships are discussed, and illustrated with inserts from his movies.
7.4 /10
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker around New York by night.
6.2 /10
Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur
A fascinating look at Georgian expat filmmaker Otar Iosseliani through the lens of his former assistant Julie Bertuccelli, focused on his unique working methods and conception of cinema.
0 /10
Le Home Cinéma des frères Dardenne
The cinematic word of the Dardenne brothers, printed on incandescent Super 8 in Seraing, their adolescence hometown. Decorating the film, a town that was actually incandescent before the shutdown of the local metallurgical industry.
0 /10
Il était une fois André S. Labarthe
A documentary film on André S. Labarthe shot in several stages from winter 2006 to winter 2008 in Paris and Massais. The interviews recorded in 2006 shape a nascent dialogue and then a correspondence accompanies the third part of the film.
0 /10
Portrait d'Otto Preminger
A 1972 interview with Filmmaker Otto Preminger, who discusses his origins in the theater, and the compromises he has made in order to maintain some control over his Hollywood projects.
6.2 /10
Catherine Breillat, la première fois
Maverick Cahiers critic and filmmaker in his own right, Luc Moullet provides a surprisingly tender portrait of a female director who has aroused controversy with her depictions of sexuality.
7 /10

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