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Episode list

Le documentaire culturel
Toulouse-Lautrec, l'insaisissable
Sat, Oct 19, 2019
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  • Toulouse-Lautrec, l'insaisissable
Ambitious painter, draughtsman and brilliant poster artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec chronicled his era with insatiable greed. The aristocrat from Albuquerque, friend of Van Gogh and inspired by Degas and Manet, was encumbered by a handicap and an ungainly body, which did not prevent him from frequenting the artists and intellectuals of Parisian life and the Montmatro scene. From the cabarets of Pigalle to the brothels, this caustic and provocative observer casts a glance full of passion and humanity on the women he meets. This documentary traces the journey of a visionary artist with a fierce freedom who reveals, behind the parties and the glitter, the immense solitude of the human condition.
8.1 /10
La revanche de Vermeer
Tue, Feb 21, 2017
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  • La revanche de Vermeer
Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, comparisons to Renaissance masters, and relevant history of Europe's politics and art market.
8 /10
Zauberberg - Thomas Manns Jahrundertroman/La montagne magique - Thomas Mann et son roman emblématique
Sat, Oct 19, 2024
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  • Zauberberg - Thomas Manns Jahrundertroman/La montagne magique - Thomas Mann et son roman emblématique
En 1924 paraissait La Montagne Magique de Thomas Mann. Grand connaisseur de l'écrivain, André Schäfer propose de redécouvrir cette satire de la bourgeoisie.
7.8 /10
La revanche de Vermeer

SUnknownLa revanche de Vermeer

Tue, Feb 21, 2017
Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, comparisons to Renaissance masters, and relevant history of Europe's politics and art market.
8 /10
Le funeste destin du docteur Frankenstein

SUnknownLe funeste destin du docteur Frankenstein

Sun, Oct 21, 2018
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote her masterpiece. Ever since, the Creature has become a cultural icon. Delve into Shelley's novel and experience its raw, extraordinary energy spun around the central theme of man's quest for the secret of Life.
7 /10
Picasso, Braque & Cie: la révolution cubiste

SUnknownPicasso, Braque & Cie: la révolution cubiste

Sat, Oct 27, 2018
In 1906, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were 24 and 25 years old. The Butte Montmartre is their Parisian sanctuary where artists in need of recognition meet. Braque and Picasso become friends to the point of never leaving each other. For the moment, their paintings do not interest many people; only Apollinaire, then aged 26, and the young gallery owner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 22, saw immense potential in them. And in addition to their passion for painting, these four inseparable boys share the same appetite for modernity. Collages, diversions of materials and geometrization of forms: cubism opened the way to abstraction. A revolution initiated by Picasso and Braque, which profoundly changed the course of the history of modern art.
7.7 /10
Toulouse-Lautrec, l'insaisissable

SUnknownToulouse-Lautrec, l'insaisissable

Sat, Oct 19, 2019
Ambitious painter, draughtsman and brilliant poster artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec chronicled his era with insatiable greed. The aristocrat from Albuquerque, friend of Van Gogh and inspired by Degas and Manet, was encumbered by a handicap and an ungainly body, which did not prevent him from frequenting the artists and intellectuals of Parisian life and the Montmatro scene. From the cabarets of Pigalle to the brothels, this caustic and provocative observer casts a glance full of passion and humanity on the women he meets. This documentary traces the journey of a visionary artist with a fierce freedom who reveals, behind the parties and the glitter, the immense solitude of the human condition.
8.1 /10
Salman Rushdie, la mort aux trousses

SUnknownSalman Rushdie, la mort aux trousses

Tue, Nov 12, 2019
When The Satanic Verses were published in 1988, no one yet perceived the rise of Muslim fundamentalism or its consequences. Not even its author, who will live 30 years under the threat of a fatwa pronounced by Ayatollah Khomeini.
7.1 /10
Lotte Eisner: par amour du cinéma

SUnknownLotte Eisner: par amour du cinéma

Sat, Feb 20, 2021
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.
6.8 /10
La fabuleuse histoire du Juif errant

SUnknownLa fabuleuse histoire du Juif errant

Sun, Nov 06, 2022
An evocation of the representations through the centuries of a major figure of European culture, the wandering Jew, popular hero or support of antisemitic theories.
6.3 /10
Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback

SUnknownNaissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback

Thu, Dec 07, 2023
In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles, an independent filmmaker far ahead of his time, released a mind-blowing piece of avant-garde cinema - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. It broke all the rules, inventing its own grammar and proclaiming its emancipation from cinematic conventions. It turned the Hollywood studio system on its head, creatively sidestepping prevailing constraints and scrounging up alternative financing. Most importantly, Van Peebles splashed Black Power across the big screen in a way people had never seen before, depicting a heroic character who both defies "the man" and illustrates the oppression of Blacks, from slavery to the Watts riots.
6.3 /10
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From the Town Up

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Obsession

Obsession

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Fluoridegate: an American Tragedy

Fluoridegate: an American Tragedy

'Fluoridegate: An America Tragedy' is a documentary that reveals the tragedy of how government, industry, and trade associations, protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and specially small children, who suffer more than any other segment of the population. While the basis of their motivation remains uncertain, the outcome is crystal clear: it is destroying our nation.

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Gaelic documentary about the Scottish child murderer Ian Brady, exploring his life, and his wish to die.

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