Movies: André S. Labarthe

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe, originally aired in two parts....

Part of the Cinéastes de notre temps series....

Interview with the French film director, conducted for television in 1978....

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Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art....

A documentary about the dancer Sylvie Guillem on her daily round of classes, rehearsals and peformances....

This short film shows a young couple during a short period after the explosion of a nuclear bomb 120 km above Paris. The city appears unaffected, but the man begins to notice changes in the behavior of the people in general and in that of his girl fr...

Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car....

An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker....

A traveller investigates the life and work of Georges Bataille. Through a staging of the writer's obsessive motives, the film succeeds in grasping the elusive: the sensitive nucleus of radical thought. The film contains the interviews with Pierre Kl...

Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Martin Scorsese. After making a diverse group of films in the 80s, he reunited with Robert DeNiro for "Goodfellas" and later that year shot a segment for "...

An episode of the television program Cinéastes de notre temps in which the director gives his first on-camera interview....

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired sometime around 2015....

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, J...

A retired Japanese ex-patriot living the life of a bohemian Parnassian painter in Paris loses his latest picture, and wanders into Belleville hoping to reclaim what is rightfully his. Along the way, the drifting stray cat comes into contact with a se...

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema offers an aggressive détournement to the French mainstream, reifying a Duchampian view of film: "I believe in i...

Two enigmatic figures with code names, Costello and the Colonel, bound seemingly by some mysterious revolutionary past, engage in an intense conversation concerning the architecture surrounding them, with possible catastrophic consequences....

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Episode of the French television series about the work of François Truffaut....

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir....