Movies: Alain Tanner

A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by....

The work of legendary actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon....

Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean, a younger man. However, his father disagrees....

Roger Diamantis owns the Saint-André-des-Arts cinema in Paris. His discovery of the 7th art, his vocation to own a cinema where he could show films that resembled him, and his years in the restoration business to achieve this… He recalls his early da...

A documentary film in which Fabrice Aragno assembles a range of footage from the archives of Radio Télévision Suisse, the Cinémathèque suisse and Cinéma en tête by Freddy Buache’s partner Marie-Magdeleine Brumagne....

A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn't show up for a class....

A documentary about the career of Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner....

Several teenagers following a professional apprenticeship. Eleven young girls and boys from different parts of French-speaking Switzerland....

Reel 40 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series....

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May 68 in Paris filmed by Alain Tanner, then director for Swiss Television. Images of Nanterre (92), the Sorbonne (Paris 5e), and the theater of the Odeon (Paris 6th), meetings, speeches and events, are accompanied by a commentary that recounts the e...

Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier....

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