Movies: Robert Fischer

Actors Tony Lo Bianco and Marilyn Chris, and editor Stan Warnow, discuss the 1970 film THE HONEYMOON KILLERS....

An appreciation of the film “The Last Detail” by Alexander Payne...

Actors Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby Müller’s camera for Wim Wender’s seminal road movie KINGS OF THE ROAD (Im Lauf der Zeit, 1976)....

Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")...

An interview with cinematographer Richard H. Kline talking about his filming experience in Brian De Palma's film The Fury....

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him about his work and publishing this in book form, he didn't imagine that more than four years would pass before Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock f...

Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], who is spiritually supported by his dead grandfather Johnny, with the support of the mysterious Baltazar! Will o...

In the heart of the mysterious Amazon region lives a people whose roots are deeply anchored in the layers of time: the Matsés people, also known as the Jaguar People. Award-winning film producer Roberto Fischer, anthropologist Andrey Matusovskiy and ...

The son of film director von Sternberg discusses his father....

A first-hand account of the shooting of John Frankenheimer's The Birdman of Alcatraz by the film's camera operator, Richard H. Kline, ASC....

Kathryn Bigelow talks about the work of film director Douglas Sirk....

Allen Baron, director of "Blast of Silence" visits locations from the film and recalls the production....

Welles scholar Joseph McBride discusses the 1952 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. (A 32-minute edit of this documentary was presented by the Criterion Collection in their edition of Othello.)...

In retracing the making of FEDORA, Robert Fischer’s documentary SWAN SONG: THE STORY OF BILLY WILDERʼS FEDORA adds yet another layer of comment and reflection on the film’s very own subject matter: 35 years after playing the romantic leads in FEDORA,...

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In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s most significant locations. THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS features new contributions from actors Bulle Ogi...

Short documentary about sequences removed from the film....

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk)....

The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews originally appeared in the documentary "Douglas Sirk: Uber Stars" (Eckhart Schmidt, 1980)...

This brand new documentary takes a closer look at the production history, unique style, and lasting appeal of Fat City, as well as Leonard Gardner's novel that inspired it. Included in it are new interviews with actors Stacy Keach and Candy Clark, ca...