Liste des épisodes

A documentary about American director David Lynch.

Film-interview with Italian director Nanni Moretti.

This is a film made of interviews of the film director Jacques Rivette, by a film critic ("Les Cahiers du Cinéma"), Serge Daney.

This is a film made of interviews of the film director Jacques Rivette, by a film critic ("Les Cahiers du Cinéma"), Serge Daney.

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.

Revised version of Pasolini l'enragé (1966), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.19 15 November 1966.

The Portuguese director Paulo Rocha pays tribute to a mentor, Manoel De Oliveira, in this hour long TV documentary portrait.

Revised version of D'un silence l'autre (1967), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.29 9 December 1967.

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is interviewed in Tehran and his work is profiled.

Over eight days of interviews Rohmer elaborates on the relationship between film and literature, and how that pertains to his own work.

Over eight days of interviews Rohmer elaborates on the relationship between film and literature, and how that pertains to his own work.

Revised version of Bresson ni vu ni connu (1965), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.8 17 June 1965.

Rebroadcast of Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967) from the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.22 January 1967.

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.

Cavalier tracks his career from early more money oriented work toward more unconventional and personal expression within a documentary framework.

Revised version of La nouvelle vague par elle-même (1964), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.2 19 May 1964.

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.

Revised version of "Rome brûle" (Portrait de Shirley Clarke) (1970), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.45 4 October 1970.

Revised version of Jean-Pierre Melville (Portrait en 9 poses) (1971), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.48 16 July 1971.

The Taiwanese auteur gives French director Assayas, his interviewer, a guided tour of the island country.

Approached to direct an episode of the tv series Cinema of Our Times, the Belgian auteur turns the camera on herself and offers a selection of clips from her work.

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.

Revised version of John Cassavetes (1969), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.38 17 March 1969.

Premiere TV broadcast (France) of the theatrical film Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch (1987).

Revised version of John Ford, entre chien et loup (1966), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.18 16 June 1966.

Two directors struggle to survive in the movie industry.

Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker around New York by night.

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.

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.

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.

Erice wander about between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving places more alive than ever in his cinéphile memory. Paris-Madrid.

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.

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.