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- StarsAgnès VardaSandrine BonnaireHervé ChandèsAgnès Varda, photographer, installation artist and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, is an institution of French cinema. Taking a seat on a theatre stage, she uses photos and film excerpts to provide an insight into her unorthodox oeuvre.
- DirectorBahman MaghsoudlouStarsKurosh AfsharpanahShohreh AghdashlooGodfrey CheshireA look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
- DirectorP.J. LetofskyStarsOleg VidovMarina TarkovskayaTonino GuerraTarkovsky: Time Within Time explores the acclaimed Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky through his diary to discover the man and the vision to which he aspires. While developing a film on Dostoievsky, he wrote, 'We must make a film about the man himself, about his personality, his god, his devil, his work'. Tarkovsky's story is told chronologically and we come to know the man himself, through his articulate assessments on love, art, and the struggles working within the Soviet Communist political system. Of his 7 ambitious films, 5 were made under the heavy hand of censors in the Soviet Union. He defected in 1984 to Italy with the help of acclaimed screenwriter Tonino Guerra. He directed 2 films in the West until his untimely death in 1986 at age 54 from cancer. Narrated by the renowned Russian actor Oleg Vidov, you become mesmerized as if Tarkovsky himself is speaking to you. Through a collection of rare film footage and photos from Marina Tarkovsky (sister), Andrei Konchalovsky, Tonino Guerra, Enrica Antonioni, and coupled with interviews from people who knew him best, we take you on a passionate journey to discover the life, love, and art of Andrei Tarkovsky in Moscow, Rome, Stockholm, and Sainte Genevieve des Bois outside Paris where he is buried.
- DirectorMichel PascalSerge ToubianaStarsFanny ArdantOlivier AssayasAlexandre AstrucTwenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.
- DirectorDamian PettigrewStarsFederico FelliniRoberto BenigniLuigi 'Titta' BenziA look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
- DirectorNoah BaumbachJake PaltrowStarsBrian De PalmaMark HamillAmy IrvingA documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.
- DirectorKent JonesMartin ScorseseStarsMartin ScorseseElia KazanElias KoteasA documentary on the late Elia Kazan.
- DirectorSerge AvedikianOlena FetisovaStarsSerge AvedikianYuliya PeresildKaren BadalovA film director Sergey Paradjanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric. His indestructible love for beauty allows him to withstand the years of imprisonment, isolation and oblivion.
- DirectorKevin BrownlowDavid GillStarsRoy AitkenLindsay AndersonWilliam BakewellBrilliant pioneer of the feature film and discoverer of Hollywood - yet some say he single-handedly re-awakened the Ku Klux Klan.
- DirectorSarah AspinallStarsNeil PearsonEthan CoenJoel CoenA documentary showing the lives of the famous directors Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Including many guests featuring in their films.
- DirectorAnnie TresgotMichel CimentStarsBilly WilderMichel CimentJack LemmonFrench film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and film-making.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsBjörn AndrésenLaura AntonelliTina ApicellaActors who worked with and knew Luchino Visconti are interviewed about his life.
- DirectorCarlo Di CarloStarsMichelangelo AntonioniA documentary on the life, work, and character of Michelangelo Antonioni.
- DirectorJan HarlanStarsKatharina KubrickMalcolm McDowellStanley KubrickThe career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.
- DirectorKrzysztof WierzbickiStarsKrzysztof KieslowskiJacek PetryckiKrzysztof WierzbickiDirector/Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation.
- DirectorLeo De BoerJurriën RoodStarsRobert BressonLouis MalleDominique SandaA Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
- 1985– 3h 12mNot Rated7.7 (5.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert B. WeideStarsWoody AllenLetty AronsonMarshall BrickmanA documentary on Woody Allen that trails him on his movie sets and follows him back to Brooklyn as he visits his childhood haunts.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsWilliam FriedkinFritz LangAmerican director William Friedkin interviewed Austrian director Fritz Lang on February 21st and 24th, 1975.
- DirectorJakub HejnaHelena TrestíkováStarsMilos FormanMiroslav OndrícekA look at the life and work of director Milos Forman, from the Czech New Wave to Hollywood.
- DirectorDonatella BaglivoStarsAndrei TarkovskyDonatella BaglivoTarkovsky expounds on his life and work, the essential importance of fighting, the conceptual nonexistence of happiness, what childhood determines about us, wartime's impact on fantasies, and the salutary effects of a year laboring in Siberia.
- DirectorJosé Luis López-LinaresJavier RioyoStarsJosé SanchoCarlos FuentesClaudio IsaacDocumentary about spanish director Luis Buñuel.
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsJohn FordPeter BogdanovichOrson WellesA documentary on the life and films of director John Ford.
- DirectorNick RedmanStarsRudy BehlmerJanet BergstromJames D'ArcA documentary focusing on Ford's time at Fox and his relationship with Darryl F. Zanuck.
- CreatorJanine BazinAndré S. LabartheStarsJean-Claude DauphinAndré S. LabartheJean-François Stévenin"Cinema of Our Time" is a documentary series about contemporary filmmakers from around the world, created by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe, as a follow-up to the acclaimed initial series "Filmmakers of Our Time" (1964-1972).
- DirectorRichard SchickelStarsSydney PollackHoward HawksMarilyn MonroeA documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures.