William Lubtchansky
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
Français
Description
Portraits of the shopkeepers along the rue Daguerre, an average street in Paris, provide an informal investigation into French culture and society. After studying the different stores and what they sell, and interviewing the owners about their childhoods and marriages, the film concludes with a series of static "daguerréotypes," in the style of pioneer photographer Louis Daguerre.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
In 1975 Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only 'Elder of the Jews' not to have been killed during the war. From Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Marie has just been released from prison, and encounters the paranoid loner Baptiste. They follow Marie's ex-lover Julien and his talismanic briefcase as Paris begins to open up to them as a series of enigmatic clues. The city is a labyrinth of possibilities but no certainties, a place of fantastical fables (here be dragons) and the brute realities of the street.
Publisher
Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A pair of ex-lovers get back together. Julien is a clock repairman whose girlfriend has left him. Marie is a mysterious woman whose boyfriend has died. Now that they have no emotional entanglements, they slowly begin a new relationship.
8) Shoah
Series
Criterion collection volume 663
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
"The Grand Prix winner at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, La Belle Noiseuse (aka The Beautiful Troublemaker) is legendary French New Wave director Jacques Rivette's intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive...
Publisher
Maïa Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Français
Description
A rapturous paean to France's near-revolution of May, 1968 and its aftermath. Love, youth, and disillusionment are captured in the infamous Parisian riots as student-poet François grapples with a doomed romance with the aloof sculptor Lilie.
Series
Criterion collection volume 744
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.