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Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited 2024
Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque; critic/historian Sylvie Pierre; and archival footage of Jacques Rivette

Jack Arnold Remembers The Incredible Shrinking Man 2021
From footage filmed in 1983, this documentary presents an interview with director Jack Arnold and his reminiscences of the making of the 1957 film THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN.

Ganz Berlin lacht sich kaputt: Wie die 'Berliner Ballade' entstand 2020

The Beauty of the Land: Anthony Slide on Andre De Toth and the Indian Fighter 2019
Short doc in which Anthony Slide (Andre De Toth on Andre De Toth) discusses the work of Andre De Toth in general and The Indian Fighter in particular.

Life As It Is: Miloš Forman on Miloš Forman 2018
Milos Forman talks Robert Fischer through his filmography and the difficult transition from Czechoslovakia to Hollywood. Shot in 2000, edited and completed in 2018.

Painting with Light: Nicholas von Sternberg on Josef von Sternberg 2018
The son of film director von Sternberg discusses his father.

Crazy Love: Janet Bergstrom on Josef von Sternberg's 'Morocco' 2018
Film scholar Janet Bergstrom discusses Sternberg's 1930 film starring Marlene Dietrich.

Budd Boetticher on the Ranown Cycle 2018
Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias 2018 star_border 5.5
For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break and extend in new ways. One example of his tireless search and research are the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, which he co-directed with Ula Stöckl in 1969/70, 22 absurdly funny, subversive and anarchistic short films of different lengths, which consciously oppose all conventions, with incredible success. The films remain unrivalled in their Dadaistic inventiveness.

G.W. Pabst's 'Kameradschaft': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak 2017
Film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak discusses Pabst's 1931 film

G.W. Pabst's 'Westfront 1918': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak 2017
Film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak discusses Pabst's 1930 film "Westfront 1918".

Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' 2017
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, casting director Fred Roos, and camera assistant Gary Vidor.

Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ 2016
Joseph Wambaugh wrote his first novel 'The New Centurions' while still active as a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, and his fact-based, painfully realistic book became a nation-wide bestseller when it came out in 1971. Replacing heroic cops with struggling, psychologically damaged characters, Wambaugh changed crime literature forever. Richard Fleischer’s filming of Wambaugh’s novel, also called THE NEW CENTURIONS, followed a year later and, in turn, revolutionized crime movies. Featuring newly filmed interviews with writer Joseph Wambaugh, star Stacy Keach, technical advisor Richard E. Kalk (Wambaugh’s real-life LAPD partner) and assistant cameraman Ronald Vidor, COP STORIES: THE MAKING OF RICHARD FLEISCHER’S THE NEW CENTURIONS chronicles the production of that landmark film in all its stages from script to screen.

The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited 2016 star_border 6.3
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 Ogier, Michael Lonsdale and Hermine Karagheuz, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, assistant director Jean-François Stévenin and producer Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff, but also rare archival interviews with actors Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Michel Delahaye and, most prominently, illuminating statements by director Jacques Rivette himself from two different archival interviews.

Love Letters 2015
Actors Tony Lo Bianco and Marilyn Chris, and editor Stan Warnow, discuss the 1970 film THE HONEYMOON KILLERS.

Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany 2015
A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal 2015
In this feature-length interview, conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015, Volker Schlöndorff talks about the making of his film BAAL (1969), based on the first play ever written by Bertolt Brecht. He describes his working relationship with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his group of actors and how the Brecht family hated the film when it first came out, resulting in BAAL’s inavailability for over 40 years.

Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick' 2015 star_border 5
Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller "Charley Varrick," made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful "Dirty Harry," stars Walter Matthau in what is probably the actor’s finest dramatic role, airshow pilot turned crop duster turned bank robber turned mob target Charley Varrick. This feature-length documentary takes the viewer back to the time of the shooting of this cult item and features original interviews with Siegel’s son, Kristoffer Tabori, actors Andy Robinson and Jacqueline Scott, stunt driver and actor Craig R. Baxley, composer Lalo Schifrin and Howard A. Rodman, whose father co-wrote the screenplay.

Perspectives on Othello: Joseph McBride on Orson Welles 2014
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.)

Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora 2014 star_border 6
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, Marthe Keller and Michael York look back at working with Billy Wilder – and their careers. Additional testimonies come from acclaimed cinematographer Gerry Fisher, producer Harold Nebenzal, Paul Diamond (son of Wilder’s writing partner I.A.L. Diamond), and German actor Mario Adorf.

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Hinterland 2013 star_border 7.3
Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look.