The Beaches of Agnès
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself...
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A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan...
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German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
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A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time...
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An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
See moreThe Lovely Month of May
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and...
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What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
See moreTen Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker
Ten years after the death of iconic French filmmaker, Chris Marker. A filmmaker, hoping to rediscover that unique sensibility against the...
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Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.
See moreIn Chris Marker's Studio
Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.
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The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during World War 2. She searches...
See moreThe Koumiko Mystery
While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she's an intriguing anomaly. He films her...
See moreThe Invention of Chris Marker
A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.
See moreKashima Paradise
This 1973 French documentary explores the conflict between modern values and material comforts in Japan and the more traditional obligations (giri)...
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This idiosyncratic view of Tokyo begins with a live mannequin in a store window and French actress Arielle Dombasle chatting with Marker as they...
See moreChris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie...
See moreRush - Voyage à Moscou
A document of Perestroika, to be viewed as (nearly) unedited rushes of a voyage to Moscow, preserved by compatriot Costa-Gavras. Says Émilie Cauquy...
See moreLumière Award to Chris Marker
This silent film shows the jury voting for Chris Marker, who receives the Louis Lumière award for his film ¡Cuba sí!
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