The Beaches of Agnès

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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Sans Soleil

Sans Soleil

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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Tokyo-Ga

Tokyo-Ga

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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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich

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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A. K.

A. K.

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

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The Lovely Month of May

The 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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La Traversée du désir

La Traversée du désir

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.

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Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

Ten 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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May Days

May Days

Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968.

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In Chris Marker's Studio

In Chris Marker's Studio

Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.

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Level Five

Level Five

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...

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The Koumiko Mystery

The 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...

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The Invention of Chris Marker

The Invention of Chris Marker

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.

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Kashima Paradise

Kashima 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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Tokyo Days

Tokyo Days

This idiosyncratic view of Tokyo begins with a live mannequin in a store window and French actress Arielle Dombasle chatting with Marker as they...

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Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie...

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Rush - Voyage à Moscou

Rush - 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...

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Lumière Award to Chris Marker

Lumière 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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