Bernard Eisenschitz

Wings of Desire

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providi...

Out 1

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus while two solitar...

The Mother and the Whore

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika...

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German a...

Don Juan

Jilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, cannot help...

Out 1

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hust...

The Children Play Russian

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Col...

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film indust...

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the...

Favourites of the Moon

A porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time...

The Idiot

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. On...

Dziga and His Brothers

The fascinating and tumultuous lives of Mikhail, Boris and Denis Kaufman (better known as Dziga Vertov) are the...

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the s...

Berlin-Jerusalem

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat...

Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne

L'homme qui part

The man who leaves prepares his departure.

Two Rémi, Two

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when h...

Death's Glamour

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male...

À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma

Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and...

Les voyages de L'Atalante

La photo

Five, even six, variations on a theme, commentary and interpretation of the same photograph. An exercise to tel...

Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lo...

The Persistence of Vision

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.

Winter Shooting: L'Atalante - Rushes and Outtakes

Perhaps it speaks to the sheer power and beauty of L’Atalante that 40 years after its initial butchered release...

À la dure

The Lubitsch Touch

An interview with film Critic Bernard Eisenschitz discussing the progression of Ernst Lubitsch's career, from t...