Max Ophuls is the legendary director and two of his favorite actors are James Mason and Danielle Darrieux. Mason and Darrieux were each in several Ophuls projects but were never together in an Ophuls movie, although they should have been. What might that movie have been like? It's anybody's guess (but cinephiles can dream, can't they?). Somewhere between a historical essay and a speculative one.

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, wa...

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversati...

Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career v...
A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam...

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...
A short documentary by Levon Grigoryan about the making of Parajanov's «Sayat-Nova», or «The Colour ...

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage...

The film features a conversation between Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, producer of THX 1138. They ...

A documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini and his film 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's p...

Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight...

A journey to the origins of cinema, starting with its forgotten fathers: the pioneers who achieved m...

2nd Edition of Loose Change documentary. What if...September 11th was not a surprise attack on Ameri...

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition...