Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby is the Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of people were killed between 1933 and 1945. An essay about the present and the past, beauty and horror, life and death.
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (194...
An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: hi...
Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performan...
The personal and professional story of Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, is probably unique: she l...
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Unt...
An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the lat...
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by th...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almo...
On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration ...
In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: internatio...
A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker M...
The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the...
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of ...
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the ...
As the eldest son of the legendary actor and producer Kirk Douglas (1916-2020), it was not easy for ...
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...