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 visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Fil...
Spain, 1960. French student Monique Roumette lives in Madrid on a scholarship. Thanks to a friend wh...
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional...
In the early nineties, before the massive gentrification of many of New York's then slums, several y...
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) ...
Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following...
Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performan...
A retrospective look at the five Dirty Harry films (1971-88), starring Clint Eastwood.
Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty ot...
A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Ber...
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two fil...
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime...
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitio...
A retrospective look at the global impact of Alien, the science fiction and horror masterpiece direc...
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner ...
A short documentary about the rapidly disappearing era of heritage movie palaces and the film going ...
For the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer looks back through the e...
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother,...