André S. Labarthe

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe,...

This short film shows a young couple during a short period after the explosion of a nuclear bomb 120 km above Paris. The city appears unaffected, but...

After leaving France in search of a better life in America, a television producer returns with a group of burlesque dancers to take the Paris club...

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his...

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth...

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

A peeping tom caught spying on a women's self-defense class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses him as a training dummy,...

In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The...

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper.

Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop culture. Courant posits that his cinema...

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though,...

Two enigmatic figures with code names, Costello and the Colonel, bound seemingly by some mysterious revolutionary past, engage in an intense...

A cinematographic poetry that portrays the artistic link between the French filmmaker André S. Labarthe and his disciple, the Uruguayan...

Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away...

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their...

A retired Japanese ex-patriot living the life of a bohemian Parnassian painter in Paris loses his latest picture, and wanders into Belleville hoping...

A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

Discussion between the critics André S. Labarthe, Jean Domarchi and director Marc'O, on a film of Murnau.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired sometime...

The film retraces Jean-Luc Godard's notorious exhibition at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou in Paris between 11 May –...

An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.

On the shooting or when talking about it, Mathieu Amalric is preparing Barbara, his film about the iconic singer, starring the incredible Jeanne...

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act...

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

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du...

Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts,...

In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The...

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their...

The film retraces the last two years of Antonin Artaud.

Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. Interview with Georges Franju (1912-1987), a figure of immense importance in the history of French...

Shot while he was preparing Un Flic, Melville carefully leads Labarthe through the trajectory of his career, from his daring debut The Silence of the...

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring...

The film contains the interviews with Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Pimpanneau.

The film retraces the last two years of Antonin Artaud.

Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. In a peaceful residence near the Loire River, Chabrol raised his favorite characters : monsters. In...

The film contains the interviews with Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Pimpanneau.

Shot while he was preparing Un Flic, Melville carefully leads Labarthe through the trajectory of his career, from his daring debut The Silence of the...

Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. In a peaceful residence near the Loire River, Chabrol raised his favorite characters : monsters. In...

Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. Interview with Georges Franju (1912-1987), a figure of immense importance in the history of French...

Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von...

Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von...

Celluloid and Marble is based on Rohmer's own articles published in "Cahiers du cinéma", discussing film in relation to the other arts,...

Colour, form, area – this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact...

Part of the Cinéastes de notre temps series.

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their...

“I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh” is an insightful and candid interview with the man himself about his films and his motivations....

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their...

"What is a location search ? Maybe that's it : hanging in a pub... let their thoughts flow freely." (André S. Labarthe) The camera reinvests...

"What is a location search ? Maybe that's it : hanging in a pub... let their thoughts flow freely." (André S. Labarthe) The camera reinvests...

“I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh” is an insightful and candid interview with the man himself about his films and his motivations....

An episode of the television program Cinéastes de notre temps in which the director gives his first on-camera interview.

A tribute to Orson Welles. When Kovacs meets Agi, he does not know what awaits him: cinema, alcohol and love do not mix well when you are a...

A tribute to Orson Welles. When Kovacs meets Agi, he does not know what awaits him: cinema, alcohol and love do not mix well when you are a...

Colour, form, area - this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der...

At the editing table, Georges Franju comments on two sequences from his film, Les Yeux sans visage. Episode of the TV program "Cinéma,...

André S. Labarthe invites Jerzy Skolimowski to the editing table, to analyze his film Walkower shot by shot. Episode of the TV program...

Catherine Deneuve comments on passages from "L'Ève future" by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Episode of the TV program "Cinéma,...

An acerbic criticism of the media coverage of the Cannes Film Festival and of cinema, at the time of the death of the actress Rita Hayworth. Episode...

Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Martin Scorsese. After making a diverse group of films...

Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Martin Scorsese. After making a diverse group of films...

Interview with the French film director, conducted for television in 1978.

The camera scans the typography of a book while the voice launches into a first attempt at reading: "Chapter one... The Passage..."; The camera...

In the “Prefaces” series, Labarthe takes us to discover the Polish writer Bruno Schulz. André S. Labarthe presents some drawings...

In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and...

This film portrays Robert Rauschenberg, an artist mixing pop art and abstract expressionism, who tells his story in front of André Labarthe's...

Some thoughts and a hypothesis about the invention of the Close-up.

With Sollers, the absolute isolated, André S. Labarthe approached as closely as possible “the most recognized and the most fought, the...

The space of the museum as the visitor travels through it is a long sentence of sleep. But if suddenly this sleep is interrupted, if this space is...

Episode of the French television series about the work of American film director Samuel Fuller. (A 23-minute edited version of this show appears on...

Episode of the French television series about the work of film director Jacques Becker. (A 27-minute excerpt from this show appears on the Criterion...

Episode of the French television series about the work of François Truffaut.

The campaign of the parliamentary elections of June 1968 in Asnieres with the three main candidates: Albin Chalandon ( UDR ), Claude Denis ( PCF )...

A documentary about the dancer Sylvie Guillem on her daily round of classes, rehearsals and peformances.

1965. We ring the doorbell of the Beverley Hills house where a forgotten filmmaker seems to spend his time reminiscing. His name is Rouben Mamoulian....

On the shooting or when talking about it, Mathieu Amalric is preparing Barbara, his film about the iconic singer, starring the incredible Jeanne...

A 1965 film by André S. Labarthe.

Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by...

A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.

A "Cinéastes de notre temps" series episode dedicated to french filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, originally aired in two parts.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 16 June 1966.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 4 October...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics André S. Labarthe and Jean-Louis Comolli,...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe,...

Documentary on the use of color and black and white in contemporary arts through nine artists. A “Cinéastes de notre temps”...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 2 February...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 12 May 1969.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 10 February...

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics André S. Labarthe and Robert Benayoun,...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 4 June 1971.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 10 May 1972.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 16 May 1994.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 4 July 2001.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired sometime...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired sometime...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 24 March 2012.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, shown 12 October 2012.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 24 November...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired sometime...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, shown 12 October 2012.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 22 November...

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

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

Bergala makes Erice wander about (DV in hand) between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving...

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of...

Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, among others.