Cinéma, de notre temps : Episode List

A documentary about American director David Lynch.

Film-interview with Italian director Nanni Moretti.

Serge Daney interviews Jacques Rivette.

This is a film made of interviews of the film director Jacques Rivette, by a film critic ("Les Cahiers du Cinéma"), Serge Daney.

Scorsese is filmed in his office, and at home with his parents, allowing him to speak whenever he feels like it rather than responding to conventional interview questions.

Revised version of Pasolini l'enragé (1966), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.19 15 November 1966.

Documentary on Souleymane Cissé

A documentary on Claude Chabrol

A documentary on Youssef Chahine

The Portuguese director Paulo Rocha pays tribute to a mentor, Manoel De Oliveira, in this hour long TV documentary portrait.

Revised version of D'un silence l'autre (1967), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.29 9 December 1967.

A documentary on André Téchiné

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is interviewed in Tehran and his work is profiled.

Over eight days of interviews Rohmer elaborates on the relationship between film and literature, and how that pertains to his own work.

Over eight days of interviews Rohmer elaborates on the relationship between film and literature, and how that pertains to his own work.

Revised version of Bresson ni vu ni connu (1965), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.8 17 June 1965.

Rebroadcast of Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967) from the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.22 January 1967.

Documentary about the director Shohei Imamura. This intimate portrayal arrives to calm us. In good health and enjoying life, Imamura gets drunk methodically in a bar worthy of "An Autumn Afternoon". Then, in the hands of the professional of a hairdresser, he tells his short experience as a director of pornographic films.

Cavalier tracks his career from early more money oriented work toward more unconventional and personal expression within a documentary framework.

Revised version of La nouvelle vague par elle-même (1964), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.2 19 May 1964.

A documentary on Budd Boetticher

A documentary on Georges Franju

Revised version of "Rome brûle" (Portrait de Shirley Clarke) (1970), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.45 4 October 1970.

Revised version of Jean-Pierre Melville (Portrait en 9 poses) (1971), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.48 16 July 1971.

A documentary on Ken Loach

The Taiwanese auteur gives French director Assayas, his interviewer, a guided tour of the island country.

Approached to direct an episode of the tv series Cinema of Our Times, the Belgian auteur turns the camera on herself and offers a selection of clips from her work. (imdb)

A documentary on Jean Rouch

A biographical movie on film director Philippe Garrel, based on a live interview during which his ideas and relationships are discussed, and illustrated with inserts from his movies.

Revised version of John Cassavetes (1969), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.38 17 March 1969.

A documentary on David Cronenberg

Jean-Pierre Limosin follows Takeshi Kitano on the set of Kikujiro, and films it during an interview with Shiguehiko Hasumi, president of the University of Tokyo and who, as a great film buff, was one of the first to recognize the directorial talents of Takeshi Kitano

Premiere TV broadcast (France) of the theatrical film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (1987).

Revised version of John Ford, entre chien et loup (1966), the earlier incarnation of this series, episode #1.18 16 June 1966.

Pedro Costa's intimate portrait of the Huillet-Straub filmmaking team

A documentary on Aki Kaurismäki

Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker around New York by night.

A fascinating look at Georgian expat filmmaker Otar Iosseliani through the lens of his former assistant Julie Bertuccelli, focused on his unique working methods and conception of cinema.

The cinematic word of the Dardenne brothers, printed on incandescent Super 8 in Seraing, their adolescence hometown. Decorating the film, a town that was actually incandescent before the shutdown of the local metallurgical industry.

A documentary on Luc Moullet.

A documentary on Jacques Baratier

A documentary on Nikos Papatakis.

A documentary film on André S. Labarthe shot in several stages from winter 2006 to winter 2008 in Paris and Massais. The interviews recorded in 2006 shape a nascent dialogue and then a correspondence accompanies the third part of the film.

Erice wanders about between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving places more alive than ever in his cinéphile memory. Paris-Madrid.

A documentary on Marc'o

A 1972 interview with Filmmaker Otto Preminger, who discusses his origins in the theater, and the compromises he has made in order to maintain some control over his Hollywood projects.

A documentary on Diourka Medveczky.

Maverick Cahiers critic and filmmaker in his own right, Luc Moullet provides a surprisingly tender portrait of a female director who has aroused controversy with her depictions of sexuality.

A documentary on Michel Gondry

A documentary on Jacques Nolot

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A documentary on Benoît Jacquot

A documentary on Adolfo Arrietta

A documentary

The portrait of an exiled film-maker. Pitts survives by filming beyond boundaries. The story of an auteur who will always say ''I am situated in the meantime''.

A documentary on Jean-Pierre Mocky

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic Alain Bergala and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 18 March 2018. (letterboxd.com)

A documentary on Danielle Arbid.

30 years after his debut, Olivier Assayas is back in New York to present his latest feature film shot in Paris, London, Prague and Oman.

A documentary on Elia Kazan.

A documentary on Mathieu Amalric.

A documentary on Jean-Claude Brisseau

Jean-François Stévenin, the author of three cult feature films, certainly knows how to make an entrance: Laurent Achard opens this portrait devoted to him as part of the mythical series Cinéastes de Notre Temps with an expectant wait. Behind the camera, in the Manet mirror on the wall of the café where the actor-director is due to arrive, we can see all the fans who...