Movies: 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 night....

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

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, but his treatment at the hands of the ladies steadily becomes more dangerous and humiliating....

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 the man begins to notice changes in the behavior of the people in general and in that of his girl fr...

Part of the Cinéastes de notre temps series....

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du cinéma”, then of “Liberation”. In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette’s career...

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

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

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

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

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakers—but all had already been done. So she suggested…“How about me?” Akerman creates a fascinating self-portrai...

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 Collection's release of "Casque d'Or." )...

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir....

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

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

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 Hungarian director parachuted into Hollywood......

Documentary on the use of color and black and white in contemporary arts through nine artists. A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 16 March 1968....

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

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 – 14 August 2006....

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 22 November 2018....