Anatole Dauman

Les inconnus de la terre starts like a traditional feature film: in the beginning of the film all the leading roles are given a short introduction. This is followed by a number of interviews, in which the makers unashamedly appear themselves. They include an interview with a lonely shepherd and one with three unmarried brothers who try to run the parental farm for better or worse. Notwithstanding the fact that this mode of interviewing has now become classical, les inconnus de la terre works rather refreshingly. The film is more than just an enumeration of problems. In an honest way it shows the ties of those involved to the land and to nature, in addition to being a plea for the modernization of French agriculture.

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.

守護天使ダミエルは、長い歴史を天使として見届け、人間のあらゆるドラマを寄り添うように見守った。だが親友カシエルに永遠の生命を放棄し、人間になりたい、と打ち明ける。やがてサーカスの舞姫マリオンに想いを寄せるダミエルはついに「壁」を境に東西に隔てられた街「ベルリン」に降り立つ。

テキサス州の町パリをめざす男。彼は失踪した妻を探し求めていた。男は、4年間置き去りにしていた幼い息子との間にも親子の情を取り戻す。そして、やがて巡り会った妻に、彼は愛するがゆえの苦悩を打ち明ける……。

Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.

ポーランドのダンチッヒを舞台に、3歳で自らの成長を止めた少年オスカルの視点で、1927年から1945年の激動の時代を描いた異色の大力作。ブリキの太鼓を叩き、奇声を発しガラスを割るという不思議な力も身につけたオスカル、従兄との不倫を続ける母、臆病者の父、画面は時代が産んだ奇異なキャラクターとグロテスクな描写に溢れ、その毒気たるや凄まじいばかりのものである。

Barbara, a young girl, lives in an old country house with her father and her teacher. One night, she dreams that a fireman enters her room through the window. Having grown, Barbara leaves her father to travel across the world, before coming back to her childhood fantasies: one day, she calls the firemen, and locks herself with one of them in her bedroom.

兵隊帰りの若者は、40歳すぎながらまだまだ若くみえる人力車夫の妻と関係を持つ。26歳も年が離れていることを知りつつ若者との関係を断つことのできない女は、ついに若者と共謀し夫を殺害、井戸の中に投げ捨てる。しかしそれから、夢の中で車夫を見たという者が現れ、やがて妻や若者の前にも車夫の亡霊が姿を見せるようになる。

昭和11年。料亭の女中定は店の主人に心惹かれ、情事を重ねるようになる。その情事が男の妻に知れてしまい、二人は駆け落ちを決行する。快楽におぼれる日々を重ねるうちに定は男を永遠に手放したくないと思うようになり、ついには男を自分だけのものにするため首を絞めて殺害し、さらには男の陰部を切り取ってしまうのだった。

The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.

仏のSF作家ステファン・ウルの長編小説を、マンガ家ローラン・トポールの絵でアニメ化した異色のファンタジー作品。未開の惑星イガムを舞台に人間型のオム族と、彼らを奴隷のように扱うドラーグ族の戦いと協調を描く。SF的イマジネーションの凄さと特異なアニメーション映像には目を見張るものがある。

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.

Hundertwassers Regentag is a german documentary by Peter Schamoni released in 1972.

A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.

A tribute to the cartoonist and filmmaker Chaval, aka Yvan Francis Le Louarn.

A young woman comes to despise her lover because his bike has just broken down.

A cinematographic poem in the form of variations around the theme of Robinson, a utopian fable freely inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel, which speaks above all of solitude: the immense weakness of today's man in the face of loneliness is no longer that of the hero of the eighteenth century.

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, similar to Hélène’s ones, go on again. In parallel, Louis is having an affair with the police woman in charge of the investigation… What are the obscure relations hidden behind the executioner and the mysterious killer? Who is this dark man in reality?

14歳のムシェット。家庭の貧困と父の暴力と、同級生の豊かさと美しさ、そして土曜の午後のカンタータの練習に痛めつけられる少女。森番の洩らす秘密を知って、約束を守ると誓ったのに犯されてしまう無垢な肉体。しかし、その秘密すらただの幻影に過ぎなかったと分かって、少女は完全な孤立を味わう。そんな彼女に残された選択は……。ブレッソンが、「田舎司祭の日記」の原作者G・ベルナノスの小説を、自ら脚色して映画化。

1966年のパリ。政府から首都圏整備拡張計画が交付され、至る箇所に新興団地や道路が建設されていく。パリ郊外の公団住宅に住む人妻ジュリエットは、ガソリンスタンドに勤める夫の稼ぎが悪いため、昼間に売春を行っていた。幼い娘を託児所に預けてからカフェで客を待ち、今日も若い男を安ホテルに連れ込んで一仕事する。そして彼女の行きつけの美容院で働くマリアンヌも、あるアメリカ人に電話で誘われてホテルへと向かう。

Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrade to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Documentary on the beginnings of Algerian independence filmed during the summer of 1962 in Algiers. The film was banned in France and Algeria but won the Grand Prize at the Leipzig International Film Festival in 1965. Out of friendship, the production company Images de France sent an operator, Bruno Muel, who later declared: "For those who were called to Algeria (for me, 1956-58), participating in a film on independence was a victory over horror, lies and absurdity. It was also the beginning of my commitment to the cinema."

In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …À Valparaiso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.

In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.

「ベトナムから遠く離れて」など、主に記録映画を活動の場としヌーヴェル・ヴァーグの中でも特異な位置を占める作家C・マルケルが全編スチール・カットで撮った中編SF映画の佳作。人類が絶滅した未来からその原因となった出来事を探るため過去にタイムトラベルした男は一人の女性と知り合う。何故か見覚えのあるその女性と行動を共にするうち、彼は幼いころ飛行場で彼女を見たことを思い出す。二人はやがて全ての出来事の根源となる飛行場へとたどり着くのだが……。

Paris, summer of 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, along with sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin, both assisted by Marceline and Nadine, roam the crowded streets asking ordinary people how they deal with the misfortunes of life. Are you happy? But their real purpose is to find out if people can speak sincerely in front of a camera and how they react when they are later invited to analyze the meaning of their answers.

男が、整然とシンメトリックに設計された庭を持つ城館にまぎれこむ。そこでは社交界のお歴々が集まり、退屈なパーティに興じている。男は誰の気にもかけられずに館内を歩き回り、女を見つける。女とは去年に会っていた、マリエンバートで。しかし女にはその記憶がなく、男を拒絶し続けるのだったが…。

A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?

A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959.

独軍の占領下にあったフランスの田舎で敵兵と密通して断罪された過去を持つ女優が、ロケのために広島を訪れ日本人の建築家と一日限りの情事に耽ける。そして知る、広島の悲劇。時あたかも8月6日。原水禁運動を背景に二人の孤独な会話が続く。焦土から奇跡の復興を遂げたその町は、死の影を決して忘れることはない…。

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.

William Klein’s first film is an impressionistic study of late-fifties Broadway, an ominous city-symphony lit by bright flickering light. Orson Welles would delcare it "the first film I've seen in which colour was absolutely necessary".

In a small fishermen's village in the Azores, an enormous whale is being jointed, carved and stocked. Once this task is over, the whalers ready themselves for another hunt, a fascinating but trying and dangerous experience...

One of Chris Marker's earliest documentaries (1957) and probably one of his best, the hour-long Letter From Siberia mixes new and found footage with inventive commentary, and is especially memorable for a passage in which footage is repeated while the offscreen commentary transforms its meaning with a different ideological interpretation. It is perhaps the earliest example we have of Marker's inimitable essayistic manner, hence an indispensable work.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.