Serge Toubiana

Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more than ever topical as Patrice Leconte has announced his plan to adapt an investigation by the famous Inspector Maigret.

In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury to achieve it. With "L'Enfance nue", his first feature film at the age of 43, the filmmaker immediately made his mark, this "art of making things authentic", according to Chabrol. But throughout an unclassifiable filmography in the form of an autobiography, from a break-up to his fatherhood in wonder, through the agony of his mother, the filmmaker does not get rid of the feeling of being misunderstood, despite international recognition.

1962년, 프랑수아 트뤼포는 알프레드 히치콕에게 일주일에 걸친 긴 인터뷰를 제안한다. "새", "싸이코", "현기증", "이창" 등 숱한 명작을 남긴 ‘서스펜스의 대가’ 알프레드 히치콕과 그런 히치콕을 흠모했던 씨네필이자 ‘누벨바그의 기수’였던 프랑수아 트뤼포. 일주일간의 대화 속에서 드러나는 히치콕의 작품세계와 두 감독의 우정!

독보적인 스타일로 새로운 영화 문법을 탄생시킨 천재 감독, 그러나 그 외에는 거의 알려진 것이 없는 은둔 아티스트. 신비로운 베일에 싸인 그는 대체 누구인가?

A documentary on 'La Belle et le Bête' featuring interviews with author Dominique Marny, professor David Gullentops from University of Bruxelles, Serge Toubiana (Cinematheque française), and Ellen Schafer (SNC/M6 Group), amongst others.

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

A 2003 documentary by Serge Toubiana and Sonia Buchman that catches up with the cast and location of Maurice Pialat's 'Passe ton bac d'abord'.

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

Award-winning filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne profess their love for the classic "Modern Times." The directors expose their views on the many aspects of the film, Chaplin's brilliancy and they also provide interesting details about the making of Chaplin's masterpiece.

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars.

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars.

A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.

Serge Toubiana spent a year in the company of Isabelle Huppert. Where she went, he followed. Huppert is an around-the-clock actress so she doesn't need the cinema to exist – she embodies the cinema. When she's not performing, she doesn't exist. From film to film, on stage as on screen, Huppert invites us to survey those inner landscapes of hers that we don't yet know.

A teenage girl helps investigators reconstruct her mother's murder.

Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.

Reel 16 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

1835년, 노르망디의 작은 마을. 청년 피에르 리비에르는 어머니와 여동생 그리고 어린 남동생까지 모두 살해한다. 이 끔찍한 사건을 벌인 후 체포된 피에르는 재판을 기다리는데, 그는 그동안 어떤 일이 있었는지 써내려 가기 시작한다. 프랑스 철학자 미셸 푸코는 실제 일어났던 존속살해사건에 대한 방대한 자료들을 정리해 동명의 책을 펴냈고, 이를 알리오가 영화화했다. 알리오는 「카이에 뒤 시네마」의 편집인이자 시나리오작가인 파스칼 보니체와 세르주 투비아나와 함께 각색 작업을 했으며, 사건이 일어났던 마을에서 실제 주민들을 섭외해 촬영하여 긴장감과 리얼리티를 배가시켰다.