André S. Labarthe Movies

A traveller investigates the life and work of Georges Bataille. Through a staging of the writer's obsessive motives, the film succeeds in grasping...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Part of the Cinéastes de notre temps series.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 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,...