Robert Fischer Movies

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him about his work and publishing this in...

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

In his film "Far From Heaven", Todd Haynes refers very respectfully to Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows". Fassbinder was also strongly...

Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller "Charley Varrick," made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful "Dirty Harry," stars Walter...

Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.

This brand new documentary takes a closer look at the production history, unique style, and lasting appeal of Fat City, as well as Leonard Gardner's...

In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the...

In-depth interview with filmmaker Sam Irvin who, in 1977, worked on Brian De Palma's The Fury as a production assistant, extra, and journalist for...

Danish film scholar, Lars-Martin Sorensen, describes US censorship of Japanese film during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and the...

Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well...

Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited

The story behind the novel and the film Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.

Legendary French film director and Nouvelle Vague co-founder Claude Chabrol takes us back to the mid-fifties, when he and then-fellow film critic...

In an archival interview filmed in 1989, Daniel Gélin discusses his work on Max Ophuls' 1952 film LE PLAISIR.

Actors Rüdiger Vogler and Lisa Kreuzer reflect on their work in front of the Robby Müller’s camera for Wim Wender’s seminal...

In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...

In this feature-length interview, conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015, Volker Schlöndorff talks about the making of his film BAAL...

Allison Anders talks about her love for the work of film director Douglas Sirk.

Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon;...

Kathryn Bigelow talks about the work of film director Douglas Sirk.