Richard Copans Movies

A small company valiantly struggles to survive under the respectful yet probing camera of Claire Simon in “At All Costs.” As the docu...

One hundred and twenty years of film history in a warehouse in Paris. In the reserves of the French Cinematheque, where thousands of cameras and...

A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend.

I saw this happen: Raye left home. Why? To see what was waiting for her out there. Europe! It didn't matter where she went, the Mediterranean coast,...

Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Farewell to the Fifties. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War- an...

Study on the evolution and modernization of public libraries and media libraries.

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s,...

“I talk about my 20 years of work with the filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in 1999. It is an account of the gestures and practices of this...

Autour de 24 Passions is the making-of of my film 24 Passions . It was shot in 2003, on the occasion of the 24th year of filming this film on the...

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made.

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.

Two young girls find out, in the hard way, that climb mountains isn't all that fun that people often say it is.

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of...

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.

Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb...