Bernard Eisenschitz

7.8 MovieTwo angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never...

Wings of Desire

1987

7.2 MovieWhile two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.

Out 1

1990

3.9 MovieJilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, cannot help but see his ex-fiancée in every women he meets. In an...

Don Juan

2022

5.2 MovieA porcelain table service and a painting from the 19th century pass from hand to hand and deteriorate over time, sealing the fate of different characters who cross...

Favorites of the Moon

1985

5.2 MovieThirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive...

Two Rémi, Two

2015

5.1 MovieWhilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his...

Death's Glamour

2007

5.0 MovieAn allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her...

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

1992

5.8 MovieA short documentary in the Chaplin Today series about Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux." Includes an interview with Claude Chabrol, whose 1963 film "Landru" concerns the...

Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux

2003

6.2 MovieA famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the...

The Children Play Russian

1993

3.2 MovieA video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for 20th-Century Fox whom they...

Debra Paget, For Example

2016

6.5 MovieNastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is...

The Idiot

2008

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Les voyages de L'Atalante

2001

10.0 TVFollowing the May 1968 civil unrest in France, two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus while two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the...

Out 1

1971

7.0 MovieNoel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in Denmark, England, the...

What Do Those Old Films Mean?

1986

MoviePerhaps it speaks to the sheer power and beauty of L’Atalante that 40 years after its initial butchered release, critics and fans still seek to piece together Vigo’s...

Winter Shooting: L'Atalante - Rushes and Outtakes

2017

Movie

Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne

1969

MovieThe man who leaves prepares his departure.

L'homme qui part

2020

MovieA young, enthusiastic girl named Ondine walks into an art bookstore, asking if she can do her school internship there. She isn’t very lucky, though: the bookseller is...

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