More than anyone in the cynical film industry, legendary artist Robert Redford embodies the United States' brightest side: perseverance, independence, idealism, and integrity. A champion of active environmentalism and the right to openly criticize any institutional abuse, he has put his artistic work at the service of his political commitments, whether as an actor, director, producer, or founder of the Sundance Festival, a formidable forum for his struggles since 1985.
Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.
Documentary short that covers the airplane sequence in the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002) and its filming at Heathrow Airport.
Scouting locations with Peter Lamont on 'Die Another Day'.
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. Comrades in Dreams brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night.
Eva Ebner is a Berliner who gives the appearance of being rather eccentric. She knows the film business inside out – regardless of whether she’s work- ing behind the camera as an assistant director or in front of it as an actor. Her name is closely associated with a series of now-legendary adaptations of Edgar Wallace’s crime novels which were made in Germany during the 1960s. Upcoming young directors from local film schools have also profited from Ms. Ebner’s unbroken enthusiasm and passion for film. However, this eighty-year-old has a more than broken relationship to the events of her childhood and youth in Gdansk – a time when her life was characterised by an anti-Semitic step-mother and the dangers posed by the Nazi regime. This film portrait does not eschew any of the long dark shadows of that era, nor does it sidestep any friction between portrayer and his subject. (Lothar Lambert)
Omnibus: François Truffaut
How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.
Documentary tracing the filmmaker’s work in Poland, from his days as a student through The Double Life of Véronique.
Documentary about the making of Alexander Payne's 1999 film "Election" featuring on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew.
Documentary about the making of David Lean's 1945 film "Brief Encounter".
Documentary about the making of Powell and Pressburger's 1947 film "Black Narcissus."
Documentary about the making of the 1948 British film, including interviews with members of the production team.
Documentary about the making of the 1949 film "The Third Man".
Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.
A concise television portrait of Wes Anderson, observing the filmmaker at work and reflecting on his creative process, influences, and approach to directing during the early phase of his career.
This short documentary from 2002, written by Jacques Tati scholar Stéphane Goudet and featuring rare archival footage, explores the genesis of the director’s hugely ambitious 1967 film production.
Short documentary about the making of the 1987 film.
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.