Film (1966) ... aka Samuel Beckett's Film (1966)
Stars Buster Keaton. I'ts a film on objectivity and subjectivity of Film (a man is persued by a moving camera).
Directed by Alan Schneider
Writing credits Samuel Beckett
Cast.....Nell Harrison, James Karen, Buster Keaton
Color: Black and White
Plot Summary .......A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts
For the record, it wasn't directed by Beckett - his regular American theatre director Alan Schneider did those particular honours, though Beckett was present on the set at all times. The British Film Institute remade it in 1979 with Max Wall, but Beckett apparently disowned the result.

Samuel Beckett also directed a few films for German and British Television. Among different titles, I can think of HEY JOE! (1965?),...BUT THE CLOWDS... and QUAD.

Diva (1981)
A whale of a directorial debut by Beineix.

Feu de paille, Le (1940)
... aka Fire in the Straw (1940)
Altitude 3,200 (1938)
... aka Youth in Revolt (1938)
Mort du cygne, La (1938)
... aka Ballerina (1938)
Jean Benoit-Levy, 1937. With Yvette Chauviré, Janine Charrat and Mia Slavenska. Choreography by Serge Lifar. This rare film has not been seen in the U.S. since its release on November 15, 1938. Shot at the Paris Opera and acted mainly by the pupils and grown-up stars of the Opera Ballet School, it is the portrayal of backstage ballet life as well as a story of a love for dance. In French w/subtitles. B&W. 1h 30min. Ms. Chauviré and Ms. Charrat will discuss the film.

Hélène (1936)
Maternelle, La (1933)
... aka Children of Montmartre (1933)
Coeur de Paris (1931)
Peau de pêche (1929)
Âmes d'enfants (1929)

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)...Director: Bertrand Blier....Starring: Gerard Depardieu
Disarming black comedy about a man who will do almost anything to keep his sexually frustrated wife happy; highly unconventional. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.
Mon homme (1996)
My Man (1996).....Director: Bertrand Blier........Starring: Anouk Grinberg, Gerard Lanvin.........Gleefully amoral sex fable about a sweet-natured, nymphomaniac prostitute (Grinberg) and what happens when she falls in love with Jeannot, an aggressive homeless panhandler who agrees to be Marie's pimp and lover but soon finds himself bloated with power. Full of typically perverse and surreal Blier touches, but also surprisingly affecting. A provocative and putatively humorous treatise on sex and control, in the vein of Blier's "Too Beautiful for You" and "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs."
Un deux trois soleil (1993)
Beau-père...aka:Stepfather (1981)... After her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Marion falls in love with her stepfather, Remy. Thoughtful comedy-drama is sensitively, not exploitively, handled by director Blier. With: Nathalie Baye, Ariel Besse, Nicole Garcia

Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Germinal (1993)
Uranus (1990)
Manon des sources (1986)
Manon of the Spring (1987)...Starring: Montand, Auteuil, Emmanuel Beart
A seamless continuation of its predecessor, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring brings with it a more epic scope as it depicts the growth to womanhood of the daughter (Emmanuelle Béart) of the doomed farmer of the first film. Only thing missing in this second half is the strong presence of Gérard Depardieu.Manon of the Spring is a very special foreign film choice, destined to be revered for years to come.
Jean De Florette (1989)...Montand, Depardieu, Autiel
A truly impressive French film destined to become a modern masterpiece, Jean de Florette is an evocative adaptation of the highly regarded French novel. The story takes place in Provence. Two 1920's farmers engage in a bitter rivalry as one tries to tend to a plot of land and the other deviously undermines his efforts in order to conceal a valuable spring. The peasant farmer (Gérard Depardieu) who comes to the countryside to tend the land he has inherited is a naive and trusting soul seeking only to provide for his wife and daughter, while his neighbor (Yves Montand) is intent on doing whatever he can to discourage and demoralize the farmer so that he can take the land for himself. This simple tale unfolds in a wrenching fashion to a tragic conclusion, bringing forth questions about human nature and the prevalence and price of greed. Richly textured, emotionally powerful adaptation of MarcelPagnol novel, exquisitely and meticulously filmed, with galvanizing performances--especially by Depardieu as the doggedly optimistic novice farmerAlong with its follow-up, Manon of the Spring, this film will leave an indelible impression on anyone who sees it.
Tchao, pantin! (1983)
Maître d'école, Le (1981)
Je vous aime (1980)
À nous deux (1979)
Un moment d'égarement (1977)
Première fois, La (1976)
Mâle du siècle, Le (1975)
Sex Shop, Le (1974)
Cinéma de papa, Le (1970)
Pistonné, Le (1970)
Mazel Tov ou le marriage (1969)
Vieil homme et l'enfant, Le (1967)
Poulet, Le (1965)
Baisers, Les (1964)
Chance et l'amour, La (1964)

Argent, L' ... aka Money (1983)
Diable probablement, Le ... aka Devil Probably, The (1977)
Lancelot du Lac ... aka Grail, The (1974)
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur... aka Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Une femme douce ... aka Gentle Woman, A (1969)
Mouchette (1967).......Black & White.......Robert Bresson directed this tragic and painful drama about a young girl whose existence is so empty that death seems preferable to her life. Using his usual spare style, he follows 12-year-old Mouchette as she tries to survive in a rural village, despite her alcoholic parents and a dying mother. At school she has no friends and at home she is forced to do all the housework and take care of her infant brother. Then, one of the villagers rapes her, making the situation even worse ... From New Wave moralist Bresson. Copyright 1994 Hen's Tooth Video. Additional Cast: Jean Vinenet, Marie Susini, and Lliane Princet. All the actors are, as usual for Bresson, non-professionals.
Au hasard Balthazar... aka Balthazar (1966)
Procès de Jeanne d'Arc, Le... aka Trial of Joan of Arc (1965)
Pickpocket (1959)
Black & White......Inspired by Dostoevsky's classic "Crime and Punishment." His "best" film.
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
Journal d'un curé de campagne ... aka Diary of a Country Priest (1950)
Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les (1945)
Anges du péché, Les... aka Angels of the Streets (1943)
Affaires publiques, Les... aka Beby inauguré (1934)

Belle De Jour... (1967)
A young Paris housewife, Séverine, grows bored with her stable husband. When she learns of the presence of a high-class brothel in her neighborhood, she quietly goes to work there--but only during the day. This sublime 1967 film is one of the latter-day masterpieces of the Spanish-born director Luis Buñuel. Cowritten with Jean-Claude Carrière. Deneuve's finest, most enigmatic performance.

CAHEN,Robert... Observes faces, gestures, movements. He travels to Asia and the Americas, he observes the music and photographs. Robert Cahen is always a passenger on a train, always associating observation with travel.
Michel CHION....With microphone and camera he approaches the materiality of noise and light with the perseverance of a craftsman and the melancholy of a dreamer.
7 visions fugitives (1995)
Arrêt sur marche (1979)
Cartes postales vidéo (1986)
Compositeurs à l'écoute (1998)
Corps flottants(1997)
Dernier adieu (1988)
Eponine (1984)
Hong Kong Song (1989)
Juste le temps (1983)
Karine (1976)
L'entr'aperçu (1980)
La nuit des bougies (1993)
Le grand nettoyage (1975)
Le ravissement de Saint-Antoine (1972)
Masque 2 (1972)

Based on a medieval French legend, this poetic fantasy begins in a beautiful fairy tale setting, when Gilles and Dominique, two travelling minstrels, mysteriously appear at a grand castle. They proceed to entertain the guests at the wedding banquet for Renaud, a knight, and Anne, the baron's daughter. But their real purpose is a sinister one: they are Satan's envoys sent to Earth to destroy mankind's sense of morality. However, when Gilles seduces the bride, he falls in love with her, instead of completing his evil task -- and her devotion saves his soul. This film, which was produced in Occupied France, is meant to be an allegory for Hitler in his attempt to stifle the heart of France. Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert collaborated on many films and their work, with its lyrical, surrealistic quality established the French cinematic style known as "poetic realism." Joseph Kosma composed one of the featured songs. Kosma, who was Jewish, lived in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, and worked under the pseudonym Georges Mouque. He also co-wrote several songs for other films with the screenwriter, Jacques Prevert.

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) Jacques Demy, 1967. With Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly and Michel Legrand. This recently re-released musical comedy features Deneuve and her sister Dorléac as singing and dancing twins looking for love.
Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans Agnès Varda. 1992. With Catherine Deneuve, Michel Legrand, Jacques Perrin and Bertrand Tavernier. Twenty- five years after the filming of Les Demoiselles de Rochefort by Jacques Demy, his widow interviews the original film's surviving contributors.

Trop (peu) d'amour... aka Too Much (Little) Love (1997)
Ponette (1996)
Du fond du coeur: Germaine et Benjamin (1994)
Jeune Werther, Le ... aka Young Werther (1993)
Amoureuse (1992)
Contre l'oubli ... aka Against Oblivion (1991)
Petit criminel, Le (1990)
Vengeance d'une femme, La (1989)
Fille de quinze ans, La (1989)
Comédie! (1987)
Puritaine, La (1986)
Tentation d'Isabelle, La (1985)
Pirate, La (1984)
Vie de famille, La (1984)
Pirate, La (1983)
Fille prodigue, La (1981)
Drôlesse, La (1979)
Femme qui pleure, La (1978)
Un sac de billes (1975)
Doigts dans la tête, Les... aka Touched in the Head (1974)

Preferring the natural slowness of events to sensationalism, Jean Eustache films the timethings take to unfold. The charm of his films, in fact, lies in the poetry of these moments. Refusing to categorize or preselect, he filmed reality as it was, so as to transcend it. Whether long or short, his documentaries and fiction films are invariably free-form and unconfined, beyond all rules and norms. He was a lover of words, and his long dialogues were driven by a life and magic all his own. He claimed to simply record what was before the camera, without imposing any personal viewpoints.
Entretiens avec Jean Eustache (1982)
La Rosière de Pessac (1968)
La Rosière de Pessac (1979)

Maman et la putain, La (1973)....Directed by Jean Eustache Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten French ...Black and White
We don't have to lose this movie, this is one of the greatest I have ever seen.Jean Pierre Leaud is amazing (more than usual) and the movie is one of the most unforgettable of the nouvelle vogue. Jean Eustache is no more on this earth, we just have this black and white images to remember one of the greatest and most subvalued french directors. You just have to love this masterpiece. I'll never forget it.
Ebert:When Jean Eustache's "The Mother and the Whore" was released in 1973, young audiences all over the world embraced its layabout hero and his endless conversations with the woman he lived with, the woman he was dating, the woman who rejected him and various other women encountered in the cafes of Paris. The character was played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, star of "The 400 Blows" and two other autobiographical films by Francois Truffaut. In 1977, Truffaut made "The Man Who Loved Women." This one could have been titled "The Man Who Loved to Hear Himself Talk."
At 3 1/2 hours, the film is long, but its essence is to be long: Make it any shorter and it would have a plot and an outcome, when in fact Eustache simply wants to record an existence. Alexandre (Leaud), his hero, lives with Marie (Bernadette Lafont), a boutique owner who apparently supports him; one would say he was between jobs if there were any sense that he'd ever had one. He meets a blind date named Veronika (Francoise Lebrun) in a cafe and subjects her to a great many of his thoughts and would-be thoughts. (Much of Lebrun's screen time consists of closeups of her listening.) In the middle of his monologues, Alexandre has a way of letting his eyes follow the progress of other women through his field of view.
Alexandre is smart enough, but not a great intellect. His favorite area of study is himself, but there he hasn't made much headway. He chatters about the cinema and about life, sometimes confusing them ("films tell you how to live, how to make a kid"). He wears a dark coat and a very long scarf, knotted around his neck and sweeping to his knees; his best friend dresses the same way. He spends his days in cafes, holding (but not reading) Proust. "Look there's Sartre--the drunk," he says one day in Cafe Flore, and Eustache supplies a quick shot of several people at a table, one of whom may or may not be Sartre. Alexandre talks about Sartre staggering out after his long intellectual chats in the cafe, and speculates that the great man's philosophy may be alcoholic musings.
The first time I saw "The Mother and the Whore," I thought it was about Alexandre. After a viewing of the newly restored 35-mm. print being released for the movie's 25th anniversary, I think it is just as much about the women, and about the way that women can let a man talk endlessly about himself while they regard him like a specimen of aberrant behavior. Women keep a man like Alexandre around, I suspect, out of curiosity about what new idiocy he will next exhibit.
Of course Alexandre is cheating--on Marie, with whom he lives, and on Veronica, whom he says he loves. Part of his style is to play with relationships, just to see what happens. The two women find out about each other, and eventually meet. There are some fireworks, but not as many as you might expect, maybe because neither one would be that devastated at losing Alexandre. Veronika, a nurse from Poland, is at least frank about herself: She sleeps around because she likes sex. She has a passionate monologue about her sexual needs and her resentment that women aren't supposed to admit their feelings. Whether Alexandre has sex with Marie is a good question; I suppose the answer is yes, but you can't be sure. She represents, of course, the mother, and Veronika thinks of herself as a whore; Alexandre has positioned himself in the cross hairs of the classic Freudian dilemma.
The genuine drama in the movie centers on Veronika, who more or less knows they are only playing at love while out of the sight of Marie. We learn a lot about her life--her room in the hospital, her schedule, her low self-esteem. When she does talk, it is from brave, unadulterated self-knowledge.
"The Mother and the Whore" made an enormous impact when it was released. It still works a quarter-century later because it was so focused on its subjects, and lacking in pretension. It is rigorously observant, the portrait of an immature man and two women who humor him for a while, paying the price that entails. Eustache committed suicide at 43, in 1981, after making about a dozen films, of which this is by far the best known. He said his film was intended as "the description of a normal course of events without the shortcuts of dramatization," and described Alexander as a collector of "rare moments" that occupy his otherwise idle time. As a record of a kind of everyday Parisian life, the film is superb. We think of the cafes of Paris as hotbeds of fiery philosophical debate, but more often, I imagine, they are just like this: people talking, flirting, posing, drinking, smoking, telling the truth and lying, while waiting to see if real life will ever begin.

La peine perdue de Jean Eustache (1997)
La petite marchande d'allumettes (1969)
Le Cochon (1970)
Le Jardin des Délices de Jérome Bosch (1979)
Le père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966)
Les mauvaises fréquentations (1963)
Les photos d'Alix (1980)
Mes petites amoureuses (1974)
Odette Robert (1980)
Offre d'Emploi(1980)
Une Sale histoire (1977)

Dansaren (1994)
... aka Dancer, The (1994)

Gadjo dilo... aka Crazy Stranger, The (1997) ... aka Étranger fou, L' (1998) (France)
Stéphane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania. He is looking for the singer Nora Luca, whom his father had heard all the time before his death. Wandering along a frozen road, he meets old Izidor, a member of the Roma (Tinker) and tells him of Nora Luca. Izidor seems to understand and takes him to his village. Stéphane believes that Izidor will take him to Nora Luca when the time has come. So, he lives in the tinker village for several months. The other inhabitants dislike him at first (as he comes from those who call them thieves and attack their folks) but when they as they get to know him better, they grow to like him. In summer, the ice between him and beautiful Sabina finally cracks, and as she is able to translate between the Roma and him, Stéphane finds out that nobody ever understood a thing that he had said.

.Mondo (1996)
Lucumi, l'enfant rumbeiro de Cuba (1995)
Latcho Drom (1993)
... aka Safe Journey (1993)
Gaspard et Robinson (1990)
Pleure pas my love (1989)
Rue du départ (1986)
Princes, Les (1983)

Seul le cinéma (1998)
For Ever Mozart (1996)
Deux fois cinquante ans de cinéma français (1995)
Self-Portrait in December (1994)
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Enfants jouent à la Russie, Les (1993)
Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (1991)
Contre l'oubli ... aka Against Oblivion (1991)
Nouvelle vague (1990)
Rapport Darty, Le (1989)
Dernier mot, Le (1988)
On s'est tous défilé (1988)
Puissance de la parole (1988)
Aria (1987)
King Lear (1987)
Soigne ta droite (1987)
Meeting Woody Allen (1986)
Soft Conversation on Hard Subjects (1986)
Détective (1985)
Hail Mary (1985)
Prénom Carmen (1983)
First Name: Carmen...... (1983)
Passion (1982)
Scénario du film 'Passion' (1982)
Lettre à Freddy Buache (1981)
Sauve qui peut (1979)
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979)
Comment ça va? (1976)
Numéro deux (1975)
Ici et ailleurs (1974)
Tout va bien (1972)
Lettre à Jane (1972)
One P.M./One Parallel Movie (1971)
British Sounds (1970)
Luttes en Italie (1970)
Pravda (1970)
Vladimir et Rosa (1970)
Contestation, La (1969)
Vent d'est (1969)
Gai savoir, Le (1968)
Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Un film comme les autres (1968)
Week-end, Le (1967)
Chinoise, La (1967)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Masculin, féminin (1966)
Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (1966)
Pierrot Le Fou.... (1965)......Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Belmondo and Karina run away together to the South of France. Complex, confusing, but engrossing drama, which exudes an intriguing sense of spontaneity. Allegedly shot without a script.
Alphaville (1965)
Une femme mariée (1964)
Plus belles escroqueries du monde, Les (1964)
Bande à part... aka Band of Outsiders (1964)
Band of Outsiders (1964)...Starring: Anna Karina
Mépris, Le (1963)
Carabiniers, Les (1963)
Vivre sa vie ... aka My Life to Live (1962)
Sept péchés capitaux, Les (1962)
Laviamoci il cervello (1962)
Une femme est une femme (1961)
Petit soldat, Le (1960)
À bout de souffle ... aka Breathless (1959/I)
Breathless (1960)....Starring: Belmondo, Seberg
Charlotte et son Jules (1958)
Une histoire d'eau (1958)
Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (1957)
Une femme coquette (1955)
Opération béton (1954)

À la folie (1994)
Après l'amour (1992)
C'est la vie (1990)
Un homme amoureux (1987)
Coup de foudre (1983)
Cocktail Molotov (1980)
Diabolo Menthe (1977)
... aka Peppermint Soda (1977)

LAUTHNER, Georges(b. 1926)

Director filmography
Stranger in the House (1992)
Room Service (1992)
Triplex (1991)
Présumé dangereux (1990)
Invité surprise, L' (1989)
Maison assassinée, La (1988)
Vie dissolue de Gérard Floque, La (1987)
Cage aux folles 3 - 'Elles' se marient, La (1985)
Joyeuses Pâques (1984)
Cowboy, Le (1984)
My Other Husband (1983)
(USA)
Professionnel, Le (1981)
Guignolo, Le (1979)
Flic ou voyou (1978)
Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
On aura tout vu (1976)
Pas de problème! (1975)
Valise, La (1973)
Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1972)
Seins de glace, Les... aka Icy Breasts (1972)
Road to Salina (1971)
Il était une fois un flic (1971)
Laisse aller, c'est une valse (1971)
Fleur d'oseille (1968)
Grande sauterelle, La (1967)
Pacha, Le (1967)
Bons vivants, Les (1965)
Ne nous fâchons pas (1965)
Barbouzes, Les (1964)
Un grand seigneur (1963)

Tontons flingueurs, Les (1963)
What is so special about this movie ? Its density... It lasts about two hours, and you don't have any time to breathe, because of the intelligence, and the spirit of every quote. Under the appearance of a classic dark detective movie, it is one of the funniest comedies ever made. You ought to see it in original version (french). But, for Audiard and his humor, for Launtner and his inspired direction, and, most of all, for the actors (especially Bernard Blier) everybody in the whole world must see it at least once. One of the greatest french movies ever made.

Oeil du monocle, L' (1962)
Monocle noir, Le (1961)
En plein cirage (1961)
Marche ou crève (1960)
Môme aux boutons, La (1958)

Alamo Bay (1985)
Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud..... (1957)......Moreau Jeanne....aka: Elevator to the Gallows .......1957 / B&W / 87 Min.........This film was Louis Malle's first feature and like much of the early films of the French New Wave, it seems at once both original and highly derivative of the American films that preceded it. The story involves a plot by a woman (Jeanne Moreau) and her lover (Maurice Ronet) to murder her well-off husband.
Atlantic City.... (1980)......Lancaster Burt, Sarandon Susan
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1988)
Baleines Et Cachalots - Requins Dormeurs ...Cousteau Jacques-Yves
Calcutta
Blackmoon .....Giehse Therese, Harrison Cathryn
Crackers (1984)
Damage (1992)
Fatale (Quand Une Passion Devient... Fatale) .Irons Jeremy, Binoche Juliette
God's Country
Histoires Extraordinaires (1968)
Humain, Trop Humain
L'inde Fantôme (Coffret De 3 Vhs)
La Poursuite Du Bonheur
Lacombe Lucien....Blaise Pierre, Clement Aurore
Le Feu Follet ...Clech Yvonne, Dol Mona
Les Amants...Moreau Jeanne, Bory Jean-Marc, Cuny Alain
Milou En Mai (1990)...Piccoli Michel, Miou-Miou,
Monde Du Silence, Le (1955)Cousteau Jacques-Yves
My Dinner With André (1981)
Place De La République
Pretty Baby (1978)
Souffle Au Coeur, Le (1971)Ferreux Benoit, Gelin Daniel
Vanya On 42nd Street (1994)
Vie Privée (1961)
Viva Maria (1965)
Zazie Dans Le Métro (1960)Demongeot Catherine, Noiret Philippe

Le Samourai (1967)......Starring: Alain Delon
Alain Delon is the coolest killer to hit the screen, a film noir loner for the modern era, in Jean-Pierre Melville's austere 1967 French crime classic. A marvelously stylish meditation on crime and solitude that was a direct influence on John Woo's THE KILLER. New wave noir from Melville, the tough-guy favorite of the "Cahiers du Cinema". Based on the novel "The Ronin" by Joan McLeod.
Bob Le Flambeur... (1981)......Starring: Roger Duchesne
Witty inversion of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE: hard-luck gambler Duchesne enlists pals in intricate plan to knock over Deauville casino. Clever and atmospheric, blessed with eerily sexy Corey and a great closing line. Unreleased in the U. S. until 1982.
La Silence De La Mer ...(1947)......Starring: Howard Vernon
Forced to house a Nazi officer during the occupation, an elderly French man and his young niece determine never to speak to their uninvited guest. The soldier nonetheless shares his personal views on a wide array of subjects, and the pair begins to warm up to him. As they do, and as he gains an understanding of the effects of Nazism, he's ordered away.
Les Enfants Terrible... (1950)......Starring: Edouard Dermithe
This beautiful and psychologically intense film emerged from the collaboration of writer/artist Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville. An adaptation of Cocteau's tragic play about a narcissistic brother and sister who share a life of crime, self-destruction and incest.
Leon Morin, Priest... (1961)......Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Belmondo gives subdued, offbeat performance as clergyman trying to set shady woman onto the path of righteousness.

Doulos, Le (1961)...aka: The Finger Man
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville with Jean-Paul Belmondo
Le Doulos is not as well-known as Melville's later colour pictures, but very much undeservedly so. Gangster films rarely manage to surprise their audience with the plot (unless they sacrifice logic as so often in Raymo