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A televisual memory of cinema, this documentary series about contemporary filmmakers from around the world, created by Janine Bazin and Andre S. Labarthe, is a follow-up to the acclaimed initial series "Filmmakers of our time" (1964-1972).

This is DVD1 of the "Cinema, de notre temps" boxset.

Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman (1997) by Chantal Akerman
Akerman creates a fascinating self-portrait that takes us through her career, aided by critics Emmanuel Burdeau and Jean Narboni and filmmaker Luc Moullet.

John Cassavetes (1969) by Andre S. Labarthe & Hubert Knapp
English audio/Optional french subs
The director is interviewed at his house in Hollywood in 1965 during the filming of "Faces," and then three years later in Paris after the movie has finally been finished and is awaiting distribution.

Alain Cavalier - Sept chapitres, cinq jours, 2 pieces-cuisine (1996) by Jean-Pierre Limosin
Jean-Pierre Limosin films his subject, filmmaker Alain Cavalier, in an intimate, personal style that echoes Cavalier’s own work.

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Chantal Akerman was a filmmaker whose works are exercises in pure independence, creativity and art. Each Akerman film is a world to be explored on its own terms, and her viewers must give themselves over completely to the experience of the film and watch with an open mind. Strong themes in her films include women at work and in the home, and their relationships to men, each other, children, food, love, sex, art and storytelling. Akerman insisted convincingly that her films' modes of address rather than their stories alone are the locus of their feminist perspective (Janet Bergstrom, Sight & Sound). She forever changed the history of cinema.

"Exiles" includes four documentaries of one of the key names in modern cinema: the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

4xDVD | PAL | 461 min | 20.9 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Francais, Espanol
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
Genre: Documentary

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Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes/Saint Denis. He published 25 books, including five in collaboration with Felix Guattari.

Although Gilles Deleuze never wanted a film to be made about him, he agreed to Claire Parnet’s proposal to film a series of conversations in which each letter of the alphabet would evoke a word: From A (as in Animal) to Z (as in Zigzag). These DVDs, elegantly translated and subtitled in English, make these conversations available for English-speaking audiences for the first time.

In dialogue with Parnet (a journalist and former student of Deleuze), the philosopher exhibited the modest and thrilling transparency that his seminal works (such as Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus) reveal. The sessions were taped when Deleuze was already terminally ill; he and Parnet agreed that the film would not be shown publicly until after his death. The awareness of mortality floats through the dialogues, making them not just intellectually stimulating but also emotionally engaging. Because Parnet knew Deleuze so well, she was able to draw him out–as no one else had–to what might be the 1001st plateau: a place of brilliance, rigor, and charm.
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