Henri Alekan Filmes

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...

A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in...

An adaptation of Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

Catherine Miller's triumph at the Casino de Paris leads fashionable playwright Alexandre Gordi to ask her to create his next play. Flattered,...

Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of...

Film professor Michael falls in love with one of his students and is confronted with his pupil's father, with whom he had an affair over 15 years...

M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about...

The work of Rodin imagined in the form of a ballet. It is the journey of man in his life, in his loves, until his death. In the second part, it is...

Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the...

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially...

A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.

On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs a poem by Jean Cocteau.

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the...

This film essay explores the strange case of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went...