László Szabó

Set in London at the close of the 19th century, the film tells the story of Esther Kahn (Phoenix), an introverted working class Jewish girl who has trouble fitting in with the rest of her East End family. (Empire Pictures)

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.

Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet.... (imdb)

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love (imdb)

A journalist, Paula Nelson, arrives in Atlantic City, France, to look for her missing ex-boyfriend Richard Politzer. Her enquiries soon reveal that he is dead, murdered by an unknown assassin. Suspecting that Richard may have been the victim of political intrigue, Paula allies herself with gun-toting gangsters, shady police operatives and a writer of detective fiction to try to uncover the truth...

Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee... (imdb)

On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making... (imdb)

Chaplin and Birkin are actresses taken up by an enigmatic playwright and installed in his fabulous suburban mansion in order to perform a play for one of his house parties.

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. Will be shown the mental tortures during the investigations and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London, this is not an anticommunist film but a plea against totalitaism. (imdb)

'La Punition' is a cinéma-vérité/cinéma-direct as drama: a distillation of the lessons learned from shooting 'Chronique d'un été: Paris 1960' (which he'd just recently finished) and 'La pyramid humaine'. (KG)

Gilles and Christine a boy and a girl live in the outskirts of Paris, their families are ineffective and distant and they lead a purposeless life. They steal some records in a supermarket but she is caught and sent to a nursing home by force by her parents. She escapes and follows Gilles to a house where some other youths live. They then decide to go south: Christine has been told there is a commune there, where artists live. So they head south sleeping rough... (imdb)

A video essay on Russia and media.

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda, who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. (rovi)

Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds. (imdb)

The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who passed away 20 years earlier; then Carlotta returns from the dead, causing Sylvia to run away. (imdb)

Making of Jean Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965)

A soldier sentenced to death, urged on by a chaplain, prays to a saint who is revered for his miracles. At the moment of the execution, the soldier disappears in a bombardment. The chaplain believes he stayed in the bombing, but the soldiers think he escaped and speak of a miracle. The chaplain will be faced with a problem of conscience: should the masses be made to believe in a miracle or not? (Moviemeter.nl)

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him. (imdb)

Two Hungarian documentary makers, having heard nothing about their countryman Mickey Hargitay for almost 15 years, embark on a quest for the former body-builder/B-movie star. They cross America and find Mickey, living quietly in Southern California, running his businesses and raising his children, who have names like Mariska (ring a bell?) and Zoltan, speak Hungarian, and look like Jane Mansfield (of course). This movie was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1989. (imdb)

Judith Therpauve, who was "Queen" at the time of the Resistance, is asked by her former friends, co-owners like her from the regional newspaper La Libre République, to take charge of the daily. When it goes wrong, she soon realizes that her newspaper's poor financial health is orchestrated by a businessman who wants to buy it at a low price. (imdb)