Rome Is Burning (Portrait of Shirley Clarke)
Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.
André S. Labarthe
Director
Noël Burch
Director
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by André S. Labarthe
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 24 March 2012.
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 16 May 1994.
On the shooting or when talking about it, Mathieu Amalric is preparing Barbara, his film about the iconic singer, starring the incredible Jeanne Balibar.
A documentary about the dancer Sylvie Guillem on her daily round of classes, rehearsals and peformances.
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, and many others.
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 10 February 1969.
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 10 May 1972.
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 16 June 1966.
A “Cinéastes, de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, never aired.
Also Directed by Noël Burch
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights into the way in which "film language" developed during the silent era, with emphasis on the process by which spectators came to be increasingly "contained" with the space time of narrative.
A peeping tom caught spying on a women's self defence class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses to practice on, but his treatment steadily becomes more humiliating and fetishistic.
Essay film about the suffragette movement.
A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.
Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia and Europe, and factory workers in China, whose low wages are the fragile key to the whole puzzle. At a moment when collective bargaining rights are under attack in the United States, and China continues to bow to foreign pressures to prevent such rights from being granted at all, this film asks: Is capitalism the Trojan horse that turns on its inventors?
Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in Denmark, England, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and the U.S., mixes beautiful clips of rare films with various social theories about their significance.
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and Jean-André Fieschi, originally aired in two parts.
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe, originally aired in two parts.
Herewith the strange case of Reginald Pepper, the acclaimed English “primitive” painter who, some say, lives secluded with his mother and two cats in Swindon and who, say others, suffers a mental handicap which accounts for the pinheaded figures in his paintings. A Sunday Times article shocked the art community by shedding doubts as to the authenticity of this untrained genius, and these doubts were compounded when students from the now defunct Swindon College of Art discovered, in attempting to make a documentary film on the subject, that Reginald Pepper had mysteriously disappeared! Enter filmmakers Noel Burch (Correction Please, or How We Got Into Pictures) and Christopher Mason, who piece together the story, after their own fashion, of this elusive painter of oversized cats and thereby illuminate a whole field of skepticism regarding the dubious nature of the term “primitive” as applied to contemporary painting.
