Pierre-Henri Gibert
Based on unpublished interviews with the family, Jean-Claude Carrière, his writer and biographer, family archives, mini-fictions that dramatize the memories evoked and in constant echo with the upcoming films whose images seem to crystallize over the narrative, we wish to reinterpret Luis Buñuel's work through these decisive years, revealing hidden coherence, originality and beauty.
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
An Interview with Jean-Luc Godard from 2010 by Dominique Maillet and Pierre-Henri Gibert" is over 2 hours long and English subtitled as part of the Extras on the Arrow Films boxset JEAN-LUC GODARD + JEAN-PIERRE GORIN: FIVE FILMS, 1968-1971.
A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"
This excellent documentary film produced by Pierre-Henri Gibert focuses on the production history of Querelle and its creators life and legacy. Included in the film are interviews with actor Laurent Malet and writer Claude Arnaud.
In this documentary, film historian Natacha Laurent places Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking.
The original image or the first image. That of the first film, that of all the promises. The matrix image announcing all those to come. The history of cinema is full of legendary first movies, master strokes rather than test shots. There is a lot to be learned from the early plants of estrean directors who later became great filmmakers.
