Archival Treasures

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  • Once Upon a Time: ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER

    This fifty-two minute documentary from 2012 features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García, producer Agustín Almodóvar; and author Didier Eribon.

  • Twinning Effects: Hospital Hallway Shot

    The following footage shows the split screen, generated by the on-set video system for the most difficult of the motion-cointrol twinning setups: a reverse tracking shot of the twins walking toward the camera. Irons performs Beverly “live” on the left side of the monitor. His previously recorded ...

  • Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour fou Revisited

  • Oliver Reed on “The Merv Griffin Show”

    This episode of “The Merv Griffin Show” from April 25, 1980, features actor Oliver Reed, along with filmmaker Orson Welles and entertainer Charo. Reed shares various anecdotes as well as his thoughts on film acting.

  • Jacques Rivette: The Night Watchman

    In this program, the second episode of a two-part documentary directed by Claire Denis in 1994 for “Cinéma de notre temps,” Jacques Rivette discusses his cinematic philosophy and most important films with critic Serge Daney on a Parisian rooftop over the course of a single evening. Actor Bulle Og...

  • Julien Duvivier on PÉPÉ LE MOKO

    This interview with director Julien Duvivier, in which he discusses his career and PÉPÉ LE MOKO, was conducted for the French television program “Cinépanorama” in 1962.

  • Remembering Jean Gabin

    Presented here are excerpts from Creative Arts Television’s 1978 documentary REMEMBERING JEAN GABIN. Originally broadcast on the television program “Camera Three,” these clips feature filmmaking colleagues discussing the legendary actor and the impact of his role as Pépé in PÉPÉ LE MOKO.

  • Split Screen: S5-E4 Lars Von Trier is Dogmatic

    Adam and Jo’s stuffed animal take on THE ENGLISH PATIENT; a rare visit with brilliant and phobic director Lars von Trier; Amy Elliott and Lizzy Donius visit volcanologists in Hawaii who film lava; Northwestern Airlines indie movie channel. Original airdate 09/14/1998

  • Making HÔTEL DU NORD

    This program, aired by “Au cinéma ce soir” and directed by Solange Peter, was made to present HÔTEL DU NORD to audiences when that film aired on French television on April 7, 1972. It features interviews with director Marcel Carné, screenwriter Henri Jeanson, and actors Arletty and Jean-Pierre Au...

  • Jean Renoir, le patron: La règle et l’exception

    In 1966, Jacques Rivette produced three episodes for the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps,” grouped under the title “Jean Renoir, le patron.” “La règle et l’exception,” which aired on February 8, 1967, is the second of the three. In it, Renoir discusses THE RULES OF THE GAME wit...

  • Marlon Riggs on POV

  • Vanilla Sex

    Directed by Cheryl Dunye • 1992 • United States
    Starring Cheryl Dunye

    The filmmaker muses on the slang term of the title: is it who you do, or what you do?

  • AFI’s Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Frank Capra

    In 1982, the American Film Institute presented its tenth lifetime achievement award to director Frank Capra, at an event hosted by actor James Stewart and attended by the Capra family as well as actors Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, and Peter Falk and cinematographer Joseph Walker. The following...

  • Chantal Akerman: On Filmmaking

    The following footage is excerpted from “Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman,” a 1997 episode of the French television program “Cinéma, de notre temps.”

  • MODERN TIMES Outtake: Crossing the Street

  • The Oshima Gang

    This behind-the-scenes featurette was produced in 1983 and includes interviews with MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE actors David Bowie and Tom Conti, author Laurens van der Post, director Nagisa Oshima, and producer Jeremy Thomas, among others.

  • Chris Marker on VERTIGO

    VERTIGO features prominently in director Chris Marker’s 1983 SANS SOLEIL, but Alfred Hitchcock’s film also exerts an influence on LA JETÉE, which Marker made twenty years earlier. This excerpt from the contemporary French television series “Court-circuit (le magazine)” explores Marker’s ongoing f...

  • Barbara Loden on “The Dick Cavett Show,” 1971

    This episode of “The Dick Cavett Show” features a guest appearance by director Barbara Loden promoting WANDA. It airead March 4, 1971.

  • Francesco Rosi on Gian Maria Volontè

    On April 4, 2014, critic and filmmaker Marco Spagnoli recorded the last on-camera interview given by director Francesco Rosi. In the following segments from the documentary Spagnoli created from that interview, Rosi discusses his collaboration with actor Gian Maria Volontè on CHRIST STOPPED AT EB...

  • Stefania Sandrelli DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE Screen Test

    Presented here is rare footage of actor Stefania Sandrelli’s screen test for DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE.

  • Ingmar Bergman on WILD STRAWBERRIES

    This introduction to WILD STRAWBERRIES was created in 2003 as part of a series of introductions that Marie Nyreröd recorded with Ingmar Bergman to many of his films. Shot in Bergman’s screening room on Fårö Island, these pieces were designed to precede the films when shown on Swedish television.

  • David Cronenberg, 1981

    In the following excerpts from the March 10, 1981, episode of his popular CBC talk show, Bob McLean talks to director David Cronenberg about the recent release of SCANNERS and some of his earlier films.

  • Melvin Van Peebles, 1971

    In this segment from the television show “Detroit Tubeworks,” director Melvin Van Peebles promotes his film SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG on the occasion of its Detroit opening weekend, in 1971.

  • “Cinépanorama”: Alain Delon, 1962

    This interview with actor Alain Delon, conducted and directed by François Chalais, first aired on the French television program “Cinépanorama” on November 24, 1962. Delon discusses working with director René Clément, with whom he would make four films: PURPLE NOON (1960), THE JOY OF LIVING (1961)...