The Documentaries of Louis Malle
14 Episodes
Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, and AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic PHANTOM INDIA. These are some of the most engaging and fascinating nonfiction films ever made.
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02:05Episode 1The Documentaries of Louis Malle Teaser
Episode 1
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18:54Episode 2Vive le Tour
Episode 2
Directed by Louis Malle • 1962 • France
In his short documentary Vive le Tour, Louis Malle presents his energetic evocation of the Tour de France. This, Humain, trop humain, and Place de la République, Louis Malle's three French-set documentaries, reveal, in an eclectic array of ways, the direct...
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Calcutta
Episode 3
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • France
When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking--a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed ...
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52:13Episode 4PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 1
Episode 4
“The Impossible Camera”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discov...
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52:02Episode 5PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 2
Episode 5
“Things Seen in Madras”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discov...
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52:00Episode 6PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 3
Episode 6
“The Indians and the Sacred”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of d...
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51:30Episode 7PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 4
Episode 7
“Dream and Reality”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery,...
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52:10Episode 8PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 5
Episode 8
“A Look at Castes”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, ...
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51:50Episode 9PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 6
Episode 9
“On the Fringes of Indian Society”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sens...
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52:12Episode 10PHANTOM INDIA: Episode 7
Episode 10
“Bombay”
Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • FranceLouis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking PHANTOM INDIA the most personal film of his career. This extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as...
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1:12:51Episode 11Humain, trop humain
Episode 11
Directed by Louis Malle • 1973 • France
Louis Malle presents his meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant. This, Vive le Tour, and Place de la publique, Malle's three French-set documentaries, reveal, in an eclectic array of ways, the director's eternal fascina...
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1:35:09Episode 12Place de la République
Episode 12
Directed by Louis Malle • 1974 • France
Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris. This, Vive le Tour, and Humain, trop humain, Malle's three French-set documentaries, reveal, in an eclectic array of ways, the director's eternal fascin...
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1:29:11Episode 13God’s Country
Episode 13
Directed by Louis Malle • 1985 • United States
In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan's second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline. Free...
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1:21:12Episode 14. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness
Episode 14
Directed by Louis Malle • 1986 • United States
In 1986, Louis Malle, himself a transplant to the United States, set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers (from teachers to astronauts to doctors) in middle- and working-c...
