Marin Karmitz
Biography: Marin Karmitz (born 7 October 1938) is a Romanian-French businessman whose career has spanned the French film industry, including director, producer, film distributor, and operator of a chain of cinemas. He comes from an assimilated Jewish-Romanian family and emigrated to France in 1948. Karmitz attended film school at IDHEC (renamed La Fémis) and worked as a director of photography after graduating. Karmitz founded MK2, a production company and movie theater chain, which has specialized in creating, distributing, and screening independent or "auteurist" cinema, including short films. In 2005, he turned over leadership of the MK2 company and its theaters to his son, Nathanaël.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 07, 1938
Deathday: N/A
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Talking Heads 2021
2021-09-23
Talking Heads 2021
Overview: The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
2012-05-21
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-21
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Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
2016-01-31
Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
Overview: In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2016-01-31
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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016-05-12
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Overview: An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-12
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D’où vient cet air lointain? Chronique d’une vie en cinéma
2018-10-20
D’où vient cet air lointain? Chronique d’une vie en cinéma
Overview: In the evening of her life, Yannick Bellon reflects on her past. She evokes her career as a film director, which began in the 1940s and the themes, sometimes controversial (rape, bisexuality, drugs, ecology) she chose to deal with. She also tells about her friendships, her loves, her leftist political commitment, which earned her many troubles with the censors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Blow for Blow
1972-06-01
Blow for Blow
Overview: The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2005-02-27
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Overview: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-02-27
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Filming Haneke
2000-11-16
Filming Haneke
Overview: A making-of documentary featuring interviews with director Michael Haneke, actor Juliette Binoche, and producer Marin Karmitz, as well as on-set footage of cast and crew of "Code Unknown".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-16
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Claude Chabrol's Eye
2018-04-27
Claude Chabrol's Eye
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-27
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Marin Karmitz, bande à part
2014-04-11
Marin Karmitz, bande à part
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
2005-01-12
Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
Overview: More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged actors in the same spots, telling stories, and listening to others' reflections on the making of the film. She and they talk about making a film on a low budget, its showing at Cannes, and trying to fix a problem in the last shot. Her assistant directors discuss casting, costumes, sets, and the ways the film changed their approaches to filmmaking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-12
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D’Agata limite(s)
2019-03-27
D’Agata limite(s)
Overview: Franck Landron follows photographer Antoine d'Agata wherever he goes, to the edges of the world, in a discreet presence, camera in hand. He has been doing hours and hours of rushes, patiently, without hurrying or rushing, he wants this film as fair, as honest, and as long as it takes: it lasted six years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-27
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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019-01-25
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Overview: An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-25
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