Agnès Varda
Biography: Agnès Varda (May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 30, 1928
Deathday: March 29, 2019
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Known For
The World in Shots
2021-08-31
The World in Shots
Overview: "Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who reflect on the visible and invisible things of the world: Cecilia Mangini, unstoppable ninety years old, photographer, documentary maker, screenwriter is filmed by Paolo Pisanelli, photographer, director, curator of cultural events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-31
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Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
1978-09-18
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
Overview: A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are also interviewed
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-09-18
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The Gleaners and I
2000-07-07
The Gleaners and I
Overview: Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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Viva Varda!
1970-01-01
Viva Varda!
Overview: Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Janela da Alma
2001-10-20
Janela da Alma
Overview: Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-10-20
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The Beaches of Agnès
2008-12-17
The Beaches of Agnès
Overview: Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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Viva Varda!
2023-05-17
Viva Varda!
Overview: A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-17
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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992-06-18
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Overview: An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-18
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Pictures of Europe
1990-04-25
Pictures of Europe
Overview: What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
2003-01-01
Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
Overview: 18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary which includes interviews with the cast.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Ulysse
1986-01-29
Ulysse
Overview: At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-29
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The Invention of Chris Marker
2020-05-28
The Invention of Chris Marker
Overview: A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-28
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964-05-19
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-19
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You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
1986-08-27
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
Overview: Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023-10-22
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
Overview: She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a “cold blonde actress”, thanks to great interviews of many artists who crossed her path.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-22
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The 3 Lives of Agnès
2012-11-21
The 3 Lives of Agnès
Overview: The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-21
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A Visual History with Agnès Varda
2017-11-09
A Visual History with Agnès Varda
Overview: Agnès Varda shares her career and life story on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017: from her childhood and early influences to her life with Jacques Demy, and of course a lifetime of images, her unique artistic journey as a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
2022-06-24
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
Overview: Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini and New York. Pasolini is shown walking in the Big Apple (where he went to present 'Hawks and Sparrows').
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-24
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Harumi
2019-05-12
Harumi
Overview: In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi spent decades painting, writing poetry and dancing in her home designed by architect Richard Neutra.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-12
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The So-Called Caryatids
1984-01-01
The So-Called Caryatids
Overview: Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma
2019-01-20
Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-20
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Hello Cubans
1963-11-26
Hello Cubans
Overview: A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-26
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Far from Vietnam
1967-10-18
Far from Vietnam
Overview: In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Documentary War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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The First Interview
2011-07-24
The First Interview
Overview: In the world's first media interview, shot in Paris in August 1886, the great photographer Nadar interviews the famous scientist and sceptic Chevreul on his 100th birthday. In their own words - originally recorded in shorthand - they discuss photography, colour theory, Moliere, the scientific method, the crazy ideas of balloonists, and - of course - how to live for 100 years. These two legends of the 19th century have a lively and interesting conversation. One was born before the French revolution; the other was destined to see the marvels of the aeroplane and the movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-24
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Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison
Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison
Overview: Documentary film about the iconic 1960s-era poet, songwriter, and vocalist of the Doors. Unlike prior Morrison media, Before the End’s focus is on the humanity behind the hype, including Jim’s formative years. The documentary features exclusive interviews with his brother, Andy Morrison; cousins Ellen Edwards and David Backer; high school swim coach, Ash Jones; college roommate, Bryan Gates; Doors-era lovers Judy Huddleston and Anne Moore; Doors booking agent, Todd Schiffman; Doors roadie, Gareth Blyth; and the first appearance by Jim’s Paris-era personal assistant, Robyn Wurtele.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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La Vie filmée
1975-01-01
La Vie filmée
Overview: An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946 and 1953. The images shot in the immediate post-war period bear witness to the difficulties of resuming life daily. Confronting individuals with their personal archives nearly thirty years later, the film nostalgically questions the gap created between intimate memory and empirical memory (documents).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Women Behind the Camera
2007-08-15
Women Behind the Camera
Overview: Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never been seen before. Based on a book by Alexis Krasilovsky, the film tells the stories of camerawomen surviving the odds in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Mexico, the U.S. and other countries, as well as exploring their individual visions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-15
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Shooting Women
2008-10-05
Shooting Women
Overview: Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new generation of camerawomen's visions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-05
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Where is Sara Gómez?
2005-01-02
Where is Sara Gómez?
Overview: Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great intelligence, independence and generosity, she was a revolutionary filmmaker with intersecting concerns about the Afro-Cuban community and the value of its cultural traditions, women's issues, and the treatment of the marginalized sectors of society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-02
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La Mélangite
1960-09-01
La Mélangite
Overview: Unfinished film project from Agnès Varda (c. 1960)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Two Street Artists
2012-01-01
Two Street Artists
Overview: This profile of street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Miss Tic was shot by director Agnès Varda in Paris between 2006 and 2012.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967-01-01
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Overview: Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Young Girls Turn 25
1993-05-19
The Young Girls Turn 25
Overview: Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-19
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Great Directors
2009-05-19
Great Directors
Overview: Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-19
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In Chris Marker's Studio
2011-12-19
In Chris Marker's Studio
Overview: Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-19
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From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects
2007-12-31
From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects
Overview: In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and Alain Berlaga.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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The Story of an Old Lady
2003-01-01
The Story of an Old Lady
Overview: A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Cinéast(e)s
2013-10-15
Cinéast(e)s
Overview: Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia HANSEN-LØVE remarks, “In the eyes of the people, a woman’s film is always a woman’s film, while a man’s movie is simply… a movie”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Faces Places
2017-06-28
Faces Places
Overview: Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-28
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Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
2014-08-14
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
Overview: Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world! When she arrives at the 65. Cannes film festival, she has face the accomplished facts: David, her incompetent producer, has kindly sublet their cosy joint apartment to other festival guests. The other bad news: There is not a single movie in the competition directed by a woman! This affirms Isabell’s qualms: The film business demands women to gear up instead of dressing up low cut! Moreover, the chauvinistic remarks of her comrade-in-arms David who feels comfortable around the clichéd gender stereotypes from the Stone Age seemingly prevalent in Cannes infuriate Isabell. As if this wasn’t enough already, a shattering feedback on her new film project by a potential investor finally causes her to doubt herself. Before she can live her dream up at the Olympus of film business, she must first find out who really believes in her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-08-14
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018-12-07
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Overview: The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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Chance Is the Best Assistant
2018-03-08
Chance Is the Best Assistant
Overview: An interview with Agnes Varda and JR.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-08
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Uncle Yanco
1967-01-01
Uncle Yanco
Overview: While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life. The meeting is a very happy one.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The 8th Floor
2014-05-10
The 8th Floor
Overview: On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William Eggleston, Takeshi Kitano, Ron Mueck, Jean Michel Alberola, Agnès Varda and Misha Gromov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-05-10
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Varda by Agnès
2019-03-28
Varda by Agnès
Overview: An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Quinqui Stars
2018-11-30
Quinqui Stars
Overview: QUINQUI STARS begins in the years of the transformations that took place between the 70s and the 80s in the peripheral neighborhoods of Madrid that affected many young people and drove them towards delinquency.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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#JR
2018-09-04
#JR
Overview: At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young people, his collages have adorned the galleries of the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, the Pantheon, the National Assembly ever since … From New York to Shanghai, and the Israeli-Palestinian wall to the US-Mexico border, he has stuck or exhibited giant photos on the walls of dozens of countries and associated hundreds of thousands of unknown artists with his projects. With the active collaboration of the artist himself, the documentary “# JR” tells the extraordinary adventure of this art activist whose spectacular interventions are all clear expressions of humanism, pacifism or remembrance relayed by his very strong involvement in social networks. For JR, art can help change the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-04
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018-12-25
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Overview: This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
1977-12-31
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
Overview: A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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Lions Love
1969-10-12
Lions Love
Overview: Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-12
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Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer
2018-08-16
Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer
Overview: An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with a majority of users in the 18-24 age range, followed photography and film as her medium of choice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-16
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The Truth About Charlie
2002-10-25
The Truth About Charlie
Overview: Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. The more Reggie learns, the more she realizes the scope of the puzzle which she must solve to protect herself from ever-increasing danger.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany
2008-01-01
The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany
Overview: In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a question: would I agree to let her film my L.A. story? The video you are about to watch is the story of our first encounter in Paris in 1996 and in the years since, how our shared reverence for cinema formed the bonds of an everlasting friendship, and how the Cinematheque became like home.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD
2007-12-31
Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD
Overview: Agnes Varda introduces a collection of her short films released to DVD.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Henri Langlois vu par...
2014-07-27
Henri Langlois vu par...
Overview: Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-27
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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
2000-07-09
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
Overview: The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model; others, such as Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia) and Carine Adler (England), are relative newcomers to directing, and their approaches seem more personal and less political. The film as a whole manages to cover some important topics in the feminist debate about film -- how does one construct a female gaze, how can one film nude bodies without objectifying the actors (of either sex), what constitutes a strong female role -- while also making it clear that “women’s film” comprises as many different approaches to filmmaking as there are female filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-07-09
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967-03-08
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Overview: Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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Women Reply
1975-02-12
Women Reply
Overview: What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-12
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Nausicaa
1971-01-01
Nausicaa
Overview: A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't
1977-03-09
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Overview: The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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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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Mur Murs
1981-09-13
Mur Murs
Overview: Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-13
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Calling the Shots
1988-09-08
Calling the Shots
Overview: Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-08
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Rue Daguerre in 2005
2005-01-01
Rue Daguerre in 2005
Overview: Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Daguerréotypes
1975-07-14
Daguerréotypes
Overview: An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-07-14
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The Vanishing Lion
2003-03-24
The Vanishing Lion
Overview: An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disappears and the lion disappears as well!
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-24
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More So-called Caryatids
2005-12-05
More So-called Caryatids
Overview: A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various caryatids to be found in Paris.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-12-05
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The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
2002-12-18
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
Overview: Agnès Varda’s follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the world of those who find purpose and beauty in the refuse of society, revisiting many of the original film’s subjects.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story
2008-12-31
Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story
Overview: Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their experiences making the film, as well as show Varda wove her grief over the loss of her husband, Jacques Demy, into other projects.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Souvenirs and Evocations
2008-12-31
Souvenirs and Evocations
Overview: A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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The World of Jacques Demy
1995-09-22
The World of Jacques Demy
Overview: Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Vagabond
1985-12-04
Vagabond
Overview: Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-12-04
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
1988-03-02
Jane B. for Agnès V.
Overview: The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-02
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Jacquot
1991-05-15
Jacquot
Overview: Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-15
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Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
2004-07-03
Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
Overview: Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the company of one or several teddy bears) had puzzled Agnès Varda so much that she decided to go to Toronto where the artist lives and interview her. In front of Agnes Varda's DV camera, Ydessa tells about the singularity of her artistic approach. She also expresses herself about the Holocaust, which both her parents survived.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-03
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The Widows of Noirmoutier
2006-10-03
The Widows of Noirmoutier
Overview: A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'. The installation 'Les veuves de Noirmoutier' (or 'The Widows of Noirmoutier') had various women filmed by Varda, young and old, who spoke about their widowhood and their residence on the island of Noirmoutier. The film is a montage of these meetings, which are both simple and melancholic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-03
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Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
2008-05-18
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Overview: Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-18
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Not Like Before
2005-05-10
Not Like Before
Overview: From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we asked one and the same question of various people we met on our journeys, including friends: "Do you remember a moment in your life when something really changed?" We requested them to tell us a story to illustrate their reply, and we filmed them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-10
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Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South
1994-09-26
Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South
Overview: "The Poor Hunter of the South" is the title of the film Stavros Tornes never got to make, rightfully featured alongside his name on this documentary by Stavros Kaplanidis ("Canteen", "Play it Again, Christos"). The film traces his imagery, listens for his whispers and infiltrates the memories of his closest friends, looking for clues in order to piece together the portrait of a filmmaker who made something out of nothing and stayed true to himself and his vision until the very end. Besides Tornes' own films, this documentary includes footage from films where the "poor hunter" appeared as an actor, like "The Secret of the Red Cloak" by Kostas Fotinos, "Kierion" by Dimos Theos and " Allonsanfan" by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1994-09-26
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150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
2021-03-03
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
Overview: A Woman Watches People.
Genres: Drama Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-03
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011-10-01
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Overview: Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-01
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One Minute for One Image
1983-01-31
One Minute for One Image
Overview: TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-31
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Jim Morrison: The End
2021-07-02
Jim Morrison: The End
Overview: Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson. The chronicle of the last months of the life of the poet, singer and charismatic leader of the American band The Doors, one of the most influential in the history of rock.
Genres: Documentary History Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-02
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EXPRMNTL
2016-10-08
EXPRMNTL
Overview: Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celebrate cinema’s 50 year existence, they put together a side program showcasing the medium in all its shapes and forms: surrealist film, absolute film, dadaist films, abstract film,… The side program would soon become a festival in its own right: ‘EXPRMNTL’, dedicated to experimental cinema, and would become a mythical gathering of the avant-garde…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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Bread, Painting, Accordion
2005-01-01
Bread, Painting, Accordion
Overview: This short profile of Agnès Varda’s longtime bakery and accordion shop was shot by the filmmaker in 2005.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Documenteur
1981-10-02
Documenteur
Overview: After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-02
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Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
2002-02-02
Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
Overview: A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Musique et Travellings
2003-12-31
Musique et Travellings
Overview: Director Agnes Varda and composer Joanna Brusdowicz discuss the music they created for Varda's film 'Sans Toi Ni Loi' [Vagabond], and the dolly shots that the music accompanies during the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-31
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Agnes V. by Jane B.
2020-01-01
Agnes V. by Jane B.
Overview: Actor Jane Birkin talks about her friendship with director Agnes Varda, and about their work on 'Jane B. Par Agnes V.' and Kung-Fu Master!'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
2004-01-01
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
Overview: Film director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, and presents a brief on-set interview with actor Michel Piccoli
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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