Noël Burch Movies

  • 2014
    Regarding Susan Sontag

    Regarding Susan Sontag

    Regarding Susan Sontag

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    An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal,...

    Regarding Susan Sontag
  • 1996
    Red Hollywood

    Red Hollywood

    Red Hollywood

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    A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in...

    Red Hollywood
  • 2010
    De la cage aux roseaux

    De la cage aux roseaux

    De la cage aux roseaux

    82010HD

    A journey into contemporary French cinema through a series of exclusive interviews with the leading figures of GLBT French cinematography:...

    De la cage aux roseaux
  • 1967
    Marie et le Curé

    Marie et le Curé

    Marie et le Curé

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    A priest succumbs to the charms of his lovely cleaning lady and decides to find a husband when she finds herself pregnant with her works.

    Marie et le Curé
  • 1967
    Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another

    Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another

    Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another

    51967HD

    Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von...

    Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another
  • 1980
    Exterior Night

    Exterior Night

    Exterior Night

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    Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get...

    Exterior Night
  • 1960
    Le Bel Âge

    Le Bel Âge

    Le Bel Âge

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    Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging...

    Le Bel Âge
  • 1956
    Recreation

    Recreation

    Recreation

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    Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...

    Recreation
  • 1998
    Aller simple (Tres historias del Río de la Plata)

    Aller simple (Tres historias del Río de la Plata)

    Aller simple (Tres historias del Río de la Plata)

    01998HD

    An impressive reconstruction of time through archival materials, it explores through three characters the fate of 6 million immigrants who made our...

    Aller simple (Tres historias del Río de la Plata)
  • 1970
    Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke

    Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke

    Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke

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    Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.

    Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
  • 2010
    The Forgotten Space

    The Forgotten Space

    The Forgotten Space

    5.42010HD

    Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in...

    The Forgotten Space
  • 1965
    Noviciat

    Noviciat

    Noviciat

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    A peeping tom caught spying on a women's self-defense class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses him as a training dummy,...

    Noviciat
  • 1979
    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

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    Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...

    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
  • 1964
    Sérénade pour Mojacar

    Sérénade pour Mojacar

    Sérénade pour Mojacar

    01964HD

    Short film made in Spain.

    Sérénade pour Mojacar
  • 1969
    Alain Robbe-Grillet

    Alain Robbe-Grillet

    Alain Robbe-Grillet

    01969HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe,...

    Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • 1985
    What Do Those Old Films Mean?

    What Do Those Old Films Mean?

    What Do Those Old Films Mean?

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    Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in...

    What Do Those Old Films Mean?
  • 1978
    Notes for Jerome

    Notes for Jerome

    Notes for Jerome

    01978HD

    During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...

    Notes for Jerome
  • 1968
    La première vague

    La première vague

    La première vague

    01968HD

    A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and Jean-André Fieschi,...

    La première vague
  • 1983
    The Impersonation

    The Impersonation

    The Impersonation

    01983HD

    Herewith the strange case of Reginald Pepper, the acclaimed English “primitive” painter who, some say, lives secluded with his mother and...

    The Impersonation
  • 1981
    Das Jahr der Leibwache

    Das Jahr der Leibwache

    Das Jahr der Leibwache

    01981HD

    Essay film about the suffragette movement.

    Das Jahr der Leibwache