Noël Burch Movies
- 2014
Regarding Susan Sontag
Regarding Susan Sontag5.82014HD
An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal,...
- 2010
The Forgotten Space
The Forgotten Space5.42010HD
Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in...
- 1980
Exterior Night
Exterior Night4.81980HD
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...
- 1956
Recreation
Recreation5.11956HD
Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...
- 1960
Le Bel Âge
Le Bel Âge5.31960HD
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...
- 1998
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...
- 1978
Notes for Jerome
Notes for Jerome01978HD
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...
- 1996
Red Hollywood
Red Hollywood6.11996HD
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...
- 1967
Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another
Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another51967HD
Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von...
- 1979
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures51979HD
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...
- 1965
Noviciat
Noviciat5.71965HD
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,...
- 1985
What Do Those Old Films Mean?
What Do Those Old Films Mean?61985HD
Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in...
- 1970
Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke51970HD
Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.
- 2010
De la cage aux roseaux
De la cage aux roseaux82010HD
A journey into contemporary French cinema through a series of exclusive interviews with the leading figures of GLBT French cinematography:...
- 1968
La première vague
La première vague01968HD
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and Jean-André Fieschi,...
- 1967
Marie et le Curé
Marie et le Curé01967HD
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.
- 1969
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet01969HD
A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe,...
- 1983
The Impersonation
The Impersonation01983HD
Herewith the strange case of Reginald Pepper, the acclaimed English “primitive” painter who, some say, lives secluded with his mother and...
- 1964
Sérénade pour Mojacar
Sérénade pour Mojacar01964HD
Short film made in Spain.
- 1981
Das Jahr der Leibwache
Das Jahr der Leibwache01981HD
Essay film about the suffragette movement.