Robert Fischer Movies
- 2015
Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick'
Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick'52015HD
Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller "Charley Varrick," made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful "Dirty Harry," stars Walter...
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- 2019
Core of Reality: Robert Blees on Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession
Core of Reality: Robert Blees on Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession02019HD
Screenwriter Robert Blees (1918-2015) recalls his arrival in Hollywood in the early 1940s and discusses his collaboration with Douglas Sirk on...
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- 2016
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited6.32016HD
In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the...
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- 2015
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany02015HD
A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.
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- 2007
Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk
Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk5.32007HD
Interview with actor William Reynolds about his role in Douglas Sirk's ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955).
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- 2014
Perspectives on Othello: Joseph McBride on Orson Welles
Perspectives on Othello: Joseph McBride on Orson Welles02014HD
Welles scholar Joseph McBride discusses the 1952 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. (A 32-minute edit of this documentary was presented...
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- 2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias5.52018HD
For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...
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- 2025
Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Christoph Fromm über 'Die Katze'
Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Christoph Fromm über 'Die Katze'02025HD
Screenwriter Christoph Fromm discusses his experience working on The Cat (1988)
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- 2006
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood82006HD
Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others),...
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- 2025
Good Times: Dominik Graf on Directing the Cat
Good Times: Dominik Graf on Directing the Cat02025HD
Director Dominik Graf discusses his experiences working on his film The Cat (1988)
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- 2017
G.W. Pabst's 'Kameradschaft': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak
G.W. Pabst's 'Kameradschaft': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak02017HD
Film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak discusses Pabst's 1931 film
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- 1970
Expedition Amazonia
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In the heart of the mysterious Amazon region lives a people whose roots are deeply anchored in the layers of time: the Matsés people, also...
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- 2010
Erinnerungen an 'Väter und Söhne'
Erinnerungen an 'Väter und Söhne'02010HD
Feature-length interview film with Bernhard Sinkel about his four-part film 'Fathers and Sons' (1986).
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- 2013
Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited02013HD
Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited
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- 2024
Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited
Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited02024HD
New interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque;...
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- 2008
Acting for Douglas Sirk
Acting for Douglas Sirk02008HD
The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews...
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- 2008
Working with Max Ophuls: Annette Wademant, Co-Writer
Working with Max Ophuls: Annette Wademant, Co-Writer02008HD
Archival interview with the co-writer of Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...
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- 2008
Circles of Desire: Alan Williams on Max Ophuls' "La Ronde"
Circles of Desire: Alan Williams on Max Ophuls' "La Ronde"02008HD
Ophuls scholar Alan Williams discusses the French director's 1950 film
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- 2006
The Making of Highlander
The Making of Highlander02006HD
THE MAKING OF HIGHLANDER is a four-part documentary which covers virtualy every aspect of the behind-the-scenes adventure of filming Russell...
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- 2018
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'02018HD
Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.
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