Movies: Louis Malle

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter....

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....

About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know who Matzneff was at the time." Vanessa Springora denounces thus, in an interview with the Parisian , ...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir....

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris....

Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Fe...

Documentary about the life of explorer Jacques Cousteau....

It's an intimate film that brings out the deeper vibrations of my person. It was for me at the same time a beautiful but disturbing experience. To deliver to such an extent what is behind the veil. I would add that it is not the portrait of a dressed...

Louis Malle's student film, featuring the title song by Charlie Parker....

A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring interviews and discussions with Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Marguerite Duras and others....

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A research expedition to the Persian Gulf and a dive near Bahrain in search of oil. The film was sponsored by the French arm of British Petroleum, and featured the ship Calypso which later became world famous....

This almost 8 hour humongous 1973 documentary by two of the filmmakers who made The Sorrow and the Pity recounts fifty years of the history of France from the 1920s to 1972. It is particularly thorough in documenting the significance and rise to powe...

Follows the scientific research carried out in the natural cavity of Fontaine-de-Vaucluse by Cousteau and OFRS (French Underwater Research Office) divers, who reach for the first time a depth of 243 ft....

Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never fully part of it, cementing his reputation instead with films like Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Zazie dans le Metro (1960), and Murmur of the Heart (1971)...

Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV programme "Arena"....

A documentary short for "Five Columns à la une"....