Dominique Païni

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L’Œil, le pinceau et le cinématographe : naissance d'un art
7.2
Tout au long du XIXe siècle, des artistes et inventeurs imaginatifs et visionnaires ont permis l'avènement d'une nouvelle vision, résolument moderne et véritablement cinématographique, bien avant l'invention révolutionnaire des frères Lumière et l'arrivée du 28 décembre 1895, jour historique de la première représentation cinématographique.
Documentary
Godard, seul le cinéma
6.4
Jean-Luc Godard, c'est le cinéma, sa quintessence. A tout juste 91 ans, il a réalisé plus de 140 films. C'est un personnage public autant qu'un homme enveloppé de mystère. Il n'est pas facile de s'emparer d'un géant aussi légendaire et énigmatique. L'itinéraire de Godard ne suit qu'une seule direction : un renouvellement constant de son art. Il voit l'acte créatif comme un acte nécessaire de critique et de déconstruction. Ce portrait veut nous emmener au-delà des clichés d'un mythe devenu parfois caricatural, à la rencontre d'un homme plus sentimental qu'il n'y paraît, un homme habité, parfois dépassé, par son art.
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Mes entretiens filmés
3.2
This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.
Documentary
Around Jean Cocteau
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Around Jean Cocteau

Jan 01, 2003
A short video by filmmaker Noel Simsolo discussing Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville’s creative relationship and the production of the 1950 film LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES.
Documentary
Le journal de Joseph M.
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Depuis trente ans, le cinéaste Joseph Morder réalise un journal filmé tourné en Super 8 mm à la manière d'écrivains qui tiennent un journal écrit.
Documentary
2000 Cinématons
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2000 Cinématons

Sep 18, 2001
A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of the artistic community of the last 20th century which attempts to answer these questions: Why film everyone? Why choose cultural personalities? How do the subjects look at their image? How much exhibitionism and narcissism is involved in being filmed?
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
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Deux ou trois choses que je sais de Joseph Morder, ce sont deux films : le film de l’image et le film de la voix. Le film de l’image : ce sont des extraits de mes Carnets filmés de l’année 1999 (Derrière la nuit), qui concernent le tournage de mon film Le Journal de Joseph M. Le film de la voix : c’est la lecture, par Mauricio Hernandez, de mon texte Deux ou trois choses que je sais de Joseph Morder.
Documentary
La photo
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La photo

Apr 01, 2014
Cinq, voire six, variations sur un thème, commentaire et interprétation d'une même photographie. Un exercice pour raconter et résumer l'histoire de la Cinémathèque française.
Citizen Langlois
5.8

Citizen Langlois

Oct 10, 1995
This French documentary pays homage to a young man whose passion left a rich and valuable legacy to the world of cinema. Henri Langlois was one of the co-founders of the Cinematheque Francaise, a museum which contains many rare artifacts from early cinema as well as one of the most extensive film archives in the world. This documentary will be most meaningful for those already familiar with Langlois' story. Through old film clips and interviews, Langlois is seen as an eccentric but charismatic young visionary obsessed with preserving and locating old films. Filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky uses scenes from Citizen Kane to compare the portly iconoclast to Charles Foster Kane, in that both Langlois and Welle's fictional newspaper magnate where avid collectors, and both were men of mystery.
Documentary
La Vallée close
7.2

La Vallée close

Jan 01, 1995
My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, ‘that without a thing changing, everything is different.’ The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The justness of the agreement leads us to believe it, because everything plays equally at being a sign. That’s the arrangement of the elements. It’s an act of faith. La vallée close is just this: elements treated above all as if in a documentary that, without being changed, portray the story and reveal between them the elements of fiction. But above all seen as they are, insignificant. And then in the relations they set up, they can satisfy our desire for a story. -- Rousseau
Documentary
Noir Péché
4.3

Noir Péché

May 01, 1989
A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod Des Empedokles’.
Drama