Robert Benayoun

La riche épouse d'un PDG apprend dans un magazine que la femme moderne doit être "érotique". Elle décide donc de devenir comme toutes ces filles que l'on voit sur les affiches. Son mari ne remarque pas le changement car trop occupé par un contrôle fiscal.

L'histoire étonnante de l'animographe, un appareil créé en France dans les années 1960 par le dessinateur et inventeur autodidacte Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), dont la création devait révolutionner l'industrie de l'animation.

Gilles, a fashionable photographer, loses his wife in a car crash. He desperately searches for her double but when he finds her she is a girl of very different temperament.

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics André S. Labarthe and Robert Benayoun, originally aired 22 October 1971.

Au terme d'une carrière journalistique, Michel Drucker présente de 1975 à 1980 l'émission Les Rendez-vous du dimanche, où il reçoit nombre de personnalités de la chanson, du cinéma et du petit écran. L'émission, réalisée par Rémy Grumbach, est enregistrée aux Studios des Buttes Chaumont (studios 11 et 14) le samedi, et diffusée le lendemain après-midi.

Magazine culturel consacré à la littérature. L'émission proposait des discussions ouvertes entre quatre ou cinq auteurs autour d’un sujet commun, mais également des entrevues individuelles avec un seul auteur. En 15 ans d’existence, Apostrophes est devenu l'émission littéraire emblématique à la télévision française de cette période, notamment grâce à la personnalité de son présentateur Bernard Pivot, la diversité et la qualité de ses intervenants, voire des polémiques qui surgirent épisodiquement lors de l'émission.

Robert Benayoun’s reverence for the uncrowned king of slapstick and unfettered silliness has maybe something to do with his own affinity to surrealism, which he joined in the forties and encouraged him to deal with the great masters of the absurd comedy like the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton. In six episodes Benayoun, who worked for many years as a film critic in Paris, immerses himself in the various aspects of the personality and comedian. He was allowed to use the inexhaustible supply of unused or private films, since Lewis was known for not throwing away one inch of celluloid and hoarding it in his basement. In addition to the interviews, in which renowned colleagues of Mel Brooks from Scorsese to John Landis and Lewis himself speak, there are especially these rare and sometimes startling images, that give a new sharper view on Lewis as a filmmaker and as a person.

Robert Benayoun’s reverence for the uncrowned king of slapstick and unfettered silliness has maybe something to do with his own affinity to surrealism, which he joined in the forties and encouraged him to deal with the great masters of the absurd comedy like the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton. In six episodes Benayoun, who worked for many years as a film critic in Paris, immerses himself in the various aspects of the personality and comedian. He was allowed to use the inexhaustible supply of unused or private films, since Lewis was known for not throwing away one inch of celluloid and hoarding it in his basement. In addition to the interviews, in which renowned colleagues of Mel Brooks from Scorsese to John Landis and Lewis himself speak, there are especially these rare and sometimes startling images, that give a new sharper view on Lewis as a filmmaker and as a person.