Jean-Louis Comolli
2021À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma
Jean Narboni, Jean-Louis Comolli
Jean Narboni, Jean-Louis Comolli
Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and fellow travellers during the "Red Years" of the journal between 1968 and1973.
À voir absolument: 1963-1973 Dix années aux Cahiers du Cinéma
Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire
Jean-Louis Comolli
Resorting to the images that make up three quarters of the last century, Jean-Louis Comolli chose films that crossed his path fifty years ago, discovering his own history of cinema, and particularly the documentary cinema. Visual score orchestrated by a voice off (his) which lists topics that are important to him - the place of the viewer, the fiction in the documentary, the impact of technical progress on the artistic field ... -, the film weaves unpredictable wires between the excerpts .
Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire
Marseille contre Marseille
Jean-Louis Comolli
Jean-Claude Gaudin, Jean-Marie Le Pen
A political fable. A tragicomedy set in Marseille during the municipal elections of June 1995. In populist northern districts, they rally around the "Nord Ambition" of Bernard Tapie. In pushing for Tapie to take town hall, they count on his support for the northern districts, but difficulties and disappointments follow. Tapie ends up backing the very enemies of his followers, so what happens then? Big fish eat small ones. This is the fourth installment of the Marseille political saga which began with, "Marseille from father to son" (1989).
Marseille contre Marseille
Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista
Jean-Louis Comolli
Filmed between February and March 1999 in La Cupula (Girona), the rehearsal place of the Spanish independent theater company Els Joglars, this documentary reveals the creative process of this company in its project to represent the life of the mythical anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti, as well as the circumstances of his death.
Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista
La Cecilia
Jean-Louis Comolli
Massimo Foschi, Maria Carta
At the end of the nineteenth century, Italian anarchists, ten men, one woman, libertarian, collectivist emigrate to Brazil to start a leaderless community, without hierarchy, without a boss without police, but not without conflict nor passion.
La Cecilia
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
Jean-Luc Godard
Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina
An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Alphaville
Suzanne's Career
Éric Rohmer
Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.
Suzanne’s Career
Face aux fantômes
Jean-Louis Comolli
Sylvie Lindeperg
French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.
Facing the Phantoms
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
Jean-Louis Comolli
Georges Delerue, Oliver Stone
Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano Player, and Jules and Jim.
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
L'ombre rouge
Jean-Louis Comolli
Claude Brasseur, Jacques Dutronc
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.
The Red Shade
Rêves de France à Marseille
Jean-Louis Comolli
In June 1999, Jean-Claude Gaudin organized a great popular festival, "La Massalia", to celebrate all the communities that make up Marseilles and to show the desire of thousands of people from elsewhere to be Marseillais. A radiant rainbow. Less than a year later, in March 2000, the municipal campaign began: what about this new state of mind that seemed to be blowing over Marseilles' political life? Does it find a translation in the political sphere? How many children of recent immigration would be in an eligible position and would eventually be elected among the 101 municipal councilors?
Rêves de France à Marseille
La Vraie Vie (dans les bureaux)
Jean-Louis Comolli
The scenes take place in the Ile-de-France (Paris area) social security office (CRAMIF). From October to December of 1992, we filmed the "Invalidity" and "Occupational Accidents" departments, as well as the mail room, the typists and the archivists. This "real life" is nothing but real, so real ; eight hours a day in the office for those who are called the "laborers of the service industry".
La vraie vie (dans les bureaux)
La Question des alliances
Jean-Louis Comolli
1997 legislative elections: a few days before the dissolution of the National Assembly, it appears that the central problem of this new battle is that of an evaluation of the balance of power between the governing right (RPR-UDF) and the extreme right (FN).
La question des alliances