Bernard Eisenschitz Movies

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian...

Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker, the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie Barbe...

A short documentary in the Chaplin Today series about Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux." Includes an interview with Claude Chabrol, whose 1963 film...

Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in...

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use...

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though,...

Short by Bernard Eisenschitz

A young, enthusiastic girl named Ondine walks into an art bookstore, asking if she can do her school internship there. She isn’t very lucky,...

Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, former editors at Cahiers du Cinema, interview their former colleagues and fellow travellers during the "Red...

The man who leaves prepares his departure.

Wednesday July 31, 1968, almost six months after the start of the "Langlois affair" which saw the government attempt to oust the founder of the...

Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet.