Jackie Raynal

The black bath (2021)

In a black bath, Jackie Raynal introduce her film Deux Fois to Metrograph in NYC. ...

Parisian Life (2020)

She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing. ...

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)

A "Cinéma, de notre temps" series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016. ...

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community. ...

My Last Interview with Eric Rohmer (2010)

When she was working as cutter for films like La Carrière de Suzanne, La Collectionneuse and La Boulangère de Monceau, Jackie Raynal was most fascinated by how Rohmer handled sound. Unusual in times of digital access to every sound bit, the director insi ...

Gougnette (2009)

A tribute to Raynal's parents, who were Resistance fighters and communists in the South of France during World War II. The interviews with those who worked together to save the persecuted are unmistakably moving, at once intimate and sprawling. ...

Zanzibar (2005)

A documentary by Jackie Raynal about the artistic movement Zanzibar. ...

La nuit de l'ours (2004)

Jackie Raynal plays director in a film in the process of being filmed. With great humor, she takes on the role of a filmmaker fighting to adapt a curious story: that of a 19th century countess who is raped by a bear. In periodic voiceover, she ironizes ove ...

Around Jacques Baratier (2003)

directed by Jackie Reynal, from 2003 Autour de Jacques Baratier, directed in 2002 by Jackie Raynal, is a 24-minute documentary portrait that offers a sensitive look at the man and the filmmaker. It stands as a valuable complement to other films about him, ...

Notes on Jonas Mekas (2000)

"My purpose in filming NOTES ON JONAS was not to make a portrait per se. As a film editor, I was mainly curious to know about his editing technique. When I tried to get an interview, Jonas played his accordion, his tuba, his harmonica… He even organized ...

Hotel New York (1984)

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay. ...

New York Story (1980)

Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur. ...

Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)

When struggling pianist Michael lands a job at the legendary Continental Baths in NYC, his wife Tracy encourages him, emphasizing how special the institution is. Michael, however, struggles with his own homophobia, yet at the same time, starts developing f ...

The Rehearsal (1974)

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems. ...

Jupiter (1971)

Destroy Yourselves (1969)

Detruisez-vous is a 'primitive' film which breaks all the rules of film-making. ...

Deux fois (1968)

A series of disconnected, minimalist vignettes often featuring Raynal herself, deliberately repeating actions and dialogue to challenge traditional storytelling. The film explicitly seeks to deconstruct cinematic meaning and the conventional portrayal of w ...

Acéphale (1968)

An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness. ...

Concentration (1968)

La Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed. ...

Cinétracts (1968)

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including ...

Homero Presto (1968)

Heraclitus the Dark (1967)

Deval shot "Héraclite l'obscur" in Tunisia in 1967, with his then-girlfriend and editor Jackie Raynal, in 35 mm and in color. He was the first Zanzibar member to shoot a film not only outside of Paris but also in an exotic location. "Héraclite l'obscur" ...

La Collectionneuse (1967)

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a "collector" of men. ...

Bizet Carmen (1967)

This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also conducts the fabulous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The production features the three greatest exponents ...

A Modern Coed (1966)

Eric Rohmer directs this short documentary that narrates the presence of women in French universities as of the time of its release -- 1966. During the film's short run, the narrator continues to point out that during the advent of World War II, only 21,00 ...

Six in Paris (1965)

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohme ...

Cover Girls (1964)

Photographer Philippe Abregas teams up with a Swedish model he met in Roman high society and tells her the story of the four other girls he has chosen to feature on the cover of his magazine. ...

Nadja in Paris (1964)

Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust; she also likes to stroll about Paris. ...

Méditerranée (1963)

[Here] Pollet made a work that is the very definition of what French critics like to call an ovni or ufo (as in 'unidentified filmic object'). [It] has been described as being 'like a comet in the sky of French cinema,' an 'unknown masterpiece,' and an 'un ...

Suzanne’s Career (1963)

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 Rohme ...

The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)

Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, ...

Merce Cunningham (1962)

The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg. ...

The black bath (2021)

In a black bath, Jackie Raynal introduce her film Deux Fois to Metrograph in NYC. ...

La Fille oblique (2020)

A storm breaks out in a high mountain village. Thirty-year-old Maude then discovers a mysterious bird, which will inevitably lead her to a witch's abode. ...

Parisian Life (2020)

She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers, he begins to carry out household chores, which she would take charge of criticizing. ...

Felix in Wonderland (2019)

Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering of his instrument of predilection, the KORG MS20. A portrait of a great artist who never stops living with music in his head. ...

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)

A "Cinéma, de notre temps" series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016. ...

Two Rémi, Two (2015)

Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi? ...

On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan (2015)

Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan. ...

Welcome to New York (2014)

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A ...

Eyes Find Eyes (2011)

Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhere to turn but inward, Ernst becomes the perfect portrait of anguish. This film traces the collapse of a man littered with the diversions of sex and sin and ...

La cigarette (2011)

A young woman's body becomes the medium for the viewer's projections of the stories and biographies that are imagined about her. ...

Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice (2007)

30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera. ...

The Man Who Envied Women (1985)

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence. ...

Naughty Boys (1984)

After debuting in 1983 with Casta Diva, Eric de Kuyper immediately made Naughty Boys in 1984, a film that he himself described as "a sad musical comedy" in which he pays homage to the old musicals and comedies. The film is set in an unspecified time, somew ...

Hotel New York (1984)

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay. ...

Cinématon XII (1981)

Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Freak Orlando (1981)

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout. ...

Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking (1981)

Critic Gary Indiana wrote this satire and plays Dom, a rich, naive and young homosexual who moves into his sister's apartment. He immediately becomes involved with the lives of his quirky new neighbors. Rippley (Taylor Meade) is the chatty but depressed au ...

New York Story (1980)

Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur. ...

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...

The Big Departure (1972)

This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keeping with the revolutionary spirit of the time, the movie has no plot to speak of and appears to have been largely made up on the spot. We follow the cat man i ...

Jupiter (1971)

Trap (1970)

A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that ac ...

Camembert Martial Extra-doux (1969)

Deux fois (1968)

A series of disconnected, minimalist vignettes often featuring Raynal herself, deliberately repeating actions and dialogue to challenge traditional storytelling. The film explicitly seeks to deconstruct cinematic meaning and the conventional portrayal of w ...

Acéphale (1968)

An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build into a nightmarish fever of isolation and hopelessness. ...

A Woman Kills (1968)

Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed by executioner Louis Guilbeau. Immediately, the violent crimes, si ...

La Collectionneuse (1967)

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a "collector" of men. ...

Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs. ...