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Noël Burch

Noël Burch

Noël Burch (born 1932) is an American film theorist and movie maker who moved to France at a young age. Burch is known for his contribution to terms commonly used by film scholars (such as institutional mode of representation (IMR)) and for his theories compiled in books such as Theory of Film Practice or La lucarne de L'Infini.

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Movies Made By Noël Burch (17)

The Forgotten Space (2010)

Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers in Los Angeles, seafarers aboard mega-ships shuttling between Asia ...

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Aller simple (Tres historias del Río de la Plata) (1998)

An impressive reconstruction of time through archival materials, it explores through three characters the fate of 6 million immigrants who made our River Plate the most European region in all of Latin America. The three characters are fictional but their s ...

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Red Hollywood (1996)

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema. ...

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What Do Those Old Films Mean? (1986)

Noel Burch's fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in Denmark, England, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and the U.S., mixes beautiful clips of rare films with various s ...

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The Impersonation (1983)

Herewith the strange case of Reginald Pepper, the acclaimed English "primitive" painter who, some say, lives secluded with his mother and two cats in Swindon and who, say others, suffers a mental handicap which accounts for the pinheaded figures in his pai ...

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Das Jahr der Leibwache (1981)

Essay film about the suffragette movement. ...

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Exterior Night (1980)

Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her ...

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Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures (1979)

Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights into the way in which "film language" developed during the silent era, with emphasis on the process by which ...

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Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke (1970)

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series "Cinéastes de notre temps". ...

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Alain Robbe-Grillet (1969)

A "Cinéastes de notre temps" series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe, originally aired in two parts. ...

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La première vague (1968)

A "Cinéastes de notre temps" series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and Jean-André Fieschi, originally aired in two parts. ...

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Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another (1967)

Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von Sternberg takes the viewer on a fantastic filmmaking journey in this presentation of Cinéastes de notre temps ...

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Marie et le Curé (1967)

A priest succumbs to the charms of his lovely cleaning lady and decides to find a husband when she finds herself pregnant with her works. ...

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Noviciat (1965)

A peeping tom caught spying on a women's self-defense class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses him as a training dummy, but his treatment at the hands of the ladies steadily becomes more dangerous and humiliating. ...

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Sérénade pour Mojacar (1964)

Short film made in Spain. ...

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Le Bel Âge (1960)

Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments. ...

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Recreation (1956)

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry. ...

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Movies Starring Noël Burch (4)

Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)

An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag's seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as ...

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De la cage aux roseaux (2010)

A journey into contemporary French cinema through a series of exclusive interviews with the leading figures of GLBT French cinematography: André Téchiné, Catherine Corsini, Gaël Morel, Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau and other old acquaintances of ...

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Notes for Jerome (1978)

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Sitney. The footage of this film comes from those two visits. Later, after Jerome died, Mekas visited his Ca ...

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Alain Robbe-Grillet (1969)

A "Cinéastes de notre temps" series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe, originally aired in two parts. ...

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