Philippe Lifchitz

Valparaiso (1964)

In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the cit ...

La prima donna (1964)

A story of "La Pasta", a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival. ...

Chronicle of a Summer (1961)

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes. ...

Along the Coast (1958)

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women ...

Night and Fog (1956)

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps. ...

Symphonie mécanique (1956)

Le voyageur (1956)

Une femme au bout de la nuit (1980)

Her mother had advised her to marry to acquire respectability and material comfort, the obedient little girl married a successful Catholic writer a few years later, giving her two beautiful children, a spacious house, a few servants, and glittering social ...

The Astronauts (1959)

An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting 'human' planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare. ...