Pierre-André Boutang

Claude Lévi-Strauss par lui-même (2008)

In what way can reflecting on worlds very far from our own, either in space or time, bear relevance for us today? Is there a scientific legacy - a before and after Lévi-Strauss - in anthropology? This documentary retraces the intellectual path of the aut ...

1917: La révolution russe (2007)

Polanski par Polanski (2006)

Roman Polanski hasn't given an interview for many years. However, in the conversation from 2006 with the author Pierre-André Boutang, illustrated with numerous film clips and archives, the filmmaker provides insights into his life and work. ...

Alexandre Soljenitsyne, le combat d'un homme (2005)

Louis Malle - Un cinéaste français (2003)

This documentary is an account of the life and work of Louis Malle, a unique figure in cinema, who was one of the world's best-known French film directors. ...

Picasso Days (2000)

Based on the Spanish artist's diaries, sketches and paintings, Pierre Philippe's film for the international documentary strand charts 13 days in the life of Pablo Picasso. Events include the death of a friend, his marriage, the birth of his daughter Maya, ...

13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso (1999)

A French documentary charting the life of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso through the events of 13 significant days of his life, including his marriage to Olga Kokhlova, the birth of his daughter, the bombing of Guernica and the death of Stalin. Archive f ...

Chasing Butterflies (1992)

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen. ...

Journey of a “Cine-Son” (1992)

Serge Daney, the most influential film critic after André Bazin, interviewed by Régis Debray a few months before his death. ...

The Making of The Lover (1991)

Gilles Deleuze from A to Z (1989)

The eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, filmed by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988-1989. ...

A Little Monastery in Tuscany (1988)

It is a brief documentary which records the life of five Augustinian monks in the little monastery of Castelnuovo dell'Abate, a Tuscan village, as well as the everyday life of people in the small town, from farmers to meat-hackers, from wine-makers to wild ...

Duras/Godard (1987)

On December 2, 1987, the filmmaker visited the novelist at her home in Paris. This meeting gave rise to this hour-long documentary in which JLG and Marguerite Duras attempt to establish a dialogue about artistic creation. ...

Orson Welles at the Cinémathèque Française (1983)

On April 24th, 1982, when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from François Mitterand, a lively filmed interview took place inside the French Cinémathèque. ...

Ciné regards: Tess: Roman Polanski (1979)

Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film, Tess. ...

Conversation avec Henri Langlois (1975)

Henri Langlois, interviewed in the Cinema Museum at the Palais de Chaillot, talks about his vision of cinema's past, present and future, before a brief jaunt through the museum as it was in 1975. ...

The Pit and the Pendulum (1964)

A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition... ...

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)

Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States. ...

Playing with Fire (1975)

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers. ...

Conversation avec Henri Langlois (1975)

Henri Langlois, interviewed in the Cinema Museum at the Palais de Chaillot, talks about his vision of cinema's past, present and future, before a brief jaunt through the museum as it was in 1975. ...

Français, si vous saviez (1973)

This almost 8 hour humongous 1973 documentary by two of the filmmakers who made The Sorrow and the Pity recounts fifty years of the history of France from the 1920s to 1972. It is particularly thorough in documenting the significance and rise to power of C ...