DOCUMENTAIRES / Art & Show business, Cinema
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Starck versus Starck

Starck versus Starck

How do you make a portrait of a man that forbids you to talk about him?

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Black music

Black music

Black American music is a cultural revolution embedded within a political history, with rhythms that have got the whole world onto the dance floor.

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Patrick Sébastien

Patrick Sébastien

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Arts and myths

Arts and myths

The Documentary cultural program called the “Arts and Myths” is produced by the Quay Branly Museum, a Franco German cultural channel, Arte, and Program33.

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Russian New Wave

Russian New Wave

With its genre films, auteur directors and independent productions, Russian cinema is currently brimming with creativity that defies categorisation.

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Julio Iglesias

Julio Iglesias

Behind that latino crooner cliché, this movie tell us more about the man behind the mask of legend.

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Coluche, the France needs you

Coluche, the France needs you

The director Eric Guéret is back with a new documentary about France’s greatest clown. 20 years after Coluche’s sudden death, we still deeply miss him.

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Véronique Sanson, the sweetness of danger

Véronique Sanson, the sweetness of danger

« I’ve given you my life. Now you know everything about me. » French singer Véronique Sanson tells Didier Varrod, about her exceptional life.

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Renaud, the Red and the Black

Renaud, the Red and the Black

This very intimate portrait recounts the life & career of the singer, from his debuts as a comedian to the successes which made him a great star of the French popular music.

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All about Julien Clerc

All about Julien Clerc

Both atypical since his debuts in Hair, and deeply popular, Julien Clerc is an artist whose songs are now a part of the French musical heritage.

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The Howard Hughes Mystery

The Howard Hughes Mystery

From show business to politics, from aviation to espionage, from manipulation to corruption, this billionaire is a landmark in 20th century United States history.

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Nougaro

Nougaro

This film is itself a tribute to this last album and to the great moments of Claude Nougaro’s life & career.

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Michou, portrait

Michou, portrait

Michou has lived – in great style! – through 50 years of show business & French music-hall.

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Eurovision Backstage

Eurovision Backstage

Between old style karaoke & kitsch contest, 10 days in the backstage of the most popular TV show in Europe.

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Zazie Bollywood Stories

Zazie Bollywood Stories

When her last album was released, Zazie went to India with Didier Le Picher to make a musical, 10 video clips « Bollywood style».

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Jacques Garcia, gentleman designer

Jacques Garcia, gentleman designer

Jacques Garcia is one of the main contemporary designers. His style stands out around the world as the hallmark of luxury & glamour.

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Get Bach! The Quatuor

Get Bach! The Quatuor

The Quatuor is the improbable offspring of Bach & Groucho Marx, a true character of «burlesque music-hall».

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With Drums & Brass

With Drums & Brass

Meet 11 years old Ivan, first tenor in Yugoslavia’s youngest brass ban, and discover Mahala, the gypsy area of a village in Southern Serbia…

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Starck

Starck

Discover Philippe Starck, the most famous contemporary designer.

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Peelaert, truth and lies

Peelaert, truth and lies

Theatre set designer, pop-art comic strip artist & painter, Guy Peellaert is an unconventional spirit mixing paintings, photographs and collages in a world of icons and fantasies.

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Peter Beard “Scrapbook from Africa & beyond”

Peter Beard “Scrapbook from Africa & beyond”

As a photographer, painter & writer who relentlessly fought for the defense of Africa’s fauna, Peter Beard offers a different point of view on this continent.

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Michel Jonasz “Portrait”

Michel Jonasz “Portrait”

This is a musical road movie, a trip through India, but also through time, the recounting of an artist life and the portrait of a secretive man.

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Oasis, Behind the Mirror

Oasis, Behind the Mirror

With footage from the 97 tour «Be here now» and from their going back to their origins i.e. their hometown Manchester, this documentary recounts Oasis’ misbehavior…

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Zazie, from A to Zen

Zazie, from A to Zen

From Queneau’s character, her namesake, Zazie has inherited a tendency to burst out laughing, her sense of derision & her gift for diversions.

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Betty Page, queen of pin-ups

Betty Page, queen of pin-ups

At a time when sexual representation was heavily repressed, striper Betty Page stood out as a fashion phenomenon.

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Looking for Yma Sumac

Looking for Yma Sumac

In the 1950s, Yma Sumac’s voice is heard on millions of records transforming rhythms like mambo or chacha into incantory singing.

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Velvet Strip

Velvet Strip

Burlesque striptease is a traditional genre made in USA, which has almost completely disappeared from American stages.

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Strip-o-scope

Strip-o-scope

Away from the clichés of « X » movies, amateur strip-tease films exhibit a joyous & unconventional eroticism.

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Loving Las Vegas

Loving Las Vegas

Las Vegas is mostly known for its myths, Hollywood stars, casinos, Mafia, Franck Sinatra, Rat Pack, Ocean Eleven… but what do we know of the architects who build this «tourist trap» city?

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Hollywood Blacklisted

Hollywood Blacklisted

Can you be healthy, happy & rich after having been blacklisted by Hollywood in the 50s?

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Universal, secret story of a studio

Universal, secret story of a studio

Corruption, organized crime, money laundering… Since the 1950s, the connections between Hollywood and the Mafia fuel rumors & fantasies and fill the columns of the gutter press.

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Dean Tavoularis, Hollywood magician

Dean Tavoularis, Hollywood magician

The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Little Big man, Bonnie & Clyde, Zabriskie Point, The 9th door…Behind the directors & the stars they have brought under the limelight, these masterpieces have one talent in common: that of production designer Dean Tavoularis.

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Glamour in Hollywood by Georges Sidney

Glamour in Hollywood by Georges Sidney

In his last interview, «the elegant & sophisticated movie master» Mr. George Sidney tells the tale of a Hollywood now gone.

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Claude Sautet, a simple story

Claude Sautet, a simple story

Claude Sautet died in July 2003. This is a vibrant and intimate portrait by one of his friends, Michel Boujut; a portrait of the director but also of the man.

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David Cronenberg in the flesh

David Cronenberg in the flesh

Shot in Toronto, where David Cronenberg was born & still lives, this documentary introduces us to one of the most unconventional North American movie maker.

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Mamy Scopitone

Mamy Scopitone

Before today’s video-clip, «scopitone» was the barbarous name given to the short film accompanying a song in the 60s.

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NTM, no romance

NTM, no romance

In a 10 years career, NTM has signed 4 of the greatest records in the history of French hip hop…

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Olivia Ruiz, Star’ activist

Olivia Ruiz, Star’ activist

A former student of the Star Academy, Olivia Ruiz has always asserted being different…

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Chantons de gauche à droite

Chantons de gauche à droite

They are singers, actors, writers, leading artists; they all have decided to renew their involvement in the social & political arena…