Movies: François Reichenbach

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants, and their pastimes. The result is a journey through a multitude of different Ame...

Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his son to his wealthy friend's daughter. His plan is to send the boy for a cruise on the SS France with the prospective female. Upon arriving to meet the l...

"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Mexico: its invasions, its revolutions, its sacred lands, its forgotten legends, its religious rituals and this frightening misery. François Reichenbach...

An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour....

Documentary about Polish-American pianist, Arthur Rubinstein....

This short film is a metaphore for the destruction of the indian culture by the 'white man'....

A film-crew follow the investigation of a cop killing....

A day in a little café of Paris....

Travel journal under the form of a portrait series, silent intimate images filmed by François Reichenbach in 1954....

(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach offers a highly singular vision of the American megalopolis. (MIFF:) These are no ordinary travel ...

A report on this extraordinary boom town that owes its fortune to oil....

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher....

François Reichenbach follows a group of young men from the day they enlist in the US Marine Corps, all the way through basic training....

The director films common people in sexual related situations, in a variety of true, gripping, funny, dramatic, disturbing, imaginative ways - in the country than facing a big moral change in their view of adult, public and sexual life....

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Director François Reichenbach assembled 90 minutes of footage on Japanese rituals and customs, martial arts, evidence of Western commercialism, and the nearly blank faces of urban dwellers who seem to wrap themselves in anonymity as a protection agai...

Part of Reichenbach's series of short documentaries on America....

Foundling boy runs away from orphanage to follow the circus and undergo indoctrination into Clown Cult....

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