Robert Fischer Movies

Film scholar Janet Bergstrom discusses Sternberg's 1930 film starring Marlene Dietrich.

A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others),...

In his film "Far From Heaven", Todd Haynes refers very respectfully to Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows". Fassbinder was also strongly...

This brand new documentary takes a closer look at the production history, unique style, and lasting appeal of Fat City, as well as Leonard Gardner's...

The story behind the novel and the film Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

Documentary interview the director Ted Kotcheff on his film 'Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?'

An in-depth analysis of The Reckless Moment (1949) by Lutz Bacher, author of Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios.

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio...

An interview with cinematographer Nestor Almendros about his work with French film director François Truffaut. Footage taken from the 1986...

In the heart of the mysterious Amazon region lives a people whose roots are deeply anchored in the layers of time: the Matsés people, also...

THE MAKING OF HIGHLANDER is a four-part documentary which covers virtualy every aspect of the behind-the-scenes adventure of filming Russell...

Douglas Sirk talks about his 1937 film 'Zu neuen Ufern'

Filmmaker Todd Haynes talks about Max Ophuls' 1952 film Le Plaisir.

From footage filmed in 1983, this documentary presents an interview with director Jack Arnold and his reminiscences of the making of the 1957 film...

In an archival interview filmed in 1989, Robert Christidès discusses his work on Max Ophuls' 1952 film LE PLAISIR.

Screenwriter Robert Blees (1918-2015) recalls his arrival in Hollywood in the early 1940s and discusses his collaboration with Douglas Sirk on...

Fiona Lewis discusses her role in 'The Fury'

An appreciation of the film “The Last Detail” by Alexander Payne