Robert Fischer Movies

The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews...

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

Archival interview with Marc Frédérix about his work on Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...

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...

Feature-length interview film with Bernhard Sinkel about his four-part film 'Fathers and Sons' (1986).

The acclaimed director Alexander Payne gives his notes on the making and interpretation of 'The Last Detail

Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.

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

In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the...

Legendary French film director and Nouvelle Vague co-founder Claude Chabrol takes us back to the mid-fifties, when he and then-fellow film critic...

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

An interview with cinematographer Richard H. Kline talking about his filming experience in Brian De Palma's film The Fury.

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

New interview with cinematographer Hans Fromm.

Todd Haynes, who considers Max Ophuls’ THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949) one of his ten favorite films of all time, gives a wonderful 22 minute...

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him about his work and publishing this in...

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

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...

Film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak discusses Pabst's 1930 film "Westfront 1918".

Interview with actor William Reynolds about his role in Douglas Sirk's ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955).