Winner of multiple Oscars for Gravity and Roma, also known for Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón prefers to talk about other people's films rather than his own. However, he reveals some secrets about the making of Children of Men (2006) and Gravity (2013). Eclectic, he can discuss the great American filmmakers as well as the films of Swiss director Alain Tanner and Japanese masters.
Alfonso Cuarón
Self - subject, filmmaker
Olivier Père
Self
Winner of multiple Oscars for Gravity and Roma, also known for Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón prefers to talk about other people's films rather than his own. However, he reveals some secrets about the making of Children of Men (2006) and Gravity (2013). Eclectic, he can discuss the great American filmmakers as well as the films of Swiss director Alain Tanner and Japanese masters.
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
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An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life. The meeting is a very happy one.
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
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An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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