Barbet Schroeder Movies

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old...

Essay on the history of Los Angeles

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be...

Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful,...

A conversation between Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.

Short film about the Mapuga tribe’s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes.

A video library clerk becomes obsessed with a sleepwalking woman and takes it upon himself to save her from catastrophe.

Short film that examines the different types of ceremonial make-up worn by the Mapuga tribe.

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and...

In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second...

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her...

A cinematographic poem in the form of variations around the theme of Robinson, a utopian fable freely inspired by Daniel Defoe's novel, which speaks...

An homage to Greek tragedy.

Some fascinating insight into the making of Barbet Schroeder's cult classic 'More' (1969)