Richard Copans Movies

A small company valiantly struggles to survive under the respectful yet probing camera of Claire Simon in “At All Costs.” As the docu...

“I talk about my 20 years of work with the filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in 1999. It is an account of the gestures and practices of this...

Hervé Le Roux discovered a short film about a strike in a battery factory. Now he's looking for one of the workers seen in this film: a young...

Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Farewell to the Fifties. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War- an...

Nowadays, supermarkets are being built where cinemas and churches used to be. Logical evolution as consumerism is the religion of the 20th century:...

A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas

A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.

On Good Friday in Burzet, a small town in Ardeche, the locals gather to remember Jesus's Crucifixion through solemn pageantry. Between 1980 and 2003,...

Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka’s...

Film director Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made.

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in France in 1999. Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of...

“You buy a book. You don’t really know why. It lies around, and then one day you open it, almost absentmindedly. And there you are,...

Director Richard Copans sets out to find his origins. In search of family ties, he meets a laborer, a Jewish poet's son, a violinist, a genealogist,...

During the Algerian war (1954-1962), some French people helped the F.L.N. in France.