Movies: Robert Fischer

2004
Daniel, the Wizard (2004)
Daniel, the Wizard
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Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], who is spiritually supported by his dead grandfather Johnny, with the support of the mysterious Baltazar! Will o...
2017
Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' (2017)
Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City'
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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 novel that inspired it. Included in it are new interviews with actors Stacy Keach and Candy Clark, ca...
2018
Weimar on the Pacific (2018)
Weimar on the Pacific
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In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar Germany and her relationship to her native country during and after World War II....
2008
Acting for Douglas Sirk (2008)
Acting for Douglas Sirk
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The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews originally appeared in the documentary "Douglas Sirk: Uber Stars" (Eckhart Schmidt, 1980)...
2002
Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
Fassbinder in Hollywood
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Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk)....
2018
Budd Boetticher on the Ranown Cycle (2018)
Budd Boetticher on the Ranown Cycle
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Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s....
2015
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany (2015)
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
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A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street....
2006
Moral Tales, Filmic Issues: A Conversation between Barbet Schroeder and Eric Rohmer (2006)
Moral Tales, Filmic Issues: A Conversation between Barbet Schroeder and Eric Rohmer
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A conversation between Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder....
2011
'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes (2011)
'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes
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Short documentary about sequences removed from the film....
2014
Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis' (2014)
Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis'
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1999
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock (1999)
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
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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 book form, he didn't imagine that more than four years would pass before Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock f...
2007
Requiem for a Killer: The Making of 'Blast of Silence' (2007)
Requiem for a Killer: The Making of 'Blast of Silence'
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Allen Baron, director of "Blast of Silence" visits locations from the film and recalls the production....
2018
Illusion of Freedom: Richard H. Kline on John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (2018)
Illusion of Freedom: Richard H. Kline on John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz
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A first-hand account of the shooting of John Frankenheimer's The Birdman of Alcatraz by the film's camera operator, Richard H. Kline, ASC....
2006
Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood (2006)
Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood
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The story behind the novel and the film Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo....
2011
The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited (2011)
The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited
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This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (includ...
2006
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood (2006)
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood
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Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others), Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin documents the life of the legendary filmmaker from his birth in 1892 to his d...
2017
About a Trip: Alexander Payne on Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail' (2017)
About a Trip: Alexander Payne on Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail'
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An appreciation of the film “The Last Detail” by Alexander Payne...
2011
Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema (2011)
Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema
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Documentary interview the director Ted Kotcheff on his film 'Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?'...
2018
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express' (2018)
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'
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Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'....
2008
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir" (2008)
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
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In an archival interview filmed in 1989, Daniel Gélin discusses his work on Max Ophuls' 1952 film LE PLAISIR....