Robert Fischer Movies

Allison Anders talks about her love for the work of film director Douglas Sirk.

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

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

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

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

Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller "Charley Varrick," made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful "Dirty Harry," stars Walter...

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...

Short documentary about sequences removed from the film.

In retracing the making of FEDORA, Robert Fischer’s documentary SWAN SONG: THE STORY OF BILLY WILDERʼS FEDORA adds yet another layer of...

New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss

Evil teenager assassins Rike & Tom want to kill and film the execution of the rock star Daniel Küblböck [or Lana Kaiser to be correct], ...

Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others),...

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

Documentary interview the director Ted Kotcheff on his film 'Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?'

A fascinating and absorbing documentary about the making of Jerzy Skolimowski's cult favourite, DEEP END, which was shot in 1970 as a US-German...

New interview with cinematographer Hans Fromm.

In his film "Far From Heaven", Todd Haynes refers very respectfully to Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows". Fassbinder was also strongly...

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...

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

Producer Georg Feil discusses his experience working on The Cat (1988)