Fiction Factory Filmproduktion Movies

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

In this feature-length interview, conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015, Volker Schlöndorff talks about the making of his film BAAL (1969),bas...

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 n...

Joseph Wambaugh wrote his first novel 'The New Centurions' while still active as a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, and his fact-based, pa...

An interview with cinematographer Nestor Almendros about his work with French film director François Truffaut. Footage taken from the 1986 German docu...

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

Budd Boetticher talks about the Ranown Cycle, a collection of low-budget westerns of the late 1950s.

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 f...

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

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...

In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s...

Milos Forman talks Robert Fischer through his filmography and the difficult transition from Czechoslovakia to Hollywood. Shot in 2000, edited and comp...

Film scholar Jan-Christopher Horak discusses Pabst's 1931 film

Archival interview with the co-writer of Max Ophuls' 1953 film THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...

Robert Fischer’s CINEMA REDEFINED: JACQUES RIVETTE’S L’AMOUR FOU REVISITED features new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and R...

In an archival interview filmed in 1989, Daniel Gélin discusses his work on Max Ophuls' 1952 film LE PLAISIR.

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 explo...

Ophuls scholar Alan Williams discusses the French director's 1950 film

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