Robert Fischer Movies

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...

In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...

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

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...

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.

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.

An appreciation of the film “The Last Detail” by Alexander Payne

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

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

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

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

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

In-depth interview with filmmaker Sam Irvin who, in 1977, worked on Brian De Palma's The Fury as a production assistant, extra, and journalist for...

A conversation between Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.

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...

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

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

Allen Baron, director of "Blast of Silence" visits locations from the film and recalls the production.