Hubert Knapp
Hubert Knapp (1924-1995) was a French film director. He began his career as assistant director to one of the pioneers of television: Jacques Armand. After making a number of short films, he collaborated on the film program Cinéastes de notre temps (Filmmakers of Our Time), but his preferred genre was documentary and portrait. Knapp's writing pre-exists filming. Breaking with the style of television documentaries of the time, he inaugurates a filming style that lets the interviewees have their say. Soliciting confidences and memories, his interviews are more like conversations.
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John Cassavetes
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For a long time, John Cassavetes was known as an actor, but it's as a filmmaker that he appears in this portrait. When André S. Labarthe and Hubert Knapp met him, he was already the author of three films: _Shadows_, an independent film made in New York in 1959, then _Too Late Blues_ (1961) and _A Child is Waiting_ (1963), two Hollywood productions he considered disastrous. This documentary chro...
John Cassavetes
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For a long time, John Cassavetes was known as an actor, but it's as a filmmaker that he appears in this portrait. When André S. Labarthe and Hubert Knapp met him, he was already the author of three films: _Shadows_, an independent film made in New York in 1959, then _Too Late Blues_ (1961) and _A Child is Waiting_ (1963), two Hollywood productions he considered disastrous. This documentary chro...
