Robert Fischer
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Maternal Overdrive (2006)
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Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ (2016)
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Love Letters (2015)
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Traveling Roadshow (2016)
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Acting for Douglas Sirk (2008)
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Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock (1999)
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Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited (2013)
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Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora (2014)
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Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick' (2015)
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Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018)
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Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood (2006)
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The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited (2016)
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The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited (2011)
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Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (2011)
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Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany (2015)
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'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes (2011)
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The Beast Inside: Creating 'Wolf' (2017)
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Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood (2006)
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A Tribute to Douglas Sirk by Allison Anders (2009)
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Expedition Amazonia (—)
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Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' (2017)
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Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk (2007)
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Program Notes: An Introduction To The Last Detail By Alexander Payne (2017)
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The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal (2015)
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Cinema Redefined: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou Revisited (2024)
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Perspectives on Othello: Joseph McBride on Orson Welles (2014)
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Beyond Melodrama: Kathryn Bigelow on Douglas Sirk (2009)
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Outer Movement, Inner Movement (2016)
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Ted Kotcheff's Gourmet Cinema (2011)
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Will He Live or Will He Die: Walter Hill on Southern Comfort (—)
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Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
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Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram (2006)
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Making an American Movie (2010)
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Core of Reality: Robert Blees on Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession (2019)
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G.W. Pabst's 'Kameradschaft': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak (2017)
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About a Trip: Alexander Payne on Hal Ashby's 'The Last Detail' (2017)
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A Winter's War: Keith Gordon on 'A Midnight Clear' (2012)
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The Fury: A Location Journal (—)
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Touching Death: Alejandro Amenábar on 'Tesis' (2014)
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Spinning Tales: Fiona Lewis on Brian De Palma's 'The Fury' (—)
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The Beauty of the Land: Anthony Slide on Andre De Toth and the Indian Fighter (2019)
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A Cinema of Signs: Claude Chabrol on Alfred Hitchcock (2006)
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G.W. Pabst's 'Westfront 1918': An Introduction by Jan-Christopher Horak (2017)
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Alles auf eine Karte: Georg Feil über 'Die Katze' (2025)
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Rag Doll Memories: Nancy Allen on 'Blow Out' (2012)
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Jack Arnold Remembers The Incredible Shrinking Man (2021)
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Erinnerungen an 'Väter und Söhne' (2010)
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Pure Cinema: Joe Napolitano on Brian De Palma's Body Double (2016)
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Crazy Love: Janet Bergstrom on Josef von Sternberg's 'Morocco' (2018)
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Requiem for a Killer: The Making of 'Blast of Silence' (2007)
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Blood on the Lens: Richard H. Kline on Brian De Palma's 'The Fury' (2013)
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Return to Philadelphia: George Litto on 'Blow Out' (2012)
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Black and White in Color: Vilmos Zsigmond on 'Blow Out' (2012)
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Good Times: Dominik Graf on Directing the Cat (2025)
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Painting with Light: Nicholas von Sternberg on Josef von Sternberg (2018)
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Real Killer, Fake Nose: Richard Fleischer's 'The Boston Strangler' Remembered (2013)
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Circles of Desire: Alan Williams on Max Ophuls' "La Ronde" (2008)
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Illusion of Freedom: Richard H. Kline on John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (2018)
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The Making of Highlander (2006)
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Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Christoph Fromm über 'Die Katze' (2025)
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Life As It Is: Miloš Forman on Miloš Forman (2018)
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Ganz Berlin lacht sich kaputt: Wie die 'Berliner Ballade' entstand (2020)
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Of Love and Constraints (2010)
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Before Taking Off: Milos Forman’s Road to America (2011)
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A Search For Truth: Robert C. Jones On Hal Ashby’s 'The Last Detail' (2017)
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