Episode list

Music scores ,B movies, Nouvelle Vague and Tavernier's mentor, Jean-Pierre Melville.

Four legends : Renoir, Carné ,Becker,Gabin,and more.

French cinema before the war,during the war,and just after the war.

Bertrand Tavernier talks about three favorites ,Jean Grémillon,Max Ophuls and Henri Decoin .

Tavernier revisits his own sixties ,open to any kind of cinema.

Three directors whose work is widely ignored .The coming of female directors in the fifties.

The songs in the movies were sometimes written by the directors.Julien Duvivier was one of them ,and the second part of the chapter is entirely devoted to him.

The new wave of the Occupation days ,represented by Claude Autant-Lara and Henri-Georges Clouzot ,and later by René Clément.

A well -deserved tribute to directors Maurice Tourneur,Anatole Litvak and Raymond Bernard .Georges Van Parys' peppy songs ,notably in Jean Boyer's movies.

More Tavernier's favorites : Sacha Guitry ,Marcel Pagnol ,Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson;plus a tribute to composer Jean-Jacques Grunenwald.